Action Comics #1000 will feature the return of Superman's classic look and red trunks

The month of April will be a MILESTONE for DC Comics and comic history in general, as not only will Action Comics - the series that introduced the heroic character of Superman - count to its thousandth issue, but also mark the return of the heroes iconic classic costume! Yes, the red trunks will be returning to the Big Blue Boy Scout's wardrobe, and here it is above as drawn by none other than DC co-publisher and artist extraordinaire Jim Lee! The red trunks and classic costume were removed back in 2011 when DC Entertainment launched "The New 52" and rebooted most of its history, but eventually started bringing back elements of established continuity with "DC Rebirth" in 2016. Now Superman is returning to the look that defines him best - and that's great news for fans of the Man of Steel.

Action Comics #1000 will also feature the DC Comics' debut of Brian Michael Bendis, who will write a 10-page back up story for the issue with art by Jim Lee! The issue goes on sale on April 10 both at retail and digital. For more information, check out Superherohype's feature on the landmark title!

DC Rebirth: Newsarama examines possible suspects for the "Rebirth" changes

It's been nearly a year since DC Comics successfully reintegrated a sense of history and legacy with with "DC Rebirth" - injecting back most of the things that made the DC Universe so legendary and aiming to bring back old school fans into the fold while retaining that new outlook they started in 2011 with "The New 52" reboot. In other words, it was a compromise of old and new that meshed well... And following the return of the original Wally West who served as the "lightning rod" to that one shot "DC Universe Rebirth #1" adventure - a mystery has remained that has readers still asking the question - who watches the DCU and who changed things to "The New 52" following the events of Flashpoint?

Newsarama has a great article up guessing those theories as to who is pulling the strings, from the likely "Watchmen" characters such as Doctor Manhattan to even characters that writer Geoff Johns has changed through the years and made relevant for sinister purposes like Superboy-Prime. All of it makes sense, and is great TBT style reading for fans looking to piece together the clues before we get definite answers down the line in the DCU.

DC Comics: Green Lantern variants revealed for September

Certainly not one to shy away from the "Variant Cover Month" themes they've started and successfully kept going, DC Comics has officially announced that September will be "Green Lantern" month, meaning that the Emerald Warriors and their world will shine down different titles and give a variant look to them!

In honor of the character's 75th Anniversary, everything from the original Alan Scott to Hal Jordan, John Stewart, and company will be drawn and explored by different artists for different titles. You can check out the gallery via IGN and Comic Book.com.

DC Comics: New 52 label ends, new changes and titles begin

By the end of DC Comics' event called "Convergence", the publisher will be bringing some brand new changes to its comic book universe that involves some 24 new titles being introduced... As well as the fact that the "New 52" label will be gone and no longer carried by their titles.

Announcing their plans and books for June 2015, DC Entertainment is bringing back 25 of their current books, which include Batman, Superman, Justice League, and Wonder Woman. New books like Cyborg, Batman Beyond, Black Canary, and even a new Justice League of America book by a returning Bryan Hitch will be among the 24, making the entire DC line 49 titles in total.
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It's a big announcement indeed for DC Universe fans, and more can be read at DC Comics.com.

DC All-Access: "Building an issue of Grayson" episode released

You can never keep a good performer down... Especially someone as talented and skilled as Richard "Dick" Grayson.

The very first Robin, Nightwing, and protege to Batman has literally gone "dead to the world", but is currently investigating the organization known as Spyral for The Dark Knight in the Tim Seeley and Tom King written, Mikel Janin drawn, and Jeremy Cox colored series "Grayson", which is currently on its 4th issue and explores the acrobatic crime-fighter turned undercover superspy as he works to unravel the secrets of the mysterious group.

To further explain what goes into how an issue is made, DC All-Access has released this stellar episode that tackles how this comic is made from page-to-page.

BTS: Building an Issue of Grayson
And to think this week, specifically November 11th, is the birthday of Dick Grayson in the DC Universe!

Catch "Grayson" every month from DC Comics!

