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20 on Batman #137 reviewWell, here’s Part 2 of “Gotham War,” the current crossover event running through the pages of Batman, Catwoman and a couple tie-ins. If you're curious about my thoughts on Part 1, you can check out the joint review that I wrote in collaboration with William—the current Catwoman reviewer—here. Those who have read that review will…
The first thing I noticed when I started reading this issue is that, yes, the Knight Terrors event was a totally pointless interruption to this book. Here we pick up exactly where issue 13 left off: there has been a mysterious murder committed that someone seems to want to pin on Ivy. Meanwhile, there’s the…
Read past the end of the review for a final message on my time with Batman News. When I began reviewing Riddler: Year One late last year, I had a sneaking suspicion that this book was not built to be read month-to-month. In the age of the internet - especially streaming - how we release and…
Well, after the last exhausting DC event, we’re jumping straight into the next. Zdarsky and Howard are teaming up to bring us Batman/Catwoman: The Gotham War: Battle Lines #1, which is the first part of the "Gotham War" story arc. Luckily, I’m not in this alone, as I’m joined by William (his text will be…
After two months, a miniseries, and dozens of tie-ins that took over almost every comic DC publishes, we've finally reached the end. Has Knight Terrors lived up to all the hype that prioritized it over every other story you might've been reading? Well, not really. Honestly, if you've read any of the other events that…
Batman Beyond: Neo-Gothic got off to a rocky start with an opening issue that fell victim to some of the previous series' worse tendencies. Now, as Terry and Kyle head deeper underground, the story becomes more personal, and thankfully it's an approach from which the story benefits greatly. The attempts at weighty deep commentary are…
Well the series took an unexpected month long hiatus, but now it's finally back to pick up on the last issue's cliffhanger. The al Ghuls are planning to retire and give the world a miracle crop that will end world hunger, while at the same time the Court of Owls are back in Gotham. The…
Last month Knight Terrors: Detective Comics opened up its story with the focus on Jim Gordon and his own internal conflict regarding how he’s protected Gotham all these years. This issue continues to press into those questions, and explore the idea of Gotham’s future in the face of protectors who have been there for years.…
One week after the release of the horrible The Penguin #0, issue one is on the shelves. Now that the series proper is underway, Tom King and Rafael De Latorre have taken the reins and the plot jumps off from the previously established status quo, in a new direction. Let’s see if the new team…
Once again we have a cover with Joker on it, yet no Joker to be found in any of the stories. Someone in the comments mentioned that it might be an instance of King's big Joker story getting pushed back without the covers being adjusted. There might be some truth to that, but King's story…
Knight Terrors is the nightmare that keeps giving. Every time I think we've finally reached the end, we uncover yet another layer of the dream. In particular, although the Titans escape the haunted tower, they quickly discover that leaving the dream won't be so easy. All That I Am The primary mystery leading this tie-in…
At long last! The final chapter of Dark Knights Of Steel comes to a striking end. For twelve harrowing issues, the three kingdoms of the realm have gone to war because of a long standing lie. With Protex's evil influence out in the open, the kingdoms have finally turned their war in the right direction.…
This will be my last review for the Harley Quinn ongoing for a while. I’ve been needing to take a little step back from comic reviewing to work on other projects. Therefore, I will be dropping Joker (yay). I will also be reviewing this Harley Quinn book every 6 months in trade paperback. Meanwhile, I…
Why exactly was this four issues long? I understand that it's the flagship series of the whole Knight Terrors event, but the whole thing is only two months. Did we really need to squeeze a prologue, an epilogue, and a biweekly series where Deadman and friends just sort of wander around until they run into…
The Penguin #0 is a collection of the three-part Catwoman backup that originally ran from Batman 125 through 127. It's a story that is now being touted as the setup for Penguin’s ongoing title despite focusing more on its original title character, Catwoman, who is sent to find Penguin’s children and notify them of Penguin’s…
I’m sad to start off this review with the revelation that this issue suffers many of the same problems as its predecessor. The main problem that I complained about at the beginning of my last review was that the parallel stories weren’t flowing together. There's the main story and then the side projects of the…
Knight Terrors: Catwoman #2 perhaps bites off more than it can chew, but Tini Howard’s script does a good job of balancing its examination of Selina’s relationships with both Maggie and Bruce. Leila Leiz’s art is once again a major selling point, but for readers who don’t mind a two-part elseworlds story there is more…
Knight Terrors: Nightwing #2 is an improvement over last month’s issue, but cannot fully break free of its overwhelming feeling of irrelevance. No new ideas are presented as Becky Cloonan’s and Michael W. Conrad’s script instead favors embracing a wackier atmosphere instead of doubling down on the more grim psychoanalysis of the previous script. With…
As usual after every big arc, World’s Finest presents a smaller, interlude-type story before the start of the next big arc. So far, these interludes have been fun, little one-shots. This time, however, it’s a two-part story about how Batman and Superman first met. That story has been told several times in the past, but…
Every now and then, DC Comics will shut down for a line wide event. In the last few years, the DC Universe froze in Endless Winter, been on storm watch in Lazarus Planet, and remains fast asleep during Knight Terrors. Typically, readers may expect the tie-ins to cover key characters amid other generally useless spin-offs.…
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