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Tweeted out by director David Ayer this evening, here's your full cast photo of the Suicide Squad (in costume)... From the photo, you have your first...

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by David Carter Greetings, sales charts fans! It's time once again to look at DC's sales figures. March 2015 was not a good sales month for DC in the North American direct market. Average sales per title for the DCU books (28,559), Vertigo (7,055), and DC as a whole (23,466) were all the lowest they've been since the New 52 started back in September 2011. Most of their sales problems were due to books that missed shipping in March, including their two top sellers, Batman and Justice League, and two other books that are in their top 30% (or so), Wonder Woman and Superman/Wonder Woman. A similar tune plays at the Vertigo label; with Sandman Overture MIA until May, the perpetually delayed American Vampire Second Cycle also not around, and Fables pretty much over (except for the oversized finale coming in July). That leaves Astro City as the regularly-shipping standard bearer for the imprint.

Yesterday's Kim Masters piece on the WB superhero program revealed a lot of behind-the-scenes disarray, especially with the long problematic Wonder Woman movie. Five...

Veteran industry reporter Kim Masters has a MUST READ piece in THR today about the state of superhero movies at WB. It seems that WB/DC's struggle to get parity in the superhero movie arena with the massive runaway TGV success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is not going all that great with a lot of cooks making different dinner plans. No fewer than FIVE scripts have been commissioned for Wonder Woman and three for Aquaman in what sounds like a directionless quest for something that works. An insider says that have a "filmmaker-driven" agenda for making the 10 superhero movies planned for the rest of this decade. But that approach doesn't necessarily lead to the coherent universe that MCU fans seem to like:

New documentary takes audiences into the world of indie development, Batman wants $40 more bucks from you, Star Wars is liquidating their games digitally, and you'll believe a man can skydive on to a plane and then backflip off of it with a shotgun.

Comics will have to be enough for Silent Hill as the new game has been canceled, but the good news is more Batman: Arkham Knight!

This time the Batman brings family.

And the wait is over...

Always three there are...for many months rumors have been swirling about Frank Miller penning, at least, a third volume in his Dark Knight series, and it's now been confirmed via the above tweet. It's the 30th anniversary of the original Dark Knight in 1986 so how better the celebrate than with a NEW DARK KNIGHT! While Miller's health has been in question in recent years, we're told he remains sharp as a tack and eager to take on this project. Given the controversy over his recent Holy Terror, the title—referencing The Master Race—could presage even more controversy. Brian Azzarello will be the co-writer on the projects, which will come out twice monthly, run for eight issues and start in late fall 2015. The art team has yet to be announced.

Get a look at what might have been

SKMBT_C55413062109020 I was at HeroesCon a few years back and ran into Jill Thompson. "Whatcha working on, Jill?" I asked. She said it was secret, but showed me a page of art with an island on it. So I guess that Jill Thompson's Wonder Woman project has been a badly kept "Secret" for a while. However on FB yesterday she cleared up what the project is and even gave it a name: