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Second-Best Super Friends

I've been thinking about Batman, Green Arrow, and the Question. They've teamed up numerous times, beginning in a string of annuals published in 1988. They feel like the Super Friends Batman hangs out with when he's not with his own Bat family, or wit

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DC's new Digital Firsts

DC recently announced a "robust" expansion of its Digital First program -- seemingly with an aim to get a new title onto the digital shelf every day. As I mentioned in the Walmart thread, the initial stories are drawn from the new content in the Gian

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Rob Reads The Warlord

Among the things I tend to pick up on my back-issue dives are comics that came out in my “golden age” -- approx. 1976 to 1985 -- but that I either had no interest in or just didn’t have the money to buy at the time. DC was my favorite publisher as a

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DC You Roundup

Here's a place to discuss the new titles coming out of Convergence, and the new directions for existing titles. This first week saw the release of 

Action Comics

Bat-Mite

Bizarro

Midnighter

The Omega Men

Batman Beyond

Green Lantern

Green Arrow

Justic

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SPOILER: Superman 38

There's a big development that happens in Superman #38 -- even moreso than the new power that's been hyped (the Super Flare) and the new costume that's revealed (a slight tweak on the New 52 version, bringing it a little more in line with the pre-Fla

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Birds of Prey alert! (Old-school edition)

I haven't read it, but from what I understand, fans of the pre-New-52 Birds of Prey might want to pick up this week's Batgirl and the next few issues. It looks like Babs is getting a few familiar guest stars...

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April 2014 solicitations: DC cancels six titles

Looks like Nightwing, Suicide Squad, Justice League America, Superman Unchained, Teen Titans and Stormwatch are all ending. Some of them -- JLA, and I'm guessing Nightwing and Teen Titans, and maybe Suicide Squad -- will probably be back in another f

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DC Moves to Burbank

Holy smokes. It's a done deal, set for 2015.

They loaded up the Batmobile and moved to Beverly....Hills, that is. Lazarus pits, movie stars.

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So if the Legion is on [SPOILER], where does that leave...?

Spoilers for Legion of Superheroes 23. You've been warned!

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So in the final issue of Legion, there are a few mentions of Superman... specifically, how he was speared and killed fighting Steppenwolf, which seems meant to imply that the Leg

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Justice League... Canada?

The Toronto Star is reporting that next spring, Justice League America will be renamed Justice League Canada, as the team restructures and relocates. Jeff Lemire,

 a Toronto native, will continue to write it, and it will be drawn by Mike McKone. 

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Trinity War Reaction Thread

We're at the conclusion of the Trinity War ... and the onset of Forever Evil. Here's a good place to talk about what's been revealed, including:

Why Superman killed Dr. Light!

The identity of the Outsider!

The identity of the traitor in one of the le

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A love interest for Pied Piper?

So it this week's Flash (#7), Patty Spivot has dropped by the home of the crime lab director, David Singh. She spots some flutes arranged on a stand, and says she didn't know he played. He says, "They're not mine," and changes the subject.

We don't k

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