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15 on Red Hood and the Outlaws #5 reviewIf you're just joining us, Jason Todd is having a bad day. Black Mask has injected Bizarro with a techno-organic virus, and now the crime lord can control the imperfect super-clone with his mind. How am Red Him going to get out of this one? Mild spoilers ahead. A big fight, a big axe, and a…
Lights out! At the end of Batman vol. 4, the Riddler crippled Gotham's power grid and cut short any celebration Batman might have had planned after defeating Red Hood. Never one to rest on his laurels, the Dark Knight is back on the case in Batman vol. 5: Zero Year - Dark City. What's included?…
"I Am Suicide" just delivered its fourth installment, and Bane still hasn't put on any clothes. While TK assures me on Twitter that Bane is a fastidious sort, I can't help but be concerned about the cleanliness of all those skulls. Jokes aside, Batman #12 doubled down on the controversy. And speaking of Double Down, he…
The Justice League has been getting its bottom beat pretty hard. A mysterious digital devil has been making life difficult, wrecking the Batcave and commandeering Baz's ring for nefarious purposes. But the team has caught up with this evil e-villain, and it's time for he, she, or it to pay. The bill comes due, in Justice…
I like to talk to letterers. Part of it is my day job: I work with fonts a lot, and am responsible for implementing (as opposed to designing) text layouts for a variety of correspondence. But it's also because—in spite of my job—it's easy for me to take a letterer's work for granted. Pat Brosseau…
DC's New 52 initiative was a quasi-reboot of the publisher's fictional universe. Certain events and character histories were preserved, but other elements were changed as editorial and creators saw fit. After two smashingly successful arcs on Batman, the team of writer Scott Snyder, artist Greg Capullo, and colorist FCO Plascencia turned its gaze backward. Zero Year was to…
Christmas comes early to Gotham, as the fifth Wednesday in November brought us Batman Annual #1, a collection of five tales of good to very good quality. DC's New Talent Showcase had a few let-downs, but overall, it was an encouraging look at some of the writers and artists DC has in the bullpen. We…
Boom's Warlords of Appalachia is a four-issue mini set in a broken future where the "Affiliated States of America" have rebelled, started a religious civil war, and were then beaten into submission by the union. Our hero is Kade Mercer, a Kentucky man whose attempt at a peaceful life is upset by the contentious relations between…
It's finally here! After months and months of delays, the long-awaited final showdown with Rao has arrived. No matter how you feel about the delays, or what Hitch has been doing on Justice League in the meantime, if you were a fan of this book, then you are probably excited to see how the story…
It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas! The weather—at least here on the East Coast—is finally getting nippy, and there are only a few weeks left before many of us will see our heads given over to visions of sugar plums. Or something. While it's still November (for another few hours, at least), this…
The Joker has returned! After enlisting the Dollmaker to remove his face back in the New 52's first volume of Detective Comics, the Clown Prince of Crime has been AWOL. Batman should know better than to expect peace in Gotham, though, and with the Court of Owls defeated, Mr. J is back to fill in…
After an issue full of in-fighting, Teen Titans turned its focus to out-fighting, and I thought the results were pretty good. Detective Comics isn't hitting me quite the way the last arc did, but it's still very good, and I've gotta tell you, when Jean went for his sword, I nerd-swooned pretty hard. Batgirl's "Beyond" wrapped…
Damian Wayne has the ingredients for a truly super super-team, but he started himself at a disadvantage by kidnapping them all. Rather than appeal to their better angels, he cynically tricked and swiped his would-be teammates and then attempted to motivate them through insults and fear. How on Earth can the fledgling Teen Titans stand…
How many times do these poor people have to die? But seriously, charges of Martha-death-fixation aside, Trinity #3 was amazing stuff. If you aren't reading this book, you should start. I thought Suicide Squad was a really fun mess, Justice League was a really predictable mess, and Batman was just disappointingly messy. Tom King is…
Last month, our heroes found themselves observers in Superman's past. Clark got to see his father again—got to save him—and the unexpected journey seemed a serendipitous blessing for the Man of Steel. But things were not quite as serene as they seemed, and by the end, Poison Ivy revealed herself (to us, at least) as…
Last time we saw the Justice League, they were getting the pants hacked off of them by some mysterious digital assailant. Batcave, Cyborg—even Green Lantern—all systems infiltrated, all systems being turned against the League. SOME SPOILERS AHEAD Let's start with what I like... So here's what happens: Bruce comes out from the Batcave rubble, the rest…
What a jam-packed week of comics! Lots of interesting stuff to read, from All-Star to Red Hood and everything in between. Mother Panic, the final Young Animal debut, was a brutal, moving piece of work, and outside of Gotham, the very excellent Green Valley delivered its second installment, and it did not disappoint. And as…
We ended things last month with a rather terrifying look on Bizarro's face (apparently, he did not appreciate the "monster" label attributed to him by Artemis). We pick things up this week with a rather terrified look on Jason's face—or at least, he would probably appear terrified if the posture of his facial muscles wasn't…
In a startling case of life imitating art imitating life, this week's issue of Justice League showed us just how bad things can get when the world's best defense against evil loses control of its computer systems. And let me tell you, it's not as bad as it could be, but that's not exactly a…
Can science solve murder by magic? According to its publisher, that's the question at the heart of Ether, but I disagree. Matt Kindt and David Rubín's new creator-owned series may hook you in with such a premise, but its meat—at least through its first two issues—is a Holmes-esque investigator and the fantastically bizarre, mystical realm…
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This is an archive of Batman-News.com from 2010 to 2025. For the latest news, check out BatmanNews.com