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DC’s July 2022 solicitations are full of the summer month’s traditional emphasis on hotdogs, baseball, and fireworks … just without the hotdogs and baseball. But look up, it’s bringing the fireworks. So what’s happening in July? Both core Batman titles – Detective Comics and Batman – get brand new creative …

Another DC ongoing series is catching up to Dark Crisis.  Aquamen #6 cover (Image credit: DC) (opens in new tab) Regular Newsarama readers might be familiar with our efforts to understand and explain the timeline of the Death of the Justice League – Dark Crisis event, which happens a “bit …

In the main DCU, Bruce Wayne became Batman when his parents Martha and Thomas were murdered in Crime Alley. But in the DC Omniverse, there’s an alternate reality where Bruce was murdered and where his father, Thomas Wayne, became Batman in a 2011 event called Flashpoint. But that Flashpoint world …

Alex Ross and Mark Waid’s DC landmark limited series Kingdom Come celebrated a milestone 25th anniversary in 2021. One of DC’s bestselling comic book series and then collections in its long history, which Newsarama readers selected as the best DC Comics story of all time, was first published in May …

Did you happen to catch that other piece of blockbuster news in DC’s announcement that writer Chip Zdarsky is taking over as the new Batman ongoing series for “the long haul” starting in July? Batman #125 variant cover (Image credit: DC) (opens in new tab) Or how about in the …

Two classic Justice League members who have rarely worked together directly will team up starting in June, as DC brings together Barry Allen and Arthur Curry for a three-issue limited series titled Aquaman & The Flash: Voidsong, which pits the two heroes against a bizarre alien invasion. In Voidsong, from …

In the opening pages of Aquamen #1 (on sale February 22 from DC), artist Sami Basri introduces the reader to a titan of a sea monster. It is four-eyed, lousy with teeth, and large enough to wrap itself around NYC’s UN Headquarters several times over. Aquamen #1 credits Written by …

Spring is a time of annual renewal and in DC’s May 2022 solicitations, it’s a series of endings and beginnings.  Let’s start with the endings… The Batman-Robin-Deathstroke Inc. crossover ‘Shadow War’ wraps up in May, with its final issues and an appropriately-titled Shadow War: Omega special.  Plus the Suicide Squad …

Aquaman is headed to DC Black Label with a new adult-oriented tale that veers into the worlds of horror and sci-fi, thanks to writer Ram V and artist Christian Ward, as announced through CBR (opens in new tab).  Aquaman: Andromeda #1 main cover (Image credit: Christian Ward (DC/Black Label)) Titled …

The DC Universe will have a big issue to deal with. And DC the comic book publisher might as well. In April’s ‘Death of the Justice League’ in Justice League #75, eight or nine Justice Leaguers – including Wonder Woman, Batman, Superman, Aquaman, Green Lantern (John Stewart), and the Flash …