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Batman won’t be alone in solving this enigma, though. Batgirl and Red Hood, two characters directly affected by the Joker’s cruelty, will be major players in the story, according to DC. It’s a fitting trio of heroes to face off with this trio of Jokers. Jason Todd, the second Robin and now the vigilante Red

Mariko Tamaki, co-writer of critical darlings and Eisner-lauded books like This One Summer and Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me, and solo writer of books that more people should be talking about, like Supergirl: Being Super, was announced as the new regular writer of Wonder Woman. “Wonder Woman was the hero I grew up

One of my favorite things about Grant Morrison’s run on Batman was his insistence that everything counts. Hairy-chested Neal Adams ‘70s Batman was obviously the cornerstone of the run, but it all mattered, from “Knightfall” and “No Man’s Land” to the Black Casebook files or the Batman of Zurr-En-Arrh. It added a lot of fun

Check out the teaser for the project… The Sandman follows the story of Dream (also known as Morpheus). One of the seven Endless (you’ve also got Destiny, Death, Desire, Despair, Delirium, and Destruction), Morpheus rules over the world of dreams (as you do). In The Sandman, an occultist captures Morpheus when he is actually trying

From a strictly craft perspective, Billionaire Island is incredibly exciting. It reunites Russell with his Flintstones collaborator, Steve Pugh. “Steve’s a big star now, so I have to be careful not to anger him,” says Russell. “I think we established a really good shorthand for understanding each other while working on The Flintstones, so thankfully,

Marvel is about to get even more larger than life. In the continuing quest to expand Ultraman into the west, franchise owner Tsuburaya Productions has teamed up with Marvel Comics to release all-new stories based on the classic Ultraman series. Marvel’s Ultraman comic will be titled The Rise of Ultraman and the first issue will

Marvel announced the first major crossover of Jonathan Hickman’s Dawn of X era of X-Men. X of Swords will tie all the X-titles together in a ’90s throwback, 15-part crossover touching every single book in the line.  “One of the cool things we are able to do now, because we’ve established the X-line and really

The last few years have been tumultuous for the corner of online media that serves the entertainment world. Whether it was news sites wondering if it would be better to serve the whims of Facebook’s ever-changing and increasingly obscure algorithm (narrator voice: it wasn’t), a similarly ill-advised industry-wide “pivot to video,” or the proliferation of

It was in 1897 when H.G. Wells–known as the father of modern science fiction–published his novel The Invisible Man. In that book, a scientist named Griffin discovers a way to render himself invisible while experimenting with the refraction of light. Already an unstable personality, Griffin becomes even more unhinged through his work and decides he

Time for a Time Force sequel! Coming to you exclusively from Den of Geek, Boom! Studios has announced they’ll be showing some love to one of most popular Power Rangers teams outside of Mighty Morphin, Power Rangers Time Force. While the Time Force characters have been seen in Wild Force, Super Megaforce, Hyperforce, Super Ninja Steel,

This post is sponsored by Tor Books. Readers who have been following R. A. Salvatore’s career since his early days and the introduction of his iconic character Drizzt Do’Urden, know that the author has never followed a clear path that defines good and evil. In his most recent novel, Song of a Risen God (the conclusion

Adam Strange is the quintessential 1950s pulp science hero. On Earth, he was an archaeologist with a boring life (at least relative to the Nazi hunting peaks that we know archaeology professors can hit thanks to the Indiana Jones franchise). He was hit by a mysterious beam of light while on a dig in Peru,

It is a truth universally acknowledged that every Jane Austen novel must be adapted an infinite amount of times and we will be grateful for all of them. (Yes, even the Pride & Prejudice & Zombies film, the best part of which was not the movie itself but a supercut of Matt Smith as Mr.

