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Credit: Jason Howard (Image Comics) Credit: Jason Howard (Image Comics) Writer/artist Jason Howard will create a new Image Comics series titled Big Girls that takes its name seriously, pitting a fighting force of literally gigantic women against attacking kaiju. “Big Girls is inspired by my childhood love of giant monster movies like King Kong and

Credit: Marvel/LootCrate Credit: Marvel/LootCrate LootCrate will celebrate the color purple this summer – as in the hues of the violet spectrum of light, not the seminal Prince film and album – with a loot box full of stuff centered on X-Men who wear purple. The characters to be featured include Gambit, Magneto, Psylocke, and Lockheed,

Credit: Netflix Credit: Netflix Spoilers ahead for She-Ra And The Princesses of Power Season 5. Friday, May 15th Netflix premiered the last 13 episodes of She-Ra And The Princesses of Power. Season 5 explored new relationships, including the rekindled and growing bond of Catra and Adora. Following traumatic events, they find each other again and

DC’s heroes face off against Wonder Woman and the zombie hordes in this preview of May 19’s DCeased: Unkillables #3. DCEASED: UNKILLABLES #3written by TOM TAYLORart by KARL MOSTERT and TREVOR SCOTTcover by HOWARD PORTERcard stock variant cover by FRANCESCO MATTINAcard stock movie homage variant cover by TASIA M.S.It’s the epic finale of the next

Credit: DC BATMAN: THREE JOKERS #1written by GEOFF JOHNSart by JASON FABOKcover by JASON FABOKvariant cover by JASON FABOK1:25 variant cover by TBD1:50 variant cover by TBDThirty years after Batman: The Killing Joke changed comics forever, Three Jokers reexamines the myth of who, or what, The Joker is and what is at the heart of

Credit: DC Credit: Francis Manapul (DC) Updated May 15: There is no issue of the Generation event solicited for August 2020 by DC.  DC has indicated they’ll update the status of the project later this year.   Original story published May 13: For those wanting to read DC’s “Charge Towards DC’s Future,” July isn’t your month as

Credit: CBS All Access CBS All Access has announced Strange New Worlds, its latest Star Trek TV show which will focus on Captain Pike, Spock, and the pre-Kirk Enterprise. Anson Mount and Ethan Peck will reprise their roles as Pike and Spock from Star Trek: Discovery, respectively. They’ll be joined by Rebecca Romijn reprising her guest role

Credit: Sean Gordon Murphy Credit: Sean Gordon Murphy Sean Murphy is returning to creator-owned comic books in a big way – and checking off almost everything on his bucket list all at once. In the upcoming OGN The Plot Holes, the Batman: White Knight writer/artist is drawing all the dream projects he always wanted but

Nightwing gets embroiled in the main Batman title’s ongoing “Joker War” crossover – going face to face with the Clown Prince of Crime himself – in June 9’s Nightwing #71. NIGHTWING #72written by DAN JURGENSart by RONAN CLIQUETcover by TRAVIS MOOREvariant cover by ALAN QUAHDick Grayson has learned the truth: that “fixing” his identity lies

Credit: DC Readers of DC’s The Terrifics looking for new issues in DC’s recently released revised June, July and now August schedules will get an opportunity to read the series conclusion, just digitally for the final three issues.  Credit: DC Credit: DC The final print issue of The Terrifics will be #27, scheduled for May 26. The

Credit: DC DC’s Supergirl ongoing series is still scheduled to conclude with issue #42, as announced in the publisher’s original May 2020 solicitations, but now the series’ final two issues will publish on digital platforms only as part of the publisher’s revised post-distribution shutdown schedule. Supergirl #41 will be on digital platforms exclusively on May 26 and

Doctor Fate, Monster Boy, and Gold Lantern – some of whom have connections to modern day DC heroes – all join the team in this preview of June 9’s Legion of Super-Heroes #6. LEGION OF SUPERHEROES #6 written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS art and cover by RYAN SOOK card stock variant cover by ALEX GARNER

Credit: DC Credit: DC Harley Quinn writer Sam Humphries has announced on Twitter that the series will come to a conclusion with August’s #75. “Hey y’all, I’m hammer-smashing the embargo to break the news that Harley Quinn is over with issue 75! Final issue! No worries and no tears, this has been the plan for almost a

Credit: Emma Kubert The Kubert School Credit: The Kubert School Press Release The Kubert School is proud to announce the launch of our first ever Online Saturday Sketch Program. Our Saturday Kids Program has always been taught on site at the world famous Joe Kubert School, and now we are excited to be able to

Self-Portrait Credit: Tess Fowler Self-Portrait Credit: Tess Fowler Writer/artist Tess Fowler (Dungeons and Dragons: A Darkened Wish, Kid Lobotomy) has taken a hiatus from comic books as she undergoes treatment for breast cancer, and her friend and colleague B. David Walters has started a GoFundMe account to help her and her family pay for medical

