Jimmy Palmiotti

It's a rough time to be a fan of DC's comics. The publisher has made so many problematic moves in the past couple of years that the brand is now as strongly associated with disgruntled talent and unhappy readers as it is with iconic characters like Superman and Batman. In the wake of the inauspicious departure of the Batwoman creative team of J.H. Williams III and W. Haden Blackman, I intended to write something about DC's editorial troubles. I got as far into the opening paragraph as noting, "I have to write quickly because there'll be another fiasco along any minute," before another fiasco came along - the Harley Quinn try-out controversy.

When DC Comics co-publishers Dan DiDio and Jim Lee asked artists to try out for a gig drawing one page of Harley Quinn #0 by sending in a sample page, it seemed like the major criticisms would be the standard push-back for art or design contests: One person gets paid even though potentially thousands of fans do the work. But then people took notice of one of the panels, which depicts Quinn naked i

In November, DC Comics will launch its new Harley Quinn series by the writing team of Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti with a #0 issue. The art team on the book will be a murderer's row of talents, including Conner, Darwyn Cooke, Walter Simonson, Paul Pope, Sam Keith, Tony Daniel, Art Baltazar and perhaps...you. According to a DC press release, signed by co-publishers Jim Lee and Dan DiDio,  the

Harley Quinn has gotten a considerable amount of face time in the New 52 as the most-recognizable member of the Suicide Squad, but one title simply couldn't contain her. So she'll be getting her own book later this year, written by Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti, the wife-and-husband team who previously collaborated on 2009's Power Girl series. Conner will be handling art duties for the covers,

For a period in the mid-to-late 1990s, Joe Quesada and Jimmy Palmiotti were the chocolate and peanut butter of comics. After teaming up to form Event Comics, the duo helmed the fondly remembered Marvel Knights imprint, which did a lot to bring Marvel out of its post-bankruptcy funk...

The comics medium attempts to answer a lot of big questions: Who would win in a fight between the Hulk and Superman? "What lurks behind the beehive?" What's up with the Joker's face? In that spirit, ComicsAlliance's Matt Wilson is asking comics creators, retailers and commentators some big questions of his own...

This year's winner of the Eisner award for Best Anthology, Dark Horse Presents has been one of ComicsAlliance's favorite titles since it was relaunched in 2011 to continue the classic and influential series' tradition of showcasing emerging talent alongside some of the greatest writers, artists and cartoonists mainstream and underground comics has to offer...

The third and final DC Comics panel of Thursday's San Diego Comic-Con schedule, covering a wide array of creators and topics, was moderated by VP - Marketing John Cunningham and featured Geoff Johns, Scott Snyder, Brian Buccellato, Scott Lobdell, Rob Liefeld, Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti and editors Bob Harras and Bobbie Chase...

If Alan Moore's involvement wasn't enough, Occupy Comics has added additional esteemed creator to its ranks with the news that Art Spiegelman and a host of other established talent will be contributing to the continuing political anthology...

Over the weekend DC Comics announced a brand-new "New 52" Phantom Lady miniseries, co-starring Doll Man, from the writing team of Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray and drawn by Cat Staggs and Rich Perotta with covers by Amanda Conner. The book is the latest in a line of works written by Gray and Palmiotti that star characters from the Freedom Fighters superhero team, who are among the old