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With the Justice League now ‘dead’ in April 26’s Justice League #75, the pieces are in place for the post-Justice League event series Dark Crisis, and DC has released the first seven pages of the debut issue, along with a Jim Lee-drawn variant that pays homage to the original Crisis …

Most comic book superheroes and villains killed in action don’t stay dead permanently, but sometimes they stay dead longer than expected. And after nearly five decades of an unusually long death (with two brief exceptions), Marvel’s John Proudstar (AKA the original Thunderbird) returned December 22 in the finale of Leah …

What did Spider-Man do? That’s the question posed by April 27’s Amazing Spider-Man #1, which relaunches the ongoing title with a mystery surrounding some kind of terrible disaster, the responsibility for which apparently lies at Peter Parker’s feet.  But what Spidey did (or seems to be taking the blame for, …

Batman is dead. RIP the Dark Knight, 1939-2022. That’s right – the Caped Crusader has been killed, along with the rest of his fellow superheroes including Wonder Woman and Superman in the Justice League. In April 26’s Justice League #75 (opens in new tab) appropriately titled ‘Death of the Justice …

DC’s longest-running series Detective Comics is getting its latest new creative team this July (opens in new tab), but current writer Mariko Tamaki still has some unfinished business and it involves the classic Batman villain the Riddler, just off his big-screen star turn in The Batman portrayed by Paul Dano.  …

IDW Publishing has announced nine new original series in the launch of what it calls an “expansive new comic book initiative,” and the “next evolution of original content. The initiative kicks off in July with writer Scott Snyder’s Dark Spaces, a character-driven anthology series that explores “Desperate people, desperate situations” …

Throughout his career as a bestselling author, radio personality, and talk show host, Larry “Charlamagne Tha God” McKelvey has always maintained his love for comic books. Now, Charlamagne has decided to publish comics of his own, as a “strategic expansion of his media empire.” Larry “Charlamagne Tha God” McKelvey (Image …

DC’s three-legged crossover Shadow War kicked off on March 29, when Slade Wilson AKA Deathstroke (or at least, someone dressed like him) took to the rooftops of Washington DC to put a bullet through the head for the reformed (or so he said) Ra’s Al Ghul. And yet, the deadliest …

Update: Days after Marvel editor-in-chief CB Cebulski promised some comic book developments for Blade the vampire hunter in the publisher’s upcoming Free Comic Book Day releases (more on that below), new details of what’s coming up for the Daywalker have been confirmed – and it turns out the new story …

The ‘Spider-Man Beyond’ era comes to a close in March 30’s Amazing Spider-Man #93 (opens in new tab), and with it, the current volume of the title. ‘Spider-Man Beyond’ has been released weekly, focusing on Ben Reilly as the main Spider-Man working in the employ of the Beyond Corporation while …