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Amanda Conner, the gifted artist who along with husband Jimmy Palmiotti turned Harley Quinn into the comedic comics force she is today, were announced as the creative team on a new Harley book for DC’s Black Label mature imprint. Harley Quinn and the Birds of Prey is slated to land in February of 2020. Conner has been

This post is sponsored by First Second. All opinions expressed in this post are based on the writers’ personal views. The Adventure Zone series is a unique storytelling experience. A graphic novel series that began life as a game of Dungeons & Dragons played by podcasters Justin, Travis, and Griffin McElroy and their dad Clint, it

Star, a recent addition to the Captain Marvel comic series, will star in her own limited book series. Kelly Thompson, writer of the current Captain Marvel series and creator of Star’s character, will write the five-issue series, which debuts in January. Star first appeared in the pages of Captain Marvel back in July, in issue 8, “Falling

He is the greatest villain of them all. He is the evil that tests Batman and makes the hero better. He is an uncontrollable force of chaos, more akin to a hurricane than a criminal, who strikes without warning. He believes that life is a chaotic farce and everything exists as part of a twisted

In its ongoing bid for total media domination, Netflix is turning to one of the oldest kinds of media: books.  The streaming giant announced today that it would be adapting the Grisha fantasy trilogy. The Grisha trilogy comes from American author Leigh Bardugo and is made up of the novels Shadow and Bone (2012), Siege and Storm (2013), and Ruin and Rising (2014). Another novel, Six of

This article contains spoilers for The Green Lantern #12. Grant Morrison is a legend. He has been writing comics for 30 years, and shaping the DC universe for almost that entire time. Morrison has reinvented Superman multiple times, redefined Batman, wrote a Justice League that was so huge that it redefined how creative teams approached

Marvel’s Hero Project has charted its arrival on the imminently launching streaming service, Disney+, manifesting not as a surreal, star-studded TV series continuation of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but, rather, a chronicle of the real-life heroic deeds of children who – either through activism or overcoming adversity – will have their stories told onscreen, put

Almost all of the best Batman stories are about his relationship with the crimefighting family he’s assembled over decades. Think about it: so many of the great Silver and Bronze Age stories are about love interests. “Tower of Babel” is about how he and the League manage their relationships. The Dark Knight Returns is as

It’s time for New York Comic Con! NYCC 2019 is one of the biggest weekends on the geek entertainment calendar, and that’s appropriate considering that the comic book industry and the origin of superheroes is so centered on New York City! We’ve got a quick and easy guide to the show for you right here

The onset of autumn means several things: leaves changing, pumpkin spice everything, and a new show from the DC TV back catalogue being welded to the Arrowverse in Crisis on Infinite Earths.  The latest show to be hammered in is Birds of Prey, the 2002 one season wonder from the old WB. Ashley Scott returns

One of the first collected editions I ever bought – back when I was into comics, but before I had the means to maintain a pull list – was the last collection of the classic Batman story “No Man’s Land.” The story was about Gotham’s descent into chaos following an earthquake and the United States’

The Psycho Rangers were first introduced to Power Rangers with these lines.  “We’re the Psycho Rangers.”“We’re faster than you.”“Smarter than you.”“Stronger than you.”“But we’re evil!” And that was… pretty much it. The Psycho Rangers have stuck in the minds of Power Rangers fans for so long because of the threat they posed to the In Space team… but that’s it. The

They’re faster than you, smarter than you, and they’re evil. Yes, that’s right, the Psycho Rangers from Power Rangers in Space have returned with a vengeance. Last seen in Power Rangers Lost Galaxy, the main team of five Psychos have been joined by Psycho Green from Boom’s earlier Power Rangers comics. All of them, along

When writer Tom King closes out his Batman run in December with issue #85, it’ll be Detective Comics veteran James Tynion IV who will take his place. That’s exciting news, considering Tynion has already proved his love for the Bat through runs on not only Detective but Batman Eternal and Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Unsurprisingly,

Dan DiDio and Shane Davis separately have a history of mining the classic DC Universe, maintaining what makes them classic characters while tweaking them for modern consumption – Davis on Superman: Earth One and DiDio on, among other things, the best book of the New 52 relaunch, OMAC. But these updates are rarely radical departures.

