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8 on New 52 - Batman and Robin #15 reviewBrace yourselves. Batman & Robin is back and it's delivered some of the best visuals of the Death of the Family event so far. This series has struggled lately to tell a decent story. We had a radioactive worm monster, a giant purple guy, and two straight months of zombies and cannibal cultists. The quality…
Last month's Batgirl #14 laid it's claim as the best Death of the Family tie-in yet (overthrown, in my opinion, by Batman & Robin #15) and one of the best cliffhangers this year: Joker proposing to Barbara with her own mother's severed ring finger-- if she says no then a nail bomb explodes! How messed up…
We're slowing things down, way down, and talking it out in this issue. A lot has happened since Batman #13 and in that time Death of the Family hasn't exactly featured the family very much at all outside of an occasional cameo by Nightwing or Robin. So here we have an issue of Batman…
This is an important issue in the development of Harley Quinn as her own woman, a step forward for her as a character that can function without the Joker. But I also hated it. There are two things that have already happened in the comics recently that I despise and both were brought up again in this…
Here we have a Mad Hatter story that takes place within the Arkham City video game's timeline. It isn't a prequel. It also doesn't jive with the events of Arkham City very well and that's a big problem I have whenever this series tries to slip in tales that coincide with the game rather than…
I don't usually look at the solicits because I like to be surprised with my comics but the latest news on Gail Simone had me wondering what DC would advertise for the month of March. According to the solicits at DCComics.com, Ray Fawkes will be taking over writing duties on Batgirl starting with issue #18.…
You will need to read the previous issue to fully understand what's going on here. That much is for sure. In case you're not familiar with Ame-Comi Girls, it's a digital-first series that takes place outside of the New 52 continuity like Legends of the Dark Knight only it goes much, much farther with creating…
Thanks to the good folks at the Chaifetz Arena in St. Louis I was able to score a few tickets to Batman Live and I have to say that it totally meets this Batman fan's approval. Now of course it's not the dark and gritty version of Batman that many of us love-- don't go…
Is it the end or is it a new beginning? Will there be a death in the family or will there be a wedding...or would such a wedding mean the death of the family? This is going to be a pretty good week for Batman comics. Not only do we have Batman #15 driving the…
Last week there were rumors floating around that Gail Simone had left the Batgirl title she's been writing ever since the launch of the New 52 more than a year ago. Soon after the internet started to buzz, Gail herself came out to fans and said that there was no truth to the rumors and…
Right off the bat let me say that as a Death of the Family tie-in, this issue was a complete failure. But as a fun Batman story in its own right it's a success. This really didn't need to feature the Joker at all...and really, it doesn't. He's in the book for 3 panels total…
You see this issue on the shelf and you say to yourself, "Another Joker story?!" You already have the Clown Prince of Crime showing up in every other Bat-title thanks to the Death of the Family crossover and now we have two issues in a row of Legends of the Dark Knight with the Joker.…
Respect earned. It couldn't have been easy to clean this mess up, but new writer Fabian Nicieza and fill-in artist Fabrizio Fiorentino pulled it off. Judd Winick, who was the writer on Batwing from the very beginning, jumped ship before finishing the three part Father Lost arc leaving a new writer to pick up the…
Let's go on vacation. Come on, we'll all leave Gotham for a bit. How about we go into outer space and sprinkle in a little magic while we're at it with Saga, Vol. 1!
Ready to take a break from your The Dark Knight Rises Blu-ray/DVD watching and get back to some comics? Good! This week we have a Batman villain get-together in Detective Comics, Batwing goes through damage control as it changes writers mid-arc, and Legends of the Dark Knight promises to be another great break from New…
This was a pretty astounding issue. Astounding. When this issue was first announced I was annoyed at the fact that we would be deviating from the central story yet again, but that turned out to not be the case. Yes, we see the possible future of what would happen if Damian became Batman, but it's…
This was kind of an odd issue for me that I thought was just okay at first, but the more I thought about it the more I disliked it. It has some interesting elements but they don't click together and this arc as a whole is shaping up to have the same unbalanced structure as…
I don't know how any fan of the whole DC Universe could look at this cover and not pick this comic up. How cool is that cover? I usually go for the simple covers that express what the comic is about in a minimalistic way but there's something very satisfying about seeing all of these…
Yeah, there are a lot of aliens and magic and yeah, I still think the Batman mythology would be a lot stronger if Jason was still dead, but once I accepted those things I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The villains are never that threatening and there's never a feeling of there being that much at…
Leon, Josh, and Robej, consistent readers of the site, asked about this book last week and suggested I pick it up and write a review. So I did. You may notice that I usually don't review Red Hood & the Outlaws unless it's a Jason-heavy episode and it turns out that this was an un-official…
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