Writer Brian Michael Bendis is well-known for his efforts to bring more diversity and inclusivity to the comics industry, having created characters such as Riri Williams and Miles Morales. Now, he’s poised to do the same at DC Comics through his upcoming miniseries Naomi, which will star a young woman of color set to affect the entire DC Universe. Bendis, speaking at his spotlight panel at New York Comic Con, said Naomi will focus on a young woman of color growing up in an all-white town and looking into her own pre-adoption past to discover a secret. It turns out this is a secret that will introduce a whole new mythology to the DC Universe with the aftershock stretching across Wonder Comics and other books too. RELATED: DC Reveals Full Wonder Comics Title Line-Up, Creative Teams The book’s co-writer David Walker and artist Jamal Campbell were also in attendance for the panel. Walker revealed that the character was c

During his New York Comic Con spotlight panel, DC writer Brian Michael Bendis provided some insight into what readers can expect from his and Patrick Gleason’s upcoming Young Justice series and Wonder Comics in general. Joining the likes of Robin, Superboy and Impulse on the new Young Justice roster will be Amethyst of Gemworld. “Everytime a Crisis happens in the DC Universe, something weird happens in Gemworld, and now they know whose fault it is,” Gleason said of the character. RELATED: Young Justice First Look Reunites Tim Drake, Conner Kent and Bart Allen Additionally, Jenny Hex, a descendent of Jonah Hex who will first be introduced in Bendis and Nick Darington’s Walmart-exclusive Batman series, and a “Green Lantern hacker” will join the team’s new iteration. A character named Naomi will also debut in her own solo book as a part of the Wonder Comics imprint. She is described as a &l

The controversial ending to Batman #50 saw some death threats come writer Tom King’s way, which resulted in him hiring a bodyguard named Dave for Comic-Con International in San Diego. Well, it turns out Dave’s services have once again been called upon, only this time it’s at New York Comic Con and for a very different reason. King tweeted out Dave’s duty for the event this time around after fans kept asking about the bodyguard, revealing he’s guarding Frank Miller’s original cover for The Dark Knight Returns. In his playful tweet, King warned potential thieves about stealing the cover, which has become a cornerstone for the entertainment industry, influencing tons of comics, cartoons and movies, including Zack Snyder’s Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice RELATED: Thanks to Death Threats Over Batman #50, Tom King Has a Bodyguard at SDCC People been asking me where body guard David is. H

Uncanny X-Men is returning to the Marvel Comics stable this November, and fans have even more drama to look forward to when that book’s first annual launches in 2019, as group editor Jordan White has teased the return of Cyclops. Speaking at New York Comic Con’s X-Men panel, White announced Uncanny X-Men Annual #1, by Ed Brisson and Carlos Gomez, will arrive in January. The cover art features many versions of Cyclops, with White teasing that the solicit for the issue is, “Cyclops — dead or alive?” RELATED: Joe Quesada Draws Almost Everyone for Uncanny X-Men #1 Variant Cover Scott Summers aka the leader of the X-Men has endured quite a torrid last few years, having killed Professor Xavier under influence of the Phoenix Force and eventually dying due to Terrigen poisoning in 2016’s Death of X. Although the character hasn’t yet been resurrected, recent events the X-Men universe — including both Jean Grey

Rocket Raccoon will be joining the Avengers for the upcoming Avengers: No Road Home story, which is the sequel to last year’s “Avengers: No Surrender.” “Quite a while ago, now, Mark and Jim and I were trapped in a room and beaten with a pole,” writer Al Ewing joked during the Marvel – True Believers panel at New York Comic Con, alluding to how “Avengers: No Road Home” came to be. He went on to mention that Rocket Raccoon would become an Avenger for the storyline, while Voyager would return. RELATED: Marvel Announces Weekly Sequel to Avengers: No Surrender It’s not entirely clear at this time why Rocket will choose to join the Avengers on their mission. However, he’ll likely be a great help to the team as it faces a new cosmic threat. “Avengers: No Surrender” ran from Avengers #675-690 and combined the rosters of Avengers, U.S.Avengers and Uncanny Avengers. Waid, Ewing, Zub, Pepe Lar

