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8 on Harley Quinn #24 reviewThe opening page of “Can’t Fight City Hall...or Can You?”shows an awesome retro-style intro in which a giant Joker’s hand grasps Harley, Madame Macabre, Mason, and Poison Ivy, while others fly around a cosmic background, with the panel is flanked by character portraits. If you ever read comics in the olden days or have had…
Every month I come to this book with some small ever-fading glimmer of hope, but notoriously low expectations, and every time those hopes are dashed and the expectations are met head-on. These last couple of issues, I’ve resorted to a page-by-page blow-by-blow in which I nitpick the comic to death. This month I’m going to…
“Lovers and other Dangers” concludes Dick Grayson’s visit to Key West, but what a great cameo he has in this tightly written dense crossover compliments of Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti. If you didn’t already pick up Starfire No. 7, you should--this has been a wonderful two-part story that any comic book fan can enjoy!…
Could this be the final year of Injustice? We are heading into the events that immediately precede the action of the video game with Batman’s small band somewhat dispersed and dejected and the Resistance building, but failing to counter Superman’s rule. If you picked up the Year Four Annual (which you should have), you know…
Marguerite Bennett brings us the first installment of the 3-part “Allies” storyline (or 9-part, if you’re counting in Digital Firsts as this covers digital issues No. 19, 20, and 21). The focus for this storyline is back in Burnside/Gotham where Kate Kane’s underlings have taken it upon themselves to form up a Batfamily in defense…
Harley Quinn and Power Girl comes to the end of its 6-issue mini with a conclusion that settles the arrangement between Vartox and the object of his obsession: Power Girl. Harley lets her friend Peej take center stage for the most part in this one (it’s her wedding day, after all), but she doesn’t hesitate…
Injustice went on hiatus at the conclusion of Year Four in October, but this month we got a belated Christmas present (or early New Year’s gift) in the form the Year Four Annual, which brings Tom Taylor back as the writer of a tale that sets up the forward action of Year Five! Note: Year…
Bats and Jokes crash Paris in Europa’s penultimate chapter with Matteo Casali and Brian Azzarello continuing the formula we’ve already seen in the previous two books. This time it’s Diego LaTorre working from layouts created by Giuseppe Camuncoli to give the story an artistic flair that complements the previous styles. Artistic flair makes up a…
When your biggest disappointment with a comic is that it just didn’t have another 100 pages in the issue or the lick and a prayer of some hope of continuing the series, suffice it to say you’ve enjoyed your reading experience. Gotham by Midnight comes to its cataclysmic finale at the hands of writer Ray…
The Batgirl team continues to give us more of what someone wants (apparently a lot of someones since the book sells). Unfortunately I’m not one of those someones, but every month I try to find things to say about this book that are positive given its focus on what appears to be a very specific…
“Kingpin Queen” puts Harley up against Zena Bendemova as promised last go-round, but the real action takes place once Harley sets out to rescue Mason Macabre. First, however, I need to prop this soapbox here because I have something I’ve been wanting to say about the relationship between comic books, the women who read them,…
Batman and Joker travel across countries (this time it’s “Prague”) in search of a cure for a deadly virus that threatens to take them both out. That’s the simple premise of this four-part untraditional team-up between most everyone’s favorite arch-enemies. On the downside, that appears to be the whole gist of this book: Batman and…
“Combat” continues with Digital Firsts 16, 17, and 18. Things are starting to coalesce for our various and myriad teams:. Wonder Woman breaks out of detention, Zatanna and Constantine defy the Joker’s Daughter, Batwoman, Huntress, and Lex blow a sock hop full of Nazi Zombies (literally), and Supergirl and Stargirl have left Russia and come…
I was thinking about the paragraph I would have to write introducing the story and characters and making sense of Koriand’r’s new life in Key West, but to be honest, you don’t really need any introductions from me because Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti have made this issue entirely accessible in a way that doesn’t…
Maybe there’s been some grousing about “Harley Fatigue” lately, but here’s the deal, people: when a team can maintain this level of consistency in terms of quality, I don’t care how many titles they want to put out. Harley Quinn sells books not because she’s faddishly popular or panders to some particular demographic, but because…
Gotham by Midnight takes us to the edge of an apocalypse for the City of the Bat. Ikkondrid has risen from the swamp more powerful than ever, the Midnight Shift has been dispersed (and dispatched by the looks of it at the close of the previous issue as Drake and Corrigan seem to have met…
I’m pinch-hitting to catch us up for Robin: Son of Batman, so I feel I have to make a few confessions up front in the interest of full disclosure: But it’s okay: I not only read through this book in a quick and easy sweep, but I actually mostly enjoyed it. The Whys and Wherefores…
Bombshells continues the “Combat” storyline in this compilation of Digital Firsts 13, 14, and 15. Most of our principal women have been enlisted (with the notable exception of Stargirl and Supergirl, who are still in Russia), and we’re starting to see an objective take shape. It feels pretty late in the run already to barely…
It’s been 16 issues since Harley Quinn and Sy Borgman defeated the Russian villain Zena Bendemova in an avenging rampage that left a trail of bodies, including Zena’s own--impaled by the horn of a rhinoceros. I remember that issue with special fondness because it was the first review I ever wrote for Batman News (it…
Batman Europa gets the full cinematic treatment in this opening salvo of a story that’s going to crisscross the continent as Batman and Joker team-up after clashing here in “Berlin”. The premise is wonderfully simple (I love simple: it’s effective, to-the-point, and means things can move without the need for a lot of exposition). Here,…
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This is an archive of Batman-News.com from 2010 to 2025. For the latest news, check out BatmanNews.com