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Which Summer Comic Event Comes Out On Top?
It's the clash that you people have been asking for (well, some of you, anyway): Marvel's alien invasion paranoiafest Secret Invasion versus DC's superhero dystopia Final Crisis. Which one makes your heart flutter? Which one opens your wallet the most? And which, like the Hulk, is the strongest there is? Let's take a look at the two big superhero publisher's Summer Event Books and see which one comes out on top. More »
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Preview The Future of 3 Worlds
Sure, everyone may be talking about Entertainment Weekly's preview pages from DC's big summer event Final Crisis (see Morning Spoilers). Yeah, you can read the original script as well as the finished pages from the beginning of the series. But they're not the only preview to a big DC Comics series available online. Want to see the future of the Boy of Tomorrow? Come under the jump. More »
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It appeared at last month's New York Comic-Con, and then again in last week's DC superhero comics. Later, an easy-to-read version showed up as part of an interview with DC Comics head honcho Dan DiDio over the weekend. I'm talking about the whiteboard of doom. This is DC's latest attempt to tease fans with hints of what's to come in the next year or so. Having trouble telling your JSA from your JLA on the whiteboard, and wondering what it all means? We'll try and make some sense of it all, under the jump.
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Decypher DC's White Board Of Doom
It appeared at last month's New York Comic-Con, and then again in last week's DC superhero comics. Later, an easy-to-read version showed up as part of an interview with DC Comics head honcho Dan DiDio over the weekend. I'm talking about the whiteboard of doom. This is DC's latest attempt to tease fans with hints of what's to come in the next year or so. Having trouble telling your JSA from your JLA on the whiteboard, and wondering what it all means? We'll try and make some sense of it all, under the jump.
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Some Free Comics You Should Nab While You Can
Sure, so this Wednesday was kind of a weak one for comics, but that's because everyone was saving the awesome up for tomorrow. What's so special about tomorrow, you may ask yourself (beside it being Saturday, and therefore requiring no work for the majority of you)? Well, it's Free Comic Book Day 2008, where stores across the nation are giving away a lot of free books, many of which are worth your attention. Want to know which ones? Click that "more" button. More »
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io9 Talks To Geoff Johns About Making Superheroes Scifi
In the last few months, comic book writer Geoff Johns has taken Superman out of Metropolis and into space, the future, and alternate dimensions, as well as making former has-been Booster Gold into a time-travellin' paradox-defeatin' hero. With his alternate-world-spanning DC Universe: Zero (co-written with Grant Morrison) in stores tomorrow, it seemed like a good time to quickly catch up with Green Lantern and future Legion of Super-Heroes writer Johns, and ask him what's with his recent reintroduction of science fiction into the superhero genre. More »
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Fifty Cents Is All You Should Have To Pay For This Week's Comics
There's no way of getting around it: this is both an incredibly slow week for new comics releases, and also an incredibly busy week... just not until the weekend. This Saturday is Free Comic Book Day 2008 (when all manner of books are released for the price of zero dollars exactly in the hope of luring new readers into stores to be tempted by much more expensive items) but I'll wait until Friday before I tell you what you should be picking up for that. But everyone's preparing for Saturday, because what's appearing in stores tomorrow? It kind of sucks. More »
9:00 AM on Tue Apr 29 2008
By Graeme McMillan
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Latest by Zenn-Lavian: So far, Secret Invasion has been the balls... I just picked up a run of Nova so I'm looking forward to reading that. I've heard conflicting things about Fraction's Punisher War Journal though. Is it really worth picking up? more »
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Super Sons Bridge The Super Generation Gap
After last week's post about GeNext, the sons and daughters of the X-Men, I couldn't help but wonder how many other people remembered the first series of stories to truly show how difficult it would be for the offspring of those who spent their time trying to save the world on a regular basis... especially when your parents were the most famous super-heroes in the entire world. That's right, people; I'm talking about Superman Jr. and Batman Jr. - better known to the world as the Super Sons. More »
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Watch a Cylon Interrogation and the Venture Bros. Preview
Earlier this week, you read our take on the Battlestar Galactica panel at this year's New York Comic-Con, but now - thanks to NBC/Universal's Hulu - you can watch it for yourself. And, also thanks to the wonder of the internet, you can read just why panel moderator Marc Bernadin stayed away from the tough questions. Both of those, plus the exclusive NYCC Venture Bros. preview, under the jump. More »
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DC Universe Will Give Us "Manazons" and Anatomically Correct Supergirls
A new Secret Six series, evil math and 'Manazons' for Wonder Woman to face, and a Supergirl without T&A were only a few of the announcements made by DC Comics uber-editor Dan DiDio (flanked by cosplayers as Good and Bad Mary Marvel) and the panel of DC writers and artists at New York Comic-Con. They also revealed a new chapter in DC's ongoing space war, and an ominous development for Green Lantern's space police squad. More »
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Batman: Not R.I.P., But Something Worse?
