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SPOILER WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for Justice League of America # 13 by Steve Orlando, Ivan Reis and Julio Feareira, on sale now, as well as DC Comics’ greater Rebirth storyline. Now that we’re more than a year into DC Comics’ Rebirth initiative, major elements from pre-Flashpoint continuity have been forcefully integrated into the former New 52 universe, creating a whole new reality. In Justice League of America #13 by Steve Orlando and Ivan Reis, readers get a look at these macro-level changes from a subatomic perspective, as Ryan Choi leads the team into the microverse in search of his mentor Ray Palmer, the previous Atom. As it turns out, things like Superman’s conflicting histories and whatever Dr. Manhattan is doing to the multiverse have dire physical consequences for the Microverse’s billions of inhabitants, as quantum storms wreak devastation with unpredictable and unavoidable fury. RELATED: DC Rebirth: We’re 99.9%

As promoted, Crosswind is Freaky Friday meets Goodfellas, but its first issue is such a fresh take on the body-swapping premise that even the most skeptical readers will be immediately taken in by the divergent life stories writer Gail Simone (Batgirl, Wonder Woman) and artist Cat Staggs (Adventures of Supergirl, Wonder Woman ’77) have crafted for its protagonists. Cason is a hitman with a conscience who begins the book by killing one of his oldest friends, for an offense Cason is convinced he didn’t commit. Loyalty to the organization and his boss is one thing, proving it like this, however, is testing Cason’s last nerve. RELATED: Simone & Staggs Bring ‘Freaky Friday Meets Goodfellas’ Story to Life Juniper is a beleaguered housewife with a philandering husband, a teenage stepson who hates her, taunting bullies next door, and a dinner party to arrange for her husband’s demanding boss tonight. It’s all too much for her frayed nerves, and our dear, disheveled, doormat June is about

Series of CG shorts premieres in October NHK announced on Monday that its E-Tele channel will air a new anime series based on the Swiss penguin character Pingu beginning on October 7. Polygon Pictures (Ronja the Robber's Daughter, Ajin) will animate the series, titled Pingu in the City, in full CG instead of the claymation used in previous Pingu series. Kimiko Ueno (The Royal Tutor) and Shigenori Tanabe (Kemono Friends) are writing the scripts and Naomi Iwata (Web Ghost PiPoPa, Midnight Horror School creator) is directing the series. Ken Arai is composing the music. In the story, Pingu and his family move from their small village to a big city, where there are many people with many different occupations. The ever-curious Pingu tries to join them at their jobs, but his mischievous side gets the better of him and he ends up messing things up. The anime will air both in the mornings at 9:20 a.m. and evenings at 5:25 p.m., and each episode will be seven minutes. The anime

Scott Hampton knows horror. That’s been evident ever since a friend of mine showed me Hampton’s adaptation of “Pigeons from Hell” many years ago (and trust me, it’s creepy). So when Dark Horse announced that “Hellboy: The Sleeping and the Dead” would have Hampton drawing a script by Mike Mignola? Why yes, that was reason to salivate in anticipation. Happily, the book has turned out as good as one would hope. With Hellboy fighting a ghoul in an underground crypt, there’s a small part of me which keeps flashing back to “Hellboy: The Wolves of St. August.” As that’s my favorite “Hellboy” comic ever, that’s a good thing. The children’s nursery rhymes coming out of Mary’s mouth as she fights Hellboy are there just enough to be creepy, but not so overwhelming that it ever grows distracting. And like so many of the best “Hellboy” stories, Mignola avoids making “Hellboy: The Sleeping and the Dead” simply about a monster. Instead there’s more than initially meets the eye, something that resul

Spider-Man is one of the most popular characters in comic book history. And across all the films, comics, TV shows and games we’ve seen hundreds of different looks for the wall-crawler. Some have become just as iconic as the original red and blue costume, like Miles Morales’ red and black suit. In each of the movies, we’ve seen Peter designing his new costume or tinkering with his current one. Because of the type of hero that he is, artists have a lot of free rein with the character. Comics gave us the Symbiote black suit, the Iron Spider costume and then there’s the Spider-Verse, in which resides hundreds of different versions of our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, some great and some not so much. RELATED: A Whole Other League: 15 Insane Fan-Designed Versions Of The Justice League Thankfully, fan artists can create some incredible pieces of work that play up on the different aspects of Peter Parker. For example, many have used the free running/parkour aspect of his heroics and inco