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. …
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The Justice League is going to die (well, most of them anyway) and lead to a Dark Crisis. And no, not in an Elseworlds title or Injustice game. Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, and more are really going to perish in the DC continuity. Though there is a matter of when …
Read More »Scott Snyders Dark Spaces: Wildfire launches IDWs 9 new original comic book series
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” …
Read More »Charlamagne tha God to create new original comics to “amplify Black and brown narratives”
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 …
Read More »Moon Knight – the enigmatic Marvel history of Khonshu, the ever-changing Egyptian moon god
After hearing his voice and getting some glimpses of him in previous episodes, Moon Knight episode 3 brings Khonshu himself fully into the show as a kind of unorthodox supporting character who also constitutes one of the many voices in Marc Spector’s head. Viewers spent time in episode 1 meeting …
Read More »Sparks fly between Bruce and Talia in Batman #122s Shadow War part 2
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 …
Read More »Best superhero origin stories
Everyone loves a superhero origin story… Good thing too because movie and TV studios are banking on it – there’ll be lots of them on the big and small screens in 2022 alone. In fact, two of them are arriving just this week, with Moon Knight premiering on Disney Plus …
Read More »Blades vampire hunting daughter will make her Marvel Comics debut on Free Comic Book Day
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 …
Read More »Comic book legacy numbering explained – how Aprils Amazing Spider-Man #6 can also be #900
What the heck is “legacy numbering” in comic books? You might have noticed something big happened in the world of Spider-Man in March 30’s Amazing Spider-Man #93 (opens in new tab), the issue in which Peter Parker’s clone, Ben Reilly, became a supervillain (get all the details on how that …
Read More »Ben Reilly transforms into the new Spider-Man villain Chasm
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 …
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