Much has been said about the future of Star Wars now that the Skywalker Saga has come to a close. Lucasfilm finally gave us a glimpse at a special Project Luminous event in February where the company unveiled Star Wars: The High Republic, a new series of interconnected stories that will cover adult, middle-grade, and

Den of Geek is hosting this giveaway in partnership with Tor Books. Part mystery, part space opera, A Memory Called Empire was one of the most engaging speculative fiction books of 2019 (not to mention one of the best-titled releases of the year). The story follows Ambassador Mahit Dzmare, a fish-out-of-water emissary who just got her dream

Katy Rose Pool’s There Will Come a Darkness was one of the most critically-acclaimed young adult fantasies of 2019. The epic story of a prince, a killer, a leader, a gambler, and a dying girl in a world prophesied to die drew comparisons to Throne of Glass, Children of Blood and Bone, and An Ember

Garbage Pail Kids may be best known as a purposefully-puke-inducing trading card parody of a specific moment of mid-1980s ennui in the aftermath of the Cabbage Patch Kids toy phenomenon (notably the 1983 holiday retail riots it caused), but the franchise is still kicking in 2020. Moreover, this ‘80s icon is about to handled by

Marvel never really needs an excuse to release another Spider-Man title. He’s their bread and butter. A lot of the time they can just do a regular Spider-Man series and just tack on a new adjective. Sometimes there will be a gimmick to it, like having him team up with other heroes, emphasis on his

This article is sponsored by Tor Books. Fantasy maps, which have been a staple of fiction for decades, can tell the reader a lot about the book’s world, story, and even characters. Perhaps the most famous comes from The Hobbit, with its Dwarvish rune ciphers explained by the language-loving author in a brief translation guide

It’s awe inspiring to me that I can know from the moment a comic is announced that it is extremely For Me, and yet still be surprised at how good every issue is. It’s even more impressive that I’m getting it from two creators who are relatively new to the medium. But that’s the beauty

There’s so much to look forward to in our speculative fiction future. Here are some of the horror books we’re most excited about and/or are currently consuming… Join the Den of Geek Book Club! Top New Horror Books in February 2020 Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland Type: Novel Publisher: Balzer + Bray Advertisement Release date: 2/4/20

Well, Damian’s going to be pissed. 35 issues after their engagement came to a tumultuous end, Batman and Catwoman are back together and are having a baby, according to art posted by writer Tom King on Twitter. The tweet shows Batman holding a pregnant Catwoman on the rooftops of Gotham, sharing a loving moment. You

This Legends of Tomorrow episode review contains spoilers. Legends of Tomorrow Season 5 Episode 4 To answer the question posed in the review summary above, no, of course Legends of Tomorrow isn’t too funny. That’s a stupid question, what is this, Slate? A show like Legends can’t be TOO funny, because it exists solely to

If you’re a fan of horrific alternate histories that are actually about our horrific contemporary reality, then HBO has some new content for you. The premium cabler is adapting Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America novel, which imagines what would have happened if Charles Lindbergh had run for and been elected into the presidency during World

The best zombie stories always provide a mix of unrepentant storytelling, over the top gore, and psychologically screwed up moral choices for the characters — think the zombie baby in Dawn of the Dead, or pick a moment at random from The Walking Dead.  DC Comics’ zombie thriller DCeased had its fair share of those psychological moments, including

MAD Magazine is taking on the small screen in their upcoming MAD Issue #12, “MAD Screens TV,” and – SPOILER ALERT – the magazine spoofs all comers. From nostalgic parodies of classic sit-com M*A*S*H and educational series Sesame Street to sendups of contemporary programming, like RuPaul’s Drag Race shows, America’s longest-running humor magazine finds reasons

It looks like the timeline of the DC Universe, and the scope of DC continuity as a whole is about to undergo some seismic changes. To give readers a better picture of what the new DC Universe timeline looks like, DC Comics will tell their complete superheroic history with a Free Comic Book Day one-shot followed

There’s something distinctly Looney Tunes about Harley Quinn, probably the combination of self-awareness and ultraviolent slapstick comedy. So when you ask Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti about the magnificent, luridly poetic profanity in Harley Quinn & The Birds of Prey, their new Black Label collaboration on the character they steered for the better part of

In the first Deadpool movie, one of the jokes in the marketing portrayed it as a love story to tie in with the fact that it came out just before Valentine’s Day. It’s not exactly lying as Wade’s actions are all motivated by love. Sure, he may look like a sculpture made of dried bubble gum

My first experience with Daniel Warren Johnson’s comics work was probably his Image book, Murder Falcon, and my first thought was “Oh wow, he’s new Stokoe.” He’s got a very similar vibe – that immaculate attention to detail, the panels that bubble over with imagination, and there’s a wryness that I think is very subtle