2023-10-30 02:50
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2023-10-26 02:41
Though clearly too relevant to the rest of the DC Universe to skip, I begin to wonder if Punchline stories are not for me.I believe Punchline’s major writers to this point see greater… Read More
2023-10-23 01:37
As with last month, what I’m seeing in the DC Comics January 2024 trade paperback and hardcover solicitations is not only all the “old faithful” regular series collections… Read More
2023-10-19 02:10
Honestly I’m not so surprised that Catwoman Vol. 2: Cat International doesn’t measure up to the level of the book that preceded it. I’ve recently given my “endings ar… Read More
2023-10-16 02:47
I Am Batman Vol. 2: Welcome to New York is John Ridley’s best volume of I Am Batman so far, further cementing my suspicion (as with Batgirls) that a lot of these titles were better off… Read More
2023-10-14 01:46
As you’ve heard, comics creator Keith Giffen died this past week. He is not the first comics figure to pass in the tenure of this site, but this one is particularly affecting. Undoubte… Read More
2023-10-12 02:03
Geoffrey Thorne’s Green Lantern Vol. 2: Horatius lacks a bit of the previous book’s shock and awe, and in that way doesn’t quite rise to its predecessor’s level. I al… Read More
2023-10-09 03:25
Foremost, thank you to everyone who reads Collected Editions and especially who stops by and leaves a comment. As I’ve said before, there might be a Collected Editions without you all… Read More
2023-10-05 03:09
Aside from the instant classic Ed Brubaker Catwoman run, among my favorites since that great revival was Genevieve Valentine’s DC You run, and that’s true even though Valentine&r&hell…Read More
2023-10-02 01:58
After a bumpy second volume, Superman Adventures Vol. 3 hits its stride with its third volume, collecting nine issues that knock Superman, Metropolis, and the supporting cast right out of th… Read More
2023-09-28 02:59
Seven years later and now I’ve finally read the DC You-era Catwoman Vol. 7: Inheritance, the second part of Genevieve Valentine’s short run on the series. (There are good reasons… Read More
2023-09-25 02:31
I was a little annoyed going in to Batman: Detective Comics Vol. 4: Riddle Me This, given that it was another short trade (a scant three issues, even including the “Gotham Girl, Interr… Read More
2023-09-21 02:59
If there was a word that came to me throughout reading Batgirls Vol. 2: Bat Girl Summer, it was “romance.” Becky Cloonan and Michael Conrad’s Batgirls is, and tries to be… Read More
2023-09-18 00:02
Knight Terrors is the big headline in the DC Comics December 2023 trade paperback and hardcover solicitations, some but not all of the Knight Terrors books answering some but not all of our… Read More
2023-09-14 02:38
Batman: Urban Legends Vol. 5 is the volume of the series I’ve most enjoyed since the second one. All the standard disclaimers still apply that Urban Legends seems to have lost its way… Read More
2023-09-11 02:00
What makes a Robin a Robin? Do they need to live in Wayne Manor for a time? Is it important there’s at least one conversation where Alfred tells Bruce, “You’re being too ha… Read More
2023-09-09 02:49
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I’ve been doing some infrastr… Read More
2023-09-07 03:19
The Batman: Urban Legends series started well enough, with consequential stories for Red Hood Jason Todd, Grifter, Azrael, Robin Tim Drake, and others, often as lead-in to future series, plu… Read More
2023-09-04 02:34
[A series on DC’s animated tie-in comics collections by guest reviewer Zach King. Zach writes about movies at The Cinema King and about comics on Instagram at Dr. King’s Comics.]… Read More
2023-08-31 03:12
At least one reason for the Batman franchise’s success in comics and beyond is surely the villains; no other DC franchise has such a spate of antagonists that routinely step out of the… Read More
2023-08-28 02:05
It bears mentioning, here at the end of Gotham Academy’s first-ish tenure with Gotham Academy: Second Semester Vol. 2: The Ballad of Olive Silverlock, just how well artist Adam Archer… Read More
2023-08-24 01:53
I predicted based on reading Batman: Urban Legends volumes 1 and 2 that going forward I’d probably enjoy the collections of shorter stories better than the volumes with just one or two… Read More
2023-08-21 03:03
It’s a good thing we had the DC Comics Spring 2024 collections solicitations earlier this month, because there’s not a whole lot to get excited about in the DC Comics November 20… Read More
2023-08-17 02:04
[A series on DC's animated tie-in comics collections by guest reviewer Zach King. Zach writes about movies at The Cinema King and about comics on Instagram at Dr. King’s Comics.]
