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5 on Upcoming Comics: December 26th, 2012The only quasi-bat-title coming out this week is Justice League. It's Christmas this Tuesday so many comic shops won't even be open on Wednesday and the publishers are aware of this. Most, like Dark Horse, Marvel, and Image are only shipping 2 books this Wednesday while Valiant won't have anything at all. DC has Justice…
Just days after being fired, writer Gail Simone is back on Batgirl. The internet made a lot of noise when the news of Simone's abrupt termination was revealed. It seems like DC listened to what the fans had to say and had a change of heart. Simone confirmed the news on Twitter last night: Here's…
I'm pretty disappointed with this one. Let's face it, the death of Jason Todd was one of the Joker's greatest feats of villainy. So was the crippling of Barbara Gordon and the murder of Sarah Essen. With the New 52 all of that has been wiped away. Sarah Essen may not have existed and No…
It's either so bad it's good or it's just really, really bad and should be avoided at all costs. This is SO not the kind of comic I enjoy reading. It is SO weirdly drawn and every bit of dialogue sounds like it's written by an old person trying SO hard to sound young. And…
When a creative team takes off for 2 months to give a cross-over tie-in their full attention it's understandable that fan expectations will rise. Thankfully, Kyle Higgins and Eddy Barrows have exceeded expectations with Nightwing #15. A major complaint that I have with tie-in books is that many of them suffer from a lack of consequence.…
Eclipso's Black Diamond, the Throne of Atlantis, and Joker's rotting face are on the agenda this week as we read more Death of the Family tie-ins, begin a brand new Catwoman story arc, and set off on an epic adventure with the Justice League that will tie into the terrific series Aquaman. Here’s a list…
Brace yourselves. Batman & Robin is back and it's delivered some of the best visuals of the Death of the Family event so far. This series has struggled lately to tell a decent story. We had a radioactive worm monster, a giant purple guy, and two straight months of zombies and cannibal cultists. The quality…
Last month's Batgirl #14 laid it's claim as the best Death of the Family tie-in yet (overthrown, in my opinion, by Batman & Robin #15) and one of the best cliffhangers this year: Joker proposing to Barbara with her own mother's severed ring finger-- if she says no then a nail bomb explodes! How messed up…
We're slowing things down, way down, and talking it out in this issue. A lot has happened since Batman #13 and in that time Death of the Family hasn't exactly featured the family very much at all outside of an occasional cameo by Nightwing or Robin. So here we have an issue of Batman…
This is an important issue in the development of Harley Quinn as her own woman, a step forward for her as a character that can function without the Joker. But I also hated it. There are two things that have already happened in the comics recently that I despise and both were brought up again in this…
Here we have a Mad Hatter story that takes place within the Arkham City video game's timeline. It isn't a prequel. It also doesn't jive with the events of Arkham City very well and that's a big problem I have whenever this series tries to slip in tales that coincide with the game rather than…
I don't usually look at the solicits because I like to be surprised with my comics but the latest news on Gail Simone had me wondering what DC would advertise for the month of March. According to the solicits at DCComics.com, Ray Fawkes will be taking over writing duties on Batgirl starting with issue #18.…
You will need to read the previous issue to fully understand what's going on here. That much is for sure. In case you're not familiar with Ame-Comi Girls, it's a digital-first series that takes place outside of the New 52 continuity like Legends of the Dark Knight only it goes much, much farther with creating…
Is it the end or is it a new beginning? Will there be a death in the family or will there be a wedding...or would such a wedding mean the death of the family? This is going to be a pretty good week for Batman comics. Not only do we have Batman #15 driving the…
Last week there were rumors floating around that Gail Simone had left the Batgirl title she's been writing ever since the launch of the New 52 more than a year ago. Soon after the internet started to buzz, Gail herself came out to fans and said that there was no truth to the rumors and…
Right off the bat let me say that as a Death of the Family tie-in, this issue was a complete failure. But as a fun Batman story in its own right it's a success. This really didn't need to feature the Joker at all...and really, it doesn't. He's in the book for 3 panels total…
You see this issue on the shelf and you say to yourself, "Another Joker story?!" You already have the Clown Prince of Crime showing up in every other Bat-title thanks to the Death of the Family crossover and now we have two issues in a row of Legends of the Dark Knight with the Joker.…
Respect earned. It couldn't have been easy to clean this mess up, but new writer Fabian Nicieza and fill-in artist Fabrizio Fiorentino pulled it off. Judd Winick, who was the writer on Batwing from the very beginning, jumped ship before finishing the three part Father Lost arc leaving a new writer to pick up the…
Let's go on vacation. Come on, we'll all leave Gotham for a bit. How about we go into outer space and sprinkle in a little magic while we're at it with Saga, Vol. 1!
Ready to take a break from your The Dark Knight Rises Blu-ray/DVD watching and get back to some comics? Good! This week we have a Batman villain get-together in Detective Comics, Batwing goes through damage control as it changes writers mid-arc, and Legends of the Dark Knight promises to be another great break from New…
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