Last week, DC Comics pointed out what I'd call a curious detail in a sneak peek at Justice League #22. Though he only appeared in one panel of the preview pages, the publisher's blog post about the issue gave first priority to the appearance of an all-new Doctor Light. For fans unfamiliar with 2004's Identity Crisis miniseries by writer Brad Meltzer and artist Rags Morales, the focus on ...

A little over a year ago, a judge ordered Ghost Rider creator Gary Friedrich to renounce any claim to the character and fork over $17,000 to Marvel for selling unlicensed Ghost Rider memorabilia at conventions. Now, the tables may have turned. Tuesday, the Second Circuit Court of appeals overturned that ruling, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The new ruling says the contracts Friedrich ...

Patients at A.C. Camargo Cancer Center in São Paulo, Brazil don't just get plain old chemotherapy. Oh, no. They get something much cooler. They get Superformula. The hospital shares an ad agency with DC Comics parent company Warner Bros., JWT, and as a result of that connection the two worked together to create special comics and animated videos for child patients, as well as ...

DC Comics announced two brand new digital comics formats Tuesday evening, one that might look somewhat familiar to readers of Marvel's Infinite Comics, the other which puts a new spin on the classic "choose your own adventure" book. DC2, which will feature actions such as word balloons and sound effects popping up when readers swipe their screens, will debut in writer Jeff Parker and artist ...

Last year, DC Comics celebrated the anniversary of its New 52 launch with a month full of zero issues. On its second anniversary in September, the publisher is handing its books over to the bad guys. "Villains Month" will spin out of this summer's "Trinity War" crossover, according a DC press release. Each book in the line will replace the title hero's name with a villain's name and be a #1 ...

21 years after Adam West first appeared on The Simpsons, the star of the 1966 Batman TV series is returning to the Matt Groening universe in August in a new episode of Futurama. Former Robin Burt Ward (who appeared with West in a 2002 Simpsons episode) will also guest star in the episode, "Leela and the Genestalk." Like many other celebrities of the 20th Century, West and Ward will appear on ...

I didn't really think I'd be comparing Scott Snyder and Sean Murphy's new, 10-issue Vertigo series The Wake to Jason Aaron and Esad Ribic's Thor: God of Thunder after the first installment, but here we are. For a comic that's ostensibly a "thrilling, underwater horror adventure," The Wake's got quite a mythic spin to it. (Be warned that minor spoilers for the issue follow.) ...

In 2008, My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way seized the momentum of his Eisner win for The Umbrella Academy and pitched a Batman series to DC. Not just any wing of DC, either. Its mature-readers imprint, Vertigo. Saturday, he finally revealed some of the early designs for that never-to-be-published series, titled "Kingdom of the Mad." The art has a sort of Tim Burton-y quality to it (but more ...

The CW's new superhero series Arrow re-imagines Green Arrow for a TV audience as a tough, often ruthless vigilante bent on setting things right in his home of Starling City by punishing the wicked. ComicsAlliance's Matt Wilson will be following along all season to see how he fares. In this week's episode, a bad guy makes a return appearance, Laurel sort-of adopts an orphan and Arrow's ...

David S. Goyer, the screenwriter who has emerged as Warner Bros.' go-to guy for DC Comics adaptations, with credits including all three of Christopher Nolan's Batman movies and the new Superman film Man of Steel, answered an eager fan's question about why Wonder Woman hasn't made the jump to the big screen in a Thursday "Ask Me Anything" thread on Reddit. Regarding moving her to film as ...