DC Comics brings Zatanna, Vixen, and Red Hood to WebToon
Three new series join the ongoing Batman: Wayne Family Adventures.
Read MoreTom King, Chris Burnham team for DARK CRISIS: WORLDS WITHOUT A JUSTICE LEAGUE - SUPERMAN #1
The one-shot is due out July 12, with an Aquaman back-up story by Brandon Thomas, Chuck Brown, and Fico Ossio.
Read MoreDC Comics Round Robin Tournament Returns for 2022
Once again this year, fans will vote on which potential comics series they want to see actually made by the publisher. We pick our personal favorites.
Read MoreDC DIGRESSION: A publishing tradition in crisis
By Zack Quaintance — I wasn’t going to write this column. Originally, I was going to write about how DC’s summer event — Dark Nights: Death Metal — was just fine, coming close to transcending self-seriousness to become a winking, grandiose celebration of big and goofy superhero books via this week’s Dark Night: Death Metal #3. But that was before news broke that DC Comics’ corporate owners were essentially laying off the entire leadership of the comics publishing division, save for Marie Javins and Jim Lee.
Read MoreDC DIGRESSION: Dark Nights - Death Metal is a raucous college-town bar band playing covers
By Zack Quaintance — The musical metaphors are too easy with DC Comics’ big summer event, Dark Nights: Death Metal. You can call it an encore to the first event — Dark Nights: Metal — a simple echo of ideas, inflated to new volume to give the audience more of the things they’ve cheered all along. Or, perhaps you can call it a sophomore album, a tricky followup to an earlier success that needs to check similar boxes while also going in new, stimulating directions.
Read MoreDC DIGRESSION: A week of alternate worlds
By Zack Quaintance — This week, the big story for new DC Comics releases was a tale of two Batman comics (excuse the cliched lead construction). The first was the flagship title: Batman #93, written by James Tynion IV and illustrated by Guillem March. Being the flagship title, this is essentially the Batman comic of record, the one that pushes forward the narrative of the Caped Crusader within accepted DC Universe continuity.
Read MoreDC DIGRESSION: What will DC Comics look like next year?
By Zack Quaintance — This week we’re launching a pair of new columns, one discussing Marvel Comics and the other DC. This post — as the above headline hopefully makes obvious — is the column dedicated to DC. Later this week, we’ll be publishing our first Marvel column, which will have a different voice who I’m very excited to welcome to the site (but also, congrats to those of you tired of hearing me go on and on and on!).
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