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Zero Year
"Zero Year" was a yearlong comic book crossover event published by the comic book publishing company DC Comics that began in June 2013 and ended in July 2014, featuring the superhero Batman. The series was written by Scott Snyder and James Tynion IV with artwork by Greg Capullo, Danny Miki, and Rafael Albuquerque. The story is intended to redefine the origin of Batman in The New 52, being a fresh story unconnected to other interpretations such as '' Batman: Year One''. The story does, however, incorporate several elements from ''Batman: Year One'', such as Bruce Wayne's long absence from Gotham City and his first attempts at vigilantism. Initially conceptualized as a ''Batman'' storyline, it was announced that in November 2013, various titles would tie in directly to the "Zero Year" story line. Writers of various titles in The New 52 were given the option of writing a tie-in to the storyline, which would include their connections to Gotham City and first encounter with Batman. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DC Comics
DC Comics (originally DC Comics, Inc., and also known simply as DC) is an American comic book publisher owned by DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. DC is an initialism for "Detective Comics", an American comic book series first published in 1937. DC Comics is one of the largest and oldest American comic book companies, the first comic under the DC banner being published in 1937. The majority of its published stories are set in the fictional DC Universe and feature numerous List of DC Comics characters, culturally iconic heroic characters, such as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and the Flash (DC Comics character), Flash; as well as famous fictional teams, including the Justice League, the Teen Titans, the Suicide Squad, and the Legion of Superheroes. The universe contains an assortment of well-known supervillains, such as Lex Luthor, the Joker (character), Joker, Darkseid, and the antihero Catwoman. The company has published non-DC Universe-related mater ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riddler
The Riddler (Edward Nigma, later Edward Nygma or Edward Nashton) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by Bill Finger and Dick Sprang, and debuted in ''Detective Comics'' #140 in October 1948. He has become one of the most enduring enemies of the superhero Batman and belongs to the collective of adversaries that make up his List of Batman family enemies, rogues gallery. In his comic book appearances, the Riddler is depicted as a criminal mastermind in Gotham City. He has an obsessive compulsion to incorporate riddles, puzzles, and death traps in his schemes to prove his intellectual superiority over Batman and the police. His real name—Edward Nigma—is a pun itself; an "enigma" is a person or thing that is difficult to understand. With this self-conscious use of an elaborate gimmick, the Riddler's crimes are often theatrical and ostentatious. The character commonly wears a domino mask and either a green unitard d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comic Book
A comic book, comic-magazine, or simply comic is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panel (comics), panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by descriptive prose and written narrative, usually dialogue contained in word balloons emblematic of the comics art form. ''Comic Cuts'' was a British comic published from 1890 to 1953. It was preceded by ''Ally Sloper's Half Holiday'' (1884), which is notable for its use of sequential Cartoon, cartoons to unfold narrative. These British comics existed alongside the popular lurid "penny dreadfuls" (such as ''Spring-heeled Jack''), boys' "story papers" and the humorous ''Punch (magazine), Punch'' magazine, which was the first to use the term "cartoon" in its modern sense of a humorous drawing. The first modern American comic book, American-style comic book, ''Famous Funnies: A Carnival of Comics'', was released in the US in 1933 and was a reprinting of earlier newsp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave McCaig
Dave McCaig (born December 6, 1971, in Thunder Bay, Ontario) is a Canadian artist and colourist who also works in the animation industry. He has worked on comics including '' Adam Strange'', ''X-Men'', ''Star Wars'', '' Superman: Birthright'', '' The Matrix Comics'', ''Nextwave'', ''New Avengers'', '' Northlanders'', ''American Vampire'', and ''Nemesis''. Animation projects have included key colour design on the first three seasons of '' The Batman (2004)'' animated series at Warner Bros. and various duties on the fourth ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' (''TMNT'') is an American media franchise created by comic book artists Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. It follows Leonardo (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), Leonardo, Donatello (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), D ...'' film. He won the 2008 Joe Shuster Award for Best Colorist, which was awarded for the first time that year. McCaig also runs a forum for comic book colorists and artists called Gu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafael Albuquerque (artist)
