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Second Hero Initiative Auction Event in Miami/Ft. Lauderdale Area this Weekend

If you live in or around the Miami/Ft. Lauderdale area, be sure to stop by Tate’s Comics this weekend (Jan. 20-22) for your chance to bid on Hero Initiative’s Justice League of America 100 Project, featuring exclusive, one-of-a-kind covers. The covers feature art from Mark Bagley, Alan Davis, Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez, George Pérez, Frank Quitely, John Romita Sr., Alex Ross, and more – you can check out the full gallery of covers here. The Tate’s Comics event is the second of three Hero Initiative auctions offering custom JLA covers and each event auctions off one-third of the total covers. The final event will take place at Orlando MegaCon on Feb. 17-19. For more information about this great cause and the auction events, visit the Hero Initiative website.

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ABSOLUTE BATMAN & ROBIN: BATMAN REBORN

In November 2012, DC Comics will release ABSOLUTE BATMAN & ROBIN: BATMAN REBORN – collecting the landmark story of an all-new Dynamic Duo, written by Grant Morrison and illustrated by Frank Quitely, Philip Tan, David Finch, Cameron Stewart, Andy Clarke and Frazier Irving.

Bruce Wayne has fallen, and former Robin Dick Grayson has taken up the mantle of the Dark Knight. He is joined by a new Robin – Damian Wayne, the assassin-raised son of the original Batman. Together, the unlikely pair fights against a brutal menace that threatens Gotham City, as well as a pair of rival vigilantes out to fill the void left by Bruce’s disappearance.

Presented in the signature style of DC Comics’ Absolute editions, ABSOLUTE BATMAN & ROBIN: BATMAN REBORN collects BATMAN & ROBIN 1-16 and BATMAN THE RETURN 1.

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Don’t Miss Hero Initiative’s Auction of Custom Justice League of America Covers This Weekend

If you live in or around Los Angeles, be sure to stop by Meltdown Comics tomorrow (Dec. 3) at 6pm for your chance to bid on Hero Initiative's Justice League of America 100 Project, featuring exclusive, one-of-a-kind covers. The covers feature art from Mark Bagley, Alan Davis, Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez, George Pérez, Frank Quitely, John Romita Sr., Alex Ross, and more - you can check out the full gallery of covers here. The Meltdown Comics event is the first of three Hero Initiative auctions offering custom JLA covers and each event will auction off one-third of the total covers. The second event will be held at Tate’s Comics in Miami/Ft. Lauderdale on Jan. 20-22 and the third event will take place at Orlando MegaCon on Feb. 17-19. For more information about this great cause and the auction events, visit the Hero Initiative website.

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The Return of T.H.U.N.D.E.R. AGENTS

(The cover for T.H.U.N.D.E.R. AGENTS VOL. 1 by Frank Quitely)

On November 16th, DC Comics will release issue #1 of a new six-issue T.H.U.N.D.E.R. AGENTS mini-series. Written by Nick Spencer, the mini-series will have Wes Craig as the main interior artist and include special guest artists in future issues (the same way the first volume of T.H.U.N.D.E.R. AGENTS was drawn by CAFU & Bit and featured guest artists like George Perez, Ryan Sook, Mike Grell, and Nick Dragotta). Providing the cover art for the entire mini-series will be FLASHPOINT artist Andy Kubert.

"It's the little book that could! Nothing seems to stop this thing,” Nick Spencer told us. “I'm very grateful to DC for allowing us to continue telling this story that everyone involved has become so passionate about. This is really what we've been building towards since the very first issue-- everything comes to a head here, and the twists and turns only get crazier as we delve deeper into it. To get to see this story through is enormously fulfilling from a creative perspective, and I'm excited and hopeful that with the collected edition on its way and the first arc already available digitally, we'll have an opportunity to introduce a legion of new readers to these fantastic characters and the rich history of T.H.U.N.D.E.R.”

