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2 on Batman Beyond Universe #7 reviewThe latest issue of Batman Beyond Universe features stories from two different Digital First series midway through their respective storylines. Batman Beyond 2.0 offers a deeply personal story that expands on what we know about a classic rogue while Justice League Beyond 2.0 goes for a more bombastic approach loaded with cameos from across the…
Issue #8 features two villains whose popularity didin't quite survive beyond the 1966 William Dozier TV series, but they were still quite memorable foils for the Dynamic Duo (at least in my mind). First there's King Tut (played by Victor Buono on the TV series), a professor of Egyptology who began to think he was…
Batman: Li'l Gotham started out as a year-long Digital First series that would have one chapter a month devoted to whatever holiday was on the horizon. It featured vibrant water-colors, comedy that appealed to all ages, references to classic Batman stories from comics, film, and television (with emphasis on Batman: The Animated Series), and it…
The cover shows The Metal Men and that's precisely what you get when you open up Justice League #28. Yes, Cyborg shows up briefly to ask "Who are the Metal Men?" and "Where are they now?" but other than that the entire comic is told in flashback as we explore the New 52 origin of…
Ka-Pow! Zap! Bang! This trade paperback collects Silver Age comics that inspired episodes of the high camp TV series of the swinging sixties including issues featuring such important moments in Bat-history as the first appearance of The Riddler, Mr. Freeze, and Batgirl! Content The book begins with an unexpected, but wonderfully written 2-page introduction by…
In Year One of Injustice, the world changed. In Year Two, those responsible for the new world actually have to live in it. The landscape of Injustice gets all the grander in issue #2 where the significance of Superman's actions are put into perspective when The Guardians of Universe turn their eye to our pale…
Batgirl doesn't bother making a gentle segue from last month's Gothtopia tie-in to its latest storyline and that will make for an awkward transition when these comics finally go to trade paperback, but if we set that complaint aside then I think this is a good jumping-on point for an all-new arc that features an…
Come celebrate All Saints' Day and Daylight Savings Time in the penultimate installment of Li'l Gotham, the all-ages book that longtime fans and little kids reading about the bat-family for the first time can both enjoy. Li'l Gotham has a formula down: have beautiful water colors with cute imagery and short-stories that are silly yet…
With the Nightwing series ending at issue #30, it appears that writer Kyle Higgins is trying to tie up all loose ends and craft a finale that brings us up to date with Forever Evil while celebrating the past 28 issues. The first 1/3 of the comic is essentially one large fight scene that tosses…
"Gotham Eternal" is a clever approach at the notorious "filler issue." Quite simply, Batman artist Greg Capullo needed more time to complete the next installment of Zero Year but rather than delay the comic or submit something that wasn't up to the team's usual stellar quality the folks behind Batman hired James Tynion IV as…
This 100-page spectacular serves as a Harley Quinn greatest hits collection, but unfortunately doesn't feature the one story everyone wants to see most: Mad Love. I'll give you a rundown of all the stories compiled behind Alex Ross' iconic cover. Batman: Harley Quinn #1 The main event. This one-shot by Paul Dini and Yvel Guichet…
We've reached the end of Batman: Black and White and it pleases me to say that it finishes strong with some of the best stories featured in the entire 6-part collection. As always, these are stories that take place outside of any continuity so anyone can pick it up. It's an anthology series packed with…
It's the Night of Owls crossover event meets David Finch's "Knight Terrors" from Batman: The Dark Knight and if you've seen both of those then you can probably stop reading the review right there because that pretty much sums it up. But if what I said means nothing to you, basically it's a comic full…
Whose idea was it to change the colors on this cover? The dark blue drowns out the metallic grey of Batwing's armor. The covers of Batwing have been phenomenal lately and I was especially looking forward to this one, but now that it's blue? It just doesn't pop! It doesn't stand out the way the…
Most of Forever Evil so far has been about Lex Luthor gradually assembling his very own Injustice Gang and in issue #4 we finally saw them come together and just about do something when suddenly we were met with an exciting cliffhanger that revealed a Parallax-powered Sinestro. As Sinestro prepared to pulverize the villainous Earth…
"Mad" is bloody. How bloody? Well, the cover you see was originally part of a gate-fold, which when extended revealed the second half of a larger image: Mad Hatter riding his own private gondola afloat a river of dead bodies. I'll talk about this more gruesome depiction of a classic baddie, a Bruce Wayne love…
There comes a time when you have to wonder who operates Arkham Asylum more often: the inmates or the staff? Part 2 of "Gothtopia" begins with a sizeable portion of recap for those who didn't pick up the pricey Detective Comics #27 75th Anniversary Special, but really I think everyone picked that one up, didn't…
Before I get started, I just want to say that I liked how the unused cover from issue #15 was employed for the TPB. I wish more of the Death of the Family volumes had done that, especially Nightwing, which had a great image of Grayson being enveloped by Joker cards like they were quicksand.…
Take Harley Quinn, remove everything funny about her and then add in aspects of The Lord of the Rings' Gollum and Dracula's Renfield and you have The Joker's Daughter. I tried my hardest to avoid this character, mostly because she's always been written by the literary Caligula that is Ann Nocenti. But with this one-shot…
A portal opens over a major city and spews forth thousands of mindless alien-lizard-robots looking to conquer another world in the name of a death-obsessed cosmic overlord and it's up to a hastily assembled team of superheroes to close the portal and save the day. No, it's not Marvel's The Avengers, it's Justice League: War,…
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