There’s been a weird quirk about Brian Azzarello’s writing assignments for DC Comics: the less the super the hero, the more powerful his writing’s been. Best known for his decade-long crime masterpiece 100 Bullets at the publisher’s Vertigo imprint, Azzarello’s also tried his hand at in its caped crimefighter universe, too. While his grittier sensibility meshed has well with Batman, his run at Superman felt like a square peg trying to fly through a round hole. More »
Great Rao, does the Man of Steel have terrible video game luck or what? Either the games that have Kal-El as the main character suck tremendously or they never get finished in the first place. More »
Gruesome things have been happening in the recently rebooted Detective Comics. How gruesome, you ask? [Spoilers if you haven't been reading.] More »
HeroClix Online isn’t just for Marvel fans anymore, at least it won’t be come December 7 when WizKids introduces the first two DC Comics-themed sets to the online game and releases the first physical product with codes for in-game heroes included. More »
A sequel to 2009′s LEGO Batman has been known since the summer, around the time LEGO and DC Comics (and Marvel) were revealing their plans for more super heroes in the toy line. Now a LEGO fan site says the title will be something like “LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes” if that image is on the level. More »
Our own Stephen Totilo spent some time at New York’s Comic Con today, and among his activities he’s put together this video of some superhero statues from the DC Comics booth. Many of the old favourites are in the beginning, but afterwards he moves on to some really cool and more out-there stuff, including some Mad Magazine version of the Joker and Wonder Woman, some neat black and white Batmen, and at least one more version of Starfire. More »
The battle between the vigilante Bats and the villainous Jokerz gets the DC Entertainment animation treatment in this short but sweet trailer for Gotham City Impostors. More »
You’d expect Batman to grimace, but would you expect the Flash to frown or Superman to scowl?
Throughout the month of September, DC Comics, publisher of those heroes and more, released 52 new super-hero comics books. Throughout this past month, I read them and reviewed them. More »
