Here at Comics: The Gathering we're excited to be bringing you coverage of the second season of Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy. The first season was a phenomenal success, being watched by 45 million households in the first month alone and coming third in Netflix's most popular shows of 2019. An impressive feat. It adapts the incredible Dark Horse comics written by Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance fame, and illustrated by the talented Gabriel Bá. The Official Synopsis For The Second Season Is As Follows: Five warned his family (so, so many times) that using his powers to

Key Comic Releases  Week of June 16th / 17th After an incredible return of comics last week, this weeks sees the beginning of one of the most anticipated mini series of the year with Dark Nights Death Metal #1. This week we also see the return of Strange Adventures with issue #2 and a Flash and Nightwing Annual from DC Comics. As far as Marvel goes however, this week there are no issues being released in print. With all of the excitement building, here are the key issues you need to know about. Lady Zorro #1 Writer – Patrick Shand Art – Mike Wolfer Publisher –

This Weeks Key Comic releases June 10th One of the things I hear often in the comic community is people wondering if their comics are key issues or not. Key issues are something that comic collectors really enjoy adding to their collections and I decided I would do my part to help you guys out by creating this weekly column where I will list all of the week's key comic issues so you guys can make sure you pick them up and add them to your collection! So lets start off week one by going over this weeks new releases. Old Haunts #1 Publisher – AWA STUDIOS Writer – Ollie

Tales of the Golden Age: The Green Lantern In Tales of the Golden Age we will look at a story, or character from the Golden Age of Comics. My favourite era of comics. It is the 80th anniversary  of the first appearance of Alan Scott the Golden Age Green Lantern. To celebrate today we will take a look at the first story of his adventures. The character of Alan Scott(originally he was going to be called Alan Ladd....Aladdin... get it? but was changed because there was already a movie star with that name) was created by artist Martin Nodell with scripts by the great Bill Finger. Nodell

Dark Nights Metal Round Up (Warning Spoiler Heavy...Metal!) If you guys have been paying attention to the DC Comics world then you’ve probably seen all the hype around what is set to be this summers biggest comic event, Dark Nights Death Metal. If you are new to comics, or missed out on the original Metal series, you might have a ton of questions or be completely lost on what the event is all about but never fear as I have all the key info you need to know to have an understanding of what this universe includes and ill be guiding you through the original series as well as its tie

DC Comics Dark Nights Death Metal #1 Variant covers With the release of Scott Snyder and greg Capullo’s Dark Nights Death Metal #1 just around the corner, many fans are trying to find all the variant and exclusive covers out there to make sure they don’t miss out on any of their favorites so I have thrown together this list of variants for you guys and where you can buy them at before having to go to the bowels of eBay and having to shell out more then you want too! Publisher Variants Standard Cover A – Greg Capullo Superman variant – Francesco Mattina Batman

This morning DC Comics officially announced all the new release dates of books that fans have been waiting for that were put on hold due to the COVID-19 outbreak which prompted DC to halt all current titles and postpone them for a later date. DC will be continuing to distribute books to shops using Diamond as well as using two new distributors they have partnered with since Diamond stopped all shipments of new books back in April. Below is the list of all issues and graphic novels that will be released next month in June and we are finally set to get into some of the amazing stories we have

Yesterday, April 18th, marked the 82nd anniversary of Superman’s first appearance in the iconic Action Comics #1. Yes, the cover of Action says June but it was published April 18th, 1938. To celebrate his birthday I’ve put together a recommended reading list of some of my favorite Man of Steel stories. He’s had 82 years of adventure so I have not read everything. If I missed one of your favorites let us know on our Facebook page. Throughout his 82 years he’s always been the embodiment of hope and encouragement! Join me in wishing Kal-El a very Happy Birthday! Now onto