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Ironheart, Riri Williams, Iron Man, Eve Ewing, Christopher Priest, Dwayne McDuffie, Greg Rucka, Black Voices, Marvel Comics
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Marvel Comics Offers 100s of Black Voices Comics for Free on Unlimited

As the entertainment industry continues to support and promote Black Lives Matter causes, we’re seeing some incredible output. For instance, every main guest on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, since the protests started, have […]

June 13, 2020
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Denny O’Neil, a Titan in the Comic Book Industry, has Died at 81

I was first introduced to comics in 2005, and took my first comic book writing class in 2006. Our text? The DC Guide to Writing Comics by Denny O’Neil. Working with that book, and a […]

June 12, 2020
Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed, DC Comics, Diana Prince, Themyscira, DCYA, YA Fiction, Laurie Hale Anderson, Leila Del Duca
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Wonder Woman: Tempest Is a Brave Departure from the Comic Book Icon’s Mythos

Yet again, DCYA produced another great graphic novel. Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed is the coming-of-age story Diana Prince deserves. There’s a good dose of Themyscira warriors guiding her, and then a harsh dose of what […]

June 9, 2020
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DC Comics Ditched Diamond Distributors! EVERYTHING IS GOING TO CHANGE! MAYBE! LOTS OF ALLITERATION!

For 25 years, Diamond Distributors had a monopoly on comic shipping. If you were a comic shop, you ordered through Diamond—it was just how the business worked. But that all changed yesterday as DC ditched […]

June 6, 2020
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Marvel Cancels Over 50 Upcoming Variant Editions—Which Will Severely Impact Comic Stores

As the Comic Industry slowly tries to bounce back from the nationwide lockdown, we’re going to see a lot of major changes. DC Comics now has a large line of “Digital First” comics, are using […]

May 29, 2020
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Could an David Ayer Cut of Suicide Squad Follow the Snyder Cut of Justice League

Now that Zack Snyder’s cut of Justice League will premier on HBOMax, David Ayer, the director of the much-maligned, yet box office smash, Suicide Squad, wants to get in on the action. In a recent […]

May 27, 2020
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DC Digital First List Keeps Growing—And Marvel Needs to Catch Up

When the DC Digital First initiative started, there were only seven titles, one for each day of the week. They included Superman: Man of Tomorrow, Batman: Gotham Nights, Wonder Woman: Agent of Peace, Flash: Fastest […]

May 25, 2020
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The Lost Carnival Gives Us Dick Grayson Before Batman With a Lighthearted Mystery

DC Comics is hitting a stride with their YA and Middle-Grade graphic novels. Last year, they delivered hits such as Teen Titans: Raven, the Harley Quinn story Breaking Glass, a Zatanna middle-grade graphic novel, The […]

May 23, 2020
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Chronicling The Ruby Rose Batwoman Departure

It was a headline a lot of us at Comic Years couldn’t believe. Ruby Rose landed the role of Batwoman, and we all loved the pairing. Then, out of nowhere, news breaks that a Ruby […]

May 23, 2020
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