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Child Endangerment Leads To Murder Attempts – Finally Proven By Comics

It’s not easy being the kid of a supervillain. If it’s not missing important parental morality lessons, it’s getting your throat sliced during a botched kidnapping attempt, as this exclusive preview from DC’s Titans shows. The issue, part of DC’s Faces of Evil promotion throughout January – apparently trying to earn the title of “cruellest … Continued

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Is The Joker Really Going To Return In A Dark Knight Sequel?

Add this one to the Dark Knight sequel casting rumors: The Joker may reappear in the next Batman movie, played by a different actor, or so says MTV. But all isn’t as it may seem… MTV’s Splash Page blog ran with a quote from Dark Knight producer Chuck Roven from the red carpet of the … Continued

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DC Comics Is Holding Back Your Superhero Movies

DC Comics has put the breaks on all Warner Bros.’ up and coming comic movie projects, according to super writer David Goyer. Dark Knight and The Flash writer David Goyer spilled the beans to IESB that Warner Brothers is putting the brakes on the many comic book movies they decided to stack up, one after … Continued

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Meet The New Batman – Um, Batmen?

With Batman RIP, who is going to take up the cape and cowl to replace him? The answer may be one of the above contenders, if this new promotional image is anything to go by. The teaser, for next March’s Battle for the Cowl series – wherein Batman’s various sidekicks and partners fight for the … Continued

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Hawkman To Fly High In 2009?

This image just may be the sign of what’s to come for DC Comics’ Hawkman next year – Or perhaps just a practical joke on fans of the flying Space Cop Turned Reincarnated Egyptian God. The images appeared on the blog of cartoonist Kyle Baker, whose description of the potential project is tongue in cheek … Continued

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Batman Isn’t RIP For A Few More Months, Says His Boss

Underwhelmed by the end of Batman RIP? That’s because it wasn’t actually the end of the story, according to DC Executive Editor Dan DiDio. And, apparently, was never meant to be, either. Talking to Newsarama.com about the muted response to watching Bruce Wayne confront a man who claimed to be his father or an actor … Continued

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What To Do After Failing To Kill The President

After you’ve finished trying to kill candidates for political office, what’s next? If you’re the villain behind DC Comics’ recent presidential election tie-in, the answer seems to be “try to kill your friends,” as this exclusive preview to this week’s issue of Titans shows. This week’s Titans – which features the adult versions of the … Continued

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Is George Miller’s Justice League Officially Dead?

Reports are hitting the web that director George Miller is no longer attached to Warner Bros’ planned Justice League movie, owing to a change of direction that’ll make the movie into a bigger-name rival to Marvel’s Avengers. Could it be true? What’s making us curious about the validity of the news is that all of … Continued

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Superman’s Origin To Be Retold, Revised Secretly In 2009

For the two people in the world who don’t know the origin of Superman, 2009 will see a chance for them to catch up – and for hardcore comic fans to find out what counts as “canon” these days once and for all – when DC Comics launches the six-issue Superman: Secret Origin series, retelling … Continued

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Alien Gods Make Wonder Woman Nervous

While Wonder Woman may have been magically made from clay, that doesn’t mean that there isn’t any science fiction in her world. Check out the exclusive preview of the opening of this week’s issue to see a nervous Amazon full of foreboding as her gods return home from a trip into outer space. Wednesday’s issue, … Continued

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Superman Cannot Save the Planet This Time

Superman’s weaknesses are well documented: Kryptonite. Magic. The evil genius of Lex Luthor and Brainiac. The imperilment of those closest to him. Bryan Singer. The risotto at Le Cirque (The calories! Soooo worth it, though). And all of these, except for the risotto, have been explored at great length—which, you might think, is why DC … Continued

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Heroes Returns To Comics Better Than Ever, But Still Underwhelming

While the second season of NBC’s Heroes may have failed to build on the success of the first on almost every conceivable level – the addition of Kirsten Bell keeping it from being a complete failure – the accompanying webcomics, now collected as Heroes, Volume Two from DC Comics, shows the potential for what we … Continued

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Who You Gonna Believe About Batman RIP? USA Today Or Your Own Lying Eyes?

USA Today is running a story today that gives away the end of DC Comics’ Batman RIP storyline – but in a way that may be contradicted by DC’s own solicitation for February 2009’s final issue of Nightwing. To go along with a return to Clintonian SF, are we looking at a Clintonian parsing of … Continued

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The Army And Mom And Dad Hate Supergirl

We’ve all been there: Your long-dead race suddenly reappears on your adopted home planet, including the parents you’d just come to terms with being gone. And, of course, they don’t approve of your new friends and new lifestyle. With a storyline like that, who couldn’t empathize with the latest issue of Supergirl? We’ve got an … Continued

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Superman To Abandon Earth And Action In ’09

2009 is going to be a big year for DC Comics’ Superman. He’s going to leave his comic book home for the last 70 years, and he’s also going to be abandoning his adopted home planet forever (or the comic book version thereof, which is at least six months). What could make the Man of … Continued

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5 Ways That Sandman Changed The World

This week saw the 20th anniversary of the release of the first issue of The Sandman, Neil Gaiman’s now-classic fantasy series that rewrote the rules of mainstream comics more than once in its’ 75-issue run. Without Sandman, we may never have seen comics like Fables, Y: The Last Man or The Invisibles… but on the … Continued

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What Batman Did Next

Click to viewSo, now we kind of know what’s going to happen to Batman and friends, post-Batman RIP. DC Comics Executive Editor Dan DiDio yesterday confirmed the much-rumored series Battle For The Cowl, which will feature various characters fighting over the legacy that Batman seems to have… well, left behind. And that’s not the only … Continued

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Push Preview Shows 1980s Psychic Cold Warfare

The first issue of DC Comics’ prequel to next year’s psychic Dakota Fanning movie Push hits stores tomorrow, but the opening of the book has been released online, allowing all of us to get our first taste of Reagan era black ops telepathy a day early.The series, which previews February 2009’s movie, is co-written by … Continued

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When Dr. Manhattan Yells Inyuk-chuk

Finally revealed – Zack Snyder’s true inspiration for his Watchmen adaptation isn’t really Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ original series – but is, instead, classic 1970s/80s cartoon Super Friends. Unconvinced? Check out this trailer for a very special episode of Super Friends and tell us that you don’t see the similarity. Okay, so it may … Continued

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Beyonce Knowles As Wonder Woman? Yes, Please

Now that we know that it’s not Megan Fox, you may be thinking to yourself, well, who should be the movie Wonder Woman? One independent woman currently has her eyes on the role – and she’s doing her best to put a ring on it before it’s time to ring the alarm. Okay, I’ll stop … Continued