“We were thrilled with the response the first volume of T.H.U.N.D.E.R. AGENTS got, so we wanted to do a new #1 so people who’ve been curious about the title would have a clean place to jump on board,” series editor Wil Moss said. “Nick Spencer has a crazy level of passion for this title, and he’s come up with a truly great story for this miniseries — underground warlords, deaths, rebirths, betrayals — trust me, you won’t want to miss it! And to have the incredibly versatile and talented Wes Craig on board as the main interior artist, with Andy freakin’ Kubert on board for covers? Not to mention the surprise guest artists who’ll be contributing to #2-5? You’ve no doubt already reworked your comics budget so you can pick up all 52 new books we’re launching in September — what’s one more?”

Just in time for new readers to catch up, T.H.U.N.D.E.R. AGENTS VOL. 1, a trade paperback capturing the first ten issues of volume one of the series will hit stores the same day as T.H.U.N.D.E.R. AGENTS #1. Keep checking back to THE SOURCE in the coming weeks and months as we reveal more about T.H.U.N.D.ER. AGENTS.

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And the DC Comics Harvey Award nominees are:

The Harvey Awards, named in honor of the late Harvey Kurtzman, were announced yesterday. Check out DC Comics’ illustrious list of nominees below.

BEST COLORIST

Jose Villarrubia, CUBA : MY REVOLUTION, Vertigo/DC Comics

BEST NEW SERIES

AMERICAN VAMPIRE, Scott Snyder, Stephen King and Rafael Albuquerque, Vertigo/DC Comics

MOST PROMISING NEW TALENT

Scott Snyder, AMERICAN VAMPIRE, Vertigo/DC Comics

BEST ORIGINAL GRAPHIC PUBLICATION FOR YOUNGER READERS

TINY TITANS, Art Baltazar and Franco Aureliani, DC Comics

BEST DOMESTIC REPRINT PROJECT

SUPERMAN VS. MUHAMMAD ALI, Neal Adams and Dennis O’Neil, DC Comics

BEST COVER ARTIST

Frank Quitely, BATMAN AND ROBIN, DC Comics

BEST BIOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL OR JOURNALISTIC PRESENTATION

75 YEARS OF DC COMICS: THE ART OF MODERN MYTH-MAKING, Paul Levitz, Taschen Books

SPECIAL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN PRESENTATION

WEDNESDAY COMICS HARDCOVER EDITION, edited by Mark Chiarello, DC Comics

BEST CONTINUING OR LIMITED SERIES

DAYTRIPPER, Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba, Vertigo/DC Comics

BEST ARTIST

Dean Haspiel, CUBA : MY REVOLUTION, Vertigo/DC Comics

BEST CARTOONIST

Jeff Lemire, SWEET TOOTH, Vertigo/DC Comics

BEST SINGLE ISSUE or STORY

DAYTRIPPER, Fabio Moon and Gabiel Ba, Vertigo/DC Comics

Click here for the full list of nominees. The winners will be announced in a ceremony on August 20th in Baltimore, MD in conjunction with the Baltimore Comic-Con.

Congratulations and good luck to all the nominees!

Grant Morrison discusses the cover to Batman and Robin #16

[Editor's note: Grant Morrison provided the below commentary for the bonus material in the new BATMAN AND ROBIN MUST DIE! Hardcover - for more behind-the-scenes material from Grant, Frank Quitely and Frazer Irving, be sure to check out the book, now in stores!]

Issue Sixteen

This was both mine and Frank Quitely’s finale on the BATMAN AND ROBIN title, and the cover, like so many of the others, had been planned back at the beginning of the run and stayed fairly close to the original intention.

This was the first cover to feature our two Batmen — pinch-hitting Dick Grayson and the returned Bruce Wayne — together in action with Robin, and I’d imagined a kind of hierarchical “totem pole” stack of heroes with one above the other.

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Grant Morrison discusses the cover of Batman and Robin #15

Issue Fifteen

This cover was intended as a kind of Satanic reverse of the famous panel from DETECTIVE COMICS #38 published in 1940, where Batman solemnly inducts the young Robin into the crime-fighting fraternity.

