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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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This Is Grant Morrison On Drugs
The most shocking revelation from Grant Morrison's panel at New York Comic-Con: comics' most trippy writer was a straight-edger until he turned 30. After that, of course, the floodgates were opened and it was drugs, drugs, drugs, as he explains in this clip, courtesy of Zach from ComicRelated.com. Besides explaining what on Earth fueled The Invisibles, his 1990s punk-paranoid comic, Morrison also dropped a few hints about Final Crisis — hope you'll be glad to see Frankenstein in issue 3. 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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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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Batman RIP, But Not Reborn
Of all the announcements from Wondercon this past weekend, not one of them shed any light on the rumor that Batman was going to die and become reborn as one of DC's "New Gods" during this summer's Final Crisis event. As it turns out, Batman and Final Crisis writer Grant Morrison was online during WonderCon weekend, talking to Newsarama about how that rumor got started, as well as what he does to do to the Dark Knight. More »
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Wildstorm Relives Past Glories, Other People's Characters
DC's once proud Wildstorm imprint showed signs of hurting at their Sunday panel at WonderCon. First sign was the sparse attendance for the panel, with less than 50 people in a hall meant to hold roughly eight times that number, with the second being that everyone involved, from pros to fans, would rather talk about crossovers with the mainstream DC Universe or old books that never got finished. More »
2:23 PM on Sun Feb 24 2008
By Graeme McMillan
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Is Batman Going to Die?
It's been hinted at by DC Comics' head honcho Dan Didio and now the official solicitation copy for April's Batman #676 seems to confirm the long-standing rumor that Bruce Wayne is not long for this world. More »
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Meet The New Gods, Same As The Old Gods
All of the coolest comics arriving this week are reprints of classic material. But when that includes a Grant Morrison pop-art gem, Kirby at his spaciest and the weirdest Marvel mash-up ever, it's not such a bad thing. Read on for our recommendations. More »
9:00 AM on Tue Jan 15 2008
By grae
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The Joy Of Watching Spider-Man's Marriage Go Plop
The holiday season is the perfect time to celebrate families torn asunder due to demonic intervention. This week sees the release of the long-dreaded Amazing Spider-Man #545, the comic which writer J.M. Straczynski almost took his name off. The demon Mephisto has offered to save the life of Peter Parker's Aunt May — but at the cost of undoing Parker's marriage to Mary Jane. We already know what choice Spidey will make, but the fun is in watching his marriage splinter, and bitching about it online afterwards. More new comics coming Friday (thanks to holiday delays) after the jump. More »
9:00 AM on Wed Dec 26 2007
By charliejane
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Must Read: X-Men: New X-Men Omnibus
Must-read comics are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-read is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale.Title: New X-Men Omnibus
Date: 2007 (reprinting material from 2001 - 2004).
Vitals: Given the task of refocusing Marvel's X-Men franchise in the wake of the first movie, Scottish writer Grant Morrison twisted the formula around 180 degrees - What if mutations were becoming the norm and the human race was faced with extinction? What would that do to culture, to the role of the X-Men themselves, to their former villains? His answer came in a three-year run on the comic - now collected in one massive hardcover - that worked both as highbrow intellectual piece and mass-audience thriller. More »
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Must Read: We3
Must-read graphic novels are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale.
Title: We3
Date: 2004-2005
Vitals: Cute animals wear cybernetic super-soldier armor and go on a killing rampage. OMG cute puppy, cat and rabbit! They just want to frolic and scamper, but the military wants to turn them into engines of death. More »
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Must Read: Seven Soldiers Of Victory
Must-read graphic novels are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale.Title: Seven Soldiers Of Victory
Date: 2005-2006
Vitals: Evil fairies from the distant future, the Sheeda, are coming to "harvest" our era, plundering and destroying all the achievements of our civilization. Only seven heroes — who don't know about each other — can stop them. More »
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Must Read: All-Star Superman
Must-read graphic novels are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale.Title: All-Star Superman
Date: 2005-present
Vitals: Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely create their own zany tribute to the Silver Age Superman, with stories about Superboy, a wackier version of Jimmy Olsen, and the Bizarro world. These pop-sci-fi stories straddle a serious undercurrent: Superman is slowly dying after overexposure to solar radiation. More »
