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3 on Injustice 2 #23 reviewTom Taylor’s Injustice 2 continues to pull no punches whatsoever as a new and sort of misaligned Justice League takes on Ra’s al Ghul’s insanely invulnerable Amazo. It’s Wonder Woman and Batman! It’s Green Arrow and Black Adam! And yet somehow it’s still going to take more to put this killing machine down. Digital Firsts…
This comic book has problems, but I don’t care and I’m giving it a relatively high score because it was just such a fun kick in the pants to read: start to finish, just a solid adventure you might enjoy from an episode of Batman: the Animated Series, for example: fun, light-hearted, and fast-paced. And…
Frank Tieri really pulls it together in this fourth installment of the “Angry Bird” storyline. While we still have no idea what is motivating the Penguin’s cadre of assembled third-tier villains, the story is starting to take shape around Killer Croc in an expected, but interesting way. Especially nice to see, is the return to…
The sweeping romance of Killer Croc and the Killer Whale continues in Tom Taylor’s tale of bestia--no wait, this is Injustice 2. Well, actually I guess the statement stands. It’s little details like this oddball, slightly comedic relationship that can keep a reader on their toes in this book. You can never get too comfortable…
Frank Tieri continues to kitchen-sink this book full of names and faces that stretch all across the decades of Batman lore. Unfortunately reading this book is more like a Who’s Who game or a flip-visit through a Batman villain encyclopedia that a meaty plot we can actually sink our teeth into. “Angry Bird” is now…
The potpourri of characters and situations in this week’s Injustice 2 is a testament to Tom Taylor’s ability to juggle his sizable (and ever-growing) cast and their many intricate motivations, actions, and plans over the course of this thus-far long haul for video-game tie-in (which I think we can pretty much stop referencing at this…
What’s not to love in this film? It’s got my favorite hussy-hacker, Jack the Ripper, it takes place in my favorite historical period featuring Batman in a sorta pseudo-Victorian getup, and Gotham’s grand fairgrounds are ripped straight from the the Chicago’s World Fair Columbian Exposition--including "Chekov’s" Ferris Wheel (above). Seriously: is there anyone who won’t…
Shots are fired! Hope Larson gives us a solid issue in which Batgirl struggles to solve a technological mystery while also facing a failure of her recent past in a book more solid and more indicative of what this series can really by like when it’s allowed to shine. No goofy social media that will…
Tom Taylor plays with the lives of the Injustice characters like a cruel and merciless god who occasionally has a good day and decides to do something kind for a change. So while this book deals lots of death blows, it also reaffirms a few lives in that surprising and wholly organic way that Taylor…
The “Angry Bird” arc continues, but this time without much in the way of actual angry birds. We know that Oswald Cobblepot is still pulling the strings from behind the scenes, but for the moment the focus is on the first wave of goony D-list villains he’s shopped in from Gotham to start wreaking havoc…
Tom Taylor likes to play with our emotions. We know this. He’s killed off untold favorites since the dawn of Injustice: ripping our hearts out with every distress-filled death since Lois Lane was taken out by a narcotized Superman in the very first issue. So it should come as no surprise (though still may be…
The title of this week’s Harley Quinn is “Angry Bird”, which certainly refers to the important and well-known villainous bird on the cover in particular, but preliminary to anything else about this comic, I submit for your amusement the following show-stealers as the bigger and angrier birds of the book--the return of Maurice and Pierre:…
Last we saw Harley she was going through an emotional transition period following the death of Mason, leading to a literal transition into a screeching Harley-Bat thanks to Francine Langstrom’s bat serum (with which she also infected Big Tony). “Batter Up” (Part Two) wastes no time showing us what a menace a Harley-Bat can be.…
Hope Larson brings winter to Burnside/Gotham in this first part of a new arc titled “Cold Snap” that features our polar pal the Penguin--someone with whom Batgirl has a fairly well-established history as of late. Cobblepot isn’t causing any trouble just yet, however, as he rides into town on an open sleigh (or, rather, it’s…
What better way to kick off this new era in the Harley Quinn series than by just going full batshoes crazy in a new arc that promises us lots of Man-Bat serum, crazy transformation hijinx and Harley being a little more than usual off-key. “Batter Up” (Part One), serves no softball in Harley Quinn no.…
Batman and Batgirl suit up in arctic Bat-tle gear to infiltrate Superman’s Fortress of Solitude. Everyone else just has on their regular day-wear. It’s a strange choice that Xermanico executes in an otherwise triumphant artistic return to Injustice 2. I tried to justify it by saying they would have “stealth” white batsuits for camouflage, but…
Almost two years ago (February 2016), there was an exclusive Loot Crate Harley Quinn comic, which finally now is available to everybody. This oversize special presents the Loot Crate-exclusive story as a stand-alone comic, available in comics shops for the first time ever, with an additional eighteen (18!) pages of brand-new story and art by…
Appropriately titled “Time off for Bad Behavior” or “We are Outta Here!”, Harley Quinn no. 34 brings an end to the long-running successful collaboration between husband and wife team Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti. It’s been three years and probably at least 100 comic books bringing Harley into her own through this flagship series as…
Every now and then I feel like this world of Injustice is played out: the dynamics are on a rinse and repeat cycle that just feels trodden and sodden at this stage in the game and pitting some of these heroes and villains against one another is as formulaic and redundant as it must feel…
I love saccharin Christmas comic book stories--you know, those one-and-done tales of peace on earth and good will featuring superheroes doing good deeds for the less-fortunate, helping to restore a sense of hope in a dark world? Unfortunately, while this issue of Batgirl technically should qualify under those parameters, you’ll have to look elsewhere for…
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