Here the figures are flipped around, with left hands raised instead of right hands and a candelabra designed to hint at a trident or pitchfork shape, suggestive of the Devil. A huge, inverted cross appeared in the original drawing as an homage to the imagery of late ’60s and early ’70s “Devil” pictures such as Rosemary’s Baby, The Exorcist and The Omen, but this was considered to be too “on-the-nose” and was dropped from the final version.

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Grant Morrison discusses the cover of Batman and Robin #14

Issue Fourteen

During “Batman R.I.P.” I felt we’d missed out on the potential of an infernal cover depicting Doctor Hurt wearing Thomas Wayne’s sinister, bat-like masquerade costume backlit by turbulent flames. The idea was finally used here, with the addition of a Batman who’s had bullet holes blasted into his back in a domino-spot pattern.

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Grant Morrison discusses the cover of Batman and Robin #13

As regular readers of these collected editions will know, I sketch out pretty much all of the cover roughs for this series in my notebook at the start of the creative process. Here are the last of those scribbled ideas, alongside the polished, professional finished versions by Frank Quitely.

Issue Thirteen

Back in BATMAN #428, in 1988, the Joker had famously used a crowbar to beat Jason Todd, the unlucky second Robin, to within an inch of his life before blowing him with a bomb. As is the way of comic book characters, Jason Todd eventually made it back from the dead many years later (and even made an appearance as the Red Hood in this very series), but I wanted to see the new Robin redress the balance in his own inimitable way — hence this image of a grinning, unrepentant Joker taking his skull fractures with a smile

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Join DC Comics at Wondercon this weekend!

San Francisco is home of The Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, and of course, Wondercon!

If you’re heading to the show this weekend, stop by the DC Booth to say hello and pick up some giveaways. And be sure to attend the fantastic panels and creator signings we’ll be hosting throughout the weekend!

Check out the schedule below; for ease of reading (and planning) we’ve even highlighted all the GREEN LANTERN events taking place this weekend in that very color. Don’t miss them!

FRIDAY, April 1

DC NATION

1-2pm, Room 103

The DC NATION returns to the Bay Area! Executive Editor Eddie Berganza and Co-Publisher Dan DiDio and some of comics’ top talents give you the inside scoop on what’s new from DC Entertainment. DCU, VERTIGO and MAD will all be discussed, so come on by and join the nation!

GREEN LANTERN

2-3pm, Room 103

What’s in store for Green Lantern’s comics adventures in 2011? War! Join Executive Editor Eddie Berganza, Geoff Johns and others to get a sneak peak into the future of GL in the DCU!

5:00-6:00 Warner Bros.: Green Lantern— Green Lantern will shine bright at WonderCon, beginning with an opening day panel with the stars of the upcoming feature film, in theaters June 17. The highly anticipated Green Lantern movie will be the first live-action feature film to star the popular DC Comics character. The film relates the origin story of alter ego Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds), a test pilot and the first human chosen to wear the ring that provides him his superpowers. Join Ryan Reynolds and other special guests from the film for a look at Warner Bros.' superhero actioner: Green Lantern! Esplanade Ballroom