DC Comics reveals December 2014 Darwyn Cooke variant cover theme

Looks like DC Comics is going for another variant theme month come December, and this time all the focus will be on the art style and pencils of one of the most talented artists of recent comic history - Darwyn Cooke!

Yes, the man who drew the classic DC: The New Frontier and has great runs in The Spirit and Catwoman is bringing his art skills for December's line of variant covers for books in The New 52, which you can read the list of in Comic Vine. The cover to Justice League #37 is shown above, and Cooke recently did a variant for this month's issue #33 of the comic to honor Batman's 75th Anniversary this year!

Check out ALL THE COVERS via Newsarama. Watch out for the Darwyn Cooke wave of DC Comics New 52 covers this December!

DC All Access: Detective Comics: The villain partnership and new enemy for Batman explained

It's pretty much SPOILER TERRITORY going to this post, but if you follow Batman and Detective Comics religiously, you should know the answer to the post.

Featured in DC Comics.com and "DC All Access", Current co-writer Brian Buccellato gives the lowdown on who exactly is the villain The Dark Knight will team up, as well as a new face he'll be going up against in future stories down the line.


Who is the New Batman Villain in Detective Comics?

DC The New 52: Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo prepare for Batman "Endgame" on October

Looks like Big things are really coming down this October for DC Comics "New 52" universe, and a certain Caped Crusader isn't exempt from that either, as the acclaimed "Batman" creative team of Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo prepare for their next big story arc which will undoubtedly bring more impactful changes to the world of The Dark Knight, and just right smack in the middle of his 75th Anniversary celebration.

Coming straight from the October 2014 solicitations featured in Newsarama, Snyder and Capullo will unleash "Endgame" starting on Batman #35, which brings The Caped Crusader back to the present after the year long prequel storyline that was "Zero Year" which will conclude this July 23 (which happens to be Batman Day as well worldwide). No details have been given as to what "Endgame" will entail, save that it will be the "biggest, deadliest, and most epic storyline" for Bruce Wayne and his winged avenging alter ego yet.

Endgame begins with Batman #35 on October 8. Stay tuned for more details as it comes.

DC Comics: Batman/ Superman pose for a Selfie for "DC Selfie Month" variant sneak peek

Recently, DC Comics announced that they would feature special variant "Selfie" covers for several of their "New 52" comic titles for "Selfie Month". Now, we get a special sneak peek of how those covers are going to look like, courtesy of the official DC Comics Instagram page, featuring none other than the "World's Finest" heroes - Batman and Superman!

As you can see for this cover to Batman/ Superman #14, Clark has no problem taking the photo and getting Bruce to "smile" for the shot.XD

Thanks goes to Comic Book.com for the heads up, and see all of the covers revealed soon by DC when the time comes!

All Things Batman: New DC Bat-Titles, Batman: Eternal Recap, and Batman Day

July has arrived, and the 4th is just around the corner for the US to celebrate Independence Day. But the month also belongs to a certain Dark Knight, who celebrates 75 years of his existence and DC Entertainment has a long list of things to do and commemorate the Caped Crusader within this year!

First up, Two New Batman titles for The New 52 have been announced for October - Arkham Manor and Gotham Academy. The former of course sounds like it'll spiral right out of the events of the ongoing Batman: Eternal, which already has brought in some significant changes to the world of The Dark Knight, and it isn't even finished yet. The cover alone to Batman #28 before and now issue #1 of the new series is something that already hints on what "Arkham Manor" truly means, while Gotham Academy will focus on familiar characters and the past of the infamous city. More info can be read on the source post at Newsarama and Entertainment Weekly.

For those who have yet to catch up on Batman: Eternal, DC All Access has released a video on

Cover-to-Cover: Batman Eternal #1-10

And of course, July 23rd is Batman Day! Don't forget to mark your calendars for that week, for freebies on all hings Batman await!

