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9 on Upcoming Comics: December 14, 2021Welcome back to Upcoming Comics! Just to warn you all, I'll be taking a short break for the next month - so the next three Upcoming Comics entries will either be rather rudimentary, or tackled by someone else. I'll see if I can still get on them during my break, but if I can, they'll…
Dark Knights of Steel #1 had a lot of ground to cover, wouldn’t you say Matina? For sure! It was a busy, busy first issue. If I’m honest, it was a little too much for me. In our first review, I covered the lengths writer Tom Taylor and artist Yasmine Putri went to pack as…
I don't know what they've been feeding Robbie Thompson over there at DC, but get him some more of it. I finally feel like he's starting to pick up steam, bringing the Suicide Squad-ness of his team to the forefront. This run is finally starting to come together, and I can officially say I'm excited…
George Perez, considered one of the defining comics artists of the 1980s, has announced that he has been diagnosed with inoperable Stage 3 Pancreatic Cancer. Perez made the announcement on his Facebook account on Tuesday. To all my fans, friends and extended family, It’s rather hard to believe that it’s been almost three years since…
Let me say this without a hint of irony or exaggeration, and with the utmost sincerity: full-stop, this is the best issue of Batman I've read in a long, long time. Perhaps years. While it isn't perfect, it's a great time on its own, and sets up a pretty interesting direction for this arc going…
We have reached the point in Batman ‘89 where I have run out of things to say. Unless something drastically insane happens in the final two issues, then the reviews will consist of many of the same platitudes and comments. Is issue 4 better than the other three? Not the first, for sure, but there’s…
Last Friday I was lucky enough to get to sit down as the representative for Batman News at a roundtable interview with Joshua Williamson regarding his upcoming work on Batman, specifically regarding issue #118. As many of you who read my Robin reviews know, I’m a big fan of what he’s been doing there and…
Ladies and gentlemen… This is my last review with Batman News. In fact, it almost doesn’t seem real. But if I’m going to leave, at least I’m leaving with a Batman Annual. Why is this fitting? Well, for a good chunk of years now, the Batman Annuals have been the best Batman content that DC…
Welcome back to Upcoming Comics! This week marks the beginning of production for the Batgirl film, set within the DCEU - as opposed to The Batman, which was originally going to be DCEU but now seems to be a completely different beast. DC doesn't particularly care for consistency, I suppose. Maybe that's a good thing? It'll be…
Let's be honest. I didn't need to publish this review. I've said it many times before, and I'll say it again. It's a Batman and Scooby-Doo crossover book. You already know if you want to buy it. That being said, I cannot recommend this book more, ESPECIALLY if you love these two franchises as much as I…
It all comes down to this! Can Batman stop Equilibrium before it’s too late? Find out, in Batman: The Detective #6. Too much time, too little time Two months is a long time to wait between issues in any comic series, but with my interest in The Detective waning over the last few installments, two…
James Tynion wraps his run on Batman with Fear State: Omega, or as I’m going to refer to it: “clean up your crappy mess and get out.” Yeah, that’s a little harsh, but seriously… It really feels that way. After spending months building a story, only to rush to a conclusion, we now get an…
This annual serves as a prelude to the upcoming “Shadows of the Bat” event that will run through Detective Comics. It remains to be seen how essential this issue will be to that event but, really, it doesn’t matter because I don’t recommend buying "Shadows of the Bat" anyway. The reason is that, for the coming…
It’s no surprise Nightwing 2021 Annual #1 is a predictable, yet wholesome tale of familial bonding since it’s written by Tom Taylor. That’s not a dig at Taylor’s writing prowess, but it is what he’s best at and he appears to know it. While Taylor’s script offers few surprises, it’s accompanied by handsome art courtesy…
This annual takes readers back to just after issue #6 and gives us a collection of short tales about the series supporting cast. It focuses mostly on Flatline, Ravager, and Respawn, but includes most of the other new characters Williamson has introduced in the series. The story in this annual is very light. Damian has…
In this annual, Matthew Rosenberg joins James Tynion to take a step away from the present day tale going on in The Joker to focus on one further back in Gotham's history. The narrative here takes a look at an early case where Gordon and Joker faced off, close to the start of both their…
If a hero is only as good as his villains, then Batman is a pretty good hero. He’s one of the few characters in pop culture whose antagonists are just as popular with the general audience as he is, to the point that you could ask practically anyone to name five Batman villains and they’d…
Welcome back to Upcoming Comics! This week is a week of finales. Finales for story arcs such as Fear State, miniseries such as The Detective... and reviewers, with this week being Josh's last for the website. Finishing his tenure with the final two issues of Tynion's Batman, Josh has been a staple of Batman News…
Can Batman dive into the belly of the beast, and yet live to tell the tale? Will I be glad that he did? Good intentions I told myself I would read back through the entire series, give the book a second chance. But Reptilian was a book that had my excitement before it had earned it,…
Catwoman #37 deftly manages to raise tensions across separate plot threads that culminate in a satisfying conclusion for Alleytown’s scrappy defense against Fear State and the Magistrate threat. Ram V’s script wisely chooses to keep most elements of his main narrative and intertwine them with this event tie-in arc. This helps smooth over the lack…
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