We've mentioned it a couple of times before, but now writer Grant Morrison is making it very clear for the entire doubting io9 readership (and, for that matter, writers): Batman R.I.P. is intended to end Bruce Wayne's crime-fighting career once and for all. But, unlike Morrison's All-Star Superman, that doesn't mean that he's going to kill Wayne off; he has something much less pleasant planned, apparently. More »
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The Spirit of '50s Sci Fi Returns to Comics
Over at Newsarama, DC Comics head honcho Paul Levitz writes about celebrating the completion of The Spirit Archives, a series of hardcover collections of Will Eisner's newspaper comic strip from the '40s and '50s. While he and other DC employees are champagne toasting because the 24 volume series reached completion, we here at io9 have an even better reason to celebrate the 24th volume: It's the one where Eisner's pulp crimefighter goes to space. More »
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Superman, Batman Face Their Mortality And Morality In Final Crisis
Marvel's Secret Invasion may be the comic book getting all the press right now, but DC's Final Crisis is truly the big idea event comic of the year. At least, if the latest interview with writer Grant Morrison is anything to go by. A seven-part series involving all of the DC Universe and detailing what happens when the good guys lose, Morrison is promising things fan have never seen before when the series begins in May. More »
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Post-Patriots and Other Fakers In This Week's Comics
Here's hoping that you guys are ready to read about Tony Stark this week, as an incredible amount of Marvel Comics' output has some kind of role for the soon-to-be-a-major-motion-picture Iron Man. In comparison, DC only have three Batman-related books out, showing once again how willing they are to lose their market share in this competitive, movie-led environment. Will they never learn? More »
9:00 AM on Tue Apr 15 2008
By Graeme McMillan
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Learn the Rules of Crossover Comic Perfection
With Marvel's Secret Invasion in full swing and DC's Final Crisis mere weeks away, it's worth looking at just what it is about superhero comics' crossover summer events that make them the four-color equivalent of your first sexual experience. They're something you get all excited about ahead of time before the actual incident goes by quickly and leaves you ultimately unfulfilled. Or maybe that's just me. Experience has taught us that there are some easy steps to follow when creating a superhero crossover involving many fan-favorite characters that will, inevitably, lead to sales success. Utilizing them can take you from near obscurity to something approaching success or, at least, your own soon-to-be-cancelled spin-off from the Avengers. More »
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Atlantis' Lost Son Saves This Week's Comics
Every now and again you find something with such a wonderful, perfect, title that it throws every other story in the world into sharp relief. "Why," you think to yourself, "does every other story in the world not have a title so ideal to crystalize its content and intent into one small, simple phrase that touches my heart so?" And then you weep the tears of the unfulfilled, knowing that such perfection is so rare. All of which is my way of saying that this week sees the release of a comic called Jesus Hates Zombies. Absolutely nothing more about that particular graphic novel needs to be said, but the rest of this week's comics? Under the jump. More »
9:00 AM on Tue Apr 8 2008
By Graeme McMillan
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Latest by njudahchronicles: I have a great update of the Dan Dare series, called "Dare: the Unauthorized Biography of Dan Dare" and it is one of the most amazing, smart, and well written redos/updates with a big dose of political insight, and was more »
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Teenagers From Future Now 50 Years Old
April isn't just the month where formerly reputable sources try and convince you that spaghetti grows on trees - It's also the month that sees the anniversary of the creation of comics' premier team of teenage superheroes fighting crime one thousand years from now. April 2008, in fact, is the 50th anniversary of the creation of DC Comics' Legion of Super-Heroes, and we here at io9 want to take this opportunity to remind you of just five reasons why the Legion is maybe the Superman franchise's greatest gift to the world. More »
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Zombies, Aliens And The Last Boy On Earth In This Week's Comics
Before I tell you all about Secret Invasion again — the first issue arrives in stores tomorrow — I have just five words for you: Zombies Vs. Robots Vs. Amazons. Ignoring the potential sequel, "Zombies Vs. Robots Vs. Amazons Vs. Your Mother," how much more awesome can one comic sound? Find out about the war to end all wars, as well as invading aliens who look just like you and other four color funnies under the jump. More »
9:00 AM on Tue Apr 1 2008
By Graeme McMillan
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Latest by TheN: @Plague: Hey, some of us out here like to keep series around for a while. Waiting for the trade can be a death sentence for certain writers. Ellis no longer falls under this category, true. Planetary was great, back in its more »
