Anarky makes his New 52 debut in Detective Comics #37 the first chapter of the next arc after the two-part Terminal.
Creative team Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato revealed new art and the story behind their Anarky arc at the Batman Gotham Rising panel at New York Comic Con.
The team’s next arc starts with a murder and the arch-villain offers Gotham City a choice. Continue reading BATMAN VS. ANARKY In DETECTIVE COMICS NYCC Preview
A new creative team takes Batman off the streets of the city to solve an eerie medical mystery at Gotham Airport.
A horrific new story arc for October.
This week writer Ben Percy and artist John Paul Leon (Static, Earth X) begin a two-part tale in Detective Comics #35. Continue reading BATMAN Goes TERMINAL In DETECTIVE COMICS
Batman and Riddler together again!
In Detective Comics Futures End the Dark Knight and master of manipulation are working together as allies?
September 2014 is the third anniversary of The New 52 reboot of the DC Universe. Every book this month is jumping five years into the future.
“Anniversary” by regular Detective Comics co-writer Brian Buccellato is set in the near future but ties into two recent arcs.
It’s the anniversary of The Zero Year Blackout (from Scott Snyder’s Batman: Zero Year New 52 origin of the Dark Knight) and Calendar Man is threatening Gotham City. Julian Day’s family tragedy fuels his systematic crimes but his latest scheme is a copycat crime with a deadlier twist. Continue reading DETECTIVE COMICS FUTURES END Review
Robin is returning to Batman.
This week’s Detective Comics Annual is a new chance to see one possible candidate.
A resurrected Damian Wayne is the likeliest candidate. Batman is going to hell (or Apokolips) to try and bring Damian back from the dead in the pages of Batman and Robin by Peter Tomasi and Patrick Gleason.
Harper Row from Scott Snyder’s Batman run has long been rumored to be a new Robin. In Batman #28 – set 6 months in the future- Snyder revealed Row was a costumed hero called Bluebird.
There’s one more candidate you might have missed. Continue reading BATMAN’S POSSIBLE NEW ROBIN In DETECTIVE COMICS ANNUAL
A comics week so big we had to expand and split up our top 5 picks of the week.
In part one we saluted four huge issues that were final issues, final chapters or final arcs by all-star creators.
Now on to more of our picks of the week: Continue reading Top Comics for July 30, 2014 Part 2
DC Comics revealed a new guest team on the book that launched the career of Batman.
Writer Ben Percy and artist John Paul Leon will begin a two-part tale with Detective Comics #35.
Continue reading NEW DETECTIVE COMICS Guest Team This Fall
This is the year of The Batman.
DC Comics is celebrating 75 years of The Dark Knight. The legend was born in Detective Comics #27 back in 1939. How do you choose the best stories starring the world’s greatest detective and comic book hero from 75 years?
Batman: A Celebration of 75 Years is an incredible best of collection featuring a powerful cover by superstar Jim Lee.
The new collection includes stories Continue reading BATMAN: A CELEBRATION OF 75 YEARS
All-New X-Men #29 It’s the original Jean Grey of the past vs. the son of Professor X of the future! It’s a brutal psi-war between the telepaths while the rest of the original X-Men fight it out with the Future Brotherhood. Will Warren be the deciding factor in the war? After revamping Jean and Scott – how will Brian Bendis evolve the Angel?
Avengers #32 Earth’s Mightiest Heroes keep jumping into the future as Jonathan Hickman builds up to his massive endgame. This issue could deliver a major payoff – 5000 years in the future, witness the origin of the rogue planet that kicked off this year’s epic. Continue reading Top New Comics for July 9, 2014