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 …
Read More »Flashpoint Beyond connects to Dark Crisis through Hypertime
Flashpoint Beyond #2 (opens in new tab) delves deeper into the limited series’ exploration of DC continuity (or what the comic has labeled DC’s ‘Divine Continuum’) and the concept of the Omniverse, going so far as to connect Flashpoint Beyond to DC’s impending ‘Dark Crisis’ crossover event in a set …
Read More »DCs Multiversity: Teen Justice will feature powerful teens with big feelings
After debuting in December 2020 and reappearing in DC Pride 2022 this June, the teen superheroes from Earth-11 will get their own super-colorful limited series, Multiversity: Teen Justice, as announced in March. To get readers who might have missed the team’s first appearances up to speed, DC has created trading …
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