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A common complaint among critics of popular fiction is that most works aren’t “new” or “original” enough. Probably nowhere does that complaint appear to be more justified than among superhero comic books, where the best-selling titles are still the ones that feature the oldest, most familiar characters and concepts. As …

Matt Reeves’ long-awaited The Batman starring Robert Pattinson is just about to open on Friday, March 4, and is getting pretty stellar early reviews. The Batman poster (Image credit: Warner Bros. Pictures) (opens in new tab) If the moviegoing public agrees with the early critics, we might be getting a …

So you want to check out what one of those fabled comic book stores is really like. Like record stores and gaming stores, comic book shops are all over the globe – offering the latest comics from Marvel and DC, popular manga releases, the beloved Dog Man graphic novels, and …

Wonder Woman has spent the last few years reclaiming her crown as one of DC’s flagship heroes, with a whole line of spin-off titles and characters now joining her on the page.  A significant portion of Wonder Woman’s rise to glory has centered on her home of Themiscyra and Wonder …

DC is now well into its current ‘Infinite Frontier’ status quo, in which every story that has ever been told in a DC comic is considered to be canon in some way, shape, or corner of the Multiverse – or should we say, ‘Omniverse.’ Infinite Frontier was also the name …

Gotham and black vinyl – the two things incoming Catwoman artist Nico Leon tells us are the hardest things to draw for the upcoming book. But they do it with aplomb, as you can see from the preview pages of Leon and writer Tini Howard’s debut in January 18’s Catwoman …

In the past 50+ years across thousands of pages, writer Marv Wolfman has created characters and stories that have stood the test of time. Many have become comic book icons, and others have gone on to success in animation, TV, movies, toys, and beyond. Newsarama now looks back over the …

Sometimes a cover just stays with you. It might be the iconographic image of Captain America punching Hitler; it might be the crazed Silver Age covers of DC books with Superman, Batman, and company being transformed into everything from gorillas to funhouse-mirror images to that one with the Flash going, …

DC’s Dark Knights of Steel (opens in new tab) is finally hitting comic shelves everywhere. First teased in a cryptic series of tweets from writer Tom Taylor, the comic explores a DC Universe set in a medieval age, in which Superman’s infamous Kryptonian rocket landed a long time ago in …

Marvel Comics’ current Death of Doctor Strange (opens in new tab) and The Trial of Magneto (opens in new tab) limited series both focus on the deaths of high profile heroes from the Marvel Universe – namely Doctor Strange and Scarlet Witch.  While the fates of both Stephen Strange and …