NeoSlashott on deviantART Superman #713 Published Despite 'Controversial' Kitten-Rescuing Content Last month, the original story planned for Superman #712 was given the axe and replaced with a six year-old fill-in story. Here at ComicsAlliance, I suggested that the last-minute switch was the result of DC being gun-shy about Superman teaming up with a Muslim super-hero in the wake of headline-grabbing controversies spinning out of Action Comics #900 and the recruitment of Nightrunner into Batman Inc. Another explanation came in the form of a truly ludicrous Internet rumor that the story had been killed because of a scene where Superman saved a kitten from a tree. Well today, Superman #713 hit stands, and opened with a scene where Superman saves a kitten from a tree. In reality, though, the facts are these. Issue 712 opened with a one page sequence drawn by Allan Goldman of Superman rescuing a little girl’s cat in San Gabriel, California.
DC Comics to Remain in New York, DC Entertainment to Go West - ComicsAlliance | Comics culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews Following months of persistent rumors to the contrary, it appears that DC Comics will remain at home in New York, NY for the foreseeable future. Parent company DC Entertainment, however, will relocate to a headquarters in Burbank, CA to administer the DC brand’s operations in film, television, video games and other media. In a press release issued Tuesday morning, DC Entertainment President Diane Nelson remarked: These organizational changes reinforce the strengths of DC’s greatest legacies – most importantly its people and its creative talent – and offer greater opportunity for maximum growth, success and efficiency in the future,” said Nelson. “Our two offices will stretch and build their respective areas of focus, while prioritizing and aggressively striving to connect and cooperate more strongly than ever before between them and with their colleagues at [parent company] Warner Bros. Full Press Release:
If You're Not Reading 'Gotham Academy', We Can Never Be Friends Aside from the obvious, I don’t usually like to refer to things as being my “favorites.” I talk about so much stuff that I love all the time that every time I settle on a favorite, I almost immediately end up contradicting myself when I remember something else that I love, like when I went on and on about how Impulse #3 is my favorite single issue of all time right before I re-read G.I. Joe #21. There’s just so much out there that’s great that nine times out of ten, settling on a single thing as my favorite ends up being pretty limiting, and if there’s one thing I hate, it’s having to go back and admit that I might’ve been wrong about something. For me to actually settle on something as a favorite, it has to be so obvious that it’s above and beyond everything else out there that it’s self-evident. So with that in mind, believe me when I say this: Gotham Academy is, without question, my favorite comic on the stands right now, and it just keeps getting better. But here, it’s different.