Welcome back, Gothamites! Now that the dust from the City of Bane event has settled, Gotham is returning to normal, with a few exceptions. If you haven’t been keeping up, Alfred Pennyworth was killed in Batman #77. At the time, I was expecting a last-minute fake-out. Maybe the corpse was …
Read More »DC Black Label’s Harleen Probes into Harley Quinn’s Abusive Past
In the Batman: The Animated Series episode “Mad Love,” we learn that the quirky Harley Quinn was once Dr. Harleen Quinzel, a well-meaning psychologist at Arkham Asylum. Through her interviews with the incarcerated Joker, she began to see him as a lost child with a troubled past who only wanted …
Read More »Heroes Fall, Villains Rise in DCeased: Unkillables
DCeased showed what happens when an outbreak turns the DC Universe’s greatest heroes into bloodthirsty agents of death…and became one of the 2019’s most popular comics in the process. DCeased writer Tom Taylor returns to the ravaged world he built in DCeased: Unkillables, a three-issue companion series to the original …
Read More »Marv Wolfman and Riley Rossmo Pay Tribute to The Silver Age of Flash
Marv Wolfman and Riley Rossmo Pay Tribute to The Flash’s Silver Age! (cover to The Flash #750 by Howard Porter) To celebrate the momentous 750th issue of The Flash hitting shelves February 26th, writer Marv Wolfman, artist Riley Rossmo and colorist Ivan Plascencia are teaming up for a Silver Age Scarlet Speedster story! In …
Read More »DARK NIGHTS: DEATH METAL – Melting Faces This May!
Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo Take a Curtain Call for a Bigger, Louder, and Faster Sequel to their Headbanging 2017 Series BURBANK, CA (February 12, 2020) – DC will give readers what they want this summer—bigger, louder, faster, and “metal-er“—as the publisher announced its plans for Dark Nights: Death Metal, …
Read More »Birds of Prey’s Black Mask is Even Crazier and Scarier in the Comics
Have you all seen Birds of Prey yet? How many of you have already seen it twice? I have so many thoughts about so many characters and moments, including the psychotic Black Mask. Of course, depending on how familiar you are with the character, one of your thoughts may be, …
Read More »Birds of Prey and DC’s Radical Tradition of Girl Gangs
The DC Universe has always been filled with brilliant women. From Sensation Comics #1 and the introduction of Wonder Woman all the way to Barbara Gordon’s Batgirl, the ferocious Amanda Waller and the model-turned-vigilante Vixen. Even the DC rogues gallery has its share of astonishing ladies like Poison Ivy, Catwoman, …
Read More »First Look: Grant Morrison’s The Green Lantern Returns
Having successfully completed his mission and survived his dangerous detour into the alternate reality of the Blackstars, Hal Jordan is back—and so are writer Grant Morrison and artist Liam Sharp—for a second “season” of the surreal, smart sci-fi adventure, The Green Lantern. If you’ve read the first twelve issues of …
Read More »Bringing Excitement, Joy and Kangas to Diana: Princess of the Amazons
The creators of Diana: Princess of the Amazons want kids to know that even Wonder Woman had trouble making friends. As one of the most popular superheroes in the world, that may seem hard to imagine, but let’s not forget that Diana grew up on an island where she was …
Read More »DC UNIVERSE MEMBERS TO RECEIVE EARLY ACCESS TO “BIRDS OF PREY” BEFORE THEATRICAL RELEASE
DC UNIVERSE MEMBERS TO RECEIVE EARLY ACCESS TO “BIRDS OF PREY” BEFORE THEATRICAL RELEASEDC UNIVERSE Subscribers Invited To Early Screenings In Over 30 Cities of Highly-Anticipated New DC Film Leading to the big screen release Birds of Prey (and the Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), DC UNIVERSE members will …
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