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Black Canary will assemble the ‘most dangerous’ Birds of Prey ‘for mysterious reasons.’
DC’s Birds of Prey will return in September by the creative team of Kelly Thompson, Leonardo Romero and Jordie Bellaire.
Thompson revealed the news both on Twitter and via her Substack, and also shared the team’s first member, Black Canary, with the promise to reveal more of the members throughout the week. Here’s a look at Romero’s design:
Continue reading “‘Birds of Prey’ will return this fall by Thompson, Romero + Bellaire”Dawn of DC continues in the fall with a crossover between Gotham’s most tumultuous couple.
DC Comics has announced a new crossover coming in the fall — Batman/Catwoman: The Gotham War, part of their Dawn of Dc publishing initiative. The story will run through two one-shots, the regular Batman and Catwoman titles, and a miniseries that will focus on The Red Hood.
Chip Zdarsky and Tini Howard, writers of Batman and Catwoman, have been working toward this story since they each started on their respective title.
“From the moment Tini and I started working on these titles, we realized we had a huge opportunity to build toward something that would shake up the power structure of Gotham City,” Zdarsky said. “The Gotham War is just that: relationships explode, relationships are formed, and it all leads to massive changes! Being able to take these kinds of big swings together has been extremely exciting.”
Continue reading “Batman and Catwoman face a ‘Gotham War’ this fall”The world needed more G’nort. But maybe not this much.
I was a little surprised and very ashamed when I started this post and noticed we didn’t have a G’nort tag yet. “How is such a thing possible?” I asked myself, but then again, maybe the universe’s favorite Green Lantern just hasn’t had a high-profile role in recent years.
But that will change in August when DC releases the G’nort’s Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, which both raises G’nort’s profile and brings back a fun and somewhat cheesy idea that Marvel published back in the 1990s. The Marvel Swimsuit Special would showcase Marvel characters in various tropical locales — like Wakanda, Madripoor and the Blue Area of the Moon (transformed by the Inhumans into a tropical paradise) — in their swimwear. They were light on story and heavy on the cheesecake. But they were a lot of fun.
And now, we have G’nort bringing them back, for the Distinguished Competition.
Continue reading “Everybody out of the water: DC + G’nort revive the illustrated swimsuit comic”Plus: a manga tribute to Marvel, Star Trek’s ‘Day of Blood,’ Power Rangers, Oni Ronin and Whoopi Goldberg!
Slugfest is a roundup of cool announcements about projects coming to a shelf near you. Hit the links for more information.
It’s been awhile since we’ve seen Frank Miller draw Wolverine. Before moving on to DC to work on Batman: Year One and The Dark Knight Returns, Miller worked with writer Chris Claremont on the character’s first miniseries in the early 1980s, which, along with his work on Daredevil, established Miller as a top-tier creator.
Decades later, Miller has drawn a variant cover for Ghost Rider/Wolverine: Weapons of Vengeance Alpha #1:
Continue reading “Slugfest | Frank Miller draws a new variant cover featuring Wolverine”Alan Scott, Jay Garrick and Wesley Dodds each take the spotlight in October.
Geoff Johns’ “The New Golden Age” line will continue in October with miniseries focused on three of DC’s Golden Age heroes: Alan Scott: The Green Lantern by Tim Sheridan and Cian Tormey, Jay Garrick: The Flash by Jeremy Adams and Diego Olortegui, and Wesley Dodds: The Sandman by Robert Venditti and Riley Rossmo.
The three miniseries continue the overarching story being told by Johns in Justice Society of America and Stargirl: The Lost Children — the latter of which wraps up on May 9.
“It’s long past time that the heroes of the Justice Society had their own titles again,” Johns said. “At the same time, they had to be special, important and emotional stories, each one exploring character, revealing secrets, and introducing new heroes and villains to the DC Universe.”
Continue reading “DC announces three New Golden Age miniseries”‘Knight Terrors,’ middle-grade graphic novels and more get the free comic treatment this month.
DC Comics has revealed all the free comics you can get this coming Saturday as part of the annual Free Comic Book Day event.
The publisher will release five free titles during May, some of which won’t be released on FCBD but all of which will be available digitally via DC Universe Infinite. Most of them are also showing up on Comixology’s new release page for Saturday, in case you miss getting them from a store.
