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3 on Earth 2: Society #5 reviewDuring the original run of Earth 2, one of my favorite characters was Jay Garrick, who received his speedster powers from the dying Greek god Hermes. Jay was always an interesting character because he represented the everyday person who was essentially gifted their abilities. Throughout Earth 2, Jay’s loyalties wavered between doing what was best…
Last issue of Batman Beyond featured…you know what? Just read the last review. Or this one. It doesn’t matter. Did I just read the same issue twice? No, seriously, this is the exact same thing as last issue. Dan Jurgens must have planned this as some kind of time-loop thing. The parallels line up just…
The last few months of Justice League 3001 have felt like a learning experience for both the readers and the creative team. Writers and editors must create a story that will most likely never be told, and have the skill and tact to make what comes out both believable and entertaining. Readers, meanwhile, have been…
This current incarnation of Red Hood has been, shall we say, emotionally lacking. Outside of two exceptional issues in the recent Red Hood and the Outlaws run – found in issues three and eighteen – Jason Todd has been demoted to a poor man’s Deathstroke. The last few issues have been no different, with weak…
Last time in Earth 2: Society, planetary overlord, interdimensional-traveler, and overall fragment of self-preserving pond scum Terry Sloan allegedly bit the dust. I say allegedly because it happens off-panel and all that’s left is a body when we know that there’s a whole bunch of Terry Sloan’s out there flying around. The search for I’ve…
We’re about halfway done with the first arc of Batman Beyond, which promises to end the story which started last year in Future’s End #0, and I’ve been decidedly split on how I feel about the direction of this series. Dan Jurgen’s story has culminated in the siege of Neo-Gotham by the cyborg forces of…
Let me illustrate, for like the third time this month, that I hate time-skips. Between Earth 2: Society and Justice League 3001, pretty much half of the books I review are going through some kind of time-jump vortex. I imagine there’s entire warehouses filled with the issues that were supposed to exist and offer some…
You are in for a ride. It’s been a long few days. I’m in the last stages of getting over a pretty bad flu that’s come at me for the last two weeks now, and everything I just read may have been a drug-induced fever dream. Remind me in the comments. Alright, I’m making this…
It’s been a difficult year for the Wonders of Earth 2. They had to deal with the destruction of their home planet, a battle against an interdimensional super-being bent on pitting the universe’s heroes against one another, and rebuild their entire civilization literally from the ground up. Terry Sloan, acting as overseer to the refugees,…
Two months ago, the “definitive continuity” of the DC Universe was shifted on its end with the disastrous results of Future’s End and Tim Drake’s transportation to a future ruled by the sentient robot Brother Eye. Dan Jurgens’ story has ranged from Neo-Gotham to the ruins of a prisoner camp known as The Lodge. Last issue, Max…
Last issue, the world of the JL3K leapt forward months into the future. I wasn’t sure how Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis would handle the jump, but the flow has not been too terribly interrupted. Fans ofJustice League 3000 will certainly be able to catch up with everything that’s been going on the last two months,…
It seems like a long time since the Arkham franchise gave players something satisfactory in the way of downloadable content. As great as it was, Arkham City gave players little more than a few skins for combat trials – still the best part of any of the games in my opinion – and a less…
Last month marked the start of a new Earth 2 series – Earth 2: Society – which I had been looking forward to once I realized that World’s End and Convergence were both disasters in the making. Daniel Wilson has taken the reins again and looks to introduce us to a whole new world of…
Last month we saw the story of Jason Todd and Roy Harper get rebooted following the death of the underwhelming Red Hood and the Outlaws. I was pleasantly surprised when the story went in the direction I was hoping for last month, with Jason and Roy taking jobs for the government in a way similar…
With last month’s debut of Batman Beyond, DC’s latest attempt at retconning the fan-favorite series, I had high hopes for what seemed like a series with high potential. The first issue received mixed but positive reviews, and even with Terry McGinnis’ departure from the Batman mantle, many Batman Beyond fans seemed ready to accept Tim…
Justice League 3001 caught me off-guard. For the last week I’d reread every issue of Justice League 3000 in an attempt to prepare myself for the showdown between the Justice League and their evil revived counterparts in the Injustice League. Instead, there’s a time skip that jumps forward months into the future, forcing Keith Giffen…
With the last installment of Dan Abnett’s prequel series to the Infinite Crisis video game, we see a prime example of something that was intended as an explosion, only to die a whisper. Where Injustice can be seen as the pinnacle of a comic book/video game crossover series, this is what not to do. No…
Spoiler alert, this sucked. A lot of people saw that sentence coming weeks ago when the sneak peek was released, but I had tried to avoid it in order to prevent any biases from bubbling up before I had a chance to read the premier issue of Red Hood/Arsenal. The streets spoke, and I should…
With everything Earth 2 has been through – the original New 52 run, an Apokolips invasion in World’s End, the confusing jettison of continuity in Convergence – it’s nice to have a literal reset button to start the whole thing over. All I have to say is…I loved this. Sure, maybe I’m biased because I’m…
With the arrival of a new Batman Beyond series, I decided to spend a good chunk my time researching. I went through almost every episode of the original 1999-2001 cartoon, as well as any comic I could scrounge up: Batman Beyond, Batman Beyond 2.0, Return of the Joker, Justice League Beyond, Justice League Beyond 2.0,…
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This is an archive of Batman-News.com from 2010 to 2025. For the latest news, check out BatmanNews.com