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7 on Injustice: Year Three #9 reviewThis issue collects Digital Firsts 17 & 18, “Assault on the Tower” and “Fight or Flight”. When we last checked in, bother Wonder Woman and Superman had been awakened from their slumbers by Ares through a bargain with Hera (the particulars of which we don’t know at this point). Spectre has also discerned the location…
Who better to spend your Valentine’s Day with than Harley Quinn, right? If there’s one character in the DCU that is giddy hearts and abundant arrows personified, it’s the Mad Love Maven herself. Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti bring us a tale of unrequited (but not wholly unconsummated) love in this holiday special that has…
It’s still winter at Arkham Manor even though I believe we’ve moved well into Spring already in the other Bat Books. It requires a few mental gymnastics to return to this title and try to unthink where the rest of the stories have gotten to because we’re living in the past here: Joker has just…
Last month I predicted that Gotham by Midnight was following a split-narrative formula of advancing the plot incrementally while introducing us to the origins of the Midnight Team and this month’s issue, titled “We Become what We Fight” confirms it. This go-round we get the backstory on Lisa Drake, who fulfills the role of abrasive…
I have a confession to make. In case it’s not been obvious from previous reviews of this and other books, I really like seeing comic book heroes and villains just doing the most banal stuff and Harley Quinn exemplifies why. The juxtaposition of the most mundane, everyday things, like taking a shower, brushing one’s teeth,…
This is the kind of comic I think of as loud and brawling. Neither of which are pejorative terms, just a way of saying that the gist of it is to focus on violence within the context of what feels like a pretty traditional double-cross revenge plot. Because we’re stepping into the story mid-stream, I…
Today we welcome new writer Brian Buccellato to the Injustice team in an issue that also gives us the return of a long-absent Wonder Woman. This issue collects Digital Firsts 15 & 16, another “2-parter” titled “Awakenings” (1 & 2). The solicit for this book basically tells you everything that happens (which is kind of…
The title of this issue is “Likeable” and that’s the crossroads we’re at with this series: is this new Barbara Gordon the least bit likeable? When I read the preview and hit Babs’ self-pitying diatribe to Liam on page 3, it was looking to be a rough read and I was ready to unleash the…
This week we say farewell to the incredible storytelling of Tom Taylor, who has been with this series since it kicked off with Year One. It’s fitting in so many ways, then that we revisit that kick-off in this issue which collects Digital Firsts 13 & 14. The story focuses on the dream of Superman,…
I always forget that it’s going to take me three times as long to read a “100-Page Super Spectacular” than it would a regular comic book. It’s a good thing that it does, too, because when you’re paying more than ten bucks (with tax) for a comic, you want a quality experience. Fortunately with Legends…
“We Will Not Rest” picks right up from where issue no. 1 left us--in the grip of a hideous beast-nun who’s got a schoolroom full of “infected” children. We still don’t know much about Detective Drake and Doctor Tarr, which has me a bit flummoxed. I almost feel like the team is too big and…
This has been an absurd three-parter, but there’s no denying the appeal of Harley teaming up with Power Girl to take on the Sportsmaster and the Clock King in this final installment titled “Clock Blockers” (go ahead and get your giggles out now--we’ll be spanking moneys later). Throw in some three-eyed purple cat creatures, one…
Now that we know Arkham Manor is among the titles on the chopping block for March, that casts a whole new perspective on what we’re reading. I think we all knew going into it that Arkham Manor was going to be a short-range stint. Bruce has to get his house back and return Batman to…
Print issue No. 6 collects Digital Firsts 11 & 12, “Raise the Demon” and “Secret Weapon”. Interestingly, the title of No. 11 telegraphs the weapon referred to in No. 12. The solicits have been totally goofy so we don’t have an actual image for the cover. If DC ever posts one, I’ll be sure to…
Are you ready to get into the Holiday spirit or are you feeling Grinchy? Either way, let Harley Quinn help. With the usual mad mix of sweet and slightly disturbing, this month’s Holiday Special has something for both the young-at-heart and the hard-hearted. For the first time for a Harley Quinn special, this issue doesn’t…
This issue wastes no time throwing the reader into high-stakes circumstances as we see the glamorous BGirl team rampaging through Burnside after a successful robbery, flaunting their stolen goods, and harassing the locals. It’s probably a surprise to no one that the sparkly Batgirl who has joined these bad BGirls is just a Barbara lookalike--the…
Most of you are hopefully familiar with the Hot Toys brand by now; their Dark Knight Trilogy ⅙ scale figures date back to 2008. Since then they have made three different TDK Trilogy Batman/Bruce Wayne figures, five Jokers, Scarecrow, Two-Face/Harvey Dent, Selina Kyle, Bane, Gordon in SWAT gear, and Demon Batman. Next summer they will…
The killing spree continues here in print issue No. 5, which collects Digital Firsts 9 & 10, “Dead Man” and “Death of a Deadman”. But I asked for some light of hope in my last review and we get that too, so this is an issue you don’t want to miss! Superman threatens to kill…
Ray Fawkes and Ben Templesmith have produced something in Gotham by Midnight that is as different as it is refreshing: a new lens with which to experience Gotham and all of its haunted underpinnings. The supernatural has been a part of Batman’s world for at least the least the last 40 years with varying degrees…
This second chapter of the opening arc for this new series, "A Home for the Criminally Insane", does all the things the first chapter should have: tosses us into the deep end of the Arkham pool and says: “swim kiddies!” We’re introduced to Seth Wickham just long enough to care about what happens to him,…
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