NYCC 2013: DC Comics' New York Comic-Con 2013 poster revealed

The official poster for this year's New York Comic Con has been revealed, and it features Superman and Wonder Woman. The poster shows the comic book couple above the streets of New York city, check it out below:

The artist of the poster is Stephane Roux.

X-Men: Days of Future Past- first footage (UPDATE: BLOCKED)

During the 2013 Fantasia festival, a screening of the first X-Men: Days of Future Past footage took place. The audience were shown the first trailer to the film, and, as you can expect, it was filmed and put online, in quite a decent quality actually.




This is pretty impressive, right? I'm looking forward to the trailer being released properly, and I'm even more excited for the film itself, which comes out May 23rd of next year! So around ten months away.

In case you're wondering, the music used in this trailer is "Time", from Hans Zimmer's score of Inception.

X-Men: Days of Future Past is directed by Bryan Singer and stars Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, James McAvoy, Ian McKellen, Michael Fassbender, Halle Berry and many more!

UPDATE:

As you can see if you've clicked play on the vide above, FOX have noticed the leak and blocked it, hope you saw it before it became unavailable! Obviously, we should be seeing the trailer officially within the next few months, so there's not too much to worry about.

Kevin Maguire takes on Guardians of the Galaxy

There's been a lot of talk in recent days over Kevin Maguire's firing from his ( previously ) upcoming Justice League 3000, but that doesn't need explaining now, if you check the previous pages in my blog, you'll find information. What needs discussing now is Kevin Maguire now drawing Brian Michael Bendis' Guardians of the Galaxy #10, and presumably more after that.

In a quote, Bendis said:

As I have made it very clear on this tumbler I think artists like Kevin are a national treasure and should be treated as such by publishers and readers alike. as Matt fraction said at dinner last night he is probably one of the most influential comic artists of this generation but doesn’t get enough credit for it. you can see his influence in a lot of places.
we have been talking about working together on an off for a while but the stars never aligned. I am not exactly sure what happened to him this week but I would like to thank whoever it was that made it possible for  Kevin to join me on guardians of the galaxy number 10. which I hope will be the first of many projects together.
I may have just announced something I wasn’t supposed to :-)

This is pretty good news, considering a lot of people's upset of Maguire leaving DC, glad to see him on a big book so soon!

Zero Year- Birds of Prey Solicit plus new story details

Throughout the last two days, DC Comics have been releasing information about which of their series will be tying in to Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's "Zero Year" story. We now know information on all of them, as they've now revealed the final book to be taking part in the crossover, Birds of Prey.

Check out the cover and the solicit below:

BIRDS OF PREY #25 Written by CHRISTY MARX
Art by ROMANO MOLENAAR and JONATHAN GLAPION
Cover by JORGE MOLINA
On sale NOVEMBER 20 • 40 pg, FC, $3.99 US • RATED T
BLACK CANARY: ZERO YEAR?! Well, it’s definitely a BATMAN: ZERO YEAR tie-in issue as we look into a pivotal moment in Black Canary’s history! Don’t miss assassins, mystery men and an ancient evil in Gotham City!












We also now know the event in the main story that will link all of the books together, a series of blackouts hit Gotham City, causing whole City-wide darkness ( which of course doesn't make much sense, considering in the background of the above Birds of Prey cover there are houses with lights on...).

So, the full list of series taking part in Zero Year this November is: Batgirl, Batman: Detective Comics, Batwing, Birds of Prey, Catwoman, The Flash, Green Arrow, Green Lantern Corps, Nightwing, Red Hood and the Outlaws and Superman: Action Comics.

(Source: Newsarama)

First look at Villains Month issues for The Riddler, The Court of Owls, Reverse-Flash, Lobo and more...

Just as they did last week, DC comics have been teasing September's Villains Month issues. In which the biggest villains of the DC Universe take the spotlight from the usual heroes for every book that month.

Below are the preview pages for ( in order ) Black Manta, Braniac, General Zod, Harley Quinn, Killer Frost, Mongul, Mr. Freeze, The Reverse-Flash, The Riddler, Solomon Grundy, The Court of Owls and Trigon.

( Source: DC Comics)

Metamorpho hinted at in Season 2 of Arrow?

Yesterday evening, Arrow Producer, Marc Guggenheim took to twitter to show off an interesting looking piece of production art for the CW show's second season. The artwork seems to hint at DC Comics character, Metamorpho.

You can check out the artwork below, do you think it'll lead to an appearance from the character sometime down the line, or is it just a little in-joke for the fans? Personally, I hope it's the former.


                             

(Source: Newsarma)

J.M. DeMatteis takes over Justice League Dark in November

Current writer of Trinity of Sin: The Phantom Stranger, and Co-writer of Larfleeze and the upcoming Justice League 3000 will soon be able to add another series to that list, Justice League Dark, as he takes the reigns of the book from Jeff Lemire with November's issue 25, a Forever Evil tie-in

Check out the solicit and cover for DeMatteis' first issue below:

JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK #25
WRITTEN BY J.M. DEMATIES
ART AND COVER BY MIKEL JANIN
1:25 B&W VARIANT BY MIKEL JANIN
On sale NOVEMBER 27 • 32 pg, FC, $3.99 US • RATED T
A FOREVER EVIL tie-in, in a world where Super-Villains reign, John Constantine must enlist the aid of Swamp Thing in order to turn the tide.






( Source: Comic Book Resources)