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10 on Harley Quinn #27 reviewIf you haven’t been reading Harley Quinn for some staggeringly inconceivable reason, this issue might be the one to make you a regular reader. Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti pull off some of their boldest, most insane antics as Harley meets the unambiguously red and black Deadpool analog Red Tool! Last issue we were left…
Harley Quinn gets to play Ghostbusters with Zatanna in Harley’s latest Black Book adventure courtesy of Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti, with new Harley Quinn artist Joseph Michael Linsner on art duties and colors shopped out to Hi-Fi. “Dispirited Spirits” is a pretty densely packed oversized issue that combines the fun tropes of the ghost…
Last week I kvetched about Marguerite Bennett’s Batwoman in DC Bombshells, but this week Brian Buccellato brings Injustice’s Batwoman to the fore in a big way in this issue titled “Revolutionary” (Digital Firsts No.15 & No. 16 parts 1 & 2). This is a significantly heavy Batfamily issue and there’s plenty to please the Batman…
“The Battle of Britain” storyline begins, pulling together the first three installments from Digital Firsts 31, 32, and 33, and at long last we see the Bombshells converging on a single location to fight as a cohesive team. The question is: how cohesive is it? And secondarily (but no less important): can this immense group…
Bucky Barnes visits the Batcave and...oh wait, sorry, character models are a bit mushy here. That’s Damian Wayne in all his long-haired black-and-red glory. Digital Firsts No.13 “Taking Sides” & No. 14 “Casting Shadows” tells the story we were promised two weeks ago as Injustice takes an almost all-Bat-all-the-time issue to delve into this nearly…
This plus-sized issue is 40 pages of Batgirl, but before you get too excited about that, let me just state up front that 7 of those pages are basically pin-ups, 5 of which are masquerading as pages, but really serve as weird “deathmatch” promos to set up the various fights throughout the book--in case we…
Well Harley has kicked the Joker to the curb, lost her squeeze, and is on her way back to Coney Island to get back into her overstuffed routine of managing her gang, working at the hospital, and roller-derbying to pay the bills. “A New Day, a New Fray” pretty much sums up life in the…
The final installment of the “Allies and Enemies” storyline (Digital Firsts 28, 29, and 30) sees the culmination of the fight between Wonder Woman and the Baroness and a Catwoman/ Huntress / Batwoman team-up against the dark side rising (with a crucial assist from Zatanna and Constantine the Cottontail). If you’ve been following along with…
One of my favorite things about Year Five so far is the epic fight sequences: both purposeful and exquisitely executed. I’m not typically a reader who enjoys a whole comic of people just beating on each other, but when it moves the story and it’s dramatically more interesting than just characters endlessly trading blows, I…
Okay folks! Now we’re cooking with gas. It’s unfortunate that Barbara Gordon needs to be unconscious on a table in order to be interesting in her own comic book (let alone an AI version of her), but this is what it’s come to. And frankly, the change of pace in this month’s “Mindfield” is definitely…
Bizarro and the Rogues finally come to the forefront in this floppy copy of Digital Firsts No. 9 “Objects in Mirror...” & No. 10 “The Curious Case of Bizarro Superman”. These are two threads that have been percolating quietly in the background since the start of Year Five, and it’s great to finally see how…
“Twenty-five Big One$” celebrates the start of Harley Quinn’s third year going solo with the amazing team of Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti. And it’s a big celebration featuring Harley’s long-awaited reunion with the Joker whom he hasn’t seen since he blew up her storage unit and sent her fleeing to Coney Island in issue…
Brian Buccellato takes us to a dark place with Injustice this week. Real dark. Issue no. 4, which combines Digital Firsts No. 7 “Street Fight” & 8 “Rage” is one of the most brutal issues of this comic to date. I was excited about the return of the Thanagarians (Katar Hol and Shiera have been…
“Red and Black is the New Green” as Harley undertakes the power of a dual black and red lantern ring to become mind-bogglingly rageful and destructive. If ever there was a premise tailor-made for Harley Quinn, this book gives her the opportunity to cut loose with pure evil without losing her signature sense of humor…
“Allies and Enemies” now continues in this collected edition of Digital Firsts 25, 26, and 27 which focus on the characters of Mera, Wonder Woman, Supergirl and Stargirl. Sorry Batfans, we haven’t gotten back around to seeing what Batwoman or any of the other Batfamily-related characters are up to. If it’s any consolation, a certain…
“Old Friends” brings Black Canary back to the pages of Batgirl, but don’t get too excited. While Dinah may have perked the book up a point the last time we saw her at Alysia’s wedding (issue No. 45), and while she’s actually the best thing about this issue as well, there’s really not a lot…
Before you freak out about the score, please read the whole review. All roads lead to....yeah, it had to come down to that, didn’t it? So here we are: the final chapter of Batman Europa, a globe-trotting team-up between arguably DC’s greatest dueling duo. We’ve had three issues, three cities, and a lot of stunning…
If you have fallen off the Injustice wagon, you might be missing out on Brian Buccellatto’s best work on this series: Digital Firsts No. 5 “Bait” & 6 “Decoy” deepen the intrigue as Catwoman is held hostage, Damian confronts his past, and the newly reassembled Batfamily (sans the aforementioned Damian, of course, because he’s a…
For some time now I’ve been pretty critical of the art in the Bombshells series, but you have nothing to fear here. The mixed team of Laura Braga, Sandy Jarrell, and Maria-Laura Sanapo (with inks by Juan Albarran) makes this second installment of the “Allies” storyline (Digital Firsts 22, 23, and 24) a nice feast…
Year Five isn’t pulling any punches as the collected Digital Firsts No. 3 & 4 will testify. Last we saw, Superman had his hands full with Doomsday, Yellow Lantern Hal was wrassling with Parasite, and Batman was secretly enlisting for his underground Resistance. This go-round we see the return of Wonder Woman, who has been…
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This is an archive of Batman-News.com from 2010 to 2025. For the latest news, check out BatmanNews.com