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. COMIC LEGEND: Marvel at first refused to adapt Raiders of the Lost Ark STATUS: True As the 1970s came

Image Comics has released solicitation information and images for new books and products shipping in December 2017. When you’re through checking out these solicitations for new Image releases, be sure to visit CBR’s Image Comics forum to discuss these titles and products with fellow readers and fans. Image Comics Solicitations – Last Six Months RUMBLE

This is Comic Book Easter Eggs, where I spotlight notable “Easter Eggs” (basically hidden references) within comic books or other media (so long as it is connected to comic books somehow). With issue #6 of Wonder Woman ’77 Meets the Bionic Woman getting released this Wednesday, we asked the writer of the comic, best-selling author

The second issue of Dark Nights: Metal concluded with Batman being transformed into a gateway, through which the demon Barbatos and his seven evil Batmen have entered the DC Universe from the Dark Multiverse. Readers will have to wait for the release of Batman Lost in November to see how Batman will “face his greatest

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 forty-fifth 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: Jughead was considered for being a New Teen Titan. STATUS: False Once

Greg Capullo is adding fuel to the speculation fire, tweeting out a strong suggestion that he’s set to work on a Swamp Thing comic. The post follows rumors that originated this summer, when Capullo told a fan at a convention that he was set to tackle the fan-favorite DC Comics monster after he wraps up

Welcome to Comic Book Legends Revealed! This is the six hundred and forty-fourth 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: Carl Barks used to draw “Tijuana Bibles.” STATUS: I’m Going With False

Len Wein, the award-winning writer and editor, perhaps best known for co-creating Swamp Thing for DC Comics and Wolverine for Marvel Comics, along with editing Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen, passed away Sunday, according to multiple industry reports including word of the news from fellow comics veteran Paul Kupperberg. He was 69 years old.

Comic Book Questions Answered – where I answer whatever questions you folks might have about comic books (feel free to e-mail questions to me at brianc@cbr.com). My buddy Aaron just asked this question on Facebook, so I figured I’d throw up a quick answer for him. Giant Days is a delightfully funny comic book series

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

Brigitte Findakly and her husband Lewis Trondheim have been collaborating on comics for decades. Trondheim, co-founder of the French comics publisher L’Association, has created international hits such as Dungeon, Little Nothings, Kaput & Zosky and more. Throughout Trondheim’s award-winning career, Findakly has been the primary colorist of his comics, abetting his artwork and stories. In

The countdown to the November release date of Doomsday Clock #1 has officially started. DC Comics has announced that the event’s creative team of writer/DC Entertainment Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns and artist Gary Frank will take the main stage at this year’s New York Comic Con for a Doomsday Clock panel on Friday, Oct.

The Metans have found Loma…sort of. Shade’s travels have taken her to Hollywood where she’d hoped to find the actress who played Honey in her favorite Earth TV show. Unexpectedly encountering her as she was hoping to die, the two have switched bodies! Now the elderly actress inhabiting Shade’s young host has been discovered and

Green Arrow’s quest to hunt down the Ninth Circle across America continues, and this leg of the hunt gets a lot more vertical! Oliver bravely and boldly teams up with Hal Jordan, the Green Lantern, and enlists his aid to reach a Ninth Circle orbital space station that’s up to no good. It’s the Green

Comic Book Questions Answered – where I answer whatever questions you folks might have about comic books (feel free to e-mail questions to me at brianc@cbr.com). Reader Manny S. wrote in to ask if me if it was really true that Deadpool once killed a guy over liking the Star Wars prequels. The answer, Manny

Return to the real-life days of the wild, wild West where the living wasn’t so easy… especially for women. Martha Jane Cannary was a bona fide frontierswoman, a professional scout, a drunk, and sometime whore, doing whatever it took to stay alive in the hardscrabble days of American expansion. Writer Christian Perrissin (El Niño, Cape

Welcome to Comic Book Legends Revealed! This is the six hundred and forty-third 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: Marvel almost released the “Child’s Play” story without Comics Code approval, but editor Denny O’Neil objected. STATUS:

Courtesy of Kotobukiya, DC Comics’ Girl of Steel is getting a glorious 1/7-scale Bishoujo statue, set to hit shelves early next year. RELATED: Emperor Palpatine Kotobukiya Statue Will Feed Your Anger. The latest Bishoujo Supergirl statue features a very different take on the character than her last Bishoujo statute, which was released seven years ago.

Welcome to Comic Book Legends Revealed! This is the six hundred and forty-third 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: Starfire was originally going to be black

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 ask a question here. You reply to it on the CSBG Twitter page (just write @csbg with your reply), our artists will each pick one of your

Harley Quinn is getting her own thrill ride in 2018 at Six Flags Over Texas. This new one-of-a-kind experience will combine the movement of a gyroscope with unpredictable, gravity-defying flips and twists. RELATED: Why Is Harley Quinn So Popular? Kevin Conroy Has An Idea Harley Quinn Spinsanity will feature a futuristic triple box design and

CBR has your exclusive first look at Daniele Di Nicuolo’s black-and-white breakdowns and finished color pages of The Infinite Loop: Nothing But the Truth #1! Official solicitation text 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

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, we look at how Stan Lee

Welcome to Anorev, a land where time has no meaning. Robots work and children play, but the play is no fun and the work is no use. A curious boy named Ayden and his robot friend Zoe know that something’s missing, but they can’t imagine what it might be… until 314 identical men in green

This is Past Was Close Behind, a feature that spotlights moments, exchanges, etc. from older comics that take on a brand new light when read in concert with later comic books or events. Basically, stuff that looks hilarious in hindsight. One of the all-time oddest members of the Avengers was Demolition Man, who went by

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

Sean Gordon Murphy isn’t shy when it comes to revealing story details on social media, but it was going to take a lot to follow up on his announcement of the name the Joker will go by in Batman: White Knight. That said, the writer/artist’s latest revelation is a pretty big piece of news; showcased

Last month, IDW Publishing announced a Goosebumps comic book series, inspired by R.L. Stine’s classic line of children’s horror novels. The series is slated to run for three-issue arcs, from a variety of creative teams starting with Monsters at Midnight by writer Jeremy Lambert and artist Chris Fenoglio; set in “Horrorland,” a location from the

Every week Keith Knight makes three comic strips. There’s the weekly multi-panel strip The K Chronicles, which has run since 1993. There’s the weekly single panel political strip (th)ink. Then seven days a week he’s making The Knight Life, a daily comic strip. Knight is also the illustrator of Jake the Fake Keeps It Real,