Prepare to level up your video game comic book reading experience.

DC Digital Comics is offering a sensational sale on all titles based on some of the best-selling video game franchises of all time.

Journey deeper into madhouse with special tie-in limited series that sets the stage for the critically acclaimed, award-winning sequel to BATMAN: ARKHAM ASYLUM, BATMAN: ARKHAM CITY—including exclusive digital chapters.

Discover the secret history of Ghost from MODERN WARFARE 2; head to battle with Marcus Fenix and Delta Squad in GEARS OF WAR; unleash Hell with the six-issue DANTE’S INFERNO; fight against infection with BSAA Agents Gere and Sugarman in RESIDENT EVIL; and much, much more.

We’ve got 100 video game comic issues to stock your inventory with—all for only .99 cents each! Grab them while you can before we hit the reset button and this sale disappears!

The 4-Day Video Game Comics Sale begins 2/21!

Play the game! Read the comics!

Digital comic BEYOND THE FRINGE, based on the critically-acclaimed FOX TV show, will add a new roster of creators for upcoming issues 5a and 6a. Joining the book is seasoned writer Jhonen Vasquez, best known for his work on Nickelodeon’s Emmy and Annie Award winning show Invader Zim, and comics JOHNNY THE HOMICIDAL MANIAC and STRANGE TALES. Vasquez will be joined by award-winning artist Becky Cloonan (AMERICAN VIRGIN, NORTHLANDERS and DEMO VOLS 1,2).

BEYOND THE FRINGE alternates every two weeks between “A” and “B” storylines. “A” storylines explore events tied directly to the “Fringe” show canon, while “B” storylines take a “what-if” approach and look at how things might change if certain elements are out of balance.

Fringe, an acclaimed procedural thriller airing Friday nights on FOX, follows the Fringe Team as they investigate unbelievable events and mysterious occurrences linked throughout the world in pursuit of a larger, more shocking truth. The series stars Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, John Noble, Lance Reddick, Blair Brown, Jasika Nicole and Seth Gabel. Created by J.J. Abrams & Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci, Fringe is produced by Bad Robot Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television. Abrams, Bryan Burk, Jeff Pinkner, J.H. Wyman and Joe Chappelle serve as executive producers, while Kurtzman, Orci and Akiva Goldsman are consulting producers. Additionally, Pinkner and Wyman serve as the series’ showrunners. Become a fan of the series on Facebook and follow the series on Twitter.

(Smallville Season 11, cover #1 by Cat Staggs)

Smallville Fans Rejoice! New Comic Book Series, SMALLVILLE SEASON 11, to Pick Up Where Show Left Off

Fans of the smash-hit TV series Smallville haven’t had much to cheer about since the show ended its critically acclaimed 10-year run on The CW last May.  That’s all going to change with the upcoming new comic book series from DC Entertainment: SMALLVILLE SEASON 11.  Written by former Smallville show scribe Bryan Q. Miller, the new digital first series will be published digitally on April 13, 2012, with new digital chapters released weekly thereafter.  Additionally, the online chapters will be offered in a print periodical, along with an episode guide to the hit television series, with the first print issue released on May 16.

The new comic book series picks-up where the show left off (with Clark officially now as Superman!) and features other fan-favorite characters including Oliver Queen/Green Arrow, Chloe Sullivan-Queen, Lois Lane, Lex Luthor, and General Lane.  The book features an all-star creative team – in addition to Miller, SMALLVILLE SEASON 11 creators include print cover artist Gary Frank (SUPERMAN SECRET ORIGIN), digital cover artist Cat Staggs and interiors by Pere Perez (BATGIRL).

“Six months after Clark Kent donned the cape and took to the skies to save Earth from Apokolips… enter Season 11!” enthuses Miller.  “New allies abound!  New enemies afoot!  And old friends return where they’re least expected!  Pere and colorist Chris Beckett have done a fantastic job of capturing the look of the show and the players, and Gary and Cat are knocking it out of the park on covers. I couldn’t be more excited to help give seasoned viewers and new readers an all-access pass to Clark’s first year in the cape.”

Smallville: The Complete Series is available on DVD now.

(In last week’s #1 issue, BATMAN joined the League as a new recruit. )

You may have missed it last week, but you can easily catch up with the new JUSTICE LEAGUE BEYOND digital comic – issue #2 is available for download today. This is the first-ever JUSTICE LEAGUE BEYOND comic in any format, so you’re not going to want to miss out on all the action.  And you can catch up with the entire BEYOND universe when the oversized issue of BATMAN BEYOND UNLIMITED print edition comes out at the end of this month on Feb. 29, featuring a collection of digital chapters from JUSTICE LEAGUE BEYOND and BATMAN BEYOND.