Alth… Read More
2023-08-14 02:51
Given more or less all the regular space in 12 issues of Detective Comics running weekly, writer Mariko Tamaki does well in Batman: Shadows of the Bat: The Tower, reminding of other such wee… Read More
2023-08-10 01:43
This is not, I’ll say up front, an exact or scientific parsing, but of the about 140 books in the DC Comics Spring 2024 trade paperback and hardcover solicitations, about 43 are brand… Read More
2023-08-07 02:14
[A series on Batman: The Animated Series comics collections by guest reviewer Zach King. Zach writes about movies at The Cinema King and about comics on Instagram at Dr. King’s Comics… Read More
2023-08-07 02:04
[A series on Batman: The Animated Series comics collections by guest reviewer Zach King. Zach writes about movies at The Cinema King and about comics on Instagram at Dr. King’s Comics… Read More
2023-08-03 03:02
There’s a reason I’m waiting on the full 12-issue collections for Human Target, Dark Knights of Steel, DC vs. Vampires, and Danger Street, at least, and that’s because some… Read More
2023-07-31 02:11
I don’t feel so badly about thinking Gotham Academy Vol. 3: Yearbook was an off book for the series, given that Gotham Academy: Second Semester Vol. 1: Welcome Back seems a triumphant… Read More
2023-07-27 02:35
You get an omnibus and you get an omnibus and you get an omnibus! OK, that might be a little much, but in DC Comics October 2023 trade paperback and hardcover solicitations, there’s om… Read More
2023-07-24 03:03
Not perhaps for the first time, I’m amazed by the longevity of comics, that unbroken thread that leads us about 30 years after Sword of Azrael to Arkham City: The Order of the World. T… Read More
2023-07-20 01:19
After the disappointing Joker Presents: A Puzzlebox, I’ve been pleased to enjoy a few works by Matthew Rosenberg lately — his co-writing with James Tynion on The Joker proper, an… Read More
2023-07-17 03:00
Gotham Academy Vol. 3: Yearbook is the most Gotham Academy-y Gotham Academy book so far.
I respect the ambition of devoting five entire months to one-off guest vignettes that hardly forward… Read More
2023-07-13 02:19
As compared to the truly dynamic main story in James Tynion’s Joker, the Punchline backups by Tynion and Sam Johns, collected in Punchline: The Trial of Alexis Kaye, feels somewhat les… Read More
2023-07-10 00:02
If an omnibus of James Tynion’s Joker isn’t already planned, it certainly should be. This is a fantastic story and would read fantastically all together in one book, a rare 15(is… Read More
2023-07-06 02:25
I’ve been cutting down on my comics news intake maybe for about a year now, trying to reintroduce the element of surprise into my comics reading. Especially for trade waiters, when you… Read More
2023-07-06 02:12
I already knew Joker Vol. 2’s twist ending, what would have really put my estimation of this book over the top. Nevertheless, having now had some time to spend with Nice House on the L… Read More
2023-07-03 02:34
[A series on Batman: The Animated Series comics collections by guest reviewer Zach King. Zach writes about movies at The Cinema King and about comics on Instagram at Dr. King’s Comics… Read More
2023-06-29 00:02
Ultimately what we want is for books to get better with each successive volume, and Harley Quinn Vol. 3: Verdict is an improvement on what came before. In its fourth-wall-breaking way, Verdi… Read More
2023-06-26 00:02
[A series on Batman: The Animated Series comics collections by guest reviewer Zach King. Zach writes about movies at The Cinema King and about comics on Instagram at Dr. King’s Comics… Read More
2023-06-22 00:02
Well, this is why you’re never going to see me give up hope for a New Titans: Titans Hunt collection, because lo and behold, four years later, without an advance hint to be seen, the D… Read More
2023-06-20 00:02
Popular YouTube channel Near Mint Condition released an advance look at DC Comics' September 2023 collected editions this past week. Among those, the biggest surprise was apparently a new so… Read More
