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DC Comics just made a big move in the digital space.  If you read The Beat regularly, you'll have seen me scratching my head...

Okay this is the limit. In January DC will launch a new JLA book by Geoff Johns and David Finch, and to make sure...

A real astrophysicist has found a planet which fits the profile of the fictional Krypton, and a back-up story in ACTION COMICS #14 will...

Here's an odd one: DC just added a comic to their January schedule that wasn't in the solicitations that went online on October 15....

Yes we're all attempting to adjust to life in this new, crazy, Disney-owning-Lucasfilm landscape, but let's return to comics for just a little bit,...

On Sunday, I went out and got groceries from the already Walking Dead-like store with its empty shelves and zombie walkers and then I...

One year after the big relaunch, DC wanted to give its superhero line another jolt by borrowing a gimmick from the glory days of 1994 and releasing "zero" issues of all of the "New 52" titles. In terms of average sales, this means an increase of more than 1,000 units compared to August. Of course, these are sales to retailers, and increases based on this type of gimmick never stick around for subsequent issues, but the fact that retailers have enough faith in DC to support the initiative to this degree is good news, certainly.

The AVENGERS VS X-MEN crossover built towards its finale in September (though the actual final issue slipped to the next month). And - well, yes, that's about it in terms of notable releases in September. Schedules don't get much quieter than this, and with many of the titles also on their way to an imminent relaunch, the main points of interest on this month's chart really involve seeing how recent launches are getting on.

Almost certainly due to the news that The Daily Planet was long-ago outstripped by The Beat in terms of superhero coverage (suck it, Perry...

Something which totally skipped me at NYCC, presumably due to being a thousand miles away from it, was the reveal of some Cliff Chiang's...

Yesterday's victory in the Joe Shuster case has definitely left WB looking to jump on a lot of movie-related stuff, including, a Justice League...

By Jeff Trexler In the book of Genesis, Esau sells his birthright to his younger brother Jacob for some lentil soup. Yesterday, a judge ruled that...