New 52

It's been ten years since Dan DiDio first walked into DC Comics as a Vice President of Editorial, beginning a chain of events that led to the native New Yorker ascending to the position of Co-Publisher of the storied comic book house. Among the notable events DiDio's presided over in his time with DC include its ambitious run of weekly comic book series; the reinstallation of long-absent character

The recently relaunched Justice League is one of the highest profile titles in superhero comics today, and a book that has inspired some strong and disparate feelings at ComicsAlliance. Now that the first arc has wrapped with issue #6, we're taking a point/counterpoint look at the series, with Senior Writer Chris Sims taking aim at its weaknesses, and David Uzumeri stepping up in the other corner

If not the most eagerly anticipated of DC Comics' "New 52" second wave titles launching in May, Earth 2 is definitely the most mysterious. It bears the name of DC's popular Silver Age alternate earth, where the heroes of The Golden Age grew old in real time after DC stopped publishing their original adventures, a world that was off-limits for about 20 years after 1986's Crisis On Infini

Today is Valentine's Day, and if you thought you could escape from hearts and flowers in the pages of your favorite comics, think again! Okay, admittedly, DC's New 52 might not seem the most lovey-dovey comics in the world, but that doesn't mean that there's not a burning passion for romance buried somewhere under there...

It's been over a week since DC Comics announced any creative team changes on their New 52 superhero line, so we were pretty much overdue when the publisher's The Source blog announced several pencil artists coming and going in a series of posts Thursday...

So why did DC Comics choose 52 as the number of titles to promote as part of their "New 52" reboot/relaunch/PR offensive? I'm beginning to think it might have been because there are 52 cards in a deck, and, like a deck of cards, the New 52 creative teams are always being shuffled...

Following mockup reveals at Comic-Con and prototype appearances at New York Comic Con, DC Direct has solicited its final version of its New 52 Justice League Batman action figure based on the art of DC co-publisher (and Justice League artist) Jim Lee...

We can officially stop calling the cosmic lurker that's been popping up in every "New 52" book since the end of Flashpoint "The hooded lady in pink/red/purple." According to DC Comics' The Source blog, "Her name is Pandora." That's all DC is saying so far, meaning it's up to fans to continue searching for clues about her identity and what it might mean for the fabric

Action figure fans have known about DC Direct's upcoming "New 52" figures for awhile, but Mattel will be delivering its share of updated toys in 2012 as well. CBR got a first look at Mattel's second wave of DC All-Stars figures coming in the new year, which will include Superman and the Flash in their "New 52" looks, plus Red Robin and Supergirl (the evil one in the black costu

As the final days of the year wind inexorably down, ComicsAlliance continues its year-end wrapup with a series of infographics about comics in 2011 by Wired Art Director (and former Comic Foundry Editor-in-Chief) Tim Leong, who previously graced ComicsAlliance with his charts summing up Comic-Con 2011...