2023-06-19 01:43
I already knew Joker Vol. 2’s twist ending, what would have really put my estimation of this book over the top. Nevertheless, having now had some time to spend with Nice House on the L… Read More
2023-06-15 01:51
With Harley Quinn Vol. 2: Keepsake, I reiterate my earlier opinion: this is surely the Harley Quinn that DC Comics has wanted, even if it’s lacking among the Harley Quinn comics echelo… Read More
2023-06-12 02:32
With what is the final DC Comics volume by Brian Michael Bendis left on my list, more of the same. Justice League Vol. 3: Leagues of Chaos is not particularly poor by any means, and it&rsquo&hell…Read More
2023-06-08 03:11
I have perhaps too often decried DC Comics perpetual event machine, in which the purpose of every crisis (and their numerous pricey tie-ins) is simply to lead to the next, and the next. But… Read More
2023-06-05 02:49
There was a lot to like about the first comics “season” of Naomi, largely a “cozy” origin tale told by way of stories. A notable lack of superhero punch-’em-ups… Read More
2023-06-01 02:57
The great promise of Brian Michael Bendis' Justice League Vol. 2: United Order is that it might have filled in some of the gaps from Bendis' Checkmate. Where Checkmate was full of more quest… Read More
2023-05-29 02:30
The collection of Joshua Williamson’s Batman: Shadow War crossover includes two issues of Batman, two of Deathstroke Inc., and two of Robin. Of these three series, the relevant Batman… Read More
2023-05-25 03:09
[A series on Batman: The Animated Series comics collections by guest reviewer Zach King. Zach writes about movies at The Cinema King and about comics on Instagram at Dr. King’s Comics… Read More
2023-05-22 03:28
Chalk it up maybe to the summer heat, but the DC Comics August 2023 trade paperback and hardcover solicitations aren’t much for regular-series collections, short of Batgirls and Tim Dr… Read More
2023-05-18 02:24
Joshua Williamson’s Batman: Shadow War crossover is not quite as good as all of his books leading up to it, though the scope of this title is very impressive. Some of the continuity ti… Read More
2023-05-15 02:59
I would say that in comparison to its companions, Deathstroke, Inc. and the Robin Damian Wayne series, Joshua Williamson’s Batman Vol. 6: Abyss is a tad sedate, not nearly so boisterou… Read More
2023-05-11 03:00
[A series on Batman: The Animated Series comics collections by guest reviewer Zach King. Zach writes about movies at The Cinema King and about comics on Instagram at Dr. King’s Comics… Read More
2023-05-08 02:53
Friends, those who know us best, can be a comforting link to our pasts, but at worst, a tether to identities that no longer represent us. In James Tynion’s The Nice House on the Lake V… Read More
2023-05-04 01:40
To be sure, Brian Michael Bendis' Checkmate is more of Event Leviathan. If pages upon pages of a motley collection of DC heroes standing around in darkened rooms talking in circles is your i… Read More
2023-05-01 02:12
For a book that was only meant to be 10 issues, Ram V seems to effortlessly expand The Swamp Thing to 16 issues in a way that the final stories feel natural and not tacked-on. If anything, p… Read More
2023-04-28 02:41
[A series on Batman: The Animated Series comics collections by guest reviewer Zach King. Zach writes about movies at The Cinema King and about comics on Instagram at Dr. King’s Comics… Read More
2023-04-24 02:25
Below I call the DC Comics July 2023 trade paperback and hardcover solicitations an “embarrassment of riches” given that we have both John Ridley’s GCPD: The Blue Wall and… Read More
2023-04-20 02:25
[A series on Batman: The Animated Series comics collections by guest reviewer Zach King. Zach writes about movies at The Cinema King and about comics on Instagram at Dr. King’s Comics… Read More
2023-04-17 02:08
It rather seems the best of times or the worst of times, depending on your flavor of Robin Damian Wayne, and sometimes a bit of both at once. Put another way, all things must change, and DC… Read More
