Hidden in a non-announcement about a sequel to DC Comics’ successful Superman: Earth One graphic novel (It was announced as a series initially, so a sequel was pretty much promised from day one) is some genuinely surprising news: Writer J. Michael Straczynski will be leaving both the monthly Superman and Wonder Woman series less than a …
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DC Comics Launches New Digital Storefront
It’s Wednesday, which means New Comics Day in both the real and virtual worlds. But for DC Comics, their big release isn’t the final physical issue of Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne or even the digital release of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (Although, come on, that’s pretty great), but instead the launch of the company’s new …
Jim Lee on Drawing Comics and the WildStorm Legacy
Icons: The DC Comics and WildStorm Art of Jim Lee comes out this month–a big coffee-table book surveying Lee’s past two decades as a comics artist. It includes a hefty sampling of his work on Superman, Batman and the various titles Lee created for WildStorm, as well as a new Legion of Super-Heroes story drawn by Lee and written by Paul …
Batman on Broadway? Dark Knight Heads to the Stage
He’s conquered comic books, movies, televisions and even short-lived fad dance crazes, but can the Dark Knight really handle life on the stage? DC Entertainment, Warner Bros and Water Lane Productions have officially announced Batman Live, a touring live production that brings Batman face-to-face with, in the words of the press release, …
DC Editor-in-Chief Bob Harras On Batman’s New Status Quo (Spoilers)
The end of this week’s issue of Batman and Robin doesn’t just wrap up the five-year storyline that Grant Morrison has been cooking up, bringing back Bruce Wayne from throughout time, explaining who Dr. Hurt is, and restoring order to Gotham City – It also sets up the new status quo in its final pages, as (I’m serious about spoilers, …
Green Lantern’s Movie Homebase Revealed
Warner Bros has released concept art from next year’s Green Lantern movie, letting fans and those of us more prepared to be critical get out first chance to see what Green Lantern Corps home planet Oa will look like on the big screen. And the answer is apparently… rocky?
Don’t get me wrong, it doesn’t look bad, exactly. It’s …
Neil Gaiman: Death Movie Is Dead Because Of DC Entertainment
The long saga of the movie version of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman spin-off, Death: The High Cost of Living, seems to have come to the latest in a line of endings with Gaiman’s proclaiming the project a victim of Warner Bros’ recent renewed focus on DC Comics properties. In a new interview with Vulture, he said,
We just set it up again at a
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DC: We Dropped Price To Keep People Buying Comics
In an interview with Comic Book Resources, DC Comics co-publishers Jim Lee and Dan Didio addressed the company’s recently-announced price drop on their titles from $3.99 for 22 pages to $2.99 for 20 pages, and gave an interesting reasoning behind it: They’re trying to keep fans from leaving comics altogether. Here’s Lee:
If you’re a
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DC Movie Round-Up: No Justice League, GL And Flash Scripts By Christmas
If Geoff Johns is promising “at least” one DC superhero movie a year following the release of next year’s Green Lantern, what movies will fulfill that demand? We know that Warners/DC Entertainment is already working on a third Chris Nolan-directed Batman movie, and that Zack Snyder will be directing a new Superman movie, and now rumor …
Zack Snyder Confirmed As Superman Director, Zod Rumored As Villain
It’s official: Zack Snyder will direct the next Superman movie for Warner Bros/DC Entertainment, and he’s already talking about it:
It’s early yet, but I can tell you that what David [Goyer, scriptwriter] and Chris [Nolan, producer] have done with the story so far definitely has given me a great insight into a way to make him feel
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Wonder Woman Poised To Save TV?
She’s been through triumph and tragedy on the comics page, multiple reboots for different generations and a surprisingly successful redesign that only goes to prove how many people really wanted to see her in leggings, but can DC Comics’ Wonder Woman survive David E. Kelley? The Hollywood Reporter has the news that DC Entertainment and …
DC Lays Off Three Vertigo Editors
A week after DC Entertainment announced that it was moving all but its print publication side to Burbank and closing its Wildstorm imprint entirely – moves that would, according to paperwork filed by the company itself, result in a loss of a third of its staff – the news comes that three editors from Vertigo, DC’s “mature readers” …