Welcome to Comic Book Legends Revealed! This is the six hundred and sixty-third week where we examine comic book legends and whether they are true or false. As always, there will be three different posts for each legend this week! COMIC LEGEND: Joe Simon originally named Captain America something else entirely. STATUS: I’m Going With

Oni Press has provided CBR News with the exclusive first look at covers and solicit information for products shipping April 2018. When you’re through checking out these solicitations, be sure to visit CBR’s Indie Comics Forum and discuss these Oni Press releases with fellow readers. Oni Press Solicitations – Last Six Months A Quick &

Marvel Comics has announced its slate of 2018 young artists to watch. The announcement is part of the company’s Young Guns program, which began back in 2004 as a way to spotlight emerging talent in the comic book industry. The program has been dormant since 2014, but has seemingly been rekindled this year. Marvel has

This is Foggy Ruins of TIme, a feature that provides the cultural context behind certain comic book characters/behaviors. You know, the sort of then-topical references that have faded into the “foggy ruins of time.” To wit, twenty years from now, a college senior watching episodes of “Seinfeld” will likely miss a lot of the then-topical

Welcome to Comic Book Legends Revealed! This is the six hundred and sixty-third week where we examine comic book legends and whether they are true or false. As always, there will be three different posts for each legend this week! NOTE: Here is a bonus Comic Book Legends Revealed that I did for Martin Luther

Back in September, Wolverine returned in the Marvel Legacy one-shot, a major part of establishing the publisher’s new post-Secret Empire status quo. He’s made scattered appearances since then, but questions have lingered: Exactly how did Logan return from being killed off in 2014’s aptly titled Death of Wolverine miniseries? And when and where will that

It may be coming to an end, but the cover for Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley’s long-running series’ final issue indicates there may yet be more stories to tell — albeit about a different Invincible. Skybound Entertainment and Image Comics have released co-creator Cory Walker’s cover art for Invincible #144. The illustration features Terra Grayson,

At the DC in DC event, DC Comics co-publisher Dan DiDio confessed that the critical hit series Mister Miracle by Tom King and Mitch Gerads actually came from a 1 am conversation at a bar during Baltimore Comic Con. In an interview with Multiversity, DiDio recalled, “Tom King and I were at a bar at

Following the announcement that Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.’s Kick-Ass would return with a new character taking up the mantle, Millar has revealed that he intends to reboot Kick-Ass again in five years’ time. “Kick-Ass was always a legacy character for me,” he explained to Entertainment Weekly. “It’s like Doctor Who or The Flash or Green Lantern or

Marvel has announced that artist David Baldeon will join writer Gail Simone on the publisher’s upcoming Domino title. Baldeon, who worked on Marvel’s Spirits of Vengeance miniseries, has been a fan of Simone’s writing for a long time. “I am so very thrilled to be a part of Team Domino! I am a fan of

In advance of Dark Horse Comics’ April 2018 solicitations, CBR has the first look at covers and solicitation text for American Gods: My Ainsel #2 and Giants #5. Check back later this week for Dark Horse’s full April 2018 solicitations! RELATED: Racial Drama Incognegro Returns with New Edition, Prequel Miniseries American Gods: My Ainsel #2

Welcome to Comic Book Legends Revealed, where we examine comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This is a special Martin Luther King Day edition of CBLR! COMIC LEGEND: A Martin Luther King comic book inspired the iconic Greensboro Four sit-in STATUS: True In 1957, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, which had played

The comics industry was surprised in November when it was announced that writer Brian Michael Bendis had signed an exclusive contract with DC Comics, bringing to an end his 18-year run with Marvel. A result of the move, Bendis will no longer write the adventures of Miles Morales, the Ultimate Universe Spider-Man he created with

At the DC in D.C. convention this weekend, writer Tom King teased both a new project and a new initiative in his work that he’s calling Sanctuary. Modelled after real-world veterans’ crisis centers, Sanctuary will be a DC Universe-wide initiative designed as a place where superheroes can go to to receive the emotional support they

A captivating parable and timeless tale of love, passion, violence, and humor in the spirit of 1001 Nights and Aladdin–but one that blasts the conventional clichés to bits! An amazing graphic work, mixing great character design and storyboard-inspired action with an exciting color palette. “Allow me to tickle your fancies with my tale, a tale

