Comic Books

The Joker’s April Fool’s Day Sale

What better way to celebrate April Fool's day that with the Joker? DC Comics is having a three day sale on digital comics featuring the infamous Joker. The sale runs through Monday April 2nd. Why so serious? This April Fool's Day, DC…

You Can Buy the Check Which Bought Superman

Up for auction at ComicConnect is the actual check made out to Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster to purchase Superman all the way back in 1938. At the time DC Comics was Detective Comics and, I can't say the check is for the rights to the character…

Before Watchmen Covers from DC

There's been some controversy behind the upcoming DC Comics Before Watchmen prequels (mainly on original creator Alan Moore's end) but I thought I'd share the previews of the seven covers commissioned while we wait for the miniseries…

Warner Bros. Continues to Battle Over Superman

In what seems to be a never ending round robin of Warner Brothers Studio trying to screw the families of Superman creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, a new brief has been filed last Friday before the 9th Court of Appeals. The brief asks the Court…

The Rocketeer: Cargo of Doom! Hits This August

Coming this August, The Rocketeer: Cargo of Doom! from IDW Publishing will arrive at comic shops everywhere. Writer Mark Waid  and artist Chris Samnee  have joined forces to bring us Cliff Secord’s latest adventure. "As someone who bought every…

Marvel Teases X-Treme X-Men

Marvel Comics released a bare bones teaser Wednesday which implied the return of the X-Treme X-Men in July. For more concrete details fans will obviously have to wait for Marvel Editor Tom Brevoort’s “Talk to the Hat” panel tomorrow, at WonderCon, to…