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
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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Friends, those who know us best, can be a comforting link to our pasts, but at worst, a tether to identities that no longer represent us.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
2022-12-01 02:58
James Tynion’s foreshortened Batman run — which was never supposed to be very long, then was, then wasn’t again — will ultimately be remembered for its bookend events… Read More
2022-11-28 02:44
Well — checks internet — apparently the new Flash movie is scheduled for June 23, 2023, and DC seems to be gearing up in the DC Comics February 2023 trade paperback and hardcover… Read More
2022-11-24 03:57
[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.] "Marshall Rog… Read More
2022-11-21 01:05
Story-wise, Future State: Gotham Vol. 2: The Next Joker is hardly the most complicated book DC Comics is putting out; indeed Next Joker fails in delivering the very thing it promises. But no… Read More
2022-11-17 01:57
[Welcoming back guest reviewer Zach King for a series on post-Jack Kirby New Gods titles. Zach writes about movies at The Cinema King and about comics on Instagram at Dr. King’s Comics… Read More
2022-11-14 03:08
Rio Youers and Tom Fowler’s Refrigerator Full of Heads takes Joe Hill’s original Basketful of Heads and, well, turns it on its head. What had previously been the mostly realistic… Read More
2022-11-10 03:23
Given a Titans book that seemed mainly intended to profit off the (well-deserved, but perhaps small) fandom of the HBO Max Titans TV show, but that is not so brave as to be actually set in t… Read More
2022-11-07 02:52
Ordinarily I’m relative sanguine about bad portrayals of the world’s greatest superheroes. Batman acts the fool under one writer’s pen, there’s surely another story o… Read More
2022-11-03 00:52
I appreciate the creative thinking that went into Aquaman/Green Arrow: Deep Target as a project — these two heroes, neither particularly similar to the other (beside a penchant for fac… Read More
2022-10-31 00:21
I was very happy when DC Comics announced a new Batman: The Long Halloween Special (happy enough to plan a whole “Long Halloween saga” re-read), though I did wonder if creators J… Read More
2022-10-27 02:15
I was thinking of late how quickly “I remember everything” came and went in the finale of Dark Nights: Death Metal and the start of the Infinite Frontier era. Granted I’m n… Read More
2022-10-24 02:37
Well, the DC Comics January 2023 trade paperback and hardcover solicitations are unremarkable overall, but I’m much happier seeing 23 books on the list instead of last month’s ei… Read More
2022-10-20 00:52
About halfway through Batman '89, I found myself thinking this writer didn’t particularly get the Michael Keaton Bruce Wayne’s voice; shortly thereafter I remembered that the wri… Read More
2022-10-17 02:09
There was a point in time where another good Richard Donner Superman film was what every comics fan wanted, perhaps only rivaled by a another good Tim Burton Batman film, so DC’s recen… Read More
2022-10-13 02:01
Though meandering at times, far from perfect, Tim Seeley and Scott Kolins' Suicide Squad: King Shark is what most comics should aspire to be. Certainly just a project intended to capitalize… Read More
2022-10-10 03:03
Among Batman Black Label books that swiftly come to mind — Batman: Last Knight on Earth, Batman: Three Jokers, even Batman: Damned — Batman: One Dark Knight feels the least of th… Read More
2022-10-06 01:53
I had high hopes for Matthew Rosenberg’s Joker Presents: A Puzzlebox, so I’m disappointed by the book’s failure to impress. All the pieces are certainly here — a whod… Read More
2022-10-03 02:24
From its provocative beginnings to its twist of an end, Tom King’s Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow is another brilliant deconstruction of a beloved character. King shows from the jump tha… Read More
2022-09-29 02:11
Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen are each popular and prolific among the DC Comics set. Together, they’re the team behind the acclaimed Descender from Image (and its sequel, Ascender), wh… Read More
2022-09-26 03:23
DC Black Label titles so far have (entertainingly) used their mature allowances to make the bad worse — more disturbing horror stories, more dystopian situations for our heroes or vers… Read More
2022-09-22 02:18
The same as James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad was a dark, irreverent take on the DC property (perhaps darker and irreverent-er, since Suicide Squad is not usually bright and sunny as a ru… Read More
2022-09-19 04:22
Perhaps the skimpiest monthly list in recent memory, the DC Comics December 2022 trade paperback and hardcover solicitations has only eight books on it! For what will be February 2023, that… Read More
2022-09-15 01:59
I wouldn’t go so far as to say a consistent characterization for Black Manta has been established among DC Comics' writer set. But, between Aquaman writers including Geoff Johns and Da… Read More
2022-09-12 02:07
I found a number of aspects of Flash Vol. 16: The Return of Wally West problematic, at a time when it just doesn’t seem it should be all that difficult to write a workable Flash book… Read More
2022-09-08 01:27