Derek Fridolfs, co-writer and inker on the book stated, “Fans have gotten to see the future versions of Batman and Superman in their solo Beyond stories. And now they’ll have a chance to see the future Justice League–how that team works together to protect against large global and universe spanning threats. As well as get the chance to see how all the members first came together…their pasts and how it relates to their future!”

And continuing in the “Beyond” news, don’t miss next week’s debut of BATMAN BEYOND digital chapter #1 on February 15.

Everything he knew changed in a flash.

Police scientist Barry Allen awakens to a world far different from the one he remembers. A world that never heard of Superman, a place where friends are enemies and enemies become unlikely allies, a society torn apart by a war between two all too familiar faces, a world where he is no longer the Fastest Man Alive. The former Flash must race against time to discover and restore what once went wrong—fixing the time stream and returning the world to the one he once knew. But as war threatens to consume everything and heroes fall to its insatiable hunger, will Barry Allen be fast enough or will the clock run out?

Welcome to the World of Flashpoint.

Penned by superstar writer Geoff Johns, the mastermind behind the DC Comics mega-events INFINITE CRISIS and BLACKEST NIGHT, and featuring art by fan-favorite artist Andy Kubert, FLASHPOINT raced its way across the comic world in a universe-spanning event that changed the very course of the DCU forever and led directly into DC COMICS – THE NEW 52. Now with the Flashpoint “February” Sale, you can get all five-issues of the FLASHPOINT main title, every issue of the tie-in limited series, the special FLASHPOINT one-shots and the tie-in events of BOOSTER GOLD and THE FLASH—all for only .99 cents each!

Get them while you can because next thing you know, it’ll be over in a flash.

The 3-Day Sale begins today!

New identity designed to showcase DC Entertainment’s rich portfolio of brands, stories and characters across all media platforms.

BURBANK, CA, January 19, 2012 – DC Entertainment, a Warner Bros. Entertainment company and home to iconic brands DC Comics, Vertigo and MAD, revealed today a new brand identity.  The new identity is reflective of the company’s mission to fully realize the value of a rich portfolio of brands, stories and characters, distinguished by incredible breadth and depth across publishing, media and merchandise.  A new logo for DC Comics was also introduced, closely aligning with DC Entertainment’s new mark.

“It’s a new era at DC Entertainment and the new look reflects a dynamic, bold approach while at the same time celebrates the company’s rich heritage and robust portfolio of characters,” stated John Rood, EVP of Sales, Marketing and Business Development for DC Entertainment. “It was just a few months ago that Superman, Batman and many of our other Super Heroes were updated when we launched DC Comics – The New 52 and now it’s time to do the same for the company’s identity while remaining true to the power of storytelling which is still at the heart of DC Entertainment.”

DC Entertainment worked with Landor Associates, one of the world’s leading brand consulting and design firms, to develop an identity that creates a visual connection among the company, its three brands DC Comics, Vertigo and MAD and its vast array of properties as well as celebrates the power of the company’s stories and characters.  The design of the new DC Entertainment identity uses a “peel” effect – the D is strategically placed over the C with the upper right-hand portion of the D peeling back to unveil the hidden C – symbolizing the duality of the iconic characters that are present within DC Entertainment’s portfolio.

“It was our goal to capture DC Entertainment in a dynamic and provocative identity.  Our solution is a living expression which changes and adapts to the characters, story lines and the ways fans are consuming content,” explains Nicolas Aparicio, Executive Creative Director at Landor’s San Francisco office.  “The new identity is built for the digital age, and can easily be animated and customized to take full advantage of the interactivity offered across all media platforms.”

The new brand identity will come to life across all consumer touch points in order to create a clear and consistent message in support of DC Entertainment.  The new identity will begin to appear on comic books and graphic novels as well as new websites in March.  Consumers will also see the new identity rolled out over time on other DC Entertainment products from Warner Bros. including film, television, interactive games and merchandise.

“We believe our new brand identity will strongly resonate with our loyal fans who will want to proudly express their affinity for DC Entertainment and their passion for their favorite stories and characters, this new look allows them to easily do this. In addition we were excited to update our identity, it’s not often a company gets to revisit something as important as its brand and we took the opportunity to make sure it represented the multi-media business we set out to build with the formation of DC Entertainment,” said Amit Desai, SVP of Franchise Management for DC Entertainment.