There’s never a bad season of the year for reading. Whether it’s winter, summer, spring, or fall, there’s a reading habit that goes oh-so-well with the season. But there’s something about fall—when the leaves are changing (at least in some parts of the world) and the nights are getting longer—that makes me want to curl up

It all began with two shots in the dark, pearls spilling onto the blood-soaked cement. No, it all started when the bat crashed through the window. Actually, it was when the boy fell into the cave. Maybe it was that hostile takeover at Apex Chemicals? Dozens of stories have shaped the legend of the Batman

DC Comics has revealed who will be taking over as writer of its flagship Batman book after Tom King closes out his run at the end of this year. It’s none of other than James Tynion IV, a Detective Comics veteran who has also been writing Batman backup stories, fill-in issues, and annuals since 2012.

With Paper Girls having recently ended its run, the best time travel comic on the market right now is…Jughead’s Time Police? Crazy though it may seem, the current Archie Comics mini-series is the perfect blend of science fiction and comedy that aims to do for hamburgers what Back to the Future did for manure. Or

The Dark Tower TV series is in development at Amazon. While the series was originally planned to tie into the 2017 film, that is no longer the plan, according to Stephen King in an interview with Vulture.  “The TV series they’re developing now … we’ll see what happens with that. It would be like a complete

One of the most popular fantasy franchises of the literary world, The Wheel of Time, is getting a live-action television adaptation. Originally authored by Robert Jordan, the 80 million-selling 1990-2013 book series depicts a sprawling mythology, amalgamating feudal and magical tropes with elements of Eastern mysticism. Indeed, the books bear philosophical influences from European and

This is not the first time we’ve talked about The Batman’s Grave, the new 12-issue maxiseries from comics legends Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch. It won’t be the last time, either. It was almost certainly going to get a tryout, just on the strength of the creators – you get The Authority creative team back

Dragons in fantasy can be many things. Predatory shapes in the sky. Warships. Animal companions. People: rulers, refugees, friends. With so many books and so many types of dragons to choose from, it can nevertheless be difficult to find a book about unique dragons. For this list I’ve pointedly ignored Game of Thrones, because Daenerys’

With House of X and Powers of X steaming towards their close (or vamping towards the close, if you’re Mister Sinister), Marvel is starting to ramp up its promotion of the post-relaunch event X-Men line of comics. They’ve relased a teaser trailer for the “Dawn of X” lineup of books– X-Men, Marauders, Excalibur, NewMutants, X-Force,

Heroes In Crisis was an incredible book. It told an extremely important story, delivering a critical message to an audience probably not used to hearing it. It also kind of breaks the superhero formula. The biggest split between DC and Marvel characters has always been what the characters are best at doing. Marvel has the

The lead-up to The Rise of Skywalker began at the D23 conference in August, and our Star Wars podcast hosts have the news. The Mandalorian is premiering with Disney+, and we have mixed feelings about the tone. What does it mean for a Star Wars show to do “dark” storytelling correctly? Very importantly, the trailer

Over his seven years as a comic book writer, James Tynion IV has gone from cowriting Batman backups with Scott Snyder, to launching some genuinely terrifying creator-owned horror books, to helming Justice League Dark, and partnering again with Snyder on the core Justice League title. And while he’s collaborated on event comics before, he’s never

Friday the 13th’s Jason Voorhees has been part of pop-culture for decades. It shouldn’t be surprising that he’s had his share of comic book adventures, what with him essentially being a supervillain in a story with no superheroes. Granted, he’s a one-dimensional supervillain with an incredibly vague origin story, but he’s been memorable enough to

In what is suitably being referred to as “Crisis on Infinite Riverdales,” Archie Comics currently has major multiverse issues flowing through many of their books. From Jughead’s Time Police to Jughead the Hunger Meets Vampironica and beyond, the Archieverse is colliding in weird and unexpected ways right now as the publisher barrels towards its 80th

DC’s Black Label is dropping a pretty big book in December: the latest in the series spawned from The Dark Knight Returns. This one is called The Golden Child, and the most shocking thing about it is probably its artist. Rafael Grampa, the Eisner-winning Brazilian creator of 5 and Mesmo Delivery, takes the penciling duties