2023-04-13 02:36
Tom King’s Batman/Catwoman – epilogue to his sweeping post-modern Batman run and a magnum opus in its own right — might have just been called “Catwoman” (short… Read More
2023-04-10 02:44
Not unlike the first volume of Joshua Williamson’s Damian Wayne Robin book, his Deathstroke Inc. Vol. 1: King of the Super-Villains is zany and irreverent, perhaps surprisingly so, and… Read More
2023-04-06 02:26
[A series on Batman: The Animated Series comics collections by guest reviewer Zach King. Zach writes about movies at The Cinema King and about comics on Instagram at Dr. King’s Comics… Read More
2023-04-03 02:16
The Dawn of DC may be upon us, but the DC Comics Fall 2023 trade paperback and hardcover solicitations are still somewhere in between. The problem with canceling and relaunching a good porti… Read More
2023-03-30 02:26
It’s not really a surprise, but Ram V’s The Swamp Thing Vol. 2: Conduit — given a few more issues to spread its wings than the first volume — is profoundly great. I h… Read More
2023-03-27 02:20
Teen Titans Academy seemed poised to solve a problem that’s plagued the “adult Titans” books for a while now, that these grown and independent heroes don’t have much… Read More
2023-03-23 02:39
Robbie Thompson was part of a creative team that took an unlikely group of Teen Titans and made that title as compelling as its been in decades. Thompson’s Suicide Squad, which ends wi… Read More
2023-03-20 01:51
Strangely, though maybe not for us, the biggest headline in the DC Comics June 2023 trade paperback and hardcover solicitations might be the paperback collection, following the hardcover, of… Read More
2023-03-16 02:33
[A series on Batman: The Animated Series comics collections by guest reviewer Zach King. Zach writes about movies at The Cinema King and about comics on Instagram at Dr. King’s Comics… Read More
2023-03-13 02:03
Stephanie Williams and Vita Ayala’s chronicles of new Amazonian queen Nubia have been among the most interesting that the Wonder Woman franchise has been in a number of years. Even if… Read More
2023-03-09 02:42
It may very well tell you all you need to know about the War for Earth-3 crossover that two of the three series involved would be cancelled within two issues. Without having finished those b… Read More
2023-03-06 03:54
It’s a co-review! Zach King of The Cinema King and Dr. King’s Comics and I review Cecil Castellucci’s Female Furies. Enjoy! Zach King: There came a time when the New Gods d… Read More
2023-03-02 03:29
I will admit to being such a cog in the comics solicitations machine — every month, a big list of comics appears on the internet, and that’s how I know what’s coming &mdash&hell…Read More
2023-02-27 04:23
[A series on Batman: The Animated Series comics collections by guest reviewer Zach King. Zach writes about movies at The Cinema King and about comics on Instagram at Dr. King’s Comics… Read More
2023-02-23 03:18
I’m so, so pleased with Jeremy Adams' Flash Vol. 17: Eclipsed. Not only is it a big improvement on his previous Flash volume, hearkening back to the humor and depth of DC knowledge sho… Read More
2023-02-20 03:34
Sure are a lot of books in the DC Comics May 2023 trade paperback and hardcover solicitations. Of course, most of those are the hardcovers of the Batman — One Bad Day one-shots, but st… Read More
2023-02-16 03:07
Continuing from the first part of my review of Trial of the Amazons ... Trial of the Amazons works well enough as a Wonder Woman event, technicalities aside. This thin, nascent attempt at cr… Read More
2023-02-13 03:28
DC Comics bills Trial of the Amazons as the “first Wonder Woman crossover of its kind.” I guess, looked at in the realm of “crossovers among books in the Wonder Woman famil… Read More
2023-02-09 04:05
[A series on Batman: The Animated Series comics collections by guest reviewer Zach King. Zach writes about movies at The Cinema King and about comics on Instagram at Dr. King’s Comics… Read More
