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7 on DC's Beach Blanket Bad Guys Summer Special #1 reviewI’ll get out my one major complaint right up front so we can dispense with it and move on to all the wonderful things that make this book a joy to read. In a word: editing. DC's Beach Blanket Bad Guys Summer Special is a compilation of 10 tales of DC universe villains: everyone from…
Here there be SPOILERS! For some of you the reveal of the identity of Karma may feel a bit like a letdown, but I’m frankly pumped at the fact that he’s so much of nothing: a street-level villain who’s just managed to make himself dangerous enough to get on Batman’s radar. This is the kind…
Is Bryan Hill writing a Red Hood for the next generation? We’ve got an upstart up-and-comer villain with a fancy necromancer-tech helmet of some sort, and he’s got a personal problem with Batman--and particularly against the people who follow in his footsteps. Sounds like a grudge-match forged in the furnace of some failed wanna-be who…
Did you get an invitation to the wedding? If you’re still trying to avoid spoilers, you’ll want to skip this review since it’s just ONE BIG SPOILER (there might be very little to talk about otherwise). But if you’ve already got your hands on your own copy, or else had your fun wrecked by major…
I have to admit up front that any book in which Jim Gordon makes an appearance almost always gets at least a .5 boost in the score from me. So I’ll give you a second to mentally adjust for that before I launch into my review of Shawn Aldridge’s “Choices”, a one-shot pitting Batgirl against…
All right, let’s just get our complaining about the release schedule out of the way first: this book takes place before both Batman no. 48 & 49, and more or less immediately follows Batman: Prelude to the Wedding: Batgirl vs. the Riddler. The bad news is the fact that we are already ahead of the…
The cynical side of me says: oh look, a comic book with Black Lightning to help promote the TV show of the same name. Or even more cynical: oh look, DC comics is looking to catch the attention of fans of the TV show and encourage them to buy comics. But neither of those potential…
“Rage on Harring” brings my tenure on the Injustice series to a close after five years. And what a wild ride it’s been. I have loved every moment of reading and writing about this book and I can only continue to hope and dream that someday Tom Taylor will get to write an in-universe Justice…
“One of My Turns” concludes its two-part story, with Christopher Sebela wrapping up Harley’s adventures in the underground pitching battles between The Reaper and Professor Pyg. Next stop for Harley is Apokolips, but she’ll be making that journey without me. This is, I believe, my 98th review of a Harley Quinn book on this site.…
Tim Seeley writes a darn good Batgirl book! You probably don’t need to read this tie-in to follow along with the Cat and Bat nuptials, but if you skipped it, you’d only be doing yourself a disservice. Even if this wasn’t a marginally wedding-themed plot, it makes for straight-up solid reading as a stand-alone comic.…
This may be Michael Moreci’s first venture into writing Batman, but he’s no stranger to DC, having contributed previously to both the Wonder Woman and Nightwing titles. “The Cursing of Gotham City” shows he knows how to fit right in, as it combines some of the longest-standing themes for this character: mystery, terror, and the…
And now for something completely different. Hal Jordan has been convicted of crimes under the influence of the yellow ring and sentenced to the penal colony on Harring to do back-breaking labor as atonement for his sins. To make matters worse, the correctional officer in charge of him is Sinestro’s Green Lantern daughter Soranik. To…
This month Christopher Sebela takes Harley through her paces in part one of a new tale titled “One of My Turns”. This book is bridging the gap before new series writer Sam Humphries takes over on the 4th of July for a really bold new direction. That leaves Sebela basically treading water with the current…
The “Strange Loop” closes out this era of Batgirl with slightly more whimper than bang, but this was nevertheless a satisfying conclusion (both to the loop itself, and in preparation for the incoming new crew in June). Larson’s work on the book has been consistent in its unevenness, but that’s actually helped stabilize a book…
Two weeks ago, I kvetched a bit that Paul Dini and Bret Blevins spent an awful lot of time playing catch-up from the Harley Loves Joker fill-in, as well as cramming in a lot of expositional background on where the Grison comes from and her past connection to Harley Quinn. This time I’m going to…
Back in August of 2017, Paul Dini and Bret Blevins concluded a nine-issue backup story in the regular Harley Quinn comic series, but the story didn’t actually end! And now at last, eight months later, the tale will wrap up in this two-issue mini dedicated to the Harley Loves Joker era. It feels like an…
With a title like “Strange Loop” I can only hope that writer Hope Larson isn’t planning to Ground Hog day us with this closing arc on Batgirl. So far the signs are good that we’re in for a different kind of strange, though. With Shawn Aldridge stepping in for the June issue, Larson will take…
I never would have imagined that Supergirl could take on Amazo by herself and sell it, but Tom Taylor carefully choreographs a scenario just daring enough to pull it off! And this is the great fun of this book: Injustice 2 gives us all the crazy mashups and pit fights we could hope for from…
Let’s suddenly jump into the far-flung future in one of those comics that plays on the “What If” trope, taking Harley down the path of what would have happened if she hadn’t returned to her home and her gang and the bosom of her friends. “Old Lady Harley” recasts Harley as Mad Max (with the…
The “Angry Bird” storyline comes to a close, not with a whimper, but with a great big bang that nonetheless feels more sound and fury than anything else. Maybe if this had been a three-episode arc with only a handful of villains, it would have made more sense, but the sprawl of it and the…
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This is an archive of Batman-News.com from 2010 to 2025. For the latest news, check out BatmanNews.com