When Buffy fans watched the final episode of the TV show, little did they know that Buffy's greatest adventures were yet to come - in comic books!
Buffy is now six issues into Season Nine, her second "season" in comics, and a certain farm boy is looking to follow in her footsteps.
Smallville ran for a mammoth ten seasons on TV, giving comics fans some amazing new interpretations of their favourite DC comics characters, and introducing TV viewers to characters they had never heard of.
After much hinting at Clark's ultimate role as Superman for years the final episode finished with a flash of the famous scene of Clark ripping open his shirt to reveal the Superman costume underneath...
In May you'll get to find out what happens next.
Smallville Season 11 will be an ongoing monthly comics series starting in the first week of May. If you want to make sure you don't miss a single issue, start a standing order NOW!
Comic Book Resources has the exclusive news that Boom Studios will be bringing Garfield to ongoing monthly comics with their Kaboom! kids line of comics!
The series is being written by Mark Evanier, who has written a great deal of the Garfield cartoon series, but you may know him as the Wordsmith behind Sergio Aragones' Groo The Wanderer.
This series is due to start in the middle of 2012.
Winter 2012 will be a season to remember. The long rumoured comics event of the decade will finally arrive.
Almost three decades ago Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons sat down and made them have a long hard look at themselves, ridiculing them, celebrating them, dissecting and reinventing them in 12 issues of comics that are now collectively regarded by Time magazine as one of the greatest novels of all time.
From the DC Blog The Source:
This summer [winter in Australia], DC Entertainment will publish all-new stories expanding on the acclaimed WATCHMEN universe. As highly anticipated as they are controversial, the seven inter-connected prequel mini-series will build on the foundation of the original WATCHMEN, the bestselling graphic novel of all time. BEFORE WATCHMEN will be the collective banner for all seven titles, from DC Comics.
“It’s our responsibility as publishers to find new ways to keep all of our characters relevant,” said DC Entertainment Co-Publishers Dan DiDio and Jim Lee. “After twenty five years, the Watchmen are classic characters whose time has come for new stories to be told. We sought out the best writers and artists in the industry to build on the complex mythology of the original.”
Stepping up to the challenge is a group of the comic book industry’s most iconoclastic writers and artists – including Brian Azzarello (100 BULLETS), Lee Bermejo (JOKER), Amanda Conner (POWER GIRL), Darwyn Cooke (JUSTICE LEAGUE: NEW FRONTIER), John Higgins (WATCHMEN), Adam Hughes (CATWOMAN), J.G. Jones (FINAL CRISIS), Andy Kubert (FLASHPOINT), Joe Kubert (SGT. ROCK), Jae Lee (BATMAN: JEKYLL AND HYDE), J. Michael Straczynski (SUPERMAN: EARTH ONE) and Len Wein (SWAMP THING).
They have awards for all forms of media from TV shows to blogs and magazines. But most importantly...
yep, you guessed it, COMICS! Or OUTSTANDING COMIC BOOK to be precise.
Here are the nominees:
Avengers: The Children's Crusade by Allan Heinberg, Marvel
Batwoman by J.H. Williams III and W. Haden Blackman, DC Comics
Secret Six by Gail Simone, DC Comics
Veronica Presents: Kevin Keller by Dan Parent, Archie Comics
X-Factor by Peter David, Marvel Comics
The awards will be announced in a series of ceremonies all over the USA in March, April and June. Start your work sweep, which title is your pick for winner? Here's a tip - X-Factor won last year, if that helps or hinders this year remains to be seen.
It seem like just yesterday that DC unveiled the swirl logo that is at the top of every New52 book. It was actually about seven years ago.
Now they have unveiled a brand new logo over at Fast Company and on their blog The Source.
The big reveal teased at the way the logo will get tweaked for various properties... including WATCHMEN!
The logo will start showing up on comics in March, so get used to it.