2023-02-06 02:29
I enjoyed Stephanie Williams and Vita Ayala’s Nubia and the Amazons, certainly more so than its contemporaneous Wonder Girl: Homecoming, all of which is leading in to Trial of the Amaz… Read More
2023-02-02 04:28
Everyone, it seems, has a vision for Wonder Girl Yara Flor. Consider, indeed, the sheer variety of depictions of Yara among Wonder Girl: Homecoming’s issues' variant covers, from the n… Read More
2023-01-30 02:31
[A series on post-Jack Kirby New Gods titles by guest reviewer Zach King. Zach writes about movies at The Cinema King and about comics on Instagram at Dr. King’s Comics.] “I didn… Read More
2023-01-26 03:00
In its own way, Wonder Woman Vol. 2: Through a Glass Darkly bides its time until Trial of the Amazons just as much as the previous volume did (DC will die on the hill of “the show must… Read More
2023-01-23 03:27
It’s the DC Comics April 2023 trade paperback and hardcover solicitations, and June brings the Dark Crisis on Infinite Earth collections. Unless I’m overlooking something, everyt… Read More
2023-01-19 01:38
Joshua Williamson delivers something pretty great all around in Justice League Incarnate. As far as cameos go, Williamson works the Multiverse setting to aplomb; I’ve long complained t… Read More
2023-01-16 01:59
Like Becky Cloonan’s Batgirls, Tim Seeley’s Robins: Being Robin seems like the kind of book fans have been wanting but DC has been reluctant to offer until this more gracious Inf… Read More
2023-01-12 03:35
I’ve said before and I’ll say again that for a few reasons, the Infinite Frontier era of DC Comics feels auspicious to me, a period of worrying less about confusion here and impl… Read More
2023-01-09 02:54
With the body of work and accolades under his belt, to say that John Ridley’s I Am Batman Vol. 1 doesn’t quite come together perhaps says more about the reviewer than the reviewe… Read More
2023-01-05 04:37
There’s three Batman: Urban Legends volumes on the stands at the time of this writing. Of them, the first and third contain just two stories each, being collections of some of Urban Le… Read More
2023-01-02 01:14
[A series on post-Jack Kirby New Gods titles by guest reviewer Zach King. Zach writes about movies at The Cinema King and about comics on Instagram at Dr. King’s Comics.] “Severa… Read More
2022-12-29 01:09
If ever there was an example of collected comics being a complicated world often without clear answers, it’s Batman: Secret Files. This is not a book we needed, but a book we couldn&rs&hell…Read More
2022-12-26 00:53
[A series on post-Jack Kirby New Gods titles by guest reviewer Zach King. Zach writes about movies at The Cinema King and about comics on Instagram at Dr. King’s Comics.] “I had… Read More
2022-12-22 02:30
[A series on post-Jack Kirby New Gods titles by guest reviewer Zach King. Zach writes about movies at The Cinema King and about comics on Instagram at Dr. King’s Comics.] “DC sta… Read More
2022-12-19 03:15
Y’know, a little of this, a little of that in the DC Comics March 2023 trade paperback and hardcover solicitations. Couple of regular series collections I’ll be getting — T… Read More
2022-12-15 03:11
I’ll note at the top of my review of Catwoman Vol. 6: Fear State that between Catwoman Vol. 5: Valley of the Shadow of Death and this one, DC appears to have dropped an issue, Catwoman… Read More
2022-12-12 04:09
I’d thought it was a little silly that DC didn’t number the Nightwing: Fear State collection as “Vol. 2,” leaving perhaps the less-informed to go straight from issue… Read More
2022-12-08 03:00
Mariko Tamaki’s Batman: Detective Comics Vol. 2: Fear State is fantastic, offering just about everything I could want from a Batman comic, buoying even the rough holdovers from the las… Read More
2022-12-05 02:52
Batman: Fear State Saga has learned some lessons from James Tynion’s Bat-crossover previous, but I wonder if they were quite the right lessons. That is, inasmuch as I enjoyed Batman Vo… Read More
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