Earlier today, ComiXology announced that Becky Cloonan’s Demeter would debut on the ComiXology Submit service for small-press comics. “With comiXology Submit, we further comiXology’s mission to bring the best, most diverse content to comic fans everywhere,” said John D. Roberts, comiXology co-founder. “Demeter is the work of an undeniably original...
Monkeybrain Comics will release both Edison Rex #7 by Chris Roberson, Dennis Culver and company; and Amelia Cole and the Hidden War #2 by Adam P. Knave, D.j. Kirkbride, Nick Brokenshire and Rachel Deering tomorrow. As you know, ComicBook.com finds these two books to be some of the best long-form...
Starbucks has chosen DC Comics’s Action Comics #1 by Grant Morrison and Rags Morales as their Pick of the Week, marking the first time that the cafe chain has chosen a comic book as their week’s free book. According to DC, Starbucks locations across the U.S. will offer cards with...
DC Entertainment unveiled two new digital initiatives today aimed at increasing the interactivity of the reading experience. DC Entertainment President Diane Nelson and Co-Publisher Jim Lee unveiled DC2and DC2Multiverse at the opening of Time Warner’s “The Future of Storytelling” exhibition at the Time Warner Medialab in New York. “Since we...
The Arrow digital comic from DC Comics will deal with the fallout from last month’s season finale before going on hiatus until the show returns to The CW, producer Marc Guggenheim, who writes the comic, revealed to CBR today. In a two-part story beginning with this week’s Arrow #35, the...
Warning: spoilers ahead for Smallville Season Eleven #49, on sale now. Today’s issue of Smallville Season Eleven, #49, is a fascinating read. Set against the backdrop of a brewing war between New Krypton and Earthgov, they’re drawing elements of the World of New Krypton story from a few years back...
Amelia Cole and the Hidden War #1, which debuted last week from Monkeybrain Comics, kicks off the second arc of the critically-acclaimed fantasy franchise from Adam P. Knave, D.J. Kirkbride and Nick Brokenshire. Over the course of the next year, Amelia will adjust to her role as The Protector, essentially...
Dark Horse Comics announced today that their digital division, celebrating its two-year anniversary last week, gave away over a million comics. As part of the celebration of the second year of the company’s digital initiative and proprietary storefront, fifty free single-issue comics were made available for only forty-eight hours. In...
Just in time for what’s arguably the biggest comic book weekend of the year with Iron Man 3 opening today and Free Comic Book Day tomorrow, Barnes & Noble’s Nook HD and Nook HD+ devices have rolled out a new system update that gives users full access to the Google...
When the first full-length trailer for Warner Bros.’ upcoming Superman reboot Man of Steel hit the Internet a while back, one of the images that most fans commented upon was that of Henry Cavill’s Clark Kent moving through what appeared to be the hull of a ship with its boiler...
Dark Horse Comics earlier today announced that Dynamite Entertainment will join their digital marketplace, marking the second publisher to join the app, which is one of the only remaining alternatives to ComiXology’s near-monopoly in the monthly digital comics marketplace. “We’ve been looking for ways to expand our digital presence, and...
Fans of Booster Gold know that it’s just a few hours until the time-traveling superhero makes his next in-continuity appearance in DC Comics’s New 52; he’ll appear for a three-issue stint in All-Star Western beginning with tomorrow’s issue and then rumors have been flying around that he’ll play a larger...
The Carrier, a graphic novel by The Forgotten co-creator Evan Young (and artist Will Walber, with colors and lettering by Luiz Borges) that has been recognized as a pioneering piece of digital literature, will now be published by Alterna Comics, eschewing its previous status as a stand-alone iOS app. This marks the...
Digital comics readers who visit the ComiXology website directly rather than buy through the app market may notice that among this week’s new releases, sales and other featured items is a shot of Kevin Smith’s stoned-out Batman & Robin parody, Bluntman and Chronic. That’s because Smith’s View Askew graphic novels,...
Monkeybrain Comics, in spite of having a handful of very well-regarded and briskly-selling digital comics to offer, received nominations for only one of those books–Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover’s Bandette–when the Eisner Award nominations were announced earlier today. Bandette made up for being alone by earning four nominations, more than...
