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True to their word, DC is launching a followup reader survey, after last fall's New 52 launch survey. John Rood mentioned that any demographic info would only be truly useful as more comparisons were able to be made, and future surveys were promised. And here it is. We tried to take it but got booted out for truthful answers, sadly. (In this case not actually buying any DC comics.) As before there is a fake survey title, ORANGE IVY, to weed out wannabes.

For the full effect you'll want to go right to the site, but this trailer has a lot of dark Bane vs Batman footage and less Catwoman. Any chance this movie will top AVENGERS? Probably not. But it should easily vanquish Spider-Man for #2 comic book movie of the year.

Today's Kindle app update for both iOS and Android has received little notice inside the comics world, but it now includes comics and children's books.

Bryan Q. Miller's comic-book continuation of the Smallville series brings a few familiar people face-to-face with Tom Welling

Lettering king Todd Klein has a couple of great blog posts showing a series of photos by Jose Luis Garcia Lopez in 1979 on a visit to DC's offices. Klein's memory is prodigious and it's a great look at everything from obsolete technology to the prevalence of sweater vests in the late 70s to a different way of working:

We were all pretty excited when the first set photos of Henry Cavill as Superman leaked out. It seemed that after years of binding and CGI smoothing, Superman was finally getting super where it counted.

The cover for September's issue of Catwoman is.....

DC's September solicitations confirm the demise of Resurrection Man, decommissioning of Captain Atom, disbanding of Justice League International and leaves Voodoo VooDONE

There's some debate, at least in the comment sections, on whether or not DC is going to cut 4 books after announcing 4 new ones and keep their line at "The New 52." It looks like there will be at least 2 cuts. Captain Atom has joined Justice League International in the comic book afterlife.

Dan DiDio has frequently said that he wants to keep shaking up the "New 52." Cancel books that aren't working/selling. Add new ones. Keep the number of "New 52" titles at 52. If Dan hasn't changed his mind on that, announcing four new titles means four current titles have to go. We already know about Justice League International going away? Which books might be going away?

Old and new creators and reboots. That's what the "Next Four" of the DCU will present. Here's the creative lineup:

Four titles will end, and four will begin! What will they be? And what's a Zero Issue, anyway