Justice League: Throne of Atlantis is the next DC Universe Animated Original Movie

Much like how it was teased at the end of Justice League: War, it looks like fans are getting the actual adaptation of the Aquaman-centered storyline that looks to introduce the King of the Seven Seas properly in the DC Universe Animated Original Movies New 52 timeline.

As confirmed from the special features seen in the back of the upcoming Blu-Ray release of the Batman: Assault on Arkham animated movie, Justice League: Throne of Atlantis is the new film slated for the DC Animated film line.

The news comes from World's Finest Online and Cosmic Book News, and viewers who pick up the film in a few months will get a sneak peek on the next animated release.

First published in comic book form in 2013, "Throne of Atlantis" was a five issue story arc that involved the Justice League facing an Atlantean invasion spearheaded by Aquaman's brother Ocean Master, who declares war on the surface world. It would serve as a build up to another big DC event in "Trinity War", and changed the landscape of Aquaman's world indefinitely.

The Flash: Meet your New 52 Wally West... In costume

More of the covers for the September 2014 solicitations for DC Comics titles have gone up online, and one of them reveals for the very first time The New 52 version of Wally West... In full costume!

As part of the new "Future's End" crossover event that sees events within the new DC Universe seeing drastic changes and Batman Beyond coming from the future to change the wrongs of the past, this is just one of the many new reveling covers that shows something fans have been longing for... Wally back and with speed powers anew, though sporting a new costume that is... Different alright.

However, this is a new version of the former Pre-New 52 DC Legacy hero, now an African-American teenager bearing some ties to the Scarlet Speedster's pseudo-love interest, Iris West. Since his official debut in The Flash #30 and his full origin told in The Flash Annual #3, he hasn't exhibited powers... YET. That may all soon change once the months build up to the issue where his new costume s revealed.

Honestly, I still miss the old classic duds... And Wally in Pre-New 52 time.

For more on the solicitations, visit the source post at Newsarama.

DC Comics releases "Forever Evil" SDCC Teaser Posters

DC Comics released this teaser of a tease just before the San Diego Comic Con this week, and boy does it have a message to convey:

"When The Unthinkable Happens!"

If you know the symbol, then you know that a certain protege of The Dark Knight will be in the center of trouble when Forever Evil, the next big DC Comics event for The New 52 Universe, begins during "Villains Month" this September.

Nightwing and his world will never be the same it seems... And for more information on this pre-SDCC teaser as well as a couple of others, visit the source post at Newsarama and DC Comics.

Forever Evil begins on September.

Justice League New 52 begins in DC Animated Movies with Justice League: War

It's not yet SDCC yet, and not big news comes for DC fans! Looks like this DC Universe Animated Original Movie based on the Pre-New 52 storyline "Flashpoint" is indeed the clincher for the old guard, as the next film to feature the Justice League will indeed bring in the New 52 Universe to the animated movie fold!

Reported by Newsarama and Tweeted by Gary Miereanu/ SuperPRGuy, the first DCU animated film hitting in 2014 after Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox will be called "Justice League: War", and will be based on the first storyline of "Justice League" in the New 52 universe, namely "Origin" by the creative powerhouse team of Geoff Johns, Jim Lee, and Scott Williams. The news breaks a few days just before the San Diego Comic Con, and officially ushers in the rebooted DC Universe, which began in 2011, in animated movie form. Miereanu also confirmed that actor Jason O'Mara, who played Albert Wesker in the Paul W.S. Anderson Resident Evil movies, will be voicing the role of the Dark Knight himself... Batman!

For more information on the story, visit the source post at Newsarama.

Looks like DC Entertainment's "GOT THIS". Prepare for Justice League: WAR in 2014!

DC Comics announces "Batman The Zero Year" origin story

Since DC Comics began their relaunch with The New 52 universe in 2011, much talk and speculation came about as to how semi-reboot series like the "Batman" and "Green Lantern" titles would fit into the new continuity. Instead of a total new reboot altogether, portions of history from the pre-DC New 52 timeline existed and carried over to the new status quo, and while Green Lantern more or less had a smooth transition without any disruptions to it story, the Batman universe didn't really fair the same, with eyebrows raising over things like how all the Robins served under Batman in the 5-6 years since his emergence to fight crime. Case in point, a story had to be told concerning the definite origins of The New 52 Batman... And DC Comics is looking to do just that.

