The New 52

Almost a year after the last partnership between DC Comics and the Neilsen National Research Group, the two are at it again to find out how well the New 52 relaunch is faring months later... or, perhaps, how poorly. Yes, this time, it's the sales questions...

The results of The Nielsen Company's market research for DC Comics that surveyed "New 52" readers were released at ComicsPro's Dallas meeting yesterday and well... there's not much that's brave or bold about them. ICv2 reports that 70 percent of the survey's 5,336 respondents were already fans, with only 5 percent completely new to buying comics, and 93% were male...

A new flyer distributed to comic book retailers gives fans the full skinny on DC Direct's plans for Geoff Johns and Jim Lee's "New 52" Justice League heroes. TNI has a scan of the pages featuring the full line, which show off seven figures and their release dates...

If you've been paying close attention, you may have noticed that there's one common thread uniting all of DC's "New 52" titles, even the ones set five years in the past: Each one features a cameo appearance by the same Mysterious Hooded Woman...

Today marks DC Comics' historic transition from one prime continuity to another and it's no small shift -- as billed on the cover to the final comic told from the old DC Universe, "It all changes here!" The names may be the same, the costumes recognizable, but history is already playing out quite a bit differently in the new DCU...

DC's second panel of Comic-Con 2011, "DC: The New 52," was the first panel of the convention where DC took questions about its September relaunch. On the panel were Co-Publisher Dan DiDio, Editor-in-Chief Bob Harras, Executive Editor Eddie Berganza, Justice League International writer and Green Arrow artist Dan Jurgens, Captain Atom artist Freddie Williams II, Captain Atom and Green Arro