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12 on Superman & Lois should look to Supergirl season 4 to succeedWhen you look at any list of "top 10," "best ever," "my favorite" Superman stories, one common thread is that a lot of them are Elseworlds-style stories. Superman: Red Son and Superman as Overman come to mind. In other stories, he's lost most of his powers. It's not that there aren't great Superman stories so…
When the CW's Arrow was just starting out, it waded its way into the superhero waters slowly. It wasn't until the fourth season that Oliver called himself the Green Arrow, and another character even made fun of the idea back in the first season. We only had to wait for three episodes for Kate Kane to don…
If Oliver is the father of the Arrowverse, Barry must be the cool uncle. The Arrowverse sprung forth from the work of the team behind Arrow, and The Flash carried the torch as the Arrowverse expanded. Supergirl, Black Lightning, and Batwoman all seem blissfully unaware of the coming Crisis (Batwoman is back in time a ways, anyway). Oliver…
We were all excited when, after five years of flashbacks, Arrow finally synced up with the show and we could finally stop dwelling on the past. Titans Season 2 apparently didn't get the memo, because we're on our third flashback episode; the show is seemingly determined to put a hard stop to any momentum it picks…
Oliver Queen's Farewell Tour continues this week, but things are a lot more mundane this time around. It's hard not to be a little bit disappointed that the whole season isn't an earth-hopping extravaganza, but the episode still yields some good character moments that show us that this season isn't just a case of turning…
Despite being an old dude wearing glasses, ASA Agent Odell is the only one making moves right now. After establishing in the first two episodes that Freeland is under martial law by the ASA and siege by Markovian forces, it's time for action to start kicking off - and does it ever. But almost all…
We're only just getting started this season of Supergirl, but one of my favorite aspects thus far is the focus on J'on J'onzz, the Martian Manhunter. It still blows my mind a little that we're five seasons into a live-action television show where one of the main characters is the Martian Manhunter and that the…
Into its third week, Batwoman has been on unsteady footing thus far. The show is trying to establish a bunch of characters and an unfamiliar version of a place we're very familiar with. It's a tough task. In week 3, the writers seem to have finished the groundwork and are finally ready to do some Caped Crusading.…
While the other Arrowverse shows typically name their episodes individually, Black Lightning breaks things up into clean arcs. This season, we sit firmly in the Book of Occupation, and the occupation is affecting everyone's lives. While Jefferson and Lynn try to help an ailing metahuman in detainment, Anissa is trying to negotiate her way to safety,…
If you're following along with Titans season 2 in real-time, you know things have been moving quickly. The first villain is dead and replaced with a second. Two generations of Titans are living together, MTV's Real World-style, in Titans Tower in San Francisco. Dick Grayson continues to make very bad decisions to protect himself from his…
The Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover coming this fall isn't a vacation from the rest of the season like other crossovers have been. It's the main focus. While Batwoman, Black Lightning and Supergirl have yet to be pulled in, the first episodes of both The Flash and Arrow both hinge on the coming crisis, and this week's…
Who could've guessed back in 2012 that the CW's weird take on the Green Arrow would spawn an entire multiverse of characters, culminating in the massive Crisis on Infinite Earths event later this fall? Arrow hasn't always been great, and it's even been downright bad at times. There's no doubt, though, in how influential it has…
After an incredibly strong fourth season, Supergirl dove into season 5 by shuffling the field. This week, it has to get things moving and there are so many moving parts that it feels like it's trying to get a tank up to speed. I'm hoping it fires like a tank, too, because right now it…
After a slow start last week, Batwoman is starting to get up to speed. In fact, I'm really impressed with how the plot is moving forward. Instead of switching right over to a villain of the week, Batwoman is continuing to explore... Batwoman (and Alice). Spoilers for episode 2 follow. "Down the Rabbit Hole" Last week,…
One of the things I find fascinating going back to the shows I watched as a child is how downright scary many of them were, and how I often didn't know it at the time. Sid's toys in Toy Story come to mind, as does literally every second of Return to Oz. While Batman is…
It's all about charisma. If you're going to base an entire episode around a character, that character has to be interesting and likable. What I'm saying is that Aqualad was terrible, and I hated him. And that's relevant because just two episodes later, we're doing a whole episode centered around a specific character. But this…
In The Flash season 5, we watched as Barry and Iris met, loved, and lost their adult daughter, who traveled through time to meet her father. The season ended with Nora sacrificing herself to save her family, rather than succumbing to the Negative Speed Force, thus defeating the Reverse-Flash and saying goodbye to her parents. In…
As Black Lightning's third season kicks off, the city Black Lightning protects is in a dark place. When we left off, the Pierce family had just found out that not only does the A.S.A. agent Odell know about their double lives as vigilante superheroes, but that the Markovian army has set its sights on the…
It's kind of hard to imagine the pressure Batwoman is under. Not just the character herself, but the Batwoman show, too. When Kate Kane enters the picture, her high-gliding cousin has been missing for three years. Gotham City is finally ready to admit that Batman is gone. Instead of assuming that the person who risked their…
Supergirl's fourth season was awesome. It wrote huge checks with its story and its villains. We had a problem Supergirl couldn't fix with just punches and smiles, and not just Lex Luthor but a really good Lex Luthor that felt authentic in his looks and writing. Even as someone who has enjoyed Supergirl from its CBS days, it…
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This is an archive of Batman-News.com from 2010 to 2025. For the latest news, check out BatmanNews.com