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7 on Nightwing and Batman: One Bad Day lead among 2023 Eisner Award nomineesEvery year the Eisner Awards celebrate outstanding achievement in comics. Named in honor of legendary creator Will Eisner in 1988, they include awards for categories such as Best Short Story, Best Writer, and Best New Series. Last year, Nightwing led all other titles with a whopping five nominations. This year, it's tied with a number…
Anthology series are often by their nature very hit or miss. Any given comic has some likelihood of either being good or bad, and when you collect them like this you roll the dice over and over again. With a whopping 64 pages, Batman: The Brave and the Bold #1 almost feels less like an…
This arc focusing on Straightman started with an interesting premise: how do Batman and the US government deal with a Captain-America-esque super soldier who's been brainwashed into being a henchman for the Joker? It was a mystery based on small clues that had been planted since the beginning of the season. However, from there, the…
Knight Terrors is upon us. For the months of July and August, almost every ongoing comic that DC publishes will be part of an event which sees their characters trapped in a "Nightmare Realm" where they must face their deepest fears. Far be it from me to tell DC how to do their jobs, but…
Back in February, DC announced their Knight Terrors event which would trap DC's heroes and villains in a "Nightmare Realm" where they'll be forced to face their greatest fears. This will affect the entire publishing line, with almost every ongoing title getting a two-part miniseries which will come out over the months of July and…
This story has a lot going on. There are mysteries, battles, revelations, and twists. We finally get answers to the questions raised last issue, and the conflicts they've created all start coming to a head. At first glance it seems like the formula for an exhilarating comic. However, when there are only about twenty pages…
Last year, writers Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing created Batman Beyond: Neo-Year. Spinning out of the pages of Batman: Urban Legends, it followed Terry McGinnis as he coped with the death of Bruce Wayne and had to handle the Batman mantle alone. If that weren't enough, Gotham itself had become a malicious AI bent on…
DC Comics has been very busy at this week's MegaCon with all of their announcements of upcoming projects. On Friday, they premiered a trailer for the Dawn of DC initiative, including news from the creators of some their series plans. Among them was the announcement of a new Batman and Robin series from writer Joshua…
If there's one name that should come to mind when you think "Lovecraft" and "comics", it's Mike Mignola. For decades he's brought the same incomprehensible cosmic horror to life with his incredible Hellboy series, along with its various spinoffs. As such, there was no better person for the task of writing a Lovecraftian Batman story…
Every year the GLAAD Media Awards are meant to recognize pieces of art for their representation of the LGBTQ community. Started in 1990 by GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), the awards have presented the title of Outstanding Comic Book to comics which promote that same message of inclusion. Notable past winners include Neil…
Way back in my review for issue #1, I said that the main themes of Gotham City: Year One looked to be racial prejudice and moral decay. The series has thrown one major twist after another at its readers, but ultimately that's what everything comes down to. The veneer of respectability surrounding Gotham City has…
According to an email from his friend and long time collaborator Steve Perry sent to Multiversity Comics, Michael Reaves passed away at the age of 72 on the morning of Monday, March 20th after a long battle with Parkinson's disease. Reaves was a celebrated author and TV writer, having created numerous acclaimed works. He is…
And now we've finally reached the end. The end of what, exactly? That's not entirely clear. This series is constructed as a continuation of the elements from the show, and as such focuses on the themes present there, along with some new ingredients thrown in for good measure. At least, that was the idea. Unfortunately,…
What is the most positive character trait you can think to give a fictional character? The kind of thing that uncontroversially portrays them in a positive light. "They love puppies" has to be pretty high up there, I would imagine. Batman: One Bad Day: Ra's al Ghul #1 opens with a sequence letting the reader…
The opening of Batman: The Adventures Continue Season 3 set a high standard for the rest of the series to follow. In many ways it bucked the trend from the past two seasons by abandoning longer arcs for a single, character-focused story. The second issue continued that approach, albeit with less impressive results. Batman: The…
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Rocksteady's upcoming game, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, puts the Suicide Squad in the hero seat as they have to defeat the Justice League to save the world. The game itself won't be released for another few months, but this new trailer offers the best look yet at what fans can expect. With a…
Hopefully you like your Halloween early, because this Summer DC is making its heroes' nightmares a reality. Spinning out of its Dawn of DC initiative, DC has revealed the upcoming event, Knight Terrors, will be starting in July. The event will last through August as writer Joshua Williamson (Batman, Dark Crisis, Robin, Superman) and artist…
We're coming up on the end of this miniseries, and the various plot threads are finally starting to converge. The bat family is wrapping up their investigation of Black Mask, and Ivy has constructed her Ladies and Nonbinaries of Doom. The relationship drama between Harley, Harley's new "team", Ivy, and Ivy's ex is also finally…
Clayface is a lot of things. I don't mean that in the "he has the power to transform into different people" kind of way, but in that his character has changed dramatically since its inception. Originally, Basil Karlo didn't even have super powers; he was just an actor who wore a monster mask to kill…
The Brave and the Bold is an important series for DC Comics. Over the years it has created legendary team ups such as the Justice League, Teen Titans, and Suicide Squad. First launching in 1955, it has seen a number of iterations over the years including various miniseries, a cartoon show in 2008, and even…
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This is an archive of Batman-News.com from 2010 to 2025. For the latest news, check out BatmanNews.com