First look at Villains Month issues for Darkseid, Bizarro, Deadshot and many more...

Earlier today, DC Comics, gave a first look at the Villains Month issues for The Joker, Two-Face, Poison Ivy and the Ventriloquist. As promised, DC have released more preview art, this time for ( in order now ), Cyborg Superman, Desaad, Bizarro, The Creeper, Count Vertigo, Darkseid, Deadshot, Relic and Gorilla Grodd. Check out all of the pages below!

DC Comics give first look at Villains Month for the Joker, Two-Face and more...

This September, Villains Month and Forever Evil are coming to the DC Universe and it's the Villains' turn to run the show. Today, DC have released the first preview art for their Villains Month event, in which every regular New 52 title will be replaced by one ( or some, in a lot of cases ) of the lead character's villains. The new Art shows a first look at the Joker, Two-Face, Ventriloquist and Poison Ivy one-shots.

 

DC have promised more art throughout the day, so I'll be sure to report on that!

 

Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti's "Harley Quinn" set for later this year

San-Deigo Comic-Con 2013 is being set-up right now, and the announcements are going to be flooding the internet pretty soon, but before that DC have one now!

 A Harley Quinn monthly from husband-wife Jimmy Palmiotti (Batwing, All-Star Western) and Amanda Conner (Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre) as co-writers! See Amanda Conner's cover for the first issue of the series below:

The Joker's Admirer, Harley Quinn usually stars and as one of the members of the team-book, Suicide Squad, which I'm not a regular reader of, but this I'm definitely looking forward to!

(SOURCE: Comic Book Resources)

DC Comics tease... The Joker's Daughter?

DC have started a new feature on their blog called "What's new in the New 52?", the second edition went up today and they teased something rather interesting. The Joker's Daughter.

The only text DC posted reads, "Something evil lurks under Gotham City and it wears the Joker's face"

The Joker's daughter design, drawn by Brett Booth.

The original Joker's Daughter was Duela Dent, the daughter of Harvey Dent, A.K.A Two-Face. She, however, took on the name of the "Joker's Daughter". Her origin then got a bit more confusing, she was then the Daughter of the Earth-3 version of the Joker, the Jester, a hero on that world. She's worked with the Teen Titans a few times and was pretty much a good guy, I think.


So, what do you think of this? And what's the Joker going to do without his face? I mean it's pretty important...

I'm pretty sure this will  be in the main Batman book, by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo, who have pretty much taken  charge of Joker in New 52, and have done a lot to do with what the city's really like, including how it was built and what's underneath it.

Here's DC's article: http://www.dccomics.com/blog/2013/04/18/whats-new-in-the-new-52-%E2%80%93-jokers-daughter

Comics Catch up: Nightwing #19

Welcome to comics catch-up! In this feature I'll be getting you up to speed on what you need to know for some of this week's comics!

Today we're talking Nightwing!

Issue 19 of Nightwing hits the stands tomorrow, April 17. Written by Kyle Higgins and Pencilled by Brett Booth ( with inks and colours by Norm Rapmund and Andrew Dalhouse ), this issue takes Nightwing to a new enviroment for him, the city of Chicago.

So, here we go!

Dick recently became involved with a project to re-invent Haly's circus, his former home, in one of Gotham's abandoned areas, Amusement mile. He was setting it up with the daughter of the man who murdered his parents, Sonia Branch, who he soon became romantically involved with.

Dick was doing a good job setting up the new Amusement mile when tragedy struck, Tragedy in the form of a maniacal homocidal clown. The Joker.

The Joker burned Dick's plans to the ground, murdered his friend Jimmy, and ex-girlfriend/ traitor, Raya Vestri. He pushed the Bat-family away from eachother.

Dick was hated by some members of the circus and blamed for the death of Raya and Jimmy, as you can guess, he was in a pretty bad mood.

After the events of the Joker attack ( Death of the family), Dick nearly brutalised a group of men scavenging the Haly's corcus grounds for "trophies" from recent events. Dick was stopped by the son of Batman, and former Robin, Damian Wayne.

Dick managed to hunt down the man collecting these "trophies", the Dealer. He'd taken the Flying Graysons outfit of Dick's father, John Grayson. Dick was in the middle of getting the suit back from the Dealer, when a fire broke out in the building. There were people who were bidding for items in the building and they were trapped, Dick managed to save the people, but his father's suit burned.

After all of the tragedies in Dick's life something worse than anything else happened, Damian Wayne, effectively a little brother to Dick, died. Dick was in a terrible state, he felt utterly destroyed.

The final shock in Dick's life was something unvelievable for him. Tony Zucco, the man who killed his parents, was alive. Dick couldn't stay in Gotham any longer. He had to find him.

Dick has now moved to Chicago, a city without masked heroes, and where vigilantism is banned. He has one Nightwing suit and hardly any money.

As you can tell, these are tough times for Dick Grayson.

Nightwing 19 hits stands April 17, by Kyle Higgins and Brett Booth. with inks and colours by Norm Rapmund and Andrew Dalhouse.