Welcome to Comic Book Legends Revealed! This is the six hundred and sixty-second week where we examine comic book legends and whether they are true or false. Click here for Part 1 of this week’s legends. COMIC LEGEND: The Blackhawk comic strip was leaking government aviation secrets STATUS: False, but Kind of True As you

Welcome to Comic Book Legends Revealed! This is the six hundred and sixty-second week where we examine comic book legends and whether they are true or false. As always, there will be three different posts for each legend this week! COMIC LEGEND: Jim Starlin was kicked off of a New Gods follow-up to Cosmic Odyssey

Welcome to Line it is Drawn, our weekly gallery of amazing art by our great collection of artistic talent, all working from your suggestions! 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

Justice League of America writer Steve Orlando will team with Black Road artist Garry Brown for a new oil drama from Robert Kirkman’s Skybound Entertainment. RELATED: Steve Orlando Reveals Details of New DC Series The Unexpected Titled Crude, the series centers on former assassin Piotr Petrovich Bilibin, who investigates the death of his estranged son

Thor: Ragnarok star Tessa Thompson proclaimed that she’s “geeking out” at the announcement that Marvel Comics’ upcoming Exiles series will use her as inspiration for a new iteration of Valkyrie. RELATED: Tessa Thompson’s Valkyrie is Already Being Looked at for Marvel Games “Love what [writer Saladin Ahmed] said about Valkyrie in the new Exiles comic,” Thompson

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 retconnng away the previous story. Feel free to e-mail me at brianc@cbr.com if you have any suggestions for future editions of this feature. Today, based on a suggestion by longtime

Part of what makes Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples’ Saga so beloved is how thoroughly unadaptable it is, as Vaughan has discussed in the past. The visuals are so wild, it would take an Avengers-sized budget to hope to realize on the screen, but it is also so racy that a movie studio is unlikely to

Knowledge Waits is a feature where I just share some bit of comic book history that interests me. Today, we see all of Daredevil’s crazy gadgets within his billy club! Daredevil’s billy club has been part of his crimefighting arsenal right from the start. You barely get into the pages of Daredevil #1 (by Stan

In “When We First Met”, we spotlight the various characters, phrases, objects or events that eventually became notable parts of comic lore, like the first time someone said, “Avengers Assemble!” or the first appearance of Batman’s giant penny or the first appearance of Alfred Pennyworth or the first time Spider-Man’s face was shown half-Spidey/half-Peter. Stuff

Marvel Comics has announced 10 variant covers inspired by the previously announced miniseries New Mutants: Dead Souls. This “New Mutant Variant Cover Program,” which debuts in March, will feature “dark portraits of your favorite Marvel heroes from acclaimed artists such as Dan Mora, Declan Shalvey, Mike Deodato and more.” The following titles will receive New Mutant

Savage Dragon creator Erik Larsen has no interest in seeing his creation appear in a movie. On Twitter, he was adamant that the character, currently published by Image Comics, will remain in the comics medium only. “I’ve heard it before and I’ll hear it again: ‘They should make a Savage Dragon movie,’” he wrote. “Honestly —

Stan Lee has been accused of sexual misconduct by nurses who had once been employed to care for the 95-year-old comic book writer and editor in his Los Angeles home. According to the Daily Mail, “a string of young female nurses” claim that Lee repeatedly groped and harassed them, and demanded to be “pleasured.” The

Funko is giving collectors even more to obsess over with their new line of HeroWorld vinyl collectible figures. RELATED: Stan Lee’s Marvel Cameo Characters Are Getting Funko Pop!s The new line, announced by the company Monday, will be exclusively sold at Target starting this week. HeroWorld will feature figurine sets based on the characters from

Last week, Marvel announced the return of Exiles, the 2001 comic that brought together Marvel characters from different timelines and realities to correct problems in the multiverse. This time around, the cast will include Blink, an older version of current Ms. Marvel Kamala Khan, and Iron Lad (a version of Kang the Conqueror from the future).

What happened to the girl who once thought the world of Wonder Woman, and what is the cause of her savage descent into becoming Silver Swan? Find out in Wonder Woman #38’s “Swan Song” Part One! CBR has your exclusive first look at DC Comics’ Wonder Woman #38, written by James Robinson, with art by Emanuela