At New York Comic Con, Women of Marvel podcast hosts Sana Amanat and Judy Stephens held a panel alongside assistant editor Kathleen Wisneski, writer Margaret Stohl, writer Leah Williams, colorist Rachelle Rosenberg and artist Jen Bartel. The purpose of this panel was to discuss what it’s like working in comics from a female perspective and what fans can expect from Marvel in the future. During the panel’s Q&A session, a young female fan brought up the topic of dipping sales, asking the panelists if they believed decreased sales were due to “forced diversity” and “hiring people without experience.” RELATED: NYCC: Sana Amanat, Judy Stephens Bring the Women of Marvel to the Center Stage “No, absolutely no,” Amanat replied. “There are a lot of things that go on behind the scenes. People try to conflate things at times, and that’s not necessarily the case,” William

Marvel has announced that a weekly Man Without Fear series will deal with the fallout of the upcoming “Death of Daredevil” arc. During the Marvel – True Believers panel at New York Comic Con, creative executive Ryan Penagos revealed that writer Jed MacKay and artist Danilo S. Beyruth will produce The Man Without Fear, a weekly book that will center around the aftermath of Daredevil’s upcoming death. It’s unknown who will appear in the title, which is expected to hit shelves in January. The length of the series is also currently unknown. RELATED: Marvel’s ‘Death of Daredevil’ Arc to Mark Charles Soule’s Farewell This suggests the death of Matt Murdock will carry the same kind of weight around the Marvel Universe that Captain America’s and Wolverine’s deaths did. Both of those characters also received a series showing how the rest of the world responded to their deaths, which

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. In a 13-minute Dark Phoenix clip shown at New York Comic Con, the X-Men travel to space on a daring rescue mission, but their altruistic attempt to help humankind may very well lead to the birth of Jean Grey’s Phoenix persona. The clip kicked off with a space launch montage. With a rumble, the clip cut between the launch, mission control and the astronauts’ anxious faces as the shuttle took off. The shuttle launch seemed to go off without a hitch — that is, until it broke through the atmosphere. Horrified, mission control watched the panicked astronauts disappear from their screens as the feed cut out. RELATED: NYCC: Fox Showcases Dark Phoenix, Alita: Battle Angel The scene then cut to Professor Charles Xavier and Hank McCoy watching the launch on a television at Xavier’s School for Gifted Mutants. As the news reporter announced the shuttle’s mechanical fai

Brian Michael Bendis finally announced his new DC pop-up imprint, Wonder Comics, at New York Comic Con, with the line heralding the return of the fan-favorite series, Young Justice. Now, the writer has revealed more details on how the reunion between Robin (Tim Drake), Conner Kent and Impulse (Bart Allen) will unfold and connect to the ongoing DC Rebirth continuity. “Everybody knew about Conner, everybody was working towards finding ways to show those connective tissues. It’s all been connected,” Bendis told IGN. “We’ve all been working to tease out the logistics of bringing him back,” Bendis explained. “We find him in the most surprising place you could find him and I got to write my favorite line of dialogue ever. Bart sees him and says, ‘Oh my god, Conner, how are you here? How did you grow a beard?'” RELATED: DC Reveals Full Wonder Comics Title Line-Up, Creative Teams While DC has reint

Yesterday, Geoff Johns and Jason Fabok shared new details about and art from their anticipate Batman: Three Jokers series with an enthusiastic New York Comic Con crowd. One of the biggest revelations was the character design sheets, which show off the three different Jokers’ looks and make perfectly clear which era each is from (Original Joker, Killing Joke and Classic ’60s Joker)), as well as Batman and Batgirl’s decidedly Silver Age costumes. The creative team also shared a glimpse of what to expect when readers crack the covers open on the series, debuting a handful of panels from the story. And while they may not be full pages, the artwork released does paint a picture of a Bat-family story that will explore a number of eras from Batman, Batgirl and Red Hood’s long and involved history with the Clown Prince of Crime. RELATED: Batman: Three Jokers Art Confirms Which Eras the Different Jokers Are From Among the images, which yo