If you live in or around the Miami/Ft. Lauderdale area, be sure to stop by Tate’s Comics this weekend (Jan. 20-22) for your chance to bid on Hero Initiative’s Justice League of America 100 Project, featuring exclusive, one-of-a-kind covers.  The covers feature art from Mark Bagley, Alan Davis, Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez, George Pérez, Frank Quitely, John Romita Sr., Alex Ross, and more – you can check out the full gallery of covers here.  The Tate’s Comics event is the second of three Hero Initiative auctions offering custom JLA covers and each event auctions off one-third of the total covers. The final event will take place at Orlando MegaCon on Feb. 17-19.  For more information about this great cause and the auction events, visit the Hero Initiative website.

(The new LEGO Hero Factory app features free digital comics for kids.)

DC Entertainment and LEGO® Systems, Inc announced today that all-new, free digital comics are now available in the LEGO Hero Factory app created by DC Entertainment and sponsored by LEGO Systems. The free downloadable app, available on the App store for iOS users, includes kid-friendly, digital comics based on the popular LEGO Hero Factory, a place where action heroes are designed, equipped and built depending on specific missions that beam in from across the galaxy and across time.

In addition to the LEGO Hero Factory comics, DC Entertainment has included many other digital comics for kids of all ages including The Batman Adventures, Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8^th Grade, Young Justice, Tiny Titans, Teen Titans and Superman Adventures, among others.

“LEGO Hero Factory is all about building heroes so it’s the perfect match for an app that also features DC Comics Super Heroes,” stated Hank Kanalz, senior vice president of digital for DC Entertainment.  “We’ve had a great, longstanding relationship with LEGO Systems and we’re really excited to bring these comics to kids through the LEGO Hero Factory app.”

LEGO Systems is the exclusive sponsor of the LEGO Hero Factory app, which was created by DC Entertainment, the leader in developing and delivering digital comics.  The app is free to download, and many comic issues featured in the app are also free for individual download.  For more information or to download LEGO HERO FACTORY click here.

(THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO graphic novel cover by Lee Bermejo).

DC Entertainment Announces Top-Notch Creative Team Including Denise Mina, Lee Bermejo, Leonardo Manco and Andrea Mutti

Best-selling comic book and graphic novel publisher DC Entertainment announced today the creative team for the highly-anticipated new graphic novel based on Stieg Larsson’s international sensation THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO.  Crime author Denise Mina will write the book, with the cover image created by Lee Bermejo and art from Leonardo Manco and Andrea Mutti.   DC Entertainment’s Vertigo imprint is working closely with the estate of Stieg Larsson and Hedlund Literary Agency to adapt the book, which will be released in November 2012.

“We’re thrilled to be adapting this incredible story into a series of graphic novels,” stated Karen Berger, executive editor, Vertigo. “Denise, Lee, Leonardo and Andrea have such great passion for the material and stylistically they’re a perfect match to bring it to comics life. Their beautifully dark and visceral work will certainly blow us all away.”

Scottish writer Denise Mina is the acclaimed author of DECEPTION and FIELD OF BLOOD, and is considered a leading international crime fiction novelist. Mina has also written for Vertigo’s HELLBLAZER series and most recently, she wrote A SICKNESS IN THE FAMILY graphic novel, also for Vertigo.

Lee Bermejo is fresh off the critical and sales success of graphic novel BATMAN: NOEL, a New York Times best-seller and follow-up to the 2008 hit JOKER. Bermejo has also worked numerous comic series including Vertigo’s HELLBLAZER and the Vertigo Crime graphic novels, among others.

Argentinean artist Leonardo Manco has worked extensively on Vertigo’s HELLBLAZER comic, while Italian artist Andrea Mutti first worked with Vertigo on graphic novel THE EXECUTOR, and then worked on the imprint’s popular DMZ comic series.

DC Entertainment is the worldwide leader in producing best-selling graphic novels and comic books, including best-selling Vertigo titles SANDMAN, FABLES, 100 BULLETS and ROAD TO PERDITION.

Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy is an international publishing juggernaut, with more than 60 million books sold worldwide and reaching the top of numerous best seller lists. Published by Knopf in the U.S., sales for all three books exceed 17 million copies, including digital sales of 3.5 million copies. Since September 2008, when THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO was published in hardcover, Larsson’s books have been a constant presence on bestseller lists across America.

The various storylines in Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy revolve around enigmatic and dangerous computer hacker Lisbeth Salander and investigative reporter Mikael Blomkvist.