Justice League must expand their roster after the events of Throne of Atlantis. In this week’s Justice League #18 Cyborg recruited up and coming heroes via the Grid.
Who answered the call?
SPOILER ALERT:
If you have not read Justice League #18 yet you should stop reading.
OK.
Here it comes:
The aftermath of Damian’s death in Batman Incorporated #8 will hit the Batman family in three big books this week. It will be hard to follow Batman and Robin #18. Peter Tomasi and Patrick Gleason created a masterpiece. This is the issue you show to non-comic book readers to explain the power of graphic storytelling.
Here are 3 Batman books to watch:
Catwoman #18 Bruce is on a dangerous rampage pushing himself beyond his limits in his war on crime. Batman and Selena Kyle have a showdown in a museum over stolen art! Is a catfight with Selena a way to work out his anger and guilt and could the love/hate relationship between Catwoman and Batman change forever?
Nightwing #18 Dick Grayson suffered Continue reading Aftermath of Death In The Batman Family!
DC Comics brought an all-star team of creators to the DC Comics The New 52 Panel at Emerald City Comicon 2013 in Seattle. The panel kicked off with the announcement of Trinity of Sin: Pandora by Ray Fawkes. The mystery woman has been circling since the New 52 rebirth.
Pandora has “unjustly shouldered the blame for every bad thing that has happened in the universe,” and “she’s going to kill and kill and kill,” said Fawkes.
Here are more quick hits from the news packed panel:
Batgirl: Gail Simone will introduce a new twist on a classic Batman enemy Continue reading ECCC: The New 52
“Where does he get it all those wonderful toys? Jack Nicholson as the Joker in Tim Burton’s Batman.
You can get these toys at the upcoming New York Toy Show! DC Collectibles and DC Comics unveiled a geek-tacular lineup of action figures they will unveil at the big show!
I love Dick Grayson as Nightwing in the current series but I must admit Continue reading DC, Arkham City and Injustice: Gods Among Us Toys Revealed!
Superman and Wonder Woman on a date in civilian clothes! Catwoman and Batman mixing crime and passion! Nightwing and Batgirl potentially hooking up…with other lovers? DC Comics’ hottest gay couple split on the most romantic holiday?
Fan favorite writers like Ann Nocenti, Andy Diggle and Kyle Higgins spin tales of love and intrigue in a big comic book perfect for the comic book lover this Valentine’s Day.
Young Romance: A New 52 Valentine’s Day Special #1 is out tomorrow. The big question: how does these six love stories fit into continuity or is this just a romantic diversion?
What super couple do you want to see hook up in the New 52?
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It’s curtains at the circus with tents of terror courtesy of the Joker in this week’s Nightwing #16. Kyle Higgins and Eddy Barrows create a violent, spooky study in evil winning. Dick runs to Haly’s Circus only to find one horrific hearbreak after another.
This may become the ultimate Nightwing versus Joker clash. When I think of all the tie-in issues of Death of the Family this may be the toughest to read as the Joker unleashes one shocker after another at Dick until the final moment that will leave you guessing until the finale in Batman #17.
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The Joker’s comeback campaign against the Batman family rips through Batman, Batgirl and Batman and Robin books this week! DC Comics is teasing the final issues of the Death of the Family storyline coming in February 2013.
Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo deliver the final showdown between the Joker and Bruce in Batman #17. Who lives, dies and laughs last?
The Joker will have his own cult? In Detective Comics #17 Batman will track down the League of Smiles and encounter new villains with ties to Arkham Asylum.
Gail Simone has Barbara Gordon dealing with the aftermath of the Joker’s reign of terror in Batgirl #17 and looks to pull the trigger on a storyline she’s been building up to: the attack of Barbara’s own brother. DC promises this issue will change Batgirl’s status quo in The New 52.
Death of the Family will have a devastating effect on the men who were Robin. In Nightwing #17 how will Damian Wayne reach out to a defeated Dick Grayson. In the aftermath of the storyline Bruce will confront Jason Todd in Red Hood and the Outlaws #17 by Scott Lobdell.
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Lady Shiva makes her DC Comics The New 52 debut going up against Dick Grayson this week. Legendary creator Tom DeFalco unleashes the assassin on Gotham City during this two-part story in Nightwing #13 and #14.
DeFalco told The Bat Signal on Comic Book Resources how he got to be the writer to bring back the martial arts master.
“You know, I’m not really sure. I think we had a big discussion — the people I was talking with were Brian Cunningham and Katie Kubert, and the three of us sat around and tossed out all sorts of possibilities and discussed different characters, what would be interesting, which character should we use, this or that. I remembered Brian said at one point, “You know, the character I always loved was Lady Shiva.” And then Katie talked of a different character with a ponytailed weapon. She described it to me and I said, “Wow, that is a really cool weapon!” [Laughs] So Brian made the call to give Shiva that other character’s weapon to make her more a visual threat. Then, I guess Brian discussed it with Mike Marts and the other Bat people and we decided to go with Lady Shiva.”
Lady Shiva was part of Dick’s past. The femme fatale appeared briefly in last month’s origin story in Nightwing #0 and “this Lady Shiva is very different, but has the same traits in this completely new version of the character.”
Artist Andres Guinaldo will join DeFalco on the story.
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