Birthright creators Joshua Williamson and Andrei Bressan are reuniting for Dark Ride, a new horror series from Skybound that takes place in The Scariest Place on Earth: Devil Land. Dark Ride follows Owen Seasons, a lifelong fan of the horror-themed amusement park Devil Land, from his first day working at …
Read More »Batman and Superman fuse in Worlds Finest #4 – literally
Superman … Batman – the two most popular characters DC has ever produced, fused into one being. We saw a hint of it a few weeks back on a variant cover of June 21’s Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #4 and speculated a bit on what it could mean, but didn’t have …
Read More »Dark Crisis is now a direct sequel to Crisis on Infinite Earths
Dark Crisis is taking over the entire DC Universe – and in September, it will even introduce a new multiverse tied directly to the Flash. Dark Crisis #4 confirms Pariah’s Justice League hero-based “happiness prisons” and sees the birth of a new multiverse. And that Multiverse connection and creation is …
Read More »DC celebrates the late, great artist George Pérez with poster portfolio this November
In November, DC will release an oversized special celebrating the life of legendary artist George Pérez, who died in May at age 67. DC Poster Portfolio: George Pérez will feature 42 pages of covers, including art from The New Teen Titans, Wonder Woman, Crisis on Infinite Earths, and more. DC …
Read More »Midnight Sons becomes Midnight Suns in comic books with Wolverine, Blade, and more
The Midnight Sons, Marvel’s premiere supernatural super-team is returning to comics, with a bit of a twist: they’re changing their name to the Midnight Suns, falling in line with the title of the upcoming video game based on the team, and adding a new roster drawing on characters from the …
Read More »All-Out Avengers teases a corrupted Carol Danvers while promising its “all in continuity”
Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Spider-Man, Captain Marvel, Black Panther, Blade, and Spider-Woman – that’s the initial line-up of All-Out Avengers, the new ongoing series debuting in September that will “launch readers directly into the thrilling missions of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes.” An all-new cover released June 15 shows the initial …
Read More »First Look – Dark Horses Giantd Vol. 2
In 2017, artist Miguel Valderrama and writer Carlos Perez Valderrama introduced comic readers to a world of terror, trust, and titans in Giants, the Valderramas’ first American comic. Giants takes place in a kaiju-ridden, post-apocalyptic world, in which much of humanity has retreated underground. Now, Dark Horse Comics is set …
Read More »Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – Meet the bizarre villain The Spot
As fans of Miles Morales prepare to go Across the Spider-Verse for Sony’s new animated Spider-Man sequel, one of the villains of the two-part Across the Spider-Verse has been revealed as the Spot, one of Spidey’s weirdest cult villains, who is voiced by Jason Schwartzman in the movie. (Image credit: …
Read More »The comic book status quos of all the original MCU Avengers
The current phase of the MCU has unsurprisingly focused steadily on replacing the original MCU Avengers – Steve Rogers Captain America, Tony Stark Iron Man, Bruce Banner Hulk, Thor Odinson, Clint Barton Hawkeye, and Natasha Romanov Black Widow – with younger counterparts that embody their legacies while also introducing totally …
Read More »All four major X-Men mutant classifications explained
Mutant classification is a longrunning idea in Marvel Comics, going back in some form another almost as far back as the idea of mutants themselves. And with that much history, all wrapped up in the complications of a decades-long sequential narrative, there’s a whole complicated theory of comic book science …
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