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44 on Upcoming Comics October 15, 2025Welcome back to Upcoming Comics! New York Comic Con is kicking off, and we’ve got Batman News reporters Chip and Chris on-site ready to break any news that might be coming out of it. Just yesterday it was announced that Absolute Catwoman is getting her own miniseries, and the convention is just getting started. Getting…
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Last we left off, Batman was in a very bad way. He only just barely escaped Ark M's tortuous prison with plenty of scars to prove it, his friends have all been mutilated into cruel mockeries of their former selves, and Bane is preparing to finally break his body and spirit. If there were ever…
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Batman comics have been running for almost a century now, with decades upon decades of new villains, new Robins, and an ever evolving sense of who the Caped Crusader is. Despite all this, there's often a desire to go back to the stories set during his earliest years when things were simpler. They offer a…
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Welcome back to Upcoming Comics! There have been a lot of big announcements and new/ending titles in recent months (plus whatever’s coming next week at NYCC), and sometimes I think how crazy it is to be able to cover all of it. It’s a hobby where we’ve been able to come together and share our…
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Do you remember Tim Drake? It's understandable if you don't; sometimes it feels like neither do the people making comics. Believe it or not, he used to feature pretty heavily in a lot of Batman stories. That is, until around 2011 where he's sort of been without a home for the most part. Different writers…
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Gotham Academy was a surprise highlight of the New 52 era back in 2014. On the surface it seemed like just another high school book aimed at younger readers, and in some ways it was that, but it had so much heart with a compelling story and characters that it quickly gained a cult following…
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Welcome back to Upcoming Comics! Weeks like this really highlight when DC launches a bunch of new titles at once. Five of the titles coming out are on their third issue or less. I suppose it makes sense given that they tend to launch in waves (often lined up with a SDCC or NYCC announcement).…
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Welcome back to Upcoming Comics! DC just released the solicitations for December, and part of that means necessarily revealing a lot of who will be fighting in those rounds of DC K.O. None of them are too surprising, but I think it's funny how they want to keep things close to the chest to generate…
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So far in this arc a lot of our time has been spent seeing all the different Bizarro versions of various DC characters on Bizarro World. I've generally praised this aspect, as it's a lot of goofy fun that I believe works for the type of concept Bizarro is. Now that we're in the home…
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On Monday's release of his newsletter "Our Best Jackett", Scott Snyder talked about what it's been like writing Absolute Batman so far and where he plans on going with the series from here. He explains how the latest issue #12 (our review here) was the most difficult to write yet due to its brutality because…
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Welcome back to Upcoming Comics! Because I wanted to reread a classic (and for an op-ed piece I may or may not be writing), I decided to grab Loeb and Sale's famous Long Halloween saga off my shelf. Sometimes when you go back to something you read a long time ago, it doesn't quite hold…
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When this series began, its tone was clearly something that leaned into Snyder's propensity for over the top action and spectacle. It was camp, it was fun, and Batman fought with a battle axe while driving a giant dump truck as his Batmobile. However, as the series has gone on, I've noticed that it's started…
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Welcome back to Upcoming Comics! When this post goes live on September 6th, it will be Batman News' 15th anniversary! I base that date off of Chris Begley's original one year birthday post, (there are a few posts on the site that are dated before the stated first date, though I assume they may have…
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The first issue of any new run is always a daunting task, especially when that comic's a renumbering of DC's flagship title. In a little over 20 pages, a writer needs to define their version of the character and what readers should expect going forward. Not only does that mean establishing the tone and status…
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Welcome back to Upcoming Comics! I won't beat around the bush, obviously the big Batman news worth talking this week is the new Batman #1. Every time a new writer is brought onto Batman it becomes a huge deal and people start setting up a wide array of expectations. Over the past decade, that often…
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This coming Wednesday, Matt Fraction kicks off not only his run on Batman, but also a complete renumbering of the title (the third in the series' history). While the previous run actually won't be finished until October, the two will run concurrently until Jim Lee and Jeph Loeb conclude their H2SH story. Regardless, Fraction's Batman promises…
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I’m sure you’ve heard many of the accusations levied against Batman. Everything from him being responsible for crime in Gotham to his fight against that crime being totalitarian and itself evil. In fact, these sorts of perspectives have gone beyond simply being hot takes one might hear from fans. Even the comics themselves have acknowledged…
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Welcome back to Upcoming Comics! The big news this week is almost certainly the new Lego Batman game they just announced. Taking all of the different movie adaptations and Frankensteining them into one story told through Lego is an interesting approach. Obviously using the movies as a base is nothing new for Lego games, but…
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Last month I said that the strongest parts of the story were less about the plot and more about the fun Bizarro premise. Well this issue seems to have taken that to heart, as it almost entirely leans into exploring the different aspects of the Bizarro world. It gets to the point where it runs…
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Something that Absolute Batman focused on in its first arc was using its villain to both create parallels with Batman and also subvert traditional expectations for the characters. This new Bane origin story shows that what was true for Black Mask is even more so for him. His story is a sympathetic tragedy that acts…
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This is an archive of Batman-News.com from 2010 to 2025. For the latest news, check out BatmanNews.com