Rafael Albuquerque (born April 12, 1981) is a Brazilian comic book creator primarily for his artwork on titles such as DC Comics' ''Blue Beetle'' and as illustrator and co-creator of ''American Vampire''. Though primarily a penciler and inker of interior comic art, he has also done work as a cover artist, colorist and writer. Early life and influences Rafael Albuquerque was born in 1981 in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Career Albuquerque begun his professional career working in advertising, doing work for local companies. He began his comic book career in 2002, after posting his portfolio on the Internet, doing work for the Egyptian publishing company AK Comics, which published books for the Middle East. In 2005, Albuquerque published the creator-owned graphic novel crime story ''Rumble in La Rambla''. It would be published in the United States in 2007 by Image Comics under the title '' Crimeland''. He collaborated with writers Keith Giffen and Alan Grant in 2006 by illustrating issu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Capullo
Gregory Capullo (; born March 30, 1962) is an American comic book artist and penciller, best known for his work on ''Quasar (comics), Quasar'' (1991–1992), ''X-Force'' (1992–1993), ''Angela (comics), Angela'' (1994), ''Spawn (comics), Spawn'' (1993–2000, 2003–2004), ''Batman'' (2011–2016), and ''Reborn (comics), Reborn'' (2016–2017). He also drew the DC Comics company-wide crossover storylines ''Dark Nights: Metal'' and ''Dark Nights: Death Metal''. As part of his DC work, he co-created the characters, The Batman Who Laughs, Mr. Bloom, and the Court of Owls. Greg Capullo also published his own creator-owned comic, ''The Creech'', published through Image Comics. These were two three-issue miniseries. Apart from comics, Capullo has been involved in several projects such as pencilling for the Iced Earth albums ''The Dark Saga'' and ''Something Wicked This Way Comes (Iced Earth album), Something Wicked This Way Comes'', the Korn album ''Follow the Leader (Korn album), Foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Snyder
Scott Snyder (born January 15, 1976) is an American comic book author. He is known for his 2006 short story collection ''Voodoo Heart'', and his work for DC Comics, including series such as ''American Vampire'', ''Detective Comics'', a highly acclaimed run on ''Batman'', '' Swamp Thing,'' and ''Justice League'' as well as the company-wide crossover storylines " Dark Nights: Metal" and " Dark Nights: Death Metal." He has also written creator-owned comics published through Image Comics, including '' Wytches'', ''Undiscovered Country'', and ''Nocterra''. As part of his DC work, he co-created the characters, The Batman Who Laughs, Mr. Bloom, and the Court of Owls. Snyder has garnered acclaim from critics and fans for his work, such as his run on the New 52 version of ''Batman'' that debuted in 2011, and has won numerous industry awards, including three Eisner Awards, a Harvey Award, and a 2012 Eagle Award for Best Writer. Early life Scott Snyder was born January 15, 1976. At t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Todd
Jason Peter Todd is a character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. First appearing in ''Batman (comic book), Batman'' #357 in March 1983, he was created to succeed Dick Grayson as Robin (character), Robin, Batman's partner and sidekick. He initially shared a similar origin to Grayson, being the son of circus acrobats who are killed by criminals in Gotham (Dick's were killed by a local mob boss who sabotaged their trapeze while Jason's parents were killed by Killer Croc) and adopted by Bruce Wayne, Batman's alter ego, as his son and protege. Following the ''Crisis on Infinite Earths'' event and the rebooting of DC's main comics universe, Jason's origin was changed to being a pre-teen street urchin and petty thief who Bruce adopted and mentored after finding the boy attempting to steal the tires off of the Batmobile. This origin has since become the standard for subsequent iterations of the character. Following Max Allan Collins's revamping of Todd's origin s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
