Three stories from writer Brian Buccellato that take us back to Year Five--and possibly push us forward in some ways.  This is a nice little surprise, like an extra feature on a DVD boxed set where there is extra footage or alternate scenes not included in the original presentation format. Are these bon bons monumental…

Whoohoo!  So this is it!  Brian Buccellato brings Year Five to a crashing close in the only way it really can end: a final full-stakes confrontation between Batman and Superman and the trigger that puts the events of the video game in motion. “The Final Gambit” and “Real Justice” (Digital Firsts 39 & 40) is…

This week’s issue of Injustice may feel a little disorienting at first, but don’t forget that the ruling premise from the start for this series has always been that inter-dimensional travel plays a part in heroes coming to the aid of a reality in which Superman has lost his ever-lovin’ marbles after the death of…

I have probably said this before, but or sheer action entertainment value, sometimes you just can’t do better than Injustice and this week’s issue is a perfect example. Digital Firsts 35 & 36 (“The Plan” and “Suicide Mission”) combine into a single story that’s primarily an excuse to throw Deathstroke into the mix.  Like we…

Digital Firsts No. 33 & 34, “The Smoking Gun” and “Invisible Truths” have Batman putting his plan to expose the worst of Superman’s disregard for human life and justice is the focus of this issue in which Superman is still largely incapacitated from the synthetic kryptonite blow he took from a now very dead Katar…

In “Surgical Strike” and “Barbarian at the Gate” (Digital Firsts No. 31 & 32), artist Marco Santucci (with colorist Rex Lokus) brings us another issue of almost wall-to-wall combat that never gets boring. After five “Years” of Injustice you would think these battles would just get redundant, but there’s something about watching Batman and his…

This week’s Injustice proves that Brian Buccellato has some tricks yet to play up his sleeve. Last go-round it seemed like he was setting up a particular path for Batman and his weary band of supporters, but this week we find out he has multiple plans in the works. And of course he does!  He’s…

After the emotional events of two weeks ago, we take a break from the tragedy of the Bat Family for a Flash-centric issue in which we explore Barry Allen’s conflict with being part of Superman’s imperial Regime. Last we saw of the Flash, he rescued Batman from being arrested (even though he had pulverized Superman…

Last issue we were promised a battle royale between father and son as Batman and Damian face off over the fate of Victor Zsasz after a heinous murder that has left the Bat Family reeling. We get the bonus of watching Batman and Superman once again come to blows in what almost feels like a…

I have one major complaint about this issue of Injustice, and it’s a big one: it nearly made me cry. Digital Firsts No. 23 & No. 24 (“Birthday” and “Razor’s Edge”) might be the darkest Bat-centered issues in the whole of the series and anyone out there clinging to any hope of salvaging the Man…

Digital Firsts No. 21 & No. 22 (“Memorial and “Tempers Flare”) return us to the problem of Superman-as-Evil in terms of his support from other former Justice-Leaguers.  That’s been a question running all Year (and even since before now): why does anyone support this very clearly corrupted boy in blue? You won’t necessarily get answers…

If Brian Buccellato’s Injustice was a baseball game, this would be the issue in which the batter pops a fly long into the outfield with the score tied, two outs, and bases loaded. Everyone is on their feet. Everyone is holding their breath. This one ball is going to decide the game. Will it make…

Every week Brian Buccellato has brought his A-game to Year Five of the Injustice series, and every two weeks we get a floppy issue of the Digital First content to have and to hold. In the history of DIgital Firsts, there’s been some huge successes and some not-so-great also-rans. Even though Injustice had a wobbly…

Last week I kvetched about Marguerite Bennett’s Batwoman in DC Bombshells, but this week Brian Buccellato brings Injustice’s Batwoman to the fore in a big way in this issue titled “Revolutionary” (Digital Firsts No.15 & No. 16 parts 1 & 2). This is a significantly heavy Batfamily issue and there’s plenty to please the Batman…

Bucky Barnes visits the Batcave and...oh wait, sorry, character models are a bit mushy here. That’s Damian Wayne in all his long-haired black-and-red glory. Digital Firsts No.13 “Taking Sides” & No. 14 “Casting Shadows” tells the story we were promised two weeks ago as Injustice takes an almost all-Bat-all-the-time issue to delve into this nearly…

One of my favorite things about Year Five so far is the epic fight sequences: both purposeful and exquisitely executed. I’m not typically a reader who enjoys a whole comic of people just beating on each other, but when it moves the story and it’s dramatically more interesting than just characters endlessly trading blows, I…

Bizarro and the Rogues finally come to the forefront in this floppy copy of Digital Firsts No. 9 “Objects in Mirror...” & No. 10 “The Curious Case of Bizarro Superman”. These are two threads that have been percolating quietly in the background since the start of Year Five, and it’s great to finally see how…

Brian Buccellato takes us to a dark place with Injustice this week. Real dark. Issue no. 4, which combines Digital Firsts No. 7 “Street Fight” & 8 “Rage” is one of the most brutal issues of this comic to date. I was excited about the return of the Thanagarians (Katar Hol and Shiera have been…