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11 on Batman #102 reviewA mysterious figure from Batman's past comes to Gotham to show the Dark Knight how it's done. But who is Ghost Maker, and what is he really doing here? That is the primary question left on the table by Batman #102, but is it worth the lead-up? You can't get there from here Whether he's had…
Honesty time: I wasn't nuts about McFarlane's first set of DC Multiverse figures. Whether it was Batman's ears and Batarang looking pretty stubby, or the clunkier-than-necessary split torsos, there was much that gave me pause. But then, I stopped by the McFarlane booth at Toy Fair (right before the zombie apocalypse), and my expectations were…
Mezco’s latest One:12 Batman is here, and it completes the trilogy started a few years back with the Ascending Knight, continued with last year’s Sovereign Knight, and concluding with this, the Supreme Knight. Each figure was meant to capture the Caped Crusader at key milestones in his career, and the Supreme is the Frank Miller-inspired,…
I didn't grow up on the Justice League animated series, but I do have a great deal of appreciation for it. It has my favorite "heavy hitter" JL lineup, including Johnny over Hal, Martian Manhunter, and Hawkgirl. I love the multi-part episodes focusing on different team members, too. It's great. Diamond Select Toys has put out…
I just watched Batman Returns again recently, and I've got to tell you: I think it's the weakest of the series. The film doubles the villain count from Batman—triples it if you throw in Max Schreck—but crams everyone into a positively claustrophobic Gotham City that apparently doesn't have enough citizens to make a tree lighting more well-attended…
For most of the past two years, I've had a steady a stream of Diamond Select statues coming through my house. Before the world retreated behind its collective mask, I was reviewing almost everything that was shipping. But then things stopped shipping for a bit! Well, the world is slowly peeking its nose out, and…
Funko is probably the most successful purveyor of licensed merch in the business. Their POP! line is known to all, and their spin-off vinyl figures like Dorbz, Pint Size Heroes, and Mystery Minis are pretty healthy product lines themselves. But something else Funko is great at is recognizing other quality brands and bringing them on-board, just as they did…
Batman is incredibly adaptable, both in-universe and out. And when it comes to merchandise, there's no shortage of unique takes on the base aesthetic of the character. Funko has produced a wide range of comic and film-faithful Batman POP!s, but the King of Vinyl has strayed from the source a few times, too, releasing some…
Batman first burst onto the scene in 1939's Detective Comics #27. 20 years later, Bill Finger and Sheldon Moldoff introduced the world to Bat-Mite, the extra-dimensional imp who would come to be known as the Dark Knight's biggest fan. Funko released a slew of Batman 80th Anniversary POP!s last year, and the company recently sent me…
Funko recently sent Batman News a rather huge box of goodies, and I've been having a blast photographing everything. Two of said goodies are Dark Nights: Metal POP!s for Red Death and Devastator. These are their stories. Red Death If the comments in our Comics section and around the web are any indication, Red Death has been…
The Elseworlds spawned a lot of interesting and/or crazy ideas. And even though the imprint is no longer a thing, the central concept of dropping DC's heroes into hypothetical, non-canonical scenarios lives on, in books like Batman: White Knight and others. Two of the most memorable Elseworlds tales are Red Rain, and Superman: Red Son, and Funko's got your…
I started reading comics in 2013, in the lead-up to Man of Steel. I had always liked super heroes. I had always really liked Batman. But, even as a child, that never led to reading comics. Other than the copy of Spider-Man Versus Wolverine I received from a cousin, I didn't really have anything to do with…
A great big box of Funko goodness recently came to my door, and I'm working my way through it. Two of the choicest cuts in the box are the 1989 and 1997 Batman POP!s. For those of you ignorant of the cinematic history of the greatest fictional character on Earth, those years refer to Tim…
It all comes down to this: an epic showdown between Batman and Azrael—and one of them's going to get wrecked! Maybe both of them are going to get wrecked! Read the book! SPOILERS AHEAD Who is Batman? In my review of last month's penultimate issue of Curse of the White Knight (or maybe it was #6), I…
Batman: Creature of the Night took a long time to reach its conclusion, but it was worth waiting for. Delayed by health problems for both writer Kurt Busiek and artist John Paul Leon, the book's four issues released over a period of just about two years. The hardcover collecting the entire series hits comic shops…
It seems like many of my merchandise reviews begin the same way: me yakking about how excited I was when I saw something at Toy Fair. Nevertheless, at the risk of sounding repetitive... I was so excited when I saw Funko's POP! Town at Toy Fair... ...especially the Wayne Manor and Hall of Justice sets.…
Batman: Universe is a book that I’m surprised it’s taken me this long to read. I remember being thrilled to discover that DC would be publishing the 100-page Walmart giants, and that a new serialized story would appear in each of them. But, other priorities won, and I wasn’t able to pick up any giant…
Diamond Select Toys makes a wide assortment of DC-related Gallery statues—that's their affordable, plastic line—but the cream of that particular crop is their GameStop-exclusive stuff. If the Gallery line has a consistent weakness, it's paint detail, but the GameStop statues tend to have much better application. Recently, Diamond has been pushing former GameStop-exclusives into the…
Bruce Wayne is not who he thought he was! The revelations were shocking in last month's Curse of the White Knight, and Gotham's Guardian will never be the same. But can he fight past the painful truth and save his city one last time? Find out in Batman: Curse of the White Knight #7! Feelings and fan…
Mezco makes some of my favorite toys, and I've been looking forward to their Toy Fair 2020 press event for quite some time. What would they have on display? Would there be anything new in the booth, or in the catalog they put in the press bag? And what else would be in that press bag?…
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This is an archive of Batman-News.com from 2010 to 2025. For the latest news, check out BatmanNews.com