FEBRUARY 1ST, MILWAUKIE, OR–On the heels of such successful titles as Mogworld and Lovecraft Unbound, Dark Horse continues to add titles to a growing prose line. In June, Dark Horse once again teams up with Hugo and Bram Stoker award-winning editor Ellen Datlow (Lovecraft Unbound) to bring you this masterful marriage of the darkness without and the darkness within. Supernatural Noir is an anthology of original tales of the dark fantastic from twenty modern masters of suspense, including Brian Evenson, Joe R. Lansdale, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Nick Mamatas, Gregory Frost, Jeffrey Ford, and many more.
WARNING: if you hate spoilers, stop reading now. Remember the scribblings on the blackboard in 52? Well, they’re back and in a major way in the final pages of TIME MASTERS: VANISHING POINT issue 6, on sale today. How important might these mysterious scribblings be? They lead into the pages of BOOSTER GOLD issue 44… And a comic book we call FLASHPOINT issue 1. A look at the Blackboard is after the jump. This is your last chance to look away.
The first issue of DC UNIVERSE ONLINE LEGENDS, the official comic book tie-in to the hit massive multiplayer online action game, hits comic shops and the DC Digital Online Store today. Picking up where the game’s trailer left off, the villainous Lex Luthor’s made a deal with the evil alien Brainiac that’s given him the means of finally killing Superman – but he’s doomed all of humanity in the process.
The 2011 JOE SHUSTER AWARD nominees for outstanding achievements of Canadian comic book creators, publishers and retailers were announced today. Among the nominees whose work has been published by DC Comics are, Francis Manapul, Fiona Staples, Cameron Stewart, Dave McCaig, J. Torres and Jeff Lemire, who was nominated in a total of three categories: Outstanding Comic Book Cartoonist, Outstanding Comic Book Cover Artist and Outstanding Comic Book Writer.
In preparation for the February 12th release of their latest magnum opus, Dark Meditations in Monastic Seclusion, dynamic USBM act Shroud of Despondency have made the adventurous, 11+ minute song “To Glisten In All The Colors Of Distress” available for streaming on StereoKiller.com. To experience this aural journey, visit
Serbian blackened death metallers BANE have are pleased to announce they will be joining SVART CROWN for the ‘Black The Balkans’ European tour this March in support of their full-length debut, Chaos, Darkness, Emptiness. The tour includes two dates with Bulgarian black metal outfit Dimholt. The band will be announcing a new line-up in the near future. Tour dates are as follows: