A year ago, we launched new websites for DC Comics, Vertigo and MAD Magazine. Since then, you’ve been sharing your thoughts and opinions with us by leaving comments on the three sites, reaching out to us through our contact form, speaking to us at conventions, sending us smoke signals and carrier pigeons… Pretty much any way possible. Most of what we’ve been hearing is great, but we’ve realized for a while that there’s room for improvement, and you can look for the first round of those improvements today.

The first thing you’ll notice is our updated navigation. We’ve reordered the links based on your feedback and have made some changes to our blog that should help you find what you’re looking for much more efficiently.

Starting today, the “Blog” tab which used to be a part of our navigation bar is now a “News” tab that will serve as the home for all of our posts. If you’re looking for 5.2 Reasons, DC Week-In-Review, Preview Monday or other features that are more editorial in nature, you can find them under “For Fans.” If you’re interested in breaking news, announcements, press releases and articles that are largely informational, look for them under “For Press.” And if you’re seeking out fun DC Comics-themed features aimed at parents and families, you’ll find them in our newest section, “For Family,” which is the home of our brand new DC Comics Fan Family blog.

We invite and encourage you to explore and familiarize yourself with these new enhancements, but please bear with us if you find any bugs or anything that doesn’t seem to be working correctly. We’re working to perfect and continually improve your experience, but we ask you to “pardon our dust” over the next few weeks as we get all of these enhancements fully in place.

Explore and enjoy. We look forward to hearing what you think, and remember…this is just the beginning.

Don’t miss the conclusion of one of the most thrilling books of all time!

COMPLEX says, “If you’ve read the book and seen the movies, then you might as well go all in and check out Vertigo’s take on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. It’s the story you remember, with a modern comic flare that gives a visual life to these characters.”

Adapted by Scottish crime novelist Denise Mina with art by Leonardo Manco and Andrea Mutti, THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO Vol. 2 arrives May 1, 2013.

Cover by Lee Bermejo

Arriving in 2013, Vertigo will publish TRILLIUM, a limited series written and illustrated by the incomparable Jeff Lemire (Sweet Tooth, Animal Man, Justice League Dark, Essex County Trilogy, Ghosts).

We asked Lemire to share some thoughts about the new series and here’s what he said: “As Sweet Tooth moved towards its conclusion earlier this year, I started to look ahead to what my next creator-owned project for DC/Vertigo could be. I pitched a number of ideas to editor Mark Doyle that I wasn't totally happy with.  Finally he pushed me to leave my comfort zone, and get away from the genres and themes that I'd become known for.

Sci-Fi is something I've wanted to tackle for a while. I experimented a bit with it last year when I did the ULTRA THE MULTI-ALIEN short story for Vertigo's STRANGE ADVENTURES anthology and enjoyed that project so much that I was eager to do more. I've also always wanted to do a really powerful, human love story. There have been so few love stories done really well in comics. Preacher and Blankets come to mind as recent successes, but in my mind, it’s still a difficult and rather unexplored genre in the comics medium. It seemed like just the kind of challenge Mark was pushing me to undertake. So, I combined these two interests along with my ongoing fascination with in World War 1, and turn of the century exploration, and the results are TRILLIUM.”

It’s the year 3797 and botanist Nika Temsmith is researching a species of strange plant-based life forms on a remote science station near the outermost rim of colonized space. 

It’s the year 1921, and war-scarred explorer William Pike leads an expedition into the dense jungles of Peru in search of the fabled “Lost Temple of The Incas,” an elusive sanctuary said to have strange healing properties.

Two disparate souls separated by thousands of years and hundreds of millions of miles. Yet they will fall in love and, as a result, bring about the end of the universe. Even though reality is unraveling all around them, nothing can pull them apart. This isn’t just a love story, it’s the last love story ever told.

Lemire continued, “It will be my most ambitious creator-owned project and my most challenging. I think fans of my previous work will see traces of both SWEET TOOTH and THE UNDERWATER WELDER in its chemistry, but I really do want to push myself in new directions as well.

TRILLIUM is a mind-bending sci-fi thriller about the end of the universe. And, it's a story about the dawn of human exploration and its natural conclusion thousands of years away. But most of all it’s a love story. And I can't wait to share it with you.”

Check out Lemire's gorgeous promo images below and get ready for the story to begin in 2013.

The winners of the 2012 Eagle Awards were announced at the London MCM Expo – and many of DC Entertainment’s top talent were honored!

Introduced in 1976, the Eagles are the comics industry’s longest established awards and are acknowledged as the pre-eminent international prizes.

DC Entertainment congratulates all of this year’s winners!

Favorite newcomer writer:

Jeff Lemire

Favorite newcomer artist:

Francesco Francavilla

Favorite writer:

Scott Snyder

Favorite writer/artist:

Frank Miller

Favorite artist — pencils:

J.H. Williams III

Favorite artist — inks:

Scott Williams

Favorite colorist:

David Stewart

Favorite editor:

Karen Berger

Favorite publisher:

DC Comics/Vertigo

Favorite American comic book — color:

BATMAN

Favorite new comic book:

BATMAN

Favorite 2011 cover:

BATWOMAN #1

Favorite 2011 original graphic novel:

BATMAN: NOEL

Favorite magazine about comics:

DC COMICS SUPERHERO COLLECTION

Roll of honor:

Frank Quitely

Additionally, The 66th Annual Reuben Awards were held on May 26^th in Las Vegas, Nevada. Each year, during the National Cartoonists Society’s Annual Reuben Awards Weekend, the Society honors the year’s outstanding achievements in the profession.

DC Entertainment is thrilled that J.H. Williams has received a Reuben for his work on BATWOMAN.  Congratulationsto J.H. and all the winners!