It’s been rumored for months, and now it’s official: As of the beginning of September, DC Comics is relaunching its entire DC Universe line of superhero comic books with new #1 issues. The surprising part: The entire line will also be available digitally on the day of each issue’s release in comics stores.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Two months ago, the “Who Do You Trust?” cinematic trailer for DC Universe Online hit the interwebs explaining why the world of the game would need an influx of new metahumans. The violent mini-movie was produced by Blur Studio, the CGI house that also did the kick-ass Star Wars: The Old Republic trailer that debuted [...]
Hey, she’s a member of the DC Comics’ holy trinity so you knew she was going to show up. Still, it’s good to see Princess Diana lassoing up Greco-Roman demons alongside some create-a-characters. It’s a safe bet that Paradise Island/Themyscria will be one of the environments that the MMO’s missions will send you to, like [...]
*long exhale*
This September, Titan Books will be publishing Icons: The DC Comics and Wildstorm Art of Jim Lee, a hardcover art book collecting work by the artist who’s now DC’s co-publisher. It will include a bunch of previously unseen pieces, including a lot of Lee’s process artwork, from rough layouts to finished pencils, an extensive interview [...]
This morning, it was announced that DC Entertainment’s new president Diane Nelson had named Dan DiDio and Jim Lee as DC Comics’ co-publishers, and Geoff Johns as Chief Creative Officer. TECHLAND spoke to the three new appointees about what comes next for DC.
This morning, DC Entertainment named Jim Lee and Dan DiDio as the new co-publishers of DC Comics, and Geoff Johns as Chief Creative Officer (a new position)–all three of them longtime company insiders. Here’s a few thoughts about what their new roles might mean.
