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17 on Who is Black Canary? A Primer on DC's First Bird of PreyCanary. Robin. Hawk. Dove. There are so many birds in the DC universe, you could make a team out of them. Oh, right - someone did: The Birds of Prey. And that team was started by some of DC's longest-lived heroines. With the movie officially underway, it's time to start talking about the primary players…
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The Doom Patrol isn't like other superhero teams. Mostly because they're not superheroes, and they're more like a broken family than a team. A group of superpowered people whose powers are at least as much curses as they are gifts, the Doom Patrol isn't the typical crew you'd think of when looking in the phonebook…
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The streaming world used to be one big, juicy pie cooked by Netflix. During that halcyon (and also technically near-monopolistic) period, we could get everything in one place. People even stopped pirating stuff. But then networks saw that big pie and wanted in. Netflix and Disney had a big, bad Marvel breakup this last year,…
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When DC and Warner Bros. announced the DC Universe streaming and comic service, I remember chatting with our editor, Sean Aune. I don't remember exactly what we said, but it was pretty close to "Is DC really going to be able to offer up enough to make this work?" In less than half a year,…
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If we're in a golden age for television, we must be in something like a platinum age for comic-book TV shows. Dark vigilante shows Arrow and Daredevil kicked off TV-sized universes for DC and Marvel respectively. While Marvel's seems to be disintegrating under the weight of Netflix and Disney's competition, DC and Warner Bros. long…
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The CW has been accelerating its DC universe at a steady pace since it expanded from just the Arrow to include The Flash in 2014. But this fall, the network put the pedal to the metal when it ended its Elseworlds crossover by announcing the next crossover. Crisis on Infinite Earths, a truly legendary story in…
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In the very early moments of CW's The Flash, the writers dropped what, at the time, seemed like an easter egg to prove to fans that they were, indeed writing a comic-book show: A newspaper headline from 2024 telling of the scarlet speedster's disappearance in a "crisis." The word crisis, of course, being DC's signal…
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Even if your comics are the best ones out there, it's tough to just publish books. You need to make action figures, movies, TV shows, various hats - you get the idea. But for a company like DC, that publishing core still has to hold everything else up, and it looks like some recent employee…
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Batwoman made a big splash when she debuted on this fall's CW crossover, Elseworlds. In a Gotham without a Batman, Kate Kane stepped in to try to save the ailing city both with her wealth and the heel of her combat boots. CW ordered a pilot for Batwoman's potential series, and it looks like it's…
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I find myself, more often than is probably reasonable, trying to explain to people who Reverse-Flash is and why I have multiple action figures, statues, and t-shirts for the character. They, probably like you, look at me like I'm a giant idiot. I'll grant you that! But the point stands: I adore the Reverse-Flash, one…
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Titans, the first of DC Universe's live-action original shows, is complete, with the last episode having dropped just in time for Christmas. We've had a little time to sit on it and think about it. Titans is an interesting show, for sure, but it is at odds with itself, representing the best and worst of…
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The Elseworlds crossover has finished and somehow, the collected Arrowverse writers' room managed to top last year's Crisis on Earth-X. While part 2 was a rapid-fire machine gun of easter eggs and in-jokes, the final act was more about the story itself and some important character development. And as self-contained as a lot of the…
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We're seven seasons into the Arrowverse, and I still have to pinch myself. That any of this is happening, that any of this is on network television as a prime-time event is still utterly beyond comprehension for me as a life-long DC and comic book fan. The second part of the Elseworlds crossover event took…
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While Supergirl espouses a message of hope - even in this dark fourth season - Arrow and Flash have struggled with their darkness. Oliver growls, Barry hems and haws. The first of three parts of the Arrowverse's 2018 crossover, Elseworlds, debuted on Sunday night, and it threw all of that out the door. Prepare for…
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There are always signs of an impending crisis. The animals go silent. The tide rolls out. The air gets stale. When the DC Universe is about to experience a Crisis event, you just have to look for the Monitor. The Monitor, created by comic-book legend Marv Wolfman, is the omnipresent, omniscient being that protects DC's…
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Aquaman. Blonde and clean-cut. He's one of the best-known comic characters in the world, but for years "DC" only stood for "Dorky Chump" when it came to the king of the ocean. These days, Aquaman is pretty cool again, thanks to none other than Khal Drogo stepping into his scalemail. But DC has been working…
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One of the most exciting upcoming DC movies is based around one of the very oldest comic book characters: Shazam, Earth's Mightiest Mortal. At a glance, he might look like an off-brand Superman, but there's more to this character than meets the eye - both in the pages of the comic and out. And he…
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The landscape for comic books on TV is a very different one from what it looked like 18 years ago. Back then, comic book shows had to be disguised as dramas, with promises that costumes would never come out. Now we get comic-accurate costumes and annual crossovers that mimic the old "Annual" issues of comics.…
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This is an archive of Batman-News.com from 2010 to 2025. For the latest news, check out BatmanNews.com