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It's event season in the comic book industry. Marvel's Age of Ultron features robots, time hopping, and alternate versions of the beloved Avengers. read more

The dark, evocative and dramatic Batman stories of critically-acclaimed writer Scott Snyder and superstar artist Greg Capullo continued to catapult the iconic vigilante to the top of the sales charts in comic shops and bookstores in the month of April, announced DC Entertainment, the largest English-language comic book publisher in the world.

DC Comics "Superman: Last Son of Krypton #1" is among the titles that will be released on Free Comic Book Day, Saturday, May 4, 2013, which will be marked at several stores in the area, including A Timeless Journey in Stamford, Heroes Comics and Cards in Norwalk, Rogue Comics in Bridgeport and Alternate Universe in Milford and New Haven.

More than 4.6 million comics have been ordered to meet the demand, as another big Marvel movie opening once again draws consumer interest to the medium that started it all. read more        

Comic book writer Grant Morrison has revealed his next projects. One is a new take on Wonder Woman, while the other will visit many variations of classic superheroes, including a Nazi Superman.

“Iron Man 3” comes out this weekend, at a time when comic book movies have never been more popular. The vast majority of recent superhero movies have featured members of Marvel's X-Men and Avengers supergroups, or D.C.'s Justice League. Below is a list of the five comic book heroes who deserve their own movie franchise. Two of the lower-key heroes in the Marvel Universe, super-strong Luke “Power ...

For comic book fans, Christmas comes twice a year with Free Comic Book Day, a nationwide holiday for pop culture aficionados that began in 2002, on Saturday, the day after the hotly-anticipated “Iron Man 3” is released.

Scribblenauts’ "Write Anything, Solve Everything" puzzle gameplay has only grown since it came to the DS in 2009. Each new entry in the series has deepened the massive vocabulary of items that protagonist Maxwell conjures with his Magic Notepad, but will expand the collection of words in a unique way.

Around this time last year during C2E2 — the busy, sprawling Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo held each spring at McCormick Place — we spoke with the heads of DC Comics and Marvel Entertainment. We told them that, because we're curious, we would soon be bringing up an age-old question, a schoolyard tussle without a satisfactory answer.