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You may have noticed that DC Comics is audaciously canceling their entire superhero line and restarting it with 52 first issues come September. Details about this relaunch are still fairly murky, but here's a primer on what we do know. More »
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DC Entertainment announced today that they would be moving their multimedia operations to Los Angeles while leaving their wing in Manhattan. The reason? Among several things, to devote a greater focus on DC-branded movies. UPDATE: The Wildstorm line is ending. More »
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I recently perused the Absolute editions of Warren Ellis' seminal shared universe comic series Planetary all in one sitting. And you know what? For as much as Ellis loves penning curmudgeons, the series is a panacea for doom'n'gloom superheroics. More »
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Depending what you read, 2010's comics begin with the fictional becoming real, mythical figures becoming pawns in political power grabs, or learning to deal with post-nuclear apocalypses. Looks like it's another year of stories too close to our real lives... More »
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The first issue of DC Comics' prequel to next year's psychic Dakota Fanning movie Push hits stores tomorrow, but the opening of the book has been released online, allowing all of us to get our first taste of Reagan era black ops telepathy a day early. More »
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Will Tom Cruise discover that the only way he can be truly hurt is emotionally? Possibly, if rumors that he'll be starring in Sam Raimi's adaptation of the comic Sleeper are to be believed. More about the story of alien artifacts, moral conundrums and Raimi and Cruise's involvement in both, under the jump. More »
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Superheroes, as we all know, exist to save the day. It's what they do - Swoop down from on high, solve the problems and swoop back on out again. But what happens when they not only don't save the day, but play an active part in the destruction of the world? That's the basis for the latest relaunch of DC Comics' Wildstorm line, entitled World's End. More »
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It wasn't the change that anyone was expecting. When Friday's rumors of a resignation within DC Comics' upper management hit the nets, everyone was thinking executive editor Dan DiDio. But instead, it was Senior VP of Business Development John Nee. Shockwaves felt around the industry tended to be of the confused, "Who is John Nee, and is this important?" flavor. Under the jump: Answers to those two questions. More »
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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 »
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