By NELLIE ANDREEVA, Deadline.com With Smallville ending its 10-season run this past May, the CW has made launching a new superhero franchise based on a DC property a priority. The network’s first effort this development season is Deadman, a drama based on the DC Comics books by Arnold Drake and
By Kevin Coll, Source: Blastr Marvel has set the bar high when it comes to superhero team-up films, what with The Avengers ready to make superhero movie history next year, which leaves DC to play catch-up with its own strategy of combining big-name characters into one film project. The latest
By Dan Roth, Blastr.com Not satisfied with absolutely killing DC at the box office this summer, Marvel has decided to strike at the DCU where it really hurts—the local comic book shop. Both Marvel and DC are midway through their summer event series. For the uninitiated, both major comic book
By Krystal Clark, Blastr.com It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Super—oh, no it’s not! Superman’s big-screen return has been delayed. Warner Bros. just pushed back Zack Synder’s Man of Steel, which means we have to wait even longer to see Henry Cavill in that famous cape and tights. The
by Kiel Phegley, CBR.com Last night, DC Comics sent out one of their regular “Direct Channel” e-mail newsletters to retailers, and in between announcements of ordering deadlines, issue sellouts and trade paperback reprints came much more unexpected news: that June 22’s “Superman” #712 would ship with entirely new contents than
On this weeks we will be taking about our recent visit to Heroes Con in Charlotte, NC and also we are then joined once again Darren of the Legion of Substitute Podcasters to discuss all the big changes coming to DC Comics this fall. Then we will be reviewing the
In the wake of its summer “Flashpoint” event, DC Comics will re-number its entire superhero line, debuting more than 50 first issues in September while introducing “a more modern, diverse DC Universe.” The sweeping line-wide change debuts on Aug. 31, when the pubisher releases just two comics — the final
When Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel comes out next year, it will represent the second time that Warner Bros. has tried to bring back the most famous comic book character in history. When Bryan Singer directed Superman Returns in 2006 it was meant to spring new life into the franchise
If you’re a comic book store owner, you could spend $150 for a special “Green Lantern Animated Light-Up display,” based on a variant cover of Green Lantern #50, with art by Jim Lee and Scott Williams. But you really, really shouldn’t. These displays, designed for the purpose of catching the
In this comic book image released by DC Comics, Superman is shown in the latest of issue of Action Comics No. 900, where he renounces his U.S. citizenship because of his concerns that his actions are seen as instruments of U.S. foreign policy. DC Comics says the story reflects the
It looks like everyone’s favorite Scouse Occultist will be returning to the main DC Universe as part of their Flashpoint event. Click for the details.. John Constantine debuted in the pages of Swamp Thing, which was then a part of the main DCU. However when he got his own spin
All along, the creators of Green Lantern have been promising us that their picture wouldn’t be like any other superhero movie we’d ever seen, but would have a cosmic Star Wars feel added to the mix … and the newest trailer proves they were telling us the truth. While the
