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Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Spinoffs ^ Sidekicks % Speed ¢ Shortness ¢ AN ANTHOLOGY OF GRAPHIC FICTION, CARTOONS AND TRUE STORIES VOL. 2, SALE EDITION No idea what that description means, but Diamond's listing has this book at $9.99. Maybe...

In a gorgeous preview from the newest issue of The Flash, on stands today, Barry Allen expresses controversial opinions about coffee that run diametrically opposite to our most deeply held values and beliefs. Kudos to Flash artist (and co-writer) Francis Manapul, who continues to blow us away with his innovative page layouts...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Numbers ^ Exodus % Genesis ¢ Colossians ^ % BATMAN: THE BLACK MIRROR HC Scott Snyder, Jock & Francesco Francavilla's double-headed Batman/Commissioner Gordon serial from Detective Comics was one of the chief attractions of the pre-reboot DC (and had a lot of impressively over-the-top

We all had a great laugh at the activities of some Canadian teenagers who took it upon themselves to pwn some alleged pedophiles by posing online as underage girls, arranging rendezvous and showing up dressed as Batman to taunt them within an inch of their allegedly perverted lives...

Coming later in 2011, DC Universe Online players can expect a little added speed and electricity in their MMO of choice with the Flash-centric "Lightning Strikes" DLC pack. Adding an adventure starring The Flash, Black Lightning and Professor Zoom-inspired gear sets for respective heroes and villains, new electricity powers for players and a new map set in Central City, the upcoming pack

The illustrator of ComicsAlliance's Silver Age Remix Comics, Kerry Callen returns with a new installment of Super Antics, depicting the humorous adventures of the Golden Age Superman and all the hijinks of his wacky universe. The first episode looked at what might happen to a man who's truly impervious to bullets, while the new strip explores the implications of eye glasses as a secret identity, w

It's essentially a unanimous verdict among the ComicsAlliance staff that The Flash, co-written and illustrated by Francis Manapul, is the most visually amazing of all the titles in DC Comics' New 52 initiative. Manapul's uncommon talent for page design and movement were highlighted in our roundtable reviews, Chris Sims' Flash-centric review, and in David Brothers' latest Digital ComicsAlliance, in

While DC's upcoming Flashpoint event is poised play out across an altered present, the publisher's also got plans to pay tribute to the past this July through August. This afternoon during the DC Nation Live panel at WonderCon, DC Entertainment co-publisher Dan DiDio announced Retro-Active, a wave of one-shots that will pay homage to the spirit of the Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern,

For those of you who haven't been checking in with the DC Universe blog this week, they have been all about Flashpoint, the upcoming event from Geoff Johns and Andy Kubert that sees a world where the world's greatest heroes never actually became the world's greatest heroes...

We've haven't exactly been experiencing a shortage of Green Lantern posters in the last year, particularly with the new film coming out in a few months. Nevertheless, a France-based deviantART user named Herobaka (a.k.a. "Kevin") has rendered one more in a series of flashy DC superhero pin-ups...