Most writers would be hard pressed to follow up an event as talked about as Batman’s wedding issue, but Tom King took a shot at having two of the most discussed books of the year as he arrived at New York Comic Con. Saturday morning, the DC Comics writer took the stage for a spotlight panel. Accompanied by his Mister Miracle artist Mitch Gerads, King started out the discussion in his typically sarcastic fashion by promising anyone upset by the events of Heroes In Crisis that “I have a bodyguard under this table!” That event series will keep rolling out in the fall. “#2 is coming out. The art is gorgeous…and it’s going to be very sad,” joked King. He promised that the next chapter would not only explore the lives of the heroes lost in the first issue, but Mister Miracle has no mid-point trade, unlike every other book I’ve ever done,” he said promising that they were trying to get the final

DC Comics brought its finest to New York City. Aquaman scribe Kelly Sue DeConnick, Martian Manhunter writer Steve Orlando, Adventures of the Super Sons‘ Peter J. Tomasi, Justice League Dark writer James Tynion IV and The Flash scribe Joshua Williamson stopped by New York Comic Con for the publisher’s World’s Finest panel, where they offered updates on their upcoming and current projects. “So, if you have been following the book for a while, the last two years have been a really exceptional, high-drama, political intrigue undersea in Atlantis story. We’re going to be shifting away from that,” DeConnick said of her Aquaman run. “It’s myself with Robson Rocha… but he is amazing and he has this really epic style… of all of my books in terms of music, this Aquaman run is Zepplin. It is big! It is stenciled on the side of a van! It is mythic, heavy cords and heavy, screeching vocals.” “So we’re going to be doing some stories on land. We’re going to be taking

When Heroes in Crisis #1 by Tom King and Clay Mann released in September, it kicked off with the murder of multiple superheroes at Sanctuary, which was intended to help superheroes deal with the stress that comes with the job. Batman, Wonder Woman and Superman now have to figure out who killed the heroes and why. Now, writer Tom King has more or less said those killed are “dead” dead. This weekend DC’s New York Comic Con panel, King was asked by a fan if any superheroes would be resurrected. After all, superheroic deaths don’t always take, and revivals are something fans have become used to over the decades. However, King said that his story wasn’t really about bringing those fallen back from the dead. RELATED: Roy Harper’s Death Turns Green Arrow Against the Justice League “We tell these stories not about death, but about our lives,” King said. Of the many killed, the most controversia

The Flash writer Joshua Williamson has penned the tales of the Scarlet Speedster since DC launched its Rebirth publishing initiative in 2016. During that time, Barry Allen has witnessed the returns of Wally West, Jay Garrick (briefly) and Hunter Zolomon, dealt with a Speed Force storm grant Central City citizens with super-speed, battled a Flash War and discovered the existence of the Still, Strength and Sage Forces. Williamson will continue to push the envelope by following in the footsteps of classic DC stories with a new “Year One” story for The Flash. RELATED: The Flash Introduces a New Strength Force User The announcement was made during Saturday’s World’s Finest Panel at New York Comic Con. Williamson told the crowd in attendance how this is the Barry Allen story he’s been waiting to tell the most. “Ever since I got the job on The Flash, I’ve wanted to tell this one story… I kept asking fo

SPOILER WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for the upcoming Flash annual, which will release in January. Joshua Williamson’s upcoming Flash annual in January will deal with the death of Wally West in September’s Heroes in Crisis #1. At DC’s New York Comic Con panel this weekend, the writer of Flash and Justice League Odyssey let slip that Bart Allen and August Heart, Barry’s former friend who gained speedster powers of his own in the first arc of Flash Rebirth, will return to the comic. Although Barry did his best to train him, August eventually became the speedster villain Godspeed and killed off several other citizens of Central City that gained speed powers. After spending time in jail, he escaped when Barry requested his help in stopping a lightning storm from destroying the city. RELATED: DC Announces Bendis-Curated Imprint, Wonder Comics Bart’s appearanc

