This is an archive of Batman-News.com from 2010 to 2025. For the latest news, check out BatmanNews.com
The Premier Source For All Things Batman and DC
Graphic Novel
·
5 on Batman: Li'l Gotham, Vol. 1 reviewBatman: 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…
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…
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…
"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…
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…
In the 2nd volume, DC's failed attempt at creating their own version of Marvel's Black Panther grew all the more desperate in his attempt to connect with readers. Major storylines were cast aside in exchange for trips to Gotham so that Batman could make more frequent cameos and hopefully boost sales. The Justice League International…
Emperor Penguin is the first Detective Comics volume out of the New 52 that's actually worth picking up. John Layman, Jason Fabok, and Andy Clarke taking the reins from the series' previous creator made for a vast improvement. The name "Detective Comics" was more famous for its nonsensical plots and unintentionally funny moments than it…
Like most of the Bat-titles, Nightwing was swept up in Snyder & Capullo's Death of the Family, but unlike many of those other tie-ins, Nightwing fared rather well. Volume 3 of the New 52 series features some of the best moments of the Joker crossover event as well as noteworthy fallout from the Batman #17…
The Joker: The Clown Prince of Crime couldn't be more timely here in Review Country. Just a week or two ago I was talking about the newly released Harley Quinn #1 and how I felt that much like the Joker, she's a character I enjoy most in small doses. In my opinion there are characters out…
The title may be "Batman and Robin" but it's The Boy Wonder who steals the show and makes the book his own. Batman and Robin, Vol. 3: Death of the Family features some of the best moments Damian Wayne has ever had, but it's also only 4-issues long (not counting the final chapter of Snyder…
Nearly all of the volume 3 New 52 Bat-titles were labeled "Death of the Family" but Red Hood and the Outlaws is one of the only books to really deserve it. This is Death of the Family material through-and-through. Not only are you getting the actual Death of the Family tie-in issues, but this TPB…
I enjoyed the video game Injustice: Gods Among Us for the first week or so. The story had its flaws with its plot, characterization, convenient excuses for how everyone got their powers and how things could go back to normal by the end, but it was ultimately a pretty fun fighting game albeit more of…
With a Batman/Superman movie on the way, there's no better time than now to start reading some of the older adventures that paired the Caped Crusader with the Man of Steel. While the upcoming film might focus more on the rivalry between these two icons, this trade paperback is devoted to their post-crisis, adversarial relationship…
In one of DC's most unique series, All-Star Western, we follow Jonah Hex, Amadeus Arkham, and Tallulah Black as they hunt criminals, outlaws, an' unsavory types whut run afoul of the law. The third volume of this ongoing New 52 comic takes place once again in the Gotham of the late 1800's where we see…
Alfred had a daughter? Thorne had removed Gordon from office and put Batman on the wanted list? Deadshot's son was abducted?! Holy tonal-shift, Batman! This collection of the villainous marksman's most memorable stories is a showcase of comics at their darkest as well as their most wholesome. We may begin with a gritty 1988 mini-series…
There was no better sign that Trinity War, the much hyped DC New 52 event, was coming than the launch of Justice League of America. It's the book that really started to pull the DC universe together in a big way and with it being created by the same writer of the original Justice League…
Between 2004 and 2006, a dozen of the best artists were each given 48 pages of almost total creative freedom. Any genre, any style, any DC character, any wholly original idea all their own was possible. Within this massive tome you'll not only find several great Batman short stories, but a vast range of other…
The third volume in the adventures of a secret black ops group full of B- and C-list villains features even more Harley Quinn than before, gives Yo-Yo an origin story, and ties itself not only to the Death of the Family event, but books like Team 7, Birds of Prey, and Teen Titans as well.…
The third volume of Batgirl features the crossover "Death of the Family" in its title, but unlike another New 52 graphic novel that was released this month (Catwoman, Vol. 3: Death of the Family, which only touched on the subject for a single issue) the material collected in this hardback is impacted greatly by the…
Browse By Topic
Browse By Year
Browse By Author
This is an archive of Batman-News.com from 2010 to 2025. For the latest news, check out BatmanNews.com