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13 on Injustice: Year Four #1 reviewYear Four comes out of the gate swinging with the collected issue of Digital Firsts 1 & 2, “The Gods Themselves” and “What Fools these Mortals Are”. With Buccellato now driving the story entirely, we will get to see what he can truly bring to this series and he gives us an aperitif that’s definitely…
For Year Three’s Injustice Annual we get two stories: “A Proper Mage” and “Fall of the Titans”. Both are filler stories that happen before the events of Year Three even begin, so it might feel a little strange reaching back into the recesses of memory to place these tales in their proper context. “A Proper…
Writer (and cover artist) Steve Pugh brings us a story about Harley Quinn’s reformation and subsequent backslide in this aptly titled “Down the Rabbit Hole” issue. She’s been selected by Telos to square off against Captain Carrot, but there’s one major problem: Harley’s gone straight and all the crazy’s been leached out of her system.…
Gail Simone reminds us of her solid storytelling chops in this action-packed exploration of the Batfamily’s young lovers in an issue titled “Birds of Rage”. By now you all know the Convergence formula: it’s world domination cage match and here we have the (somewhat odd, but nevertheless interesting) teams of Shaman Hawkman and Hawkwoman against…
I admit I was skeptical about this whole Convergence thing. I anticipated the April schedule the same way I anticipate Marvel’s Age of Ultron: sure, I’ll watch it, but my expectations are low and I likely won’t be queueing up to see it premiere night. No offense to you diehard Marvelites, it’s just not my…
“Be Careful Whatcha Wish For...” is the ominous title of this latest boxcar ratcheting down the rails as part of the HarleyTrain, but we’ll have to wait until June to see how Harley’s scheme actually plays out. For now she’s just building her team after putting out an advertisement last issue with a call for…
There has been a lot of murmuring and outright grousing that the Endgame tie-ins aren’t so much tie-ins as just excuses to put more paper on the stands. There was also some chatter last week about whether Arkham Manor would come to some greater resolution through the Endgame tie-in since the mini-series ended with a…
We bring Arkham Manor to a close with a mix of action and humor and a trail of questions left unanswered (possibly for exploration elsewhere?). In fact, this may not be the conclusion of Arkham Manor at all. The real final resolution may actually occur in Arkham Manor: Endgame, making that particular issue quite possibility…
Last issue we ended with a clash of titans as the Spectre faced off against the murky creature of genocide Ikkondrid smack-dab down in Gotham while a familiar Batplane zipped into the light of the fray. It was an epic cliffhanger to end all cliffhangers, so how does it all turn out? What’s the payoff?…
We conclude Year Three with the collected issue of Digital Firsts 23 & 24, “Maelstrom” and “Endgame”. This issue not only delivers the final resolution to the problem of all this out-of-control magic, but reveals Constantine’s motivation for getting involved in Batman’s Rebellion in the first place (you all have to have known he had…
This Batman: Endgame tie-in gives us the “Battle for the Burnside Bridge” starring Batgirl attempting to rescue a busload of characters trying to escape a hoard of “gigglers”. It all takes place at a barricade set up at the Burnside bridge. If you’re also reading Batgirl and wondering which of the two books you should…
It’s finally time for Barbara Gordon to confront the “Ghost in the Cowl” in this issue, which is the culmination of a story arc that’s been building since the new creative team took over Batgirl starting with issue no. 35. Six issues in this new direction it’s clear that the writing team isn’t going to…
This issue collects Digital Firsts 21 & 22 respectively titled “Goodbyes and Farewells” and “Hellfire and Damnation”. This is the penultimate issue to Year Three before Injustice goes dark for a little nap during the Convergence event that will subsume everything until DC is neatly ensconced on the opposite coast. We should be gearing up…
If you haven’t been reading Harley Quinn, but are curious about this series, this is a pretty great jumping on point. “Demental Overload” begins a new arc and looks like it might be establishing a new direction for the Mistress of Mayhem. In this issue, Harley comes face to face with her competing goals and,…
Featuring Origin Stories for Batgirl, Firestorm, and Poison Ivy Sandwiched between the Batgirl and Poison Ivy stories in this 10th issue of Secret Origins is an origin for Firestorm from the team of writer Dan Jurgens and artist Sean Chen. I know very little about this character (basically what I could run a search through…
You thought you were just going to get another installment of “how the gang got together” highlighting Dr. Tarr, didn’t you? Ray Fawkes and Ben Templesmith pull a fast one and overturn a whole box of toys in this issue entitled “We Fight what We Become”. No need for a mad scramble, though: everything dumped…
“Battle Royale” is sixteen adrenaline-fueled pages of Batman vs. Deathstroke and four pages of Deathstroke’s son and daughter encountering that goon named Possum from earlier in the series. But you’re not here for Possum, you’re here to read sixteen pages of Batman and Deathstroke duking it out while Harley bounces around in the background running…
Last issue promised us the showdown between the Arkham Manor murderer and the Dark Knight Detective and that’s the bulk of what we get here: Batman swooping in to put an end to the the predator haunting the manor from within its walls. This book, titled “These Walls Must Hold”, is heavy on action but…
It’s “Batgirl vs. Burnside” and we get to see our red-haired Girl Wonder chased by an angry mob that includes a baker and a man with a bat full of nails; she mopes around about her PPs while Frankie and company sit around hacking at their Hooq hack; officer--er, I mean professor--Krupke dresses her down…
This issue collects Digital Firsts 19 & 20 respectively titled “House of Mystery” and “House of Secrets”. We’re in the middle of a big brawl with Mxyzptlk and Trigon trading thunderbolts and hellfire while Superman and Batman square off down below. Team Batman looks to have a momentary upper hand, but a very annoyed Swamp…
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