In Death is not the End, we spotlight the outlandish explanations for comic book characters (mostly super-villains) surviving seeming certain death. Today, we look at how Superman survived the “Death of Superman”! As you all likely know by now, in the famous event in 1992, “The Death of Superman,” the story ends with Superman and
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Archie Comics has provided CBR with covers and solicit information for product shipping in January 2018. When you’re through checking out these solicitations, be sure to visit CBR’s Independents Comic Forum and discuss these Archie Comics releases with fellow readers. Archie Comics Solicitations – Last Three Months ARCHIE HORROR CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SORCERY (TR) Presented
Titan Comics and Games Workshop have teamed to bring countless Orks — and the Deathwatch Space Marines who hate them — to comics fans this coming January. Warhammer 40,000: Deathwatch is a four-issue miniseries based on the standalone Deathwatch board game. The miniseries sees the Deathwatch team assailed by hordes of Orks while the fate
DC Comics’ January solicitations have revealed that Klaus Janson will provide full interior art for Nightwing #37. Janson is best known for his work on the likes of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Daredevil. While he’s best known for his inking (and has won numerous awards for his craft), Janson is also famed for
Solicitations for January are out now, and they provide some details about the plot of the upcoming Flash War arc that starts with a prelude in The Flash Annual #1 and runs through The Flash #46 to #50. RELATED: Flash War: 8 Reasons Barry Is The Best (And 8 Reasons Wally Is Still Better) The
Not only did Geoff Johns break down the Doomsday Clock #1 preview pages in a recent video, DC Entertainment’s President & Chief Creative Officer has revealed that all of his secrets regarding the anticipated Watchmen-fueled crossover are kept in a notebook that bears a striking resemblance to Rorschach’s journal. RELATED: Geoff Johns Breaks Down Doomsday
Welcome to Comic Book Legends Revealed! This is the six hundred and forty-ninth week where we examine comic book legends and whether they are true or false. Click here to read Part 1 of this week’s legends. Click here for Part 2. COMIC LEGEND: Some wrong backgrounds made it into a few issues of the
A twisted figure crawling out of a tunnel. A giggling crowd of masked watchers. A reassembling corpse. What could be behind you, just waiting for you to turn around? Behind You is an illustration series, a comic with no panels, where each piece is essentially a separate story. Each tale is one image and one
The home of Charles Schulz, the late American cartoonist famous for creating the comic strip Peanuts, was destroyed in the California wildfires that broke out last weekend, his son, Monte Schulz, confirmed. RELATED: President Obama Writes Foreword For “Complete Peanuts” Vol. 25 The younger Schulz told the Associated Press that his father’s 78 year-old widow,
IDW Publishing’s Friday evening panel last week at New York Comic Con 2017 focused on two projects led by comics veterans: Shelly Bond’s Black Crown, imprint and Dirk Wood’s quarterly comics magazine, Full Bleed. In addition to Bond, the former Vertigo editor, and Wood, who is IDW’s vice president of marketing, the panel featured a
Sean Gordon Murphy is certainly delivering a different take on Batman and his mythos in the new DC Comics series Batman: White Knight. And, he’s pushing the envelope with mature content. Based on a tease from the writer-artist’s social media, it seems we’ll get a love scene with the Joker and Harley Quinn that could
Welcome to Comic Book Legends Revealed! This is the six hundred and forty-ninth week where we examine comic book legends and whether they are true or false. As we’ve been doing it for some time now, one legend today, one tomorrow and one Sunday. Let’s begin! COMIC LEGEND: What was originally going to be New
Welcome to the Comics Should Be Good Top 100 Comic Book Storylines poll! The first Storylines poll was back in 2009. The last one was in 2013. We’re on an every four years schedule here. It’s time to vote for your top ten all-time favorite comic book storylines! Here’s the deal. You folks all vote
For Laura Kinney, being Wolverine isn’t just about being the best there is at what she does. It’s about honoring the legacy established by her “father,” the original Wolverine (James Howlett, aka Logan) whom she believes to be dead. That means family is very important for the clone formerly known as X-23, even those members
