Levi Kamei, the current Swamp Thing, may be a wreck after being left in pieces (like, literally in pieces) by the last chapter of writer Ram V and artists Mike Perkins and Mike Spicer’s The Swamp Thing, but on March 29, The Swamp Thing #11 brings the fan-favorite horror title …
Read More »The best Riddler stories to read before The Batman
Starting the first week of March, audiences everywhere will meet Matt Reeves’ version of one of Batman’s most infamous foes, the Riddler, in the new film The Batman. Played by Paul Dano with an aesthetic apparently based on the unidentified real world serial killer known as the Zodiac, the new …
Read More »Flash and Aquaman leave the rest of the Justice League behind for a two-way team-up this June
Two classic Justice League members who have rarely worked together directly will team up starting in June, as DC brings together Barry Allen and Arthur Curry for a three-issue limited series titled Aquaman & The Flash: Voidsong, which pits the two heroes against a bizarre alien invasion. In Voidsong, from …
Read More »King and Smallwoods The Human Target takes a five-month break
In May writer Tom King will begin a two-year trip to DC’s Danger Street, but he’s also smack dab in the middle of a murder mystery in his other long-form DC Black Label (Mature Readers) series The Human Target. The Human Target Book Six cover by Greg Smallwood (Image credit: DC) …
Read More »The new Iron Fist is just who we thought – but the mystery of his powers continues in Iron Fist #2
Update: February 16’s Iron Fist #1 (opens in new tab) confirmed once and for all that the new Iron Fist is in fact who everyone (including Newsarama, as you can read below) predicted: Lin Lie, the former Sword Master, whose namesake weapon was recently shattered (again, more on that if …
Read More »Death in superhero comics is meaningless – its about the stories that surround it
Death is the ultimate finale in superhero comics… but it is often also the implicit precursor (or promise, even) of an inevitable return. We sometimes trick ourselves to get lost in the moment (or lost in that cycle), but it’s true. As comics fans, we understand that any death in …
Read More »Marvels Thor celebrates the big 25 with another fight with Hulk and a look ahead at his future
Even for an immortal god like Marvel’s Thor who has lived eons, reaching a big round number in age means something. This May, he’s celebrating 25 issues of the current Donny Cates/Nic Klein volume with an oversized anthology issue. Thor #25 main cover (Image credit: Gary Frank (Marvel Comics)) (opens …
Read More »Free Comic Book Day 2022 – the full list of DC, Marvel, Image, and other free comics and how to get them
Someone tell Hallmark to make a card because there’s a big holiday coming up – Free Comic Book Day. The annual event celebrated at most every comic shop around the world returns on May 7, providing – you guessed it! – free comic books for pretty much anyone who shows …
Read More »If Dark Crisis affects the ongoing series, heres who can fill Batman, Wonder Woman, and Supermans shoes
The DC Universe will have a big issue to deal with. And DC the comic book publisher might as well. In April’s ‘Death of the Justice League’ in Justice League #75, eight or nine Justice Leaguers – including Wonder Woman, Batman, Superman, Aquaman, Green Lantern (John Stewart), and the Flash …
Read More »Its not wrong to use time travel to fix a bad relationship, is it? Find out in the Vertigo-esque GILT
Vertigo editor-turned-prose-novelist Alisa Kwitney is returning to the world of comics with a decidedly Vertigo-esque series called GILT with artist Alain Mauricet. GILT #1 main cover (Image credit: AHOY Comics) (opens in new tab) GILT stands for the ‘Guild of Independent Lady Temporalists,’ and as the name implies they are …
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