Via a report from the Los Angeles Times' Hero Complex, DC Comics will unleash a brand new origin story called "Batman: The Zero Year", to be handled by the superstar "Batman" comic team of writer Scott Snyder and artist Greg Capullo. Following their successful runs with "The Court of Owls", "The Night of Owls", and most recently "Death of the Family", the new story arc was announced by DC on Monday, and will span 11 issues to tell the definite "origin story" of how The Batman came to be in the New 52 universe. It was touched on briefly with "Zero Month" last September, but now the definite history will be told beginning the middle of this year. For more information on the story, visit the source post at Hero Complex.

Batman: The Zero Year begins on June 21!

DC Comics announces New Green Lantern creative teams

Following the announcement of the departure of Geoff Johns and the other talents of the Green Lantern books come May 2013, DC Comics has finally announced who will be stepping up as the new creative force for the series and its affiliated titles. Writer Robert Vendetti of "X-O Manowar" fame will pair with artist Billy Tan to take over the main Green Lantern book, while Joshua Hale Fialkov covers the rest of the corps by writing Green Lantern Corps and Red Lanterns, paired with artists Bernard Chang and Alessandro Vitti respectively. Green Lantern: New Guardians will be ending its run with Justin Jordan and Brad Walker writing the final book, while Agent Orange himself Larfleeze gets his own series... written by Keith Giffen and illustrated Scott Kollins!

That's one major shakedown and change for the Green Lantern books of The DC New 52 universe! For more on the story, visit the source post at Comic Book Resources and DC Comics.com!

SPOILER ALERT: Batwoman #17 opens up a new chapter in the life of Kathy Kane

Those in the comic mend wil know that this week marks the release of Geoff Johns' second Justice League series with Justice League of America #1, with David Finch joining him for art duties. To say that's not going to be the subject of discussion between fans would be a false notion, but this week's Batwoman #17 by JH Williams III and Haden Blackman may just get the media buzzing as well thanks to a startling revelation by the end of the issue that marks a significant change in the heroine's life. SPOILER ALERT again for those who wish to remain in the dark about this and keep away. Like Batman Inc. #8 which finally arrives next week, this may make heads turn and jaws drop.

SPOILER ALERT AGAIN. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Justice League of America #1 preview online

Those of you who have yet to pick up or are looking forward to DC Comics' brand new book this week that is "Justice League of America", you're in for a treat. Via a post from Superherohype, USA Today has embedded a preview of the very 1st issue, which retails for $3.99 (or $4.99 if you get the Digital Combo version).

JLA Exclusive Preview by

Justice League of America #1 hits comic book stores and retailers this week!

DC Comics: The New Flash from JL Beyond, New Batman of Earth 2, and Classic Power Girl returns

New things have been revealed in the DC Comics universe via interviews and solicitations, and it appears that we'll be seeing two new "debuts" in separate alternate universes well known to fans and readers alike.

SPOILER: Detective Comics #19 "Mystery of the 900" WTF Cover revealed by Previews

CORRECTION UPDATE: It's Detective Comics #19, not "Batman #19" as initially posted.

A new month begins, and so does a wave of new "Previews" to enjoy for those who delve into the world of comics, toys, games, and just about anything in the world of popculture! That being said, DC Comics has revealed the full cover to the mega-sized New 52 issue of "Detective Comics #19" on the newest issue of Diamond Comic Distributor's "Previews". It's part of a new "WTF" cover initiative the publisher is starting in the month, as well as the fact that had the New 52 not happened, Detective Comics #19 would have been the hero's 900th title - hence the mega-sized price and celebration status the issue celebrates.

SPOILERS of course follow since it pretty much gives off what the "Mystery of the 900" is, so peak at your own risk.

You have been warned!