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1 on Penguin: Pain and Prejudice (TPB) reviewFans of Batman's most vindictive villain shouldn't skip out on this one. Penguin: Pain & Prejudice collects not one, but two of the best Penguin stories in recent memory and it's available at a very fair price. Content I reviewed this five issue series when it came out in individual installments and it reads even…
Quite the visually striking cover isn't it? I mean really study it. All of the book's six major stories are represented. The pages within are lovely as well but it's the concept of this book that impressed me the most because it's so ambitious. The Judas Coin follows one of the 30 pieces of silver…
This TPB collects the first 7 issues of the New 52 series Teen Titans by Scott Lobdell, Brett Booth, and Norm Rapmund. I read the first five or six issues when they came out in monthly floppies but gave up on the series after that. Before I even opened this TPB, I thought back on…
Birds of Prey is a series that I've been reading regularly since the New 52 started, but I haven't reviewed more than once because it's a fringe Bat-title and I need to budget how many reviews I do each week otherwise I'll go crazy. This week however, the first trade paperback collecting issues 1-7 came…
What sets Volume #3 apart from the two that came before it? A few things, first off you get some new faces: Bane and Harley Quinn. That's right, this volume features one of the first comic book appearances of Harley Quinn outside of Mad Love or The Batman Adventures. It's also a less jarring read…
Alright, after writing that extra long volume 1 review with a NML overview and list of TDKR comparisons this one should be much shorter. In that last article I basically said that No Man's Land is one of, if not THE, coolest premise for a Batman story or superhero story. Ever. The only problem is that I…
There's no going back. Knightfall changed things. Forever. After that saga's success, the massive cross-over event became a predictable part of the yearly comics cycle. After the Batman was broken, Gotham was consumed with plague, consumed with plague again, and then it was hit by a massive earthquake/tsunami combo. This last disaster led to a…
Let's take a step out of our comfort zone and see what other great comics are out there! A few weeks back I received a package in the mail from DC. I hadn't requested any new graphic novels at all, I mean I was still up to my neck in No Man's Land and Knightfall…
Knightquest or "The Adventures of Psycho Replacement Batman" definitely isn't for everybody but it's an important installment of Knightsaga nonetheless. It's not as epic as the previous installment. The focus is on how different Jean Paul Valley is as Batman and how he grows more vicious and mentally unstable with every Gotham night. It's…
Everything I know about Batman I learned from Batman: The Animated Series and Knightfall. I grew up in a town of merely 200 people. When the comic book vanished from grocery store racks across the country to be sold almost exclusively in niche comic shops I was left out in the cold. For years…
If you've seen The Dark Knight Rises then chances are good that the way you read Bane has changed forever. I know there was an odd battle going on in my head as I read Bane's lines. When his mask was off, I would hear the voice of Henry Silva, but when the mask was…
Behold a review of yet another fringe bat-title. "Suicide Squad" (the first, if not the only New 52 title to go UP in sales rather than down) is one of those New 52 books that I neglected reviewing because I didn't consider it to be "Batman" enough. The bat-qualities of "Suicide Squad" are few and…
"Justice" was originally published as a 12-issue limited series between August 2005 and June 2007. I was busy with college at the time and had taken a break from comics so when I received a copy of "Justice" last week it was my first encounter with the story. I was immediately excited because I loved…
Upon setting aside my hatred for the Batman Incorporated concept, I actually enjoyed this book. It's fun. Some parts are smart, some parts are outright dumb, the art is almost always beautiful, and none of it is predictable. My Thoughts on Batman Incorporated You can skip this section if you want. Recognizing the looming threat…
If you've been reading "Justice League" then you know how those heroes are acting like a bunch of arrogant teenagers who won't take anyone's advice and slam their bedroom door whenever they come home from school. The world governments, uneasy about the Justice League's brash actions and closed-off behavior, have decided to enlist a group…
I think that if you're not getting the full story, what's the point of buying a big graphic novel? There needs to be some kind of satisfying conclusion. If you're going to leave the reader hanging then you at least have to tie up one or two things so that there's a little closure otherwise…
"Batwoman" is easily the most beautiful book in DC's entire lineup. If you love comics more for the art than for the story then you would be a fool to not buy "Batwoman Vol. 1: Hydrology", it's as simple as that. J.H. Williams and Dave Stewart take special care to make every panel a memorable…
Catwoman's first New 52 adventure went straight to trade paperback, skipping the sexier-to-display-on-your-shelf hardback edition. It's available at a great price, it's a quick read, and I enjoyed it but it's definitely not for everyone. Here's the criteria: if you're uninitiated in Catwoman comics or you're just looking for a roller coaster ride rather than…
Barbara Gordon is back as Batgirl in these first 6 issues of the New 52 "Batgirl" series. Fans of Cassandra Cain or Stephanie Brown will groan and others who had grown fond of Barbara's role as Oracle will be equally saddened, but here's the way I see it: On one side, it has potential to…
When I read the New 52 "Justice League" I thought it was okay. It was mindless, big popcorn/summer movie action. The characters felt a bit OUT of character and it really seemed to drag on and on as months passed, but the larger than life artwork of Jim Lee was something I could always look…
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