Most Unexpected Comic Book Comebacks 2014

Original Sin #5 courtesy Marvel
Original Sin #5 courtesy Marvel

You can’t keep a crazy villain or outrageous character down. Some long-lost characters made major comebacks this year in huge comic book events and the year’s biggest box-office champ. This year’s list proved that even the biggest Hollywood and major writers are fanboys and girls too and when given the opportunity – bring their odd but beloved characters back to the front burner.

Here are our favorite comebacks of 2014. Continue reading Most Unexpected Comic Book Comebacks 2014

GAIL SIMONE Goes VERTIGO With CLEAN ROOM

Clean Room #1 courtesy Vertigo Comics
Clean Room #1 courtesy Vertigo Comics

Gail Simone (Secret Six, Batgirl) is making her Vertigo Comics debut with artist Jonathan David Hunt.

 

From the DC Comics announcement at New York Comic Con:

 

CLEAN ROOM is a story of psychological terror, where your innermost secrets can be used against you.”

Meet Astrid Mueller—A brilliant, charismatic speaker and the head of a new church that claims to be able to cure anyone’s  deepest disorders through an expensive series of secretive therapy techniques.

Meet Chloe—A reporter whose photographer lover is brutally murdered while investigating a church that is run more like a high stakes PR firm. On the verge of suicide, Chloe finds the strength and determination to stay alive to find out the truth. Continue reading GAIL SIMONE Goes VERTIGO With CLEAN ROOM

GAIL SIMONE Relaunches SECRET SIX

Secret Six #1 courtesy DC Comics
Secret Six #1 courtesy DC Comics

Gail Simone (Batgirl) is bringing on the bad guys and girls in a brand new Secret Six.

 

The fan-favorite writer will relaunch Secret Six into the New 52 with new rogues to root for. DC comics made the announcement via the Hero Complex.

 

So far on Catman and Black Alice are on the team Simone calls the “Twin Peaks of superhero comics” with six strangers trapped in a room with no idea how they got there. Continue reading GAIL SIMONE Relaunches SECRET SIX