DC Universe has unveiled a close-up look at the costumes of Stargirl and the Justice Society for the upcoming show on the streaming service, which will air subsequently on CW. The images show off Stargirl herself alongside Hourman, Dr. Mid-Nite, Wildcat, and S.T.R.I.P.E. as well as villains Icicle and Brainwave. Stargirl premieres May 19 on

Credit: CW Inde Navarrette has joined the cast of CW’s Superman & Lois in a series regular role as Sarah Cushing, according to Deadline – apparently a new character, not from the source comic books. Navarrette’s character is reported to be the daughter of Lana Lang-Cushing (Emmanuelle Chriqui) and Kyle Cushing (Erik Valdez), “a whip

Credit: DC DC has rolled out their revised July 2020 release schedule, containing all previously-solicited issues that were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. July will be the second full month under DC’s new weekly release date paradigm. New titles will be released Tuesdays to digital platforms and and participating retailers, with other publishers’ weekly

Credit: HBO Espana Credit: Warner Bros. Television The second season of Warner Bros. Television’s Doom Patrol will debut June 25 on HBO Max… but the wording of the announcement calls into question if it will be simulcast on DC Universe as previously announced. “Here comes the DOOM! #DoomPatrol season 2 is coming to #HBOMax on

Credit: DC Credit: DC Credit: DC DC has announced that Batman: Three Jokers #1 has a new release date: Tuesday, August 25 – with plans for a monthly release schedule thereafter. “As more stores are finding ways to operate and service their customers, our release schedule is under constant review,” DC’s Senior VP/Editor-in-Chief Bob Harras

Given how long Geoff Johns and Jason Fabok’s Batman: Three Jokers has been ‘jestating’ (get it?) since its initial origins in 2016’s DC Universe: Rebirth (and really before that John’s and Fabok’s Justice League: Darkseid War in 2015), the publisher has released some imagery on a few different occasions, usually coincinding with convention appearances by

Credit: New Line Cinema This month is the 30th anniversary of New Line Cinema’s live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, and for the occasion the band is getting back together. All four of the original Turtles actors (David Forman, Josh Pais, Michelan Sisti, and Leif Tilden) as well as April O’Neil (Judith Hoag) plan to

Renee Montoya explains the DC multiverse in a preview of May 12’s Lois Lane #10. LOIS LANE #10written by GREG RUCKAart and cover by MIKE PERKINSvariant cover by TULA LOTAYArmed with new information about the assassin stalking her, Lois goes on the offensive, while Renee struggles with wielding what may be the most powerful weapon

Credit: Ross Andru (DC) Writer/editor Martin Pasko has died at the age of 65, according to friend and former DC Publiher Paul Levitz. The date or cause of death is unknown at this time. The native Quebecer was a prolific writer, working primarily at DC but with also short stints at Marvel Comics and Disney

Harley Quinn #73 Credit: DC Harley Quinn #74 cover Credit: DC DC has scheduled the milestone Harley Quinn #75 for release August 5 – with a guest appearance by DC’s biggest breakout character in some time, Punchline. The publisher has informed retailers that the 48-page anthology will feature two stories by series writer Sam Humphries,

Credit: CCLDF Canadian charity organization Comic Legends Legal Defense Fund (CLLDF) has raised $16,000 so far to help keep Canadian comic stores open. CLLDF’s money raising efforts have been focused around a Twitter auction titled #Canucks4Comics, in which numerous Canadian comic creators contributed items to be auctioned online, raising $16,000 in the process. Added to

Credit: Gurihiru (DC) Credit: Gurihiru (DC) Gene Luen Yang was surprised when he found out that “Clan of the Fiery Cross,” the now legendary 1940’s Superman radio serial that helped defeat the Ku Klux Klan, was never adapted to comic books. What resulted was Superman Smashes the Klan, the story by Yang and artistic pair

Credit: Francis Manapul (DC) Credit: DC While DC will return to a pretty standard publishing schedule in June 2020, two projects that aren’t in their revised release schedule for that month is Geoff Johns and Jason Fabok’s Batman: Three Jokers and the first issue of the publisher’s Generation event, subtitled Age of Mysteries. The Three Jokers launch

Mark Russell and Marco Santucci’s well-received stories from DC’s Swamp Thing Giants are being re-serialized, digitally, in Swamp Thing: New Roots – and here’s a preview of Sunday’s #3. Swamp Thing: New Roots #3Writer: Mark RussellArtists: Marco Santucci, John Kalisz and Dave Sharpe“Gods of the Abyss”Word has gotten out about the existence of Swamp Thing—and

Fabian Nicieza Credit: Fabian Nicieza On Saturday, May 16, aspiring comic book writers and editors will be able to sit on a Zoom webconference call with veteran writer/editor Fabian Nicieza for a “Comics Writing and Business Boot Camp.” Over an hour 20 attendees will get drill sargeant Nicieza’s insights on “the nuts and bolts for