As confirmed previously, The Gifted’s Polaris (Emma Dumont) is in fact the daughter of Magneto, the fan-favorite Master of Magnetism, who has been portrayed by both Michael Fassbender and Ian McKellen in the live-action X-Men films. However, whether or not that would be addressed on the series was a mystery — until now. Speaking to
Since debuting in 2015 Black Panther, writer Ta-Nehisi Coates has made efforts to mend the relationship between the title character and the X-Man Storm after their marriage ended. She’s appeared in Black Panther a recurring character and ally, and the two worked together in the recently concluded Black Panther & the Crew. But now it
Writer and artist Jeff Lemire announced today that he’s working on a new Inferior Five series for DC Comics with artist and co-writer Keith Giffen. RELATED: Steve Orlando Reveals Details of New DC Series, The Unexpected Also detailed in the tweet is that Lemire will write and draw a five-page backup story in each issue,
Two pages from the upcoming Batman: The Devastator #1 one-shot were revealed today at a panel at New York Comic Con. The comic is just one of seven one-shot issues that tie into the Dark Nights: Metal series. Each issue will focus on another corrupted Batman recruited by the bat-demon Barbatos to invade the world
Welcome to Comic Book Legends Revealed! This is the six hundred and forty-eighth week where we examine comic book legends and whether they are true or false. As we’ve been doing it for some time now, one legend today, one tomorrow and one Sunday. Let’s begin! COMIC LEGEND: Thunderbird was going to be a villain
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
The long-anticipated Milestone rebirth has finally been made official, with Denys Cowan, Derek Dingle, Reginald Hudlin and more announcing the first wave of titles to take place on DC Comics’ Earth M at New York Comic Con. “We thought the Milestone characters work best pretty separate from the original DCU,” Hudlin told an eager NYCC
Poison Ivy is outraged when she learns that wealthy businessman and industrialist Hiram Lodge intends to bulldoze Sweetwater Swamp to build a new university and shopping mall, and enlists her best-bud Harley Quinn to help her do something about it! RELATED: Harley & Ivy Meet Betty & Veronica in New DC/Archie Crossover CBR has your
Hawkeye will star in a prequel comic set five years before the events of Old Man Logan, appropriately titled Old Man Hawkeye. Daily News reporter Ethan Sacks will write the 12-issues miniseries, and Marco Checchetto will provide art. RELATED: Brisson Pits Old Man Logan Against the Maestro & His Hulk Army “In this story, [Hawkeye]’s
Samaris is the first volume of the chronicles of The Obscure Cities, published as a graphic novel in 1983 in French and published for the first time in English in 1987 as The Great Walls of Samaris. This edition, marking the 30th anniversary of the original English language publication, features an expanded main story, an
Veteran Dark Horse Comics editor and writer Scott Allie has left his full-time position at the publisher, CBR has confirmed, after a tenure of 23 years including three years as Editor-in-Chief. Dark Horse provided CBR with the following statement, disclosing that his last day as a staff member will be this coming Friday: Scott Allie
The Avengers past and present will unite for Marvel Legacy’s “Avengers: No Surrender” story arc — but Marvel Comics doesn’t want you to call it an event…at least not with a capital “E.” Rather, the massive, weekly storyline will be contained to one series: The Avengers. Discussing Marvel’s break from capital-E Events — which traditionally
Welcome to Comic Book Legends Revealed! This is the six hundred and forty-sixth week where we examine comic book legends and whether they are true or false. As we’ve been doing it for some time now, one legend today, one tomorrow and one Sunday. Let’s begin! COMIC LEGEND: There was almost an X-Men: Hidden Years
Welcome to Comic Book Legends Revealed! This is the six hundred and forty-sixth week where we examine comic book legends and whether they are true or false. Click here for Part 1 of this week’s legends. Click here for Part 2. COMIC LEGEND: Huntress was going to be the Queen of Checkmate STATUS: True My
Batman would side with Colin Kaepernick, and the NFL players kneeling in solidarity, at least according to Batman: The Black Mirror artist Francesco Francavilla, who posted a drawing of the Dark Knight “taking a knee” in protest against racial discrimination. RELATED: Mondo’s Red Rain Vampire Batman Statue is Perfectly Halloween The drawing is in reference
The Infinite Loop is back with a new self-contained story, a perfect jumping-on point for new readers! Twin Peaks-creepiness collides with Orwell’s 1984-dystopian madness in this sci-fi mini series, as Teddy is sent back in time in a little town where people are addicted to lies. Infinite Loop 1 was honored by the Virginia Library