Diamond Comics Distributors announced the winners of their 2012 Diamond Gem Awards, and we are pleased to report that for the fourth year in a row, DC Entertainment has been named Diamond Gem Publisher of the Year!

Designed to recognize “quality, creativity, and overall sales impact” of the publishers and their individual products, the Gem Awards are nominated by Diamond professionals, and voted on by comic book retailers around the world.

In addition to the big win, DC Entertainment was also named Backlist Publisher of the year, is the recipient of the Best Original Graphic Novel award for BATMAN: EARTH ONE and DC Collectibles was awarded Toy Manufacturer of the Year with special accolades for: 

The Justice League New 52 Action Figures which were named the 2012 Toy Line of the Year.

The DC Comics Cover Girls Harley Quinn was named the 2012 Collectible Statue of the Year.

And the We Can Be Heroes Justice League 7 pack Box Set was named the 2012 Toy Product of the Year.

For a full list of this year’s winners, head over to Diamond Comics. Congratulations to all!

It’s the kiss that comics fans can’t stop talking about. Superman and Wonder Woman shared an embrace beneath the moonlight in the pages of JUSTICE LEAGUE #12, and they’ve been DC Comics’ premier power couple ever since. Since that first moment, there have been quite a few lip-locks between the Man of Steel and the Amazon Princess, many of them rendered by the intricate pencils of Jim Lee. However, they’ve all had one thing in common—they’ve all been on paper.

Not anymore. As revealed at Toy Fair earlier this week, DC Collectibles is releasing a new 12-inch statue commemorating this iconic moment that’s sculpted in the style of Lee’s art. It’s called “Superman & Wonder Woman: The Kiss” and you can get a look at it right here.

“The Kiss” was sculpted by Tim Bruckner and will be available this fall. So what’s your favorite super hero kiss?

Welcome back to Spoiler Alert, our monthly feature where we tease a cool new, as-yet-unannounced product from DC Collectibles and then invite you to try to guess what it is. Sound simple? Then clearly you haven’t tried it yet. Not only are our images close-up shots of often indistinct details, but we redact the heck out them and slap the Spoiler Alert logo on top of key sections of the photograph. And this time, it’ll be even more difficult because you’ll only have a day to figure it out.

Yes, usually we post a new Spoiler Alert photo each day on the DC Collectibles Facebook page and reveal the new collectible after about a week. But we thought it would be fun to mix things up a bit this time around and reveal it after a day. Think you guys are up to the challenge? Then here’s your first image…

We’ll be posting additional Spoiler Alert images on the DC Collectibles Facebook over the next 24 hours before revealing the full, uncensored image tomorrow. But that’s tomorrow. Today, it’s up to you to figure it out. So…any guesses?

If you love the color green and you love people that shoot other people with arrows—and the idea of those two things together gets you more excited than Wonder Woman at a sword sale—then slip on an extra pair of your excitement pants because right now, it’s all about Oliver Queen, the Green Arrow.

From his own television series to showing up as a playable character in the upcoming Injustice: Gods Among Us to multiple appearances in multiple comic book titles, Green Arrow seems to be hitting the mark all across the pop culture board. And as fellow fans of the Emerald Archer, we’re so ecstatic that we’re ready to slip on a green hoodie and run down the street firing sticky arrows onto the sides of buildings proclaiming our love of the character.

However, since the police department and general public frowns on that sort of behavior (a lesson we learned the hard way after repeated viewings of Lord of the Rings), we instead decided to present you with the 5.2 Reasons it’s a Great Time to be a Green Arrow Fan! Sadly, the existence of this column isn’t included as one of those reasons, even though we totally know you all love it so much.

1. Arrow Stikes Again

Yesterday marked the return of the popular CW television series Arrow. Besides the obvious thrill that comes with being able to see Willa Holland, Katie Cassidy and shirtless Stephen Amell again, the simple fact of the matter is that Arrow is an insanely awesome action series that has only gotten better and better with each passing episode and each introduction of a new DCU character. Firefly served as the antagonist in last night’s episode, and upcoming eps are set to include Count Vertigo, Roy Harper and more Deathstroke!

2. Jeff Lemire’s Green Arrow

We’re interested in just about everything that Lemire chooses to take on, but for Green Arrow fans, his taking the reins of the hero’s self-titled series beginning with February’s issue #17 is particularly exciting. Lemire has a knack for humanizing characters and injecting a great bit of humor into his stories, and after hearing him talk about the character in interviews, we trust him enough to put an apple on our head and let him fire away—blindfolded!

3. Bringing Arrow-y Justice to Injustice

The upcoming fighting game Injustice: Gods Among Us by NetherRealm Studios looks to utilize the DC Comics stable of characters in face-punching, wall-smashing and other sure-to-leave-a-bruise ways of beating the ever-living crap out of each other. Green Arrow joins the likes of Superman, Batman, Harley Quinn, Wonder Woman, Nightwing and many yet to be revealed characters for the game, which arrives in stores this April.

4. Statues, Figures, and Toys, Oh My

Green Arrow is also taking stage in the collector’s realm with a number of statues and figures from DC Collectibles—including a beautiful Arrow statue, a 3.75-inch figure based on his appearance in Injustice, and a DC COMICS-THE NEW 52 action figure! Put them all together with others heroes from across DC Collectibles and you can reenact your very own Crisis on Multiple Earths crossover! Cause, you know, what else do we do in our spare time?

5. Arrow Goes Online

Things usually come in threes—strikes, great film franchises, celebrity deaths—and Green Arrow gets his own triple treat by not only starring in the monthly Green Arrow and the upcoming Justice League of American, but also the weekly digital first series Arrow, which ties into the television series and explores the background of various characters such as Huntress, Firefly, Diggle and more.

5.1 Green Arrow Joins the Justice League of America

5.2 Oliver Queen Joins Facebook!

Be certain to like Green Arrow’s brand spanking new page on Facebook so you can stay in the know about the latest vigilante sightings (otherwise known as Green Arrow news). And don't forget to tune in Arrow on The CW, Wednesdays at 8/7c! Be sure to tell us why you love Green Arrow in the comments below! What current or upcoming Green Arrow project do you feel hits the bulls-eye?