Here’s a rundown on what to look for …
Continue reading “DC’s full Free Comic Book Day line-up for 2023”The all-ages graphic novel will feature the pets of some of Batman’s greatest villains.
DC Comics has announced a new young adult graphic novel about Batman’s villains’ pets — the cleverly titled Barkham Asylum. Yehudi Mercado, creator of the recent Shazam! Thundercrack, is writing and drawing this one as well.
“When crafting this graphic novel, I pulled some inspiration from my own experience growing up,” said Mercado. “I was a class clown in school and as a result of that, I spent a lot of time in detention. So I can kind of relate to the lead dog, Jester, in my own way.”
In addition to Jester, the book will also feature “a tough-talking stray cat named Penny.”
“All Jester wants is to make people laugh, so in his mind, his master isn’t such a bad guy. Locked up with him is an innocent stray cat named Penny, a loner who rejects Jester’s request to join his pack. But if they’re going to get out of this mess, they will have to team up. And if a stray cat and The Joker’s dog can get along, then maybe there’s hope for all of us,” Mercado said.
Continue reading “DC’s going to the dogs in ‘Barkham Asylum’”Both titles will spin out of May’s ‘Power Girl Special.’
The upcoming Power Girl Special will serve as the launching point for two new Dawn of DC titles.
Due out on May 30, the first story in the special, naturally, focuses on Power Girl, who has new powers as seen in back-up stories in the pages of Action Comics. Come September, Power Girl will star in her own title by writer Leah Williams and artist Eduardo Pansica.
Per DC, Power Girl will face “a long dormant Kryptonian threat” that has returned to take down Superman and his family.
Continue reading “DC announces new titles featuring Power Girl, Fire & Ice”The ‘Graduation Day’ creative team will continue to tell stories featuring Jaime Reyes this fall.
With the final issue of Blue Beetle: Graduation Day arriving this week, DC has announced that Jaime Reyes’ adventures will continue in September with an ongoing series by the same creative team of writer Josh Trujillo and artists Adrian Gutiérrez, Wil Quintana and Lucas Gattoni.
The miniseries introduced two new beetles, Dynastes and Nitida, and they’ll continue to play a role in the new series, with the first arc titled “Scarab War.”
Continue reading “Blue Beetle will face a ‘Scarab War’ in September”Plus: Batman Beyond, more Birdking, Thor vs. M.O.D.O.K., the return of ‘Fire Power,’ Hellfire Gala fashion and more.
Slugfest is a roundup of cool announcements about projects coming to a shelf near you. Hit the links for more information.
Sergio Aragonés and Mark Evanier will reunite for Groo: In the Wild, a new miniseries that kicks off in July.
The duo is joined by letterer Stan Sakai and colorist Carrie Strachan for a story that sees the barbarian and his dog looking for food. Things go downhill from there, in typical Groo fashion.
Continue reading “Slugfest | Groo goes wild in a new miniseries”The new miniseries will kick off in July.
With the Titans taking center stage at DC in the absence of a Justice League, DC has announced another new Titans project for July — Tales of the Titans, which mirrors the Tales of the New Teen Titans series by Marv Wolfman and George Perez back in the 1980s.
Each issue of the four-issue miniseries will feature a solo story starring one of the Titans who isn’t currently featured in their own title. Shannon Hale and Dean Hale will write the first issue, with Javier Rodríguez on art. Here’s the description of the issue, which “puts the spotlight on the alien princess and warrior Starfire”:
Continue reading “Starfire, Donna Troy, Raven + Beast Boy get solo tales in ‘Tales of the Titans’”Bad dreams abound as DC’s big summer crossover event goes line-wide in July and August.
DC has revealed additional miniseries they will publish in July and August as part of the big Knight Terrors crossover event. While their previous announcement included several series starring villains, this time around they spotlight the heroes who will be trapped in nightmares
Earlier this year DC announced the event, which will feature Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Deadman and others as they battle a new villain, Insomnia, in the realm of nightmares. While the main story will run through the Knight Terrors miniseries, the rest of DC’s normal line-up will be replaced by these miniseries.
Here’s the rundown:
Continue reading “DC’s heroes face their worst nightmares in ‘Knight Terrors’ series of miniseries”
