An original story from award-winning animation/comics writer Dwayne
McDuffie (Justice League) rooted in DC Comics’ popular canon of
“Crisis” stories.

Bruce Timm (Superman Doomsday, Green Lantern) is executive producer.
Lauren Montgomery (Wonder Woman, Green Lantern) and Sam Liu
(Superman/Batman: Public Enemies) are co-directors.

In Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, a “good” Lex Luthor arrives
from an alternate universe to recruit the Justice League to help save
his Earth from the Crime Syndicate, a gang of villainous characters
with virtually identical super powers to the Justice League. What
ensues is the ultimate battle of good versus evil in a war that
threatens both planets and, through a diabolical plan launched by
Owlman, puts the balance of all existence in peril.

All-star voice cast led by Mark Harmon (NCIS) as Superman, James Woods
(Ghosts of Mississippi) as Owlman, Chris Noth (Sex and the City, Law &
Order) as Lex Luthor, William Baldwin (Dirty Sexy Money) as Batman,
Gina Torres (Serenity, Firefly) as Super Woman and Bruce Davison
(X-Men) as the President.

 Legendary Avengers and Trinity writer, Kurt Busiek joins us for a great interview. Talking about his work in the business, on Green Lantern, Trinity and much more.

If anyone questioned the relationship between Hollywood and comic books before, there’s no doubt about it now. 

On the heels of Disney acquiring Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion last week, now comes word Warner Bros. is taking firmer control over DC Comics, overseeing the publishing company under a new division that will report directly to Warner Pictures.

According to an announcement by DC today, Diane Nelson, the former president of Warner Premiere, will serve as President of “DC Entertainment,” as the new division is called. Nelson will report to Jeff Robinov, president of Warner Bros. Pictures Group. 

“Based on the great success we’ve had working with DC Comics to create some of the most popular and successful super hero films of all time, I’ve long believed that there was much more we could do across all of Warner Bros.’ businesses with this great body of characters and stories,” said Robinov.

Current DC Comics President and Publisher Paul Levitz will segue into a role as “Writer, Contributing Editor and Overall Consultant to DC Entertainment,” according to DC. Levitz previously reported directly to Warner Bros. Chairman Alan Horn.

Levitz, who worked his way from writer to editor to publisher of the company since 2002, will be “called upon for his deep knowledge and more than three-decade history with DC Comics, both as a comic creator and an executive,” the release by DC stated. 

DC Entertainment was created “to maximize the potential of the DC brand,” the release by DC said. Warner Bros. hopes to accomplish the same type of multi-platform marketing of DC’s characters that it did of its Harry Potter franchise, a property that Nelson also oversees.

“The founding of DC Entertainment fully recognizes our desire to provide both the DC properties and fans the type of content that is only possible through a concerted cross-company, multi-platform effort,” said Nelson. “DC Entertainment will help us to formally take the great working relationships between DC Comics and various Warner Bros. businesses to the next level in order to maximize every opportunity to bring DC’s unrivalled collection of titles and characters to life.”

DC’s characters include Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Justice League, Green Lantern and The Flash. While a “Green Lantern” movie is set to begin filming this fall and the Batman franchise is waiting for director Christopher Nolan to complete other film commitments after his success with “The Dark Knight,” film development of the other major DC characters has been criticized as slow in comparison to Marvel’s aggressive film slate.

Other DC properties currently being developed include the TV show “Human Target” for a mid-season debut on Fox  and “Lobo,” a movie with director Guy Richie attached. The company also recently released the “Batman: Arkham Asylum” video game and the direct-to-DVD animation movie, “Green Lantern: First Flight,” and produces the “Batman: Brave and the Bold” animated series for Cartoon Network.

More details follow in DC’s official announcement…

It’s kind of like Green Lantern artist central. 

The studio in North Branch, Minn., where DC artists Doug Mahnke and Patrick Gleason work together has suddenly become a bastion of space battles and zombified superheroes as the two pencilers guide the Green Lantern universe through this summer’s Blackest Night event.

