Today we look at the clever way that DC showed how Green Lantern reacted to the Flash’s trial for killing the Reverse Flash. In “Our Lives Together,” I spotlight some of the more interesting examples of shared comic book universes. You know, crossovers that aren’t exactly crossovers. As you likely know by now, one of

This week, our artists drew your picks for comic book characters mashed up with famous fairy tales. So every week, I post a topic here. You reply to it on the CSBG Twitter page (just write @csbg with your reply), our artists will each pick one of your suggestions and I will post their drawings

Poison Ivy has been positioned in an incredible place of power in Fear State — and could either save OR doom Gotham City. WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Batman #112, on sale now from DC Comics. Gotham City is currently in dire straights. Still trying to pick up the pieces from the events of Joker

In the latest Comic Book Legends Revealed, learn whether Marvel really insisted that a Thunderbolts team member be killed off due to a rights issue. Welcome to Comic Book Legends Revealed! This is the eight hundred and thirteenth installment where we examine three comic book legends and determine whether they are true or false. As

As Iron Man, Tony Stark managed to master the ten rings of Marvel’s Mandarin in the comic book Marvel Universe long before Shang-Chi did in the MCU. Before the MCU’s Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, there was another heroic master of the Mandarin’s Ten Rings. While he usually deals with technology

An old war story in The Old Guard: Tales Through Time #3 reveals that one of the key Netflix immortal warriors actually had a secret son. WARNING: The following contains spoilers for “Passchendaele” in The Old Guard: Tales Through Time #3, available now from Image. In The Old Guard, Andromache of Scythia is undoubtedly the

As the new Swamp Thing battles against the Suicide Squad, the truth behind how he was bonded to the Green and became an avatar finally comes out. WARNING: The following contains spoilers for The Swamp Thing #7, on sale now from DC Comics. One of the biggest developments heading into the Infinite Frontier era was

Marvel’s Death of Doctor Strange is set to introduce a new Sorcerer Supreme, as the X-Men, Black Knight and Blade are brought into the fight. Doctor Strange will pass on the mantle of Sorcerer Supreme to a new wielder this December. Stephen Strange will meet his demise in the Death of Doctor Strange limited series — and

Extreme Carnage has just brought together a brand new Marvel dream team of symbiotes, tying together multiple generations of heroes to save the world. WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Extreme Carnage: Toxin, available now from Marvel Comics. Carnage’s most recent return to the forefront of the Marvel Universe has been an absolute bloodbath.

Eisner Award-winning writer Chuck Brown was won over by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Black Manta in DC’s Aquaman film, calling the character ‘amazing.’ Black Manta’s big-screen debut made a splash with Eisner and Ringo award-winning author Chuck Brown, who is writing Black Manta’s adventures in a new DC series. In a recent roundtable discussion with CBR,

Miles Morales: Spider-Man #30 will celebrate the teen hero’s tenth anniversary with a slick new costume and a cavalcade of guest creators. The debut of Miles Morales is coming to its tenth anniversary, and Marvel Comics is celebrating with the double-sized Miles Morales: Spider-Man #30. The story will be notable for properly introducing a new costume for Miles. Within the

The Sentinels tower over the X-Men in comics, and the mutant-hunters are also some of the biggest Marvel action figures ever produced. The mighty Sentinels are some of the biggest and most formidable of the X-Men’s villains, hunting down unwary mutants wherever their lavender frames tread. These monstrous machines haven’t just terrorized the comic books,

In Daredevil #34, Elektra prepares for a showdown with the insane and deadly Bullseye, largely thanks to the technology of Tony Stark. WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Daredevil #34, on sale now from Marvel Comics. Even though Elektra Natchios is one of the deadliest assassins in the Marvel Universe, she has had plenty of

CBR presents an exclusive preview of AWA Studios’ Not All Robots #2 by Mark Russell and Mike Deodato. In the year of 2056, robots have replaced human beings in the workforce. An uneasy co-existence develops between the newly intelligent robots and the ten billion humans living on Earth. Every human family is assigned a robot

The MCU film Shang Chi introduced a powerful dark lord to the cinematic universe, but the original comic book version is much stronger. WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Shang-Chi & The Legend of the Ten Rings, now in theaters. Of all the incredible new concepts and characters that Shang-Chi & The Legend of the Ten

After being delayed for over a year, fan-favorite character Peter Stanchek is returning to the Valiant Universe. The Harbinger #1 is co-written by Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly, with art from Robbi Rodriguez, colors from Rico Renzi, and letters by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou. Due out Oct. 27, the relaunch of Harbinger is set in a dystopian Chicago and will

With the Great Protector, Shang-Chi just gave the Marvel Cinematic Universe a new dragon, but the comic book Marvel Universe has many more. WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Shang-Chi & The Legend of the Ten Rings, now in theaters. Shang-Chi & The Legend of the Ten Rings has introduced the Marvel Cinematic Universe to a whole

The romantic history of Dick Grayson has been a hot topic for decades, but his worst fling was with his mentor’s longtime love, Catwoman. The many romances of Dick Grayson are often burning topics in the DC Universe. His on-again-off-again, will-they-won’t-they relationships with both Bat-Family member Barbara Gordon and fellow Teen Titan Starfire have piqued readers’ interests

One of the Guardians of the Galaxy just revealed how she saw one of Marvel’s Young Avengers become a tyrant him her home timeline. WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for The Last Annihilation: Wiccan and Hulkling #1, available now from Marvel. The Last Annihilation has cast a dark, Dormammu-shaped shadow over the Marvel Universe, and

Emma Frost takes control of Cerebro in an official preview for Marvel Comics’ Inferno #1, on sale later this month. Marvel Comics has released an official set of unlettered preview pages for the first issue of Inferno, the climactic, four-part conclusion to writer Jonathan Hickman’s X-Men run. The limited series, set to launch at the

Today, see how Shang-Chi spent over a year in limbo slowly dying of poison before Marvel resolved his storyline. This is “Never Gonna Be the Same Again,” a feature where I look at how bold, seemingly “permanent” changes were ultimately reversed. This is not a criticism, mind you, as obviously things are always going to

Today, we look at the various different ways of how Clark Kent got his job at the Daily Planet over the years! This is “Gonna Change My Way of Thinking,” a feature spotlighting notable examples of retcons that don’t fit into the framework of Abandoned an’ Forsaked, which is specifically about stories that outright “overturn”

Shang-Chi comics writer Gene Luen Yang tells CBR why the titular hero clashes with Tony Stark/Iron Man in the upcoming Shang-Chi #5. Gene Luen Yang, writer of Marvel’s latest Shang-Chi comic series, recently revealed why it was important for the titular hero to face off with Iron Man in the upcoming issue, Shang-Chi #5. “Iron

The Green Lantern series introduced the Black Lantern Corps, created to be antithetical to the various corps within the Emotional Spectrum by Nekron, one of DC’s numerous personifications of Death. The 2009 storyline, Blackest Night, saw Nekron use ominous black rings to raise the dead from across the DC Universe, amassing an army that blackened the skies, killed beloved

Today, we look at how the origins of the Mandarin’s Ten Rings have evolved over times through retcons and near retcons. In every installment of Abandoned Love we will be examining comic book stories, plots and ideas that were abandoned by a later writer without actively contradicting an earlier story (so the more passive definition