“Superman/Batman: Public Enemies” Gets a Release Date
Another fabled installment of the DC animated universe will be available for purchase this fall. The previously reported Superman/Batman: Public Enemies has finally received an official release date of September 29, 2009. The film is based on the Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness stories of the same name, focusing on a world where archvillain Lex Luthor is President of the United States, and Superman is framed for putting the planet in danger. Read more
More Crazy Costumes From HeroesCon
Earlier this week Comicbook.com brought you a collection of costumed females from the recent HeroesCon in Charlotte, North Carolina. Here is another collection of some of the costumed characters walking around HeroesCon, everything from wizards to emperors to superheroes, of course.
DC Comics Superheroes - Green Lantern is recently back from the dead, and Batman is waiting to return from the dead, but both were spotted at HeroesCon.
Heroes Con Costume Wearers Share Their Identities With Us!
As our coverage of Heroes Con 2009 draws to a close, it’s safe to say that we talked to a multitude of people this weekend. Some famous, some hoping to be famous, some just there for the festivities, and some hoping to show off hours of their own blood, sweat and spandex in the form of a costume. In chatting with several of these costumed convention attendees, between countless demands that they take pictures with other convention goers, we heard quite a bit about the reasons as to why they went all out for a few days in summer heat of Charlotte, North Carolina.
April Fool’s? 10 “Are You JOKING” Moments in Comic Books
April Fool’s jokes usually consist of innocent, harmless phone calls, fake spiders and the like. Practical jokes take it a little further with maybe alibis, pretend emergencies or other staged incidents. Most people can laugh these off quickly, acknowledge that they were had, and get over their initial “are you kidding me!” exclamations.
So why doesn’t that always work with comic book events?
How many of us have found ourselves turning a page in one of our favorite books, checking the frames for some detail we missed, only to stop and express, loudly “Are you JOKING?!?!” after seeing that the shocking event we just witnessed did, in fact, happen. We feel like we’ve been had, hoodwinked, the plastic snake now a real cobra that’s just eaten our cat! In keeping with the spirit of the day, a look back at 10 moments from recent years that we all thought, at the time, surely were jokes.
DC’s Faces of Evil: Review Number One
DC Comics could have been taking a page from Marvel with their focus on the villainy of their universe with the January Faces of Evil specials, but they’re taking it in a different direction by using these issues to either tell the story from the baddie’s point of view and/or displaying what their role in their nemesis’ life is.
With several major titles and smaller ones taking part, a massive amount of reading is to be done! Below is a review of six of the issues with another review on the way, rated on a scale of 1-6, one being meek and mild, six being really rotten.
Secret Six #5: Deadshot - It seems odd that DC would choose to highlight a villain in a book that’s already about villains, but Deadshot gets to narrate the action in this month’s issue. Although his narration is an interesting change from the series’ usual storytelling, it’s not much more than a “so?”. A villain-driven series has to do a bit more than add narration from one of it’s characters, that doesn’t add much to what we already knew of Deadshot, by the way. Plus, the biggest shock of the issue had nothing to do with Deadshot. All in all, pretty unscary: Terror Scale Score: 1
