Michael Doran
I'm not just the Newsarama founder and editor-in-chief, I'm also a reader. And that reference is just a little bit older than the beginning of my Newsarama journey. I founded what would become the comic book news site in 1996, and except for a brief sojourn at Marvel Comics as its marketing and communications manager in 2003, I've been writing about new comic book titles, creative changes, and occasionally offering my perspective on important industry events and developments for the 25 years since. Despite many changes to Newsarama, my passion for the medium of comic books and the characters makes the last quarter-century (it's crazy to see that in writing) time spent doing what I love most.
Latest articles by Michael Doran

The DC Multiverse expands in Dark Crisis: Big Bang
By Michael Doran published
News Mark Waid's romp through the Multiverse gives designations to newer alternate DC Earths and revisits a classic of his own

The Kent Family farm gets a new status quo thanks to Batman in Superman: Son of Kal-El #18
By Michael Doran published
news Things in Superman's world are changing faster than a speeding bullet with the Justice League's help ... and you may want to pay attention

Superman and Lois' relationship is tested in Priest and Pagulayan's Superman: Lost
By Michael Doran published
news Superman goes on a 20-year mission that happens in minutes in Earth time. Will Lois and Clark's relationship survive?

First look - the "most epic" Ra's al Ghul special wraps up the Batman – One Bad Day event
By Michael Doran published
News The eighth and final One Bad Day special pits Batman against his centuries-old arch-rival and grandaddy to his son

Read the first six pages of Batman/Spawn #1
By Michael Doran published
news Batman and Spawn meet again for the first time in nearly 30 years

"Batman isn't dead!" A (very curious) Batman #131 first look
By Michael Doran published
News Plus writer Chip Zdarsky gives the "worst interview ever" about Batman #130

Dark Horse returns to Hawkins, Indiana in new Stranger Things anthology
By Michael Doran published
News Stranger Things: Tales From Hawkins explores the wider - and perhaps even stranger - parts of the midwest town

IDW celebrates 5 years of Sonic the Hedgehog comics with an expanded anniversary reissue
By Michael Doran published
News Sonic the Hedgehog #1 Fifth Anniversary Edition is a "Way Past Cool" Quinquennial encore

Joker returns to interfere with Punchine's "Gotham Game" in series finale
By Michael Doran published
News Punchline: The Gotham Game concludes in March with the return of the Clown Price of Crime

Marvel vs. DC - how a decades-old rivalry disappeared under our noses
By Michael Doran published
Features Despite a brief admirable reprieve, expect the silence between DC and Marvel Comics to continue

The 'Old Man Avengers' and Doctor Doom team up in final Wastelanders audio series
By Michael Doran published
news Old Man Wolverine, Hawkeye, Black Widow, Star-Lord, and Doom battle Valeria Richards in the last chapter

Batman pulls off his most impressive superhero feat ever
By Michael Doran published
News Houston, we have a Bat-problem...

Wonder Woman and Shazam get their own Lazarus Planet spin-off series Revenge of the Gods
By Michael Doran published
News The DC gods are pissed and superheroes are the target of their ire

Industry vet Hunter Gorinson named president and publisher of Oni-Lion Forge
By Michael Doran published
News A respected name in the comic book community to head the indy publisher

IDW developing six new properties for TV
By Michael Doran published
News Eddie Campbell's Bacchus, James Kochalka's Dragon Puncher, and more are headed for the small screen

It's Tosin (and his new love interest Kime) vs the Abomination in Wakanda #4
By Michael Doran published
News Marvel welcomes a new Wakandan hero in January

Masters of the Universe returns to comic books in 2023
By Michael Doran published
news 'By the power of Dark Horse!' a new comic book set in the Revelation universe is coming in February

DC wants to make Angel Breaker its next big superhero
By Michael Doran published
news The Wildstorm 30th Anniversary Special suggests new supervillain Angel Breaker will actually emerge as a major DC superhero

Nightwing Annual reveals the identity of the new villain Heartless ... probably
By Michael Doran published
News Turns out the secret identity of the new supervillain is likely someone Nightwing readers have met before

DC introduces new superhero City Boy in the Wildstorm 30th Anniversary Special
By Michael Doran published
News But before he moves to Gotham City to team up with Nightwing he debuts in a new fictional DC city that's been drawn onto the Earth-Prime map

The Huntress teams up with a surprising JSA member in Justice Society of America #1 preview
By Michael Doran published
News The Justice Society 26 years in the future will seemingly let anyone in

Black Panther and Namor team up versus the Avengers ... no, really
By Michael Doran published
News The usual bitter rivals put aside their differences in January's Black Panther #13

First look - the post-apocalyptic Archie Vs. the World
By Michael Doran published
News The Riverdale gang cruises Fury Road in the January one-shot special and we've got a look at interior art
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