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10 on Upcoming Comics February 19, 2025Welcome back to Upcoming Comics! I'm writing most of this ahead of time before the preview images go out because I'll be gone most of the weekend for my brother's wedding. He and his fiancée are great for each other and I'm super happy for them. There's been some chaos in the planning leading up…
Batman's war against Black Mask and the Party Animals gang comes to a boiling point as he pushes the limits of their "truce". The continuous, back and forth antagonism between them has become a running theme of the story. Both rely on theatrics and shock and awe tactics to achieve their goals, and now they're…
Welcome back to Upcoming Comics! It's "the big game day" for anyone who lives here in the United States. Normally those who don't follow sports can carry on without giving them much thought, but the Super Bowl warps society around it in a way that can't be ignored. For example, I usually do my grocery…
After two and a half years, Chip Zdarsky's run on Batman comes to a close. Over the course of his roughly thirty issues, Zdarsky developed a clear thematic focus of using Batman's past as a way of examining his psyche. While certainly not the first writer to make Batman's origins central to the story he…
Welcome back to Upcoming Comics! I've been watching the new season of Harley Quinn and it feels like a major improvement on the last couple. Ever since Harley and Ivy got together at the end of season 2, there's been a real sense that the show didn't really know what to do with them. It…
Welcome back to Upcoming Comics! It's one of those fifth Wednesdays where there are hardly any comics get released. Normally they'd at least throw in some annuals or something, but they seem to be saving those for April. Well we might as well look at the plethora of titles that will be hitting shelves. Upcoming…
The first major crossover of DC's All In initiative is coming this April in a six-part story titled "We Are Yesterday". Writer Mark Waid will be joined by multiple writers and artists as the event spans Batman/Superman: World’s Finest and Justice League Unlimited. It will feature a time-spanning adventure starring some of DC's most infamous villains,…
Last issue had a lot of what felt like "big moments", where there was some sort of twist or event that drove the story forward. This issue has less of that, as it's mostly reacting to those moments and preparing for what will be coming next. Well, I suppose that's not entire true. There is…
Welcome back to Upcoming Comics! We're starting to reach the time of year where I'm very tired of winter already, and yet there's still another 2 months of it. Once that's over it gets replaced with a time of year we here in the Midwest call "cold mud". We really seem to have set it…
Action. Adventure. Mystery. Intrigue. These are the ingredients for a successful comic, and luckily, this new arc promises plenty of each. One of the biggest appeals of this series from the beginning has been the "back to basics" approach Mark Waid took, focusing on straightforward superhero adventures as opposed to the continuity-laden mega plots of…
After almost a year, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has released its last update. The eighth episode of its fourth and final season is titled "Balance" and brings the game's narrative to a close with players returning to the game's medieval elseworld, where they will launch a final assault on Brainiac's citadel fortress. The…
Welcome back to Upcoming Comics! Creature Commandos ended this week, and I have mixed feelings on the show as a whole. The highlight, for me, was definitely each of the individual backstory vignettes that were often tragically sad and made you sympathize with the commando in question. Though maybe there can be too much of…
This series has already shown Bruce's inciting moment of Thomas Wayne's death, but there's a long way between that and the Batman we see in first issue. With no billionaire trust fund to allow for globetrotting training or high end gadgets, he can't rely on the traditional origin fans have become familiar with for the…
Following an acting hiatus, Armie Hammer has announced his latest project along with director Uwe Boll: The Dark Knight. In case anyone might be confused, no, this project legally has nothing to do with the DC Comics/Warner Bros. movie The Dark Knight from 2008. That movie was about the masked vigilante Batman as he fought…
Welcome back to Upcoming Comics! Well the holidays are now over, and we can all recover from the weeks of eating too many sugary foods. All that's left is making it through the dreary months of January and February before the sun once again graces us with its presence. Until then, let's pull up a…
After a brief diversion last month focusing on Batman's investigation to exonerate Jim Gordon, the story now returns to the larger plot concerning Riddler's attempts to buy Wayne Enterprises along with the political unrest facing Gotham. Heading into the issue, there are a lot of seemingly disconnected threads that need to be tied together. Bruce…
Welcome back to Upcoming Comics! It's a new year and that means new beginnings and new opportunities. For some, that might mean finding a new job, moving to a new home, or starting a new relationship. For others, it might just mean getting some new comics. Are those comics good enough to remain the highlight…
I love detective stories. You'd think that a series called Detective Comics would consistently be one of my favorites for scratching that itch. And yet, surprisingly few runs on the title actually focus on detective work. Even some of my all time favorites just treat it as "the other Batman comic". Taylor at the very…
DC Comics recently revealed their solicitations for issues coming out in March, and for the most part it's about what you'd expect. There are a lot of continuations of ongoing series and a good number of first issues that had already been revealed as part of their All In initiative. However, there was one surprise…
Welcome back to Upcoming Comics! It's the holiday season, and comic day even happens to land squarely on Christmas this year. Sadly this means a lot of people will have to miss spending Christmas morning with their families in order to head to the comic shop instead. I'm sure they'll understand. Similarly, those comic store…
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