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Okay , so Bleeding Cool had a few scoop this year . Here ’s a flavour at ten of them that stood out to me over the year .
Article Summary
1. Scott Snyder Launching The Absolute Universe and DC All In
The first inkling came in October 2023.WhenBleeding Cool run gossip about an upcoming publication projectat DC Comics being spearhead byScott Snyder . One that has been compared to Marvel Comics ' Ultimate line . And in April 2024 , we had a name for it , Absolute Comics . Or just Absolute . In that same post , we also namedDC All - In , as the broad initiative Snyder and other Creator had been working on as an attack to do New 52 right field , alongside a DC Rebirth with a more holistic approach . That the team on DC All - In are aiming to give fans something bold while bequeath alone what ’s already function , with moredetails that followed .
2. The Absolute Universe Creative Teams
We scooped that the Absolute line would launch from DC Comics in October 2024 withAbsolute BatmanbyScott SnyderandNick Dragotta(though originally stand for to beDonny Cateswriting),Absolute SupermanbyJason Aaron . Absolute Wonder WomanbyKelly Thompson . Absolute FlashbyJeff Lemire . Oh and thatAl Ewingwas involved . That the lead writer and artists would beJason Aaron , Deniz Camp , Wes Craig , Nick Dragotta , Al Ewing , Che Grayson , Jeff Lemire , Jahnoy Lindsay , Pornsak Pichetshote , Nick Robles , Rafa Sandoval , Hayden Sherman , Scott SnyderandKelly Thompson . Previously we had reported that the line would be aboutsuperheroes as underdog . A radical reinvention of classic DC superheroes in a share universe , as if they had been contrive today with a Batman as a huge , street - level strong-armer . But that this will beone fibril of DC narratives exit forward , with a jump - on point across the DC Comics publishing logical argument , as part of DC All - In . And then in July 2024 stated that we would haveAl EwingonAbsolute Green Lantern , andDeniz CamponAbsolute Martian Manhunter . And at about that time , DC Comics managed to announceAbsolute Batman ’s existence by accident in a product mail .
3. Marvel X-Men Creative Teams
After best the word onFrom The Ashes , we hightail it this list of creators and titles . But for March 2024 it was a pretty okay collation of rumour . You could at least see where each of them was come from …
4. Jim Lee And Jeph Loeb Returning To DC Comics on Batman: Hush 2.
first off in , Bleeding Cool was on the case with the changing Batman schedule . How the ongoing Batman comical written byChip Zdarskywas meant to be released every two weeks at the end of the year . Then it was n’t , and that it has been advertize out to every month again . Bleeding Cool revealed that this was because theBatman Hushteam ofJim LeeandJeph Loebwere returning to theongoingBatmancomic Scripture in March / April 2025for aHush subsequence , though they were primitively await to return in November / December , hence the increased schedule for Chip ’s runnel to get it out of the door … and the changing the docket again . We had previously let on that Marvel hadapproached Jim Lee to revert to the X - hands after the end of the Krakoan Age , but he had used this whirl to negotiate an even good , aliveness - changing , deal with DC Comics , for Batman .
5. DC Comics Bringing Back Vertigo
Back in November 2023,Bleeding Cool got the scoopthat " in 2024 ( or at this stage , more potential 2025 ) , DC Comics will be bringing back Vertigo . " And at New York Comic Con in October 2024 , they announce that a ) this was indeed happening and that b ) the creator - own seriesNice House By The SeabyJames Tynion IVandAlvaro Martinez Buenowas pivoting from being a Black Label serial publication to being a Vertigo book to establish the depression .
6. Marvel/DC Omnibus Being Destroyed
This has never been officially confirmed . But Bleeding Cool broke the tale that after the previously announced duet of Marvel Vs DC Omnibuses were detain by incarnate procedures , signoffs , schedule and printer availableness for what was primitively planned as a 3000 photographic print run for each volume . Because they had parliamentary procedure that pushed that into the mid - five figures , making it the big photographic print execute for any risible book motorcoach ever . But everything was ( finally ) going smoothly until the copy began go far at the publisher and being sent out to contributors . This was suddenly cease as it became transparently obvious that something was very , very improper with theDC / Marvel Amalgam Omnibus . That the printing issues were so flagrant , and the issues stemmed now from the pressman rather than the publication . As a result , the five - figure print rill of this thousand - plus Sir Frederick Handley Page outsized hardcover volume was pulped , and the book was delayed until just this hebdomad … a reprint scale that dwarfed the issue that IDW have into over the callback of Artist Proof copies ofBatman Year One Artist ’s Editionsent out in error – another Bleeding Cool max that I should conform to up on in the New Year .
7. The IDW Investors Call
The class start out well asBleeding Cool scooped the newsthatJason Aaronwas write and launch a newTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles#1 . Bleeding Cool had a bunch of weird scoops for IDW this year . We were the first to report on a number of staffers being put down off at IDW , including PublisherMark Doyle , Marketing ManagerHolly Aitchison , another in production , and one in merchant marine . Our tarradiddle was by and by re - reported inPublisher ’s Weekly , almost Bible for word byHeidi MacDonald . Then there was our news abouta new EIC that IDW did n’t declare for calendar month , eventhough their challenger did . And there wasplenty of tittle-tattle to fill in the gapsabout a number of those engagement and dismissals . But the biggest scoop was likely discovering that the current CEO and new Publisher of IDW , Davidi Jonasof the Jonas family unit , lease an investment funds call while in the car as as part of his responsibility of being a in public traded main comic book publisher . And he gave us all some gems . That includeda newGeorge Takeibook , a pivot man to horror , and IDW ’s own superhero , Bible , offence , mafia and sequential killer comics . But what of the party as a whole ? As this is an investment call , he had to be pretty blunt . About how investments in trying to build their own multi - mass medium studio had failed . But that " if those things had pan out , I call back everybody would be on a yacht clinking glasses and say how brilliant that thought was . In retrospect , it did n’t crop out , and those investments did n’t pay off . " Certainlythe line"If Things Had Panned Out , Everybody Would Be On A racing yacht " was repeated a mess at subsequent show .
9. Joe Kelly Takes Over From Zeb Wells on Amazing Spider-Man
After scooping the cosmos of theMoon Knight : First Of Konshu#0bagged and control board comic bookreceived by some comic Christian Bible store , in June 2024 we noted that itcontained a preview of what was coming forAmazing Spider - Man . And thatJoe Kellywould be take over theAmazing Spider - Manongoing serial publication for Marvel fromZeb Wells . Recently , Marvel corroborate he would be the writer of the newAmazing Spider - Man#1 , which will launch in March 2025 …
10. Ultimate Spider-Man Outselling Amazing Spider-Man By 50%
Without the charts that many had relied upon , the knowledge that Ultimate Spider - Man was outsell Amazing Spider - Man was possible to reap , but it wasBleeding Cool that prove Ultimate was outsell Amazing by as much as 50 % . We even took on DC Comics atomic number 59 to point out that , after seven impression , it had more copy out there thanAbsolute Batman#1 – although that was only after four impression of the latter .
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