Tag: DC

DC is in a weird place right now. You can practically watch the publisher's retail and talent relations take a nose-dive on the Internet. Just last week, retailers Brian Hibbs and Leo McGovern called DC out on its handling of a line-wide publishing stunt in August; a "head of DC Comics" was quoted as admitting that his target audience are "45-year-olds"; popular artist Kevin Maguire announced on Twitter that he'd been "just fired" from an upcoming DC title, asked for work -- and was hired, lickety-split, by a gleeful Marvel editor in chief a few hours later; and the brave souls who read the actual comics that somehow still get made, published and sold in this environment conclude that everything kinda reads the same at DC.

Kevin Maguire is an artist who had several defining runs on comics over the years. Back in the late 80s he helped relaunch JUSTICE...

by Leo McGovern, Crescent City Comics Greetings and salutations, Beat-readers! My name is Leo McGovern and I manage a comic shop in New Orleans, Louisiana...

This news has been buzzing around for a bit and was apparently a topic of some discussion at this weekend's Boston Comic-Con, but now...

Well. when he isn't talking about how to deal with rejection, it turns out Evan Dorkin and partner Sarah Dyer have been writing some...

I know you are all sick of this comic book movie talk, but this seemed worthy of its own item. Word on the street...

If the people who commissioned really wanted to pay tribute to Watchmen," perhaps they could have tried to reproduce the circumstances of its...

ICv2 sits down with DC co-publishers Dan DiDio and Jim Lee and asks them sensible, hard questions. The whole thing is a must read, of course, and triangulates nicely with Diane Nelson's interview in the Hollywood Reporter. Here's Part 1 and Part 2. Some takeaways:

It's been a while since I had a chance to properly crack into some reviews, so you're getting a bit of an all-star lineup...

At the Diamond Retailers lunch, DC announced a major move to boost their non-superhero lines by making issues from Vertigo, Mad, and the kids...

David Gabriel announced a bunch of stuff, including Origins II, Deadpool vs Carnage, and saying "We have not forgotten" Miracleman. Also, more original graphic...

Last year DC Entertainment launched the non-profit charity "We Can Be Heroes" and devoted 2012 to raising awareness for the cause, and this year...