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20 on Detective Comics #961 reviewThis week in the pages of Detective Comics: It's Azrael vs the Bat-Family, more flashback fun with Bruce and Zatanna, and Jean-Paul Valley takes a journey through his own subconscious. I know this story is supposed to be about Azrael, but my favorite parts of each issue have actually been the sections dedicated to Bruce/Batman…
This week in the pages of Detective Comics: Batman seeks the answers to all questions, Luke Fox plays Doctor Frankenstein, and Azrael goes nuts. ***Right up front, I'd like to inform everyone coming here to read this review that it doesn't follow the standard format that I usually adhere to. On rare occasions, I end…
Previously in the pages of Detective Comics: The Order of St. Dumas has activated an A.I. program that will transcend the faults that all the previous Avenging Angels eventually succumbed to. Concurrently, Bruce Wayne attends a card game at the Iceberg Lounge in order to meet with Zatanna and enlist her help in a matter…
Spotlight on Azrael! Jean Paul Valley may have overcome his programming, but he may never truly be free of the Order of St. Dumas. When an old friend brings grave tidings, the once Avenging Angel and his new team must come face to face with the evil grown in his absence. Spoilers ahead! Putting the…
SPOILER ALERT! No, not that kind of spoiler. The other kind of Spoiler. The kind that's irrationally mad at Batman and irrationally tries to be like Batman, but not exactly like Batman. Anyway, Spoiler's ahead in Detective Comics #957, and SPOILERS (the kind you'll want to avoid if you haven't read this yet) AHEAD. Not the…
Shiva versus The BatFamily! It's come down to this. A final stand, with the victor deciding the fate of Gotham. Let's get to it... Instead of speaking vaguely about the content of this particular issue, I've decided to go full-on spoiler with it. So, if you haven't read this comic yet, you probably don't want…
Shiva has been systematically capturing the entire BatFamily. Now, she has a thermonuclear device set to detonate on a major fault-line running underneath Gotham. With only Cassandra remaining to foil this dastardly plan, will she have what it takes to confront The League of Shadows and triumph over Lady Shiva, or does this spell certain…
Batman and Ra's having a conversation in the Batcave. Right behind shirtless sword fighting, I think this is one of the most quintessential things that comes to mind when I picture these two. If all you came to this comic for was that, you should be leaving pretty happy. It also has two twists/surprises I…
I don’t look fondly on Jim Gordon’s stint as Batman. In fact, for the year that he claimed the mantle of Batman, I remained consistently vocal in my opposition of the decision. I felt as though it were a desperate attempt for something “different,” and I couldn’t believe Gordon, as a character, deciding to…
Batman's army has been bested by Shiva, and one of his strongest soldiers struggles with the revelation of her connection to the deadly lady. How can Team Bats take down so mighty a foe? Find out in Detective Comics #953. Spoilers follow (but not that Spoiler, she's still on her walkabout) Pretty ordinary Detective Comics #953…
This is the first trade of Detective Comics that features Jim Gordon as Bunnyman Batman. If you followed the site during that time, then you know that I had major issue with Gordon as “Batman.” For me, it just didn’t add up for him as a character. That being said, I was curious to see…
Other than an appearance in a Green Lantern Corps tie-in to Batman's Zero Year, the sometimes-villainous, sometimes-something-else Anarky was absent from DC's New 52 relaunch. For their second arc on Detective Comics, Brian Buccelato and Francis Manapul set out to change that. What's included? Detective Vol. 7 actually collects several distinct stories, picking up where the…
James Tynion IV started off his run on Detective Comics with "Rise of the Batmen"/The Colony storyline and followed that up with "The Victim Syndicate" arc. Both of those were fairly original concepts, but with League of Shadows, I'm starting to see some overlap with past stories. If you're at all familiar with my reviews,…
A new creative team means a new direction for Detective Comics. With the exit of John Layman and Jason Fabok, Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato jump on board as the new all-star "storytellers" to begin their acclaimed run on the title. Eschewing big, bombastic threats in favor of smaller, mystery-oriented stories, Manapul and Buccellato's Icarus…
When Gotham City is a crime-free utopia... you know something's wrong. Batman, wearing white and operating in the daylight? That just isn't right. What's going on? And why on earth is Catwoman going by the name "Cat Bird"? The fifth volume of the New 52 Detective Comics run, Gothtopia, answers those very questions, while also…
Lady Shiva. I think my work here is done. No? Ok then, I guess I'll elaborate. The story opens with Lady Shiva torturing a Colony member, and for those readers not familiar with Shiva, it does a descent job at filling you in on the kind of person she is. Someone without mercy. Who isn't…
A celebration of a landmark issue. The rise of a dark doppelgänger. A whole lot of Man-Bat. All of these things and more are found in The Wrath, the fourth graphic novel collecting the entirety of Detective Comic's New 52 run. Picking up where the Emperor Penguin trade left off, The Wrath collects the following…
Welcome to the review for Detective Comics #950! This is a special anniversary issue commemorating the milestone that Detective Comics has just crossed. As such, the issue is extra-sized, coming in at 38 pages and containing three different stories. All three stories are written by James Tynion IV but feature different artists. Two of them…
This is the finale to the two-part "Batwoman Begins" story, but really, it's not a finale at all. Pretty much everything is left hanging. This story is really just a sampling of what you should expect to get from the upcoming Batwoman series, to make you aware of it, and to peak your interest enough…
Batwoman Begins is a two part story being featured in the pages of Detective Comics that will most likely lead directly into the solo Batwoman book that is starting in mid-March, preceded by a one-shot Rebirth book in February. Both this story and the subsequent Batwoman series will be written by James Tynion IV and…
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