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6 on Injustice: Year Four #8 reviewThe collected issue of Digital Firsts 15 & 16, “Exile” and “God of War” develops the intrigues between gods and mortals and provides some background on Ares, including insight as to why he is playing both sides (aside from just the sheer love of creating chaos through war). The Good There’s a lot that happens…
For this, my 100th review for Batman-News.com, I am especially pleased to be bringing you a new No. 1 from a series that I’m personally excited about. DC Comics Bombshells has a freshness factor that feels lacking in the DCU right now. It’s a book about female characters in an alternate history context that makes…
The collected issue of Digital Firsts 13 & 14, “Strength of Hercules” and “The Old and the New” brings Shazam back to upset a tentative power balance between Superman’s cranky band of dictators and the gods themselves. Don’t expect it to last, though (nothing in Injustice ever does). Brian Buccellato had a whole lot of…
Last month we saw the rebirth/escape of the villain Livewire. This month’s “Surge Protection” gives us her origin via her YouTube-like channel (for which she also apparently did makeup tutorials--seriously). Babs calls on the assistance of both Frankie and Qadir (who has now conveniently left the University for a job with Luke Fox), to help…
Gotham by Midnight gets its own annual, which, though a bit surprising, is certainly very welcome given the overall quality of the book and the range of possibilities available to the mixed cast. Detective Drake is front and center in this tale called "The Gentleman Ghost" (should be obvious from the cover), about the return…
Do you need to read Batgirl no. 42 first? No! Feel free to skip the regular Batgirl series or save it for after: this story is definitely a stand-apart. This is the first Annual since the creative team of Tarr, Fletcher, and Stewart took over Batgirl, and it really amounts to a four-part adventure called…
“Nobody Cares” is the title of this venture into the teeming dark underbelly of Gotham City, the irony being in the juxtaposition of a demon who makes people so apathetic they literally lay down and die vs. the Midnight Shift who, in spite of suspicion from Internal Affairs, the death of Sister Justine, and Jim…
Last month’s “Extrastellar Exploitations” in the Galaxia Del Sombrero have led to this month’s “Excess of Exes” as Harley Quinn and Power Girl are deluged with a downpour of minions sent from the evil Oreth Odeox. While “Peej” tackles the onslaught single-handedly, Harley finds herself matched in combat against a suture-happy cross between Johnny-5 and…
This week brings more pummeling and proclamations as Superman’s team takes on the gods in Digital First chapters 11 & 12, “Ultimatums” and “Throwdown”. Is it me or are these titles getting to be a bit too pithy? It used to be that they were at least a matched set, but lately they just seem…
The Gang of Harleys are already in trouble and it’s the one and only original Harley Quinn to the rescue in this continuation of last month’s storyline called “Fish Food.” If you saw Jay’s comment in the Upcoming Comics article, you know already that Amanda Conner’s cover for this issue is an homage to Action…
If watching members of the Justice League punch each other to bloody pulp is your thing, than digital chapters 9 & 10, “Willpower” and “Mayhem” is sure to delight you. Superman and Wonder Woman have been matched for judgment by combat at the will of Zeus, who is kind of irritated at how things on…
When we left the Midnight Shift back in March, a cataclysm had occurred. The team had come up against the evil consciousness of the wronged early inhabitants of Gotham who had been systematically destroyed by early settlers to make way for the colonists. Though they managed to save Gotham from the wrath of both the…
Digital chapters 7 & 8, “Bargains” and “Broken” combine to bring full light to the underhanded dealings that will set the major action of this Year in motion. We finally see what’s motivating Lex Luthor, Batman’s deal with Ares, Hera and Hippolyta’s contretemps concluded, Diana’s negotiation for a Death by Combat to resolve the problem…
Batgirl confronts Livewire and, in turn, is confronted by the “new” Batman in this issue titled “Interference”, which picks up in the muddle that is post Endgame, post Convergence. Does Batgirl know that Batman is allegedly dead? If she does, she doesn’t mention it--kind of like how she never mentioned her father during the entire…
Somewhere in the Galaxia Del Sombrero, Harley Quinn and Power Girl are having “Extrastellar Exploitations”. If you haven’t been reading the regular Harley Quinn series and just picked this up on a lark, writers Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti, and Justin Gray sum up the predicament pretty efficiently in two panels on the first page (with…
Did I mention last issue that Injustice feels like the good old days? Because it bears repeating. Whatever plot points took us far afield in Year Three, we’ve returned to (literal) solid ground here in Year Four and it’s great to feel the thrill of picking up each new Digital First issue again. This time…
It’s hard to be believe it’s been two months since Harley first started putting together her Gang of Harleys and the regular lineup went into deep-freeze, but we’re back and the gang’s all here in this latest installment titled with spectacular obviousness “The Gang of Harleys” (what, no pun? Ah well). To recap: Harley’s life…
Buccellato is winning me over after Year Three’s less-than-spectacular conclusion by keeping the adrenaline pumping and the plot barreling forward. Two print issues in, the description in the solicits make it sound like we’ve been treading water, but actually there’s plenty in motion and much of it is still cloaked in mystery. Digital Firsts 3…
I have always liked Wonder Woman as a character, but I have to confess that I have read precious little of her comics over the years. Still, I enjoy dipping my toe into Amazonian waters now and then and have always enjoyed these jaunts with the princess from Themyscira. Her turn in Convergence was no…
Has the Convergence formula worn out its welcome? I am sensing a little Convergence fatigue among you readers. Or maybe it’s just me; I’m ready to get back to our regularly scheduled programming (whatever that might be in the brave new world of DC California). But until that time comes (still weeks away), at least…
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