Although Gleason has been working on Green Lantern Corps for years, Mahnke came on board the Green Lantern title just in time for all the excitement to begin. As Blackest Night began to spill from the Green Lantern universe into the whole DCU, Mahnke took over Green Lanternfor regular series artist Ivan Reis, who is now drawing the main Blackest Night mini-series.

So far, Mahnke has drawn everything from the disturbingly dark history of Black Hand in his debut Issue #43, to the upcoming space battle between Sinestro and Mongul in Green Lantern #46. And along the way, he’s had his studio-mate to help him out with advice on how to draw the characters that Gleason already knows so well.

In the first part of our discussion with the two artists, Newsarama talked to Mahnke about drawing Green Lantern in the middle of Blackest Night and how he meets the tight deadlines of this year’s premier DC event.

  In the last couple of weeks as I’ve been dealing with my health. I ended up shutting down one of my webpages I was working on and dropped a lot of books for budget reasons. I decided to focus back on my Spider-Girl page, Spider-Girl’s World. In doing so, I also set up a new blog to talk about the world of both Spider-Girl and Spider-man. You can head over there and check out the latest. The Indigo Café

DC Comics just released a cover for Brave and the Bold #30 that shows the teaming up of Green Lantern and Dr. Fate. I have to the say, the last and next couple of months make me happy to be a Dr. Fate fan. The character has been pretty much left in limbo since the end of Infinite Crisis back in 2006. Now, granted there have been some other problems that have kept the character in the shadows the last few years. However, I’m very happy to see people like JMS and the new Justice Society team. Coming in, giving Dr. Fate some much needed spotlight and starting with a blank slate with the inheritor to Kent Hall’s legacy. Just leave it up to fate.

Greetings everyone, it’s Monday and I’m back from the comic con and I have to say, I was very disappointed and so was my 18 year old brother. While it’s been widely publicized since Thursday night. There was a huge lack of booths this year from any named company, sans Aspen. Great vendors though this year, my brother and I picked up some great trades this year for a fraction of the cost anywhere else. Artists Alley was nice but was a major mess. We had people moved to differ ant areas and others not arriving until late in the day. Panels were majorly lacking with only the Mark Millar panels and DC Nation as the best. Mark is a hilarious guy and he picked up our spirits but still… this was lacking. Even worse, my brother and I finally met up with Dan Slott after 4 years and the volunteers were letting guys with like 50 comics including Dan’s old Ren and Stimpy days sign. In 45 minutes, the like moved a whopping 4 people until frustrated fans started yelling at the other fan boys. Then about 25 people moved in less than 10 minutes, including yours truly.

With everything said and done, my brother and I sadly walked away feeling we had wasted 200 dollars from gas to tickets to parking. After 12 years, the two of us are seriously reviewing Chicago next year if we bother to go. Chicago was full of washed up celebrities trying to get 60 dollars for autographs and lacking big name creators outside of Artist Alley. A very bad experience indeed.

Everything you needed to know about Green Lantern and the Blackest Night from this past weekend at the San Dieago Comic Convention.

Blackest Night Panel

DCU Editorial Panel

Dan DiDio Talks Blackest Night

Hey everyone, I bet a lot of you have been wondering why the updates have been so slow of late and more podcasts. Well, truth is, my life and all the other guys’ lives have been pretty busy of late. For me, I got engaged a few weeks ago and we’re busy planning the wedding for this October. A friend of mine also was in a recent motorcycle accident and had to have surgery and also developed pneumonia too. So, we’ve been praying and focusing on her too. A lot of us have also been going on various vacations and doing interviews around the web and it’s convention time now. So, we’re keeping things up to date as fast and as often as possible. Right now this site pretty much takes up all my net time with a little time devoted to my love of Spider-Girl and the Cosmic Marvel Universe. Don’t worry, though, things will start to balance out in the next two months with the relaunch of the new Green Lantern Corps website and a few other things. We’ll continued to rock your Green Lantern lead lives!