I’m no less impressed with writer Brandon Thomas after Aquaman: The Becoming; what promising things we saw in Thomas' Future State: Aquaman (collected in Future State: Justice League a… Read More
2022-09-05 02:47
I was uncharacteristically down on Ram V’s Justice League Dark: The Great Wickedness when I finished it. In general Ram V’s Dark has been superb, as good as if not exceeding grea… Read More
2022-09-01 02:34
I’ve been reading comics long enough to know that even despite Jon Kent being called “Superman” here, taking ownership of some pretty big shoes, one day his father will tak… Read More
2022-08-28 03:17
It was a nine-month wait between the DC Comics collections catalog two seasons ago and the last most recent one; I’m very glad that it was only five months between that one and the DC… Read More
2022-08-25 01:51
Given the long runway that both comics and movies have before arriving in the world, it’s hard to say if either Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo’s Joker or Christopher Nolan&rsquo&hell…Read More
2022-08-22 02:50
All right, so with the DC Comics November 2022 trade paperback and hardcover solicitations (for collections mostly coming in December), we’re back to a more Batman-and-family-focused m… Read More
2022-08-18 02:42
Sandman: Overture is a more than satisfactory return to Neil Gaiman’s vaunted series. I don’t think even Gaiman himself would claim that Overture is exactly the beginning imagine… Read More
2022-08-15 00:55
Common questions I might ask myself when starting a review include, at their most basic, “Did I enjoy the book?” and “Was it good?” In regards to Superman and the Aut… Read More
Review: Batman: The Long Halloween: Catwoman: When In Rome: The Deluxe Edition Hardcover (DC Comics)
2022-08-11 02:01
I was excited when Jeph Loeb and the late Tim Sale re-teamed last year for a new Batman: The Long Halloween special. Wanting to be fully versed in the mystery ahead of reading the special, I… Read More
2022-08-08 02:17
Sandman: The Deluxe Edition Book Five is an odd volume, consisting as it does of the short “The Wake” storyline and Sandman series proper epilogues, and then most of writer Neil… Read More
2022-08-04 02:23
After an uncertain start with Superman: The One Who Fell, new Action Comics writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson comes out strong with Superman: Action Comics Vol. 1: Warworld Rising. Great showin… Read More
2022-08-01 02:38
If I’m not mistaken, DC Comics' kick-off of their mature readers DC Black Label line in late 2018 was twofold — Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo’s new Batman: Damned miniser… Read More
2022-07-28 02:20
Ostensibly Chip Zdarsky is a “get” for DC Comics, as evidenced by his about to be taking over the Batman title. I expect, as is sometimes the case, that Justice League: Last Ride… Read More
2022-07-25 02:29
Notably there’s few if any Batman proper collections in the DC Comics October 2022 trade paperback and hardcover solicitations, for those keeping track of that kind of thing. Rather it… Read More
2022-07-21 03:10
Image Comics' new graphic novel Bone Orchard: The Passageway came to my attention for a couple of reasons. First, it’s by Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino, the dynamite team behind a… Read More
2022-07-18 02:51
It is the positive reviews I’d heard of Phillip Kennedy Johnson’s Action Comics that keep me from being more concerned about Superman: The One Who Fell. Kennedy’s inaugural… Read More
2022-07-14 02:36
I think it was a miscalculation on DC Comics' part including the Future State stories in the regular-series trades. Sure if, case in point, you’re a Swamp Thing fan but didn’t wa… Read More
2022-07-11 02:10
At first I was hesitant about Adam Glass' Teen Titans; what looked (as depicted by Bernard Chiang) to be a rapidly aged-up Robin Damian Wayne seemed the start of an artificially angsty group… Read More
2022-07-06 23:02
Tim Sheridan’s Shazam!: To Hell and Back is a strange one. On one hand, I appreciate a Captain Marvel story1 that is less concerned than most of late with the larger Marvel family; She… Read More
2022-06-30 01:09
Teen Titans Academy is one of these “all the characters in one bucket” concepts, not unlike Scott Snyder’s recently completed Justice League, that really feels like it shou… Read More
2022-06-27 02:14
I felt there was nothing special, but nothing objectionable, in Robbie Thompson’s inaugural Suicide Squad Vol. 1: Give Peace a Chance. Thompson’s Future State: Suicide Squad stor… Read More
2022-06-23 02:18
When I read the first main chapter of Geoffrey Thorne’s Green Lantern Vol. 1: Invictus, I found it a cogent, readable, but not particularly ground-breaking Green Lantern story of polit… Read More
2022-06-20 02:50
As opposed to last month’s DC Comics trade paperback and hardcover solicitations, the September 2022 solicitations offer about half as many books. I’d be more worried if DC hadn… Read More
2022-06-16 03:04
I’ve commented before, there’s a thing writers sometimes do when they’ve just started writing a character and need to get acclimated, which is to take the character out of… Read More
2022-06-13 02:11
Future State Gotham Vol. 1 seems the kind of risk DC Comics wouldn’t usually take; I’m not sure what’s driving it, but I’m glad it’s here. Can another future-se… Read More
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