Rebooted Justice League Offers Peek at DC Comics’‘New World Order’
It remains unclear from the comic book's renumbered first issue, which kick-starts the publisher's post-millennial makeover of DC Universe's 52 series and their superheroes' origin stories, whether the...
View ArticleExclusive: Paul Cornell’s Demon Knights Gets Medieval on DC’s New 52
Etrigan, hell's coolest demon, gets resuscitated by sci-fi and fantasy wizard Paul Cornell as part of DC Comics' ongoing reboot campaign. Get an exclusive peek inside Issue No. 1.
View ArticleExclusive: Read First 4 Pages of DC Comics’ Blue Beetle No. 1
The rebooted Blue Beetle brings Jaime Reyes, the teenager with the alien armor, into DC Comics' "New 52" with a streamlined origin story designed to introduce the Golden Age character to new readers....
View ArticleExclusive: Paul Cornell’s Lunar Stormwatch Lunacy
Check out an exclusive preview of the upcoming issue of DC Comics' Stormwatch, written by Doctor Who scribe Paul Cornell. In the second installment of the reboot of Jim Lee's Image Comics series, the...
View ArticleRating the Reboots: Best and Worst of DC Comics’‘New 52′
Wired.com's verdict on DC Comics' massive effort to upgrade its titles is in. From Action Comics to Catwoman, we round up the best and the worst of the retooled series.
View ArticleBatman Says ‘Raise My Taxes’ as Occupy Movement Comes to Comics
Bruce Wayne might be a rich guy, but he's sympathetic to protesters' cause. Berlin-based artist Anjin Anhut's Occupy Gotham is part of the first wave of comic book visuals based on the Occupy Wall...
View ArticleWith He Thinks He’s People, Rob Crow Returns to Smart Indie Pop
The founder of Pinback, Goblin Cock and other rock bands cranks out a new solo album filled with pop-culture apocrypha. Crow chats about his latest record and his varied responses to the latest geek...
View ArticleExclusive Preview: Revisiting Superman’s Roots in Action Comics No. 5
Superman’s origin story gets retold like never before in Action Comics No. 5, previewed exclusively on Wired.com. As the cover says: “It begins … again!” Written by Grant Morrison with art by Andy...
View ArticleExclusive: Ozymandias Cover for Dreaded Watchmen Prequel
Everything old at DC Comics is new again, again. Watchmen — Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ canonical miniseries about superheroes and power (and their horrific abuses) — is being predictably rebooted as...
View ArticleJustice League: Doom Dissects Batman’s Paranoia
What happens when the Legion of Doom’s supervillains decide to assassinate members of the almighty Justice League, one by one? Super Friends morphs into The Godfather, that’s what. That mature...
View ArticleYoung Justice’s Identity Crisis Darkens TV Toonscape
It limped lamely out of soap opera early last season, but Young Justice eventually caught superheroic heat, thanks to darkly philosophical explorations of identity politics and even artificial...
View ArticleChina Miéville’s Weird, Subversive Superhero Comic Dial H Goes Native
With a wild roster of superheroes to become, schlub Nelson Jent gets stuck on a racist caricature in the latest issue of China Miéville's surreal comic book Dial H, out Wednesday from DC Comics.
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