This weekend at New York Comic Con, DC announced The Flash: Year One and its creative team: Joshua Williamson and Howard Porter. Along with the announcement came two pieces of art showing Barry Allen getting into the swing of things during his first year of heroism. The first image shows him lacing up new shoes, which are notably yellow on a mountain of red shoes that his running has seemingly blown through. The second provides a brief glimpse of his prototype costume, which includes a hood and backpack. It’s worth noting in the first image that Barry has also got elbow and knee pads on, hinting that he fully hasn’t learned how to perfect his speedster powers. RELATED: DC Announces The Flash: Year One Discover Barry Allen's first year as the Scarlet Speedster in THE FLASH: YEAR ONE, a new story coming next year from writer @Williamson_Josh and artist @MrHowardPorter. Here's a FIRST LOOK at the art direct from the #N

Spider-Geddon, which will bring together the surviving Spider-heroes of the multiverse, is beginning later this month. Spider-Man Noir will be among those joining the fray, and he’s going to be showing up more and more in the future. At Marvel panel at New York Comic Con, editor-in-chief CB Cebulski said that Noir would “be appearing in a lot of places over the months. I don’t want to spoil things. In the Spider-Geddon series, he’ll be appearing. Then, in other mediums, he will. Your love of the character is shared, and he will be appearing.” Spider-Man Noir is a hardboiled detective version of Peter Parker, complete with guns and a hat, from the 1930s and the Marvel Noir Universe. RELATED: Stan Lee’s Cameo in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Already Revealed Spider-Geddon is the follow-up to 2014’s Spider-Verse, bringing back Morlun and his Inheritors, as well as new villains. Marvel is promisin

At a panel celebrating 80 years of Superman at this year’s New York Comic Con, comics legends Frank Miller explained how his Superman is going to differ from the one he offered up in his 1986 comic The Dark Knight Returns. “He’s mythic,” Miller said of the Man of Steel. “My Superman is not going to be the Superman from Dark Knight. Superman is a mythic character, he’s supernatural in a certain sense. He’s not gonna tell you how to vote. He’s going after much larger truths, and they’re going to be truthful and moral, not political.”   RELATED: NYCC: DC Comics Celebrates 80 Years of Superman When asked about his initial inspirations for writing Superman, Miller said he looked at “some of the Joe Shuster strips. Superman’s wonderful in many ways, but just when he needs a lift, it seems like history provides one. Superman was good, but when WWII hit, he grew astronomically.&rd

During today’s Marvel Fanfare Panel at New York Comic-Con, Marvel Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski clarified recent reports about legendary comic book creator John Byrne returning to Marvel. Earlier this year, Byrne began work on a new comic project called X-Men: Elsewhen, which marked his unofficial return to the X-characters the he helped define. After several pages were released online, Byrne revealed that Cebulski had emailed him to discuss Elsewhen and Byrne’s potential return to Marvel. “That was more of me being a fan and saying hello,” Cebulski said during the panel’s Q&A session. “We haven’t really discussed anything formally. I just wanted to let John know the opportunity for discussion is open.” RELATED: John Byrne Has Had Talks About Returning to Marvel Along with writer Chris Claremont, Byrne was responsible for iconic X-Men tales like “Days of Future Past” and the “Dark Pho

Marvel Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski announced Saturday at the Marvel Comics: Next Big Thing Panel at New York Comic Con that the publisher will launch a sequel to its “Avengers: No Surrender” weekly event in the form of Avengers: No Road Home from the creative team of Mark Waid, Jim Zub, Al Ewing, Paco Medina and Sean Izaakse. “We’re telling the biggest, craziest Avengers story we can, again,” Zub said. Additionally, Breevort announced a return in the series on par with the return of The Hulk. RELATED: No Surrender: Where Each Avenger Stands in the Weekly Series Finale “Avengers: No Surrender” ran from Avengers #675-690 and combined the rosters of Avengers, U.S.Avengers and Uncanny Avengers. Waid, Ewing, Zub, Pepe Larraz, Kim Jacinto and Paco Medina were the creative team that saw the Earth stolen as a part of the Grandmaster and Challenger’s cosmic game to see who