All the insider DC Comics news and updates you can handle plus A Direct Currents section spotlighting comics set to arrive in comics shops in September! Plus: Pick your poison! Counting down the 10 biggest baddies the DC Universe has ever known! An interview with Justice League artist Jorge Jimenez An exclusive first look at the upcoming Freedom Fighters series by Rob Venditi and Eddy Barrows Part 2 of the two part "How to Color Comics" by DC Art Director Mark Chiarello All this and more!

An introduction to a forthcoming set of limited series.

Illustrated with plans, maps, and new and historic photographs, the second edition of Worthy of the Nation provides researchers and general readers with an appealing and authoritative view of the planning and evolution of the federal district.

The monthly free magazine that brings you inside info on the characters and creators of the DC Universe! In this issue Scott Snyder talks about the Justice LeagueÕs new Hall of Justice headquarters and we get our first look at SupergirlÕs new costume! Plus, a breakdown of the many lives of Hawkman, Ivan Reis opens his sketchbook for a look at Superman's new Fortress of Solitude, Joshua Williamson Ranks DCÕs super speedsters and much more!

The monthly free magazine that brings you insie info on the characters and creators of the DC Universe! This month, Brian Michael Bendis and Scott Snyder sit down for their first joing Q&A on the future of the DC Universe. Plus a peek inside superstar artist Jim Lee's sketechbook as he detailes the design of new Man of Steel villain Rogol Zaar - the being who killed Krypton! All this and Dan Didio fights a house cat!

The superstar team of writer Geoff Johns and artist Dale Eaglesham reunite to launch the first all-new SHAZAM! monthly title set in the DC Universe in almost 20 years! (What took you guys so long?!) Teenager turned super-hero Billy Batson struggles to balance school and superheroics! (Guess which one is more fun?) But when Shazam unlocks a shocking secret deep within the Rock of Eternity, it challenges everything he knows about the worlds of magic and his familyÕs future as its champions! Also, witness the bizarre team-up of Dr. Sivana and Mr. Mind as they set off to build a society all their own! DonÕt miss the start of an epic run in the making as ÒShazam and the Seven RealmsÓ begins!

Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America's expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often has served as a national battleground for contentious issues, including slavery, segregation, civil rights, the drug war, and gentrification. But D.C. is more than just a seat of government, and authors Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove also highlight the city's rich history of local activism as Washingtonians of all races have struggled to make their voices heard in an undemocratic city where residents lack full political rights. Tracing D.C.'s massive transformations--from a sparsely inhabited plantation society into a diverse metropolis, from a center of the slave trade to the nation's first black-majority city, from "Chocolate City" to "Latte City--Asch and Musgrove offer an engaging narrative peppered with unforgettable characters, a history of deep racial division but also one of hope, resilience, and interracial cooperation.