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11 on Upcoming Comics September 12, 2023Welcome back to Upcoming Comics! It looks like the weeks-long heat wave is finally starting to die down (at least where I live) and hot weather Summer is coming to an end. Soon it will actually start feeling like Fall and all that entails. That means changing leaves, brisk evenings, and of course, Halloween. It's…
Listen up: the era of Matina is over and now I'm in charge. You've all had it too good for too long. Every week you were graced with her thoughtful commentary on whatever was coming out that Tuesday. Well no more. From now on you will get my incoherent ramblings and half-baked opinions, and you're…
After two months, a miniseries, and dozens of tie-ins that took over almost every comic DC publishes, we've finally reached the end. Has Knight Terrors lived up to all the hype that prioritized it over every other story you might've been reading? Well, not really. Honestly, if you've read any of the other events that…
Batman Beyond: Neo-Gothic got off to a rocky start with an opening issue that fell victim to some of the previous series' worse tendencies. Now, as Terry and Kyle head deeper underground, the story becomes more personal, and thankfully it's an approach from which the story benefits greatly. The attempts at weighty deep commentary are…
Well the series took an unexpected month long hiatus, but now it's finally back to pick up on the last issue's cliffhanger. The al Ghuls are planning to retire and give the world a miracle crop that will end world hunger, while at the same time the Court of Owls are back in Gotham. The…
Once again we have a cover with Joker on it, yet no Joker to be found in any of the stories. Someone in the comments mentioned that it might be an instance of King's big Joker story getting pushed back without the covers being adjusted. There might be some truth to that, but King's story…
Why exactly was this four issues long? I understand that it's the flagship series of the whole Knight Terrors event, but the whole thing is only two months. Did we really need to squeeze a prologue, an epilogue, and a biweekly series where Deadman and friends just sort of wander around until they run into…
My primary complaint with this series so far has been that not much actually happens. There's been a lot of vague gesturing towards Insomnia's master plan facilitating the event, but never with enough focus that it might wrap things up too quickly. Knight Terrors #3 finally manages to establishes a concrete sense of momentum for…
Eisner Award winning artist Christian Ward has announced that he will be writing and drawing a three part, prestige 48-page-issue miniseries called Batman: City of Madness. Based on Lovecraftian cosmic horror, it will act as a "pseudo sequel" to Grant Morrison's Arkham Asylum: Serious House on a Serious Earth. In addition, Ward has listed Scott Snyder's…
Batman Beyond: Neo-Year slowly built up a lot of good will before unfortunately dropping the ball at the very end. Its downfall was arguably due to biting off more than it could chew, and promising to tackle complex, nuanced topics that it ultimately couldn't. Batman Beyond: Neo-Gothic #1 picks up after the end of that…
I won't spend this month's review giving an extended rant about the state of anthologies in comics like I did last month. However, I will say that once again the cover art has absolutely nothing to do with any of the stories inside. Joker doesn't even feature in any of them! Oh well, I'm sure…
We're just about a month into the Knight Terrors event, and it's already starting to feel drawn-out. The main plot, by necessity, needs to last the entire two months, but maybe filling that time with four main series issues plus a prologue and epilogue was too ambitious. Like I said in Knight Terrors: First Blood,…
The winners for the 2023 Eisner Awards have just been announced at San Diego Comic-Con. Plenty of titles were honored this year, but Nightwing and The Human Target led the pack with two wins apiece. Out of its three nominations, Nightwing won Best Continuing Series and Best Cover Artist (Bruno Redondo). It wasn't the only bat-related…
According to a report by The Hollywood Reporter, production workers at Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network have begun talks to formally unionize. 66 workers from Warner Bros. Animation and 22 from Cartoon Network filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to hold a vote to join The Animation Guild. The effort includes…
In celebration of its 30th anniversary, Batman's first animated film is getting a 4K remaster. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm is set to release on Blu-Ray on September 12, and will include new cover art, a digital code for the movie, and a “Kevin Conroy: I Am the Knight” special feature. Little has been revealed…
The World's Finest brand is quickly turning into Mark Waid's vehicle for exploring DC's Silver and early Bronze Age. It's a time that's often ignored in between the "origin story" days of the Golden Age and the later years when things started getting more serious. Waid's approach to the concept has been to honor the…
For those of you just joining us, Knight Terrors #1 is the second issue of the main Knight Terrors event. If that's confusing to you, that's because the first issue was actually Knight Terrors: First Blood #1. Don't worry, this series will eventually finish off with Knight Terrors: Night's End #1 so that there will…
Knight Terrors is finally upon us, and it all starts here with Knight Terrors: First Blood #1. This event will take over almost every DC Comics title through July and August, so what is it exactly that we'll all be reading for two months? Well, in short, nightmares. I know, you're all shocked. It's a…
This month's cover happens to be the one used in the series' initial announcement (though mislabeled as a variant for issue #1 at the time) back when we knew next to nothing about it. The history of the title, as well as the silver age costumes worn by the chess pieces on the board had…
With Straightman and Task Force X behind us, Batman: The Adventures Continue Season 3 begins new arc focusing on the al Ghuls and a changed Gotham City. More than the final story for the miniseries and even Batman: The Adventures Continue as a whole, it's almost framed like a finale for the universe all together.…
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