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Fastest Man Alive Can’t Outrun Fickle Audiences

What is it with DC Comics and The Flash? On Monday came the revelation that the September issue of his comic will be the first part of a storyline called “This Was Your Life, Wally West. Then there was the recent return of 1960s Flash, Barry Allen. All this suggests that DC is about to … Continued

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DC Comics Heading for Major Shake-Up?

Click to view For people who haven’t been enjoying the adventures of Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman or any other DC superheroes over the last few years, relief may be at hand. It looks as if DC Comics Executive Editor Dan DiDio is about to be removed rather soon. That’s the rumor that’s been going around … Continued

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Find Out How To Make A Superhero in This Week’s Comics

Here’s hoping that you’re not looking for something new from the Big Two comic publishers this week, because both DC and Marvel Comics have apparently found themselves so exhausted by their Secret Invasions and Final Crises that they’re pretty much taking the next seven days off. Not that that means that you’ll be starved for … Continued

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DC Comics Goes For A Fringe Audience

After having been announced last week in the unlikely pages of USA Today, yesterday’s release of DC Comics’ official solicitations for September means that we can find out a little bit more about the comic book version of JJ Abrams’ new Fox SF thriller, Fringe. Admittedly, it is literally just a little bit more, but … Continued

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Batwoman Will Finally Come Out

It’s been rumored for years. It was announced at this year’s Wondercon, and then denied again the very next day. But now letterer Todd Klein has ended speculation by confirming that DC Comics really is working on a new series starring “controversial” character Batwoman after all. And she’ll finally show a part of herself that … Continued

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Green Lantern Movie Will Be Respectful, Secretive

Here’s the good news about the upcoming Green Lantern movie: Co-writer Marc Guggenheim seems very confident that it’ll turn out to be a quality flick that sums up everything great about the character. Here’s the bad news: That’s pretty much all he’ll tell you about the project, because the studio doesn’t want people like you … Continued

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How To Cram For Your Final Crisis

With self-styled epic Final Crisis threatening to put big name characters like Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman through hell this summer while spending more time on obscure characters like Libra and the Human Flame or bringing fallen heroes back from the dead, you might worry that you’ll need a crash course in DC Comics history … Continued

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DC Makes Decisions To Bring Superheroes Into Politics

While Green Arrow has never made much effort to hide his particular brand of liberalism – including running for (and winning) the role of Mayor of Star City – the same can’t be said of other superheroes. Is Batman really the hardline republican that we all suspect him of being? What kind of “American Way” … Continued

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Which Summer Comic Event Comes Out On Top?

It’s the clash that you people have been asking for (well, some of you, anyway): Marvel’s alien invasion paranoiafest Secret Invasion versus DC’s superhero dystopia Final Crisis. Which one makes your heart flutter? Which one opens your wallet the most? And which, like the Hulk, is the strongest there is? Let’s take a look at … Continued

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Preview The Future of 3 Worlds

Sure, everyone may be talking about Entertainment Weekly’s preview pages from DC’s big summer event Final Crisis (see Morning Spoilers). Yeah, you can read the original script as well as the finished pages from the beginning of the series. But they’re not the only preview to a big DC Comics series available online. Want to … Continued

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Decypher DC’s White Board Of Doom

It appeared at last month’s New York Comic-Con, and then again in last week’s DC superhero comics. Later, an easy-to-read version showed up as part of an interview with DC Comics head honcho Dan DiDio over the weekend. I’m talking about the whiteboard of doom. This is DC’s latest attempt to tease fans with hints … Continued

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Some Free Comics You Should Nab While You Can

Sure, so this Wednesday was kind of a weak one for comics, but that’s because everyone was saving the awesome up for tomorrow. What’s so special about tomorrow, you may ask yourself (beside it being Saturday, and therefore requiring no work for the majority of you)? Well, it’s Free Comic Book Day 2008, where stores … Continued

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io9 Talks To Geoff Johns About Making Superheroes Scifi

In the last few months, comic book writer Geoff Johns has taken Superman out of Metropolis and into space, the future, and alternate dimensions, as well as making former has-been Booster Gold into a time-travellin’ paradox-defeatin’ hero. With his alternate-world-spanning DC Universe: Zero (co-written with Grant Morrison) in stores tomorrow, it seemed like a good … Continued

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Fifty Cents Is All You Should Have To Pay For This Week’s Comics

There’s no way of getting around it: this is both an incredibly slow week for new comics releases, and also an incredibly busy week… just not until the weekend. This Saturday is Free Comic Book Day 2008 (when all manner of books are released for the price of zero dollars exactly in the hope of … Continued

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Super Sons Bridge The Super Generation Gap

After last week’s post about GeNext, the sons and daughters of the X-Men, I couldn’t help but wonder how many other people remembered the first series of stories to truly show how difficult it would be for the offspring of those who spent their time trying to save the world on a regular basis… especially … Continued

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Watch a Cylon Interrogation and the Venture Bros. Preview

Earlier this week, you read our take on the Battlestar Galactica panel at this year’s New York Comic-Con, but now – thanks to NBC/Universal’s Hulu – you can watch it for yourself. And, also thanks to the wonder of the internet, you can read just why panel moderator Marc Bernadin stayed away from the tough … Continued

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DC Universe Will Give Us “Manazons” and Anatomically Correct Supergirls

A new Secret Six series, evil math and ‘Manazons’ for Wonder Woman to face, and a Supergirl without T&A were only a few of the announcements made by DC Comics uber-editor Dan DiDio (flanked by cosplayers as Good and Bad Mary Marvel) and the panel of DC writers and artists at New York Comic-Con. They … Continued

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Batman: Not R.I.P., But Something Worse?

We’ve mentioned it a couple of times before, but now writer Grant Morrison is making it very clear for the entire doubting io9 readership (and, for that matter, writers): Batman R.I.P. is intended to end Bruce Wayne’s crime-fighting career once and for all. But, unlike Morrison’s All-Star Superman, that doesn’t mean that he’s going to … Continued

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The Spirit of ’50s Sci Fi Returns to Comics

Over at Newsarama, DC Comics head honcho Paul Levitz writes about celebrating the completion of The Spirit Archives, a series of hardcover collections of Will Eisner’s newspaper comic strip from the ’40s and ’50s. While he and other DC employees are champagne toasting because the 24 volume series reached completion, we here at io9 have … Continued

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Superman, Batman Face Their Mortality And Morality In Final Crisis

Marvel’s Secret Invasion may be the comic book getting all the press right now, but DC’s Final Crisis is truly the big idea event comic of the year. At least, if the latest interview with writer Grant Morrison is anything to go by. A seven-part series involving all of the DC Universe and detailing what … Continued