6:00-8:00 WORLD PREMIERE! Green Lantern: Emerald Knights Animated Original Movie— Only at WonderCon! Warner Home Video proudly presents the World Premiere of Green Lantern: Emerald Knights, an all-new DC Universe Animated Original Movie that weaves six interlocking stories of the Green Lantern Corps' rich mythology around preparations for an attack by an ancient enemy. As the battle approaches, Hal Jordan (voiced by Nathan Fillion, Castle) mentors new recruit Arisia (Elisabeth Moss, Mad Men) in the history of the Green Lantern Corps, telling tales of Avra (the first Green Lantern) and several of Hal's comrades, including Abin Sur, Kilowog, Laira and Mogo. In the end, Arisia must rise to the occasion to help Hal, Sinestro, and the entire Green Lantern Corps save the universe from the destructive forces of Krona. Other voice cast members include actor/spoken word artist Henry Rollins, Jason Isaacs (the Harry Potter films), Arnold Vosloo (The Mummy), Wade Williams (Prison Break), Kelly Hu (The Vampire Diaries) and professional wrestling legend "Rowdy" Roddy Piper! Animation guru Bruce Timm is executive producer, and the directors are Lauren Montgomery, Jay Oliva, and Christopher Berkeley. Scripting the film are comic book luminaries Geoff Johns, Dave Gibbons, Peter J. Tomasi, Eddie Berganza, Alan Burnett, Todd Casey and Michael Green & Marc Guggenheim. Come for the movie and stay for the post-screening panel, which will feature filmmakers and members of the voice cast (highlighted in bold above)! Green Lantern: Emerald Knights will be distributed June 7 by Warner Home Video as part of the build-up to the release of the highly anticipated live action film, Green Lantern, in theaters June 17. Esplanade Ballroom

Signings at the DC Booth:

2:00 – 3:00pm

Frank Quitely, Tony Daniel, Judd Winick, Amy Reeder

3:00 – 4:00pm

Geoff Johns, Francis Manapul

4:00 – 4:30 pm

Green Lantern Movie Cast Signing

Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, Peter Sarsgaard

*NOTE: Wristband required. Wristbands will be given away at the start of the day through a special drawing at the Wondercon booth #140.

SATURDAY, April 2

DC UNIVERSE

11:30am-12:30pm, Room 103

What will happen to your favorite DCU characters during this year’s major events? Join DC’s Executive Editor – DCU Eddie Berganza along with Paul Levitz, Francis Manapul, James Robinson, Judd Winick, Marv Wolfman and others to hear about upcoming highlights from the DCU.

SCALPED: ONE ON ONE WITH JASON AARON

6-7pm, Room 104

The mind behind Vertigo's critically acclaimed series comes to WonderCon! Jason Aaron is joined by VP - Marketing, John Cunningham, for an in-depth look back at the first 47 issues of Scalped – as well as a glimpse at what’s to come!

Signings at the DC Booth:

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Green Lantern: Emerald Knights Signing

Alan Burnett, Geoff Johns, Andrea Romano, Bruce Timm, Wade Williams & more

*NOTE: Wristband required. Wristbands will be given away at the start of the day through a special drawing at the Wondercon booth #140.

1:00 – 2:00pm

Paul Levitz, Len Wein, Sterling Gates, Philip Tan

2:00 – 3:00pm

Ryan Benjamin, Tony Daniel, Amy Reeder, Marv Wolfman, Jason Aaron

3:00 – 4:00pm

JT Krul, James Robinson, Judd Winick

4:00 – 5:00pm

Geoff Johns, Francis Manapul, Riccardo Burchielli, Chris Roberson

SUNDAY, April 3

DC ICONS

2-3pm, Room 103

DC’s top heroes are the topic of this panel spotlight. Executive Editor Eddie Berganza, Tony Daniel, Amy Reeder and others lead the discussion on the latest Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman news.

DRAWING DC

4-5pm, Room 200/212

Superstar artists Francis Manapul, Ryan Benjamin and Amy Reeder show off their distinctive styles while drawing on a machine that projects their work on a giant screen. Check out this unique presentation that will give you an inside glimpse into the artistic process!

Signings at the DC Booth:

12:30 – 1:30pm

Human Target Cast Signing

Matt Miller, Janet Montgomery, Mark Valley, Jackie Earle Haley

*NOTE: Wristband required. Wristbands will be given away at the start of the day through a special drawing at the Wondercon booth #140.

1:30 – 2:30pm

Paul Levitz, Marv Wolfman, Riccardo Burchielli

2:30 – 3:30pm

James Robinson, JT Krul, Francis Manapul, Philip Tan

Please check at the DC Booth for any updates. Keep in mind that all times are subject to change or cancellation. Thanks and we look forward to seeing you at the show!

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