Shell(f) Space: 'Cowabunga Bruce!', Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics
Why Batman and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are such a natural fit.
Read MoreTom King, Mitch Gerads, and many more team for BATMAN: ONE BAD DAY, a series of one-shots
The team behind Mister Miracle and The Sheriff of Babylon are re-teaming for a new 64-page contained story about The Riddler.
Read MoreYour new creative team for the BATMAN main book is ZDARSKY and JIMENEZ
The duo is taking over the title with Batman #125 in July.
Read MorePhilosophy and Tom King: Existentialism in Batman #23 (2016)
Scholar Steve Baxi applies his background in philosophy to the comics of Tom King, using Batman #23 as a lens through which to examine what King has to say about life and the position of philosophical art, with a special focus on King and artist Mitch Gerads’ application of the nine panel grid.
Read MoreClassic Comic of the Week: Batman and Dracula - Red Rain
Batman & Dracula: Red Rain from Moench, Jones, Jones, Dorscheid, and Klein is a wonderful blend of two properties into a seamless, exciting horror story.
Read MoreFuture State Fridays: Something New-ish Begins
In a new weekly feature — Future State Fridays — senior staff writer d. emerson eddy takes a look at each of the titles within DC Comics’ latest linewide mega event.
Read MoreCLASSIC COMIC OF THE WEEK: Batman - Ego
d. emerson eddy closes out a very bad year on a high note…this week’s CLASSIC COMIC OF THE WEEK is Batman: Ego by all-time great writer/artist Darwyn Cooke.
Read MoreCLASSIC COMIC OF THE WEEK: Batman - Noel
Batman: Noel reminds us to have hope. That things could be dark now, that situations could be dire, but not to give up, not to follow the hardships down a dark path, and to always strive towards something better.
Read MoreGotham Central, Case by Case: SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY
The second-to-last edition of Gotham Central: Case by Case is here, and it’s focused on the one-shot story SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY, an Infinite Crisis tie-in that delves into religion.
Read MoreGotham Central, Case by Case: DEAD ROBIN
Our Gotham Central - Case by Case series continues today with a look at the penultimate arc of the book, Dead Robins, in which a serial killer is dressing his victims up as the Boy Wonder.
Read MoreGotham Central, Case by Case: NATURE
In the Gotham Central story arc Nature, Munroe thought he had gamed the system, but was eventually eaten up by one of its ‘freaks’. That’s just the law of Nature in Gotham City.
Read MoreGotham Central, Case by Case: KEYSTONE KOPS
“Keystone Kops” is another tragic tale, wherein early on Batman appears to tell Renee not to barter with Alchemy, leaving Kelly yet another pawn of ‘freaks’ that the GCPD cannot even turn back into a person.
Read MoreCLASSIC COMIC OF THE WEEK: Batman Legends of the Dark Knight #54
Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #54 is one of the high points in the first five years of this classic series, when pretty much everything in the series was a high point.
Read MoreGotham Central, Case by Case: LIGHTS OUT
With Gotham Central being a series that is all about the police and their relationships with Batman, “Lights Out” explicitly redirects conversations towards Batman’s status as vigilante.
Read MoreGotham Central, Case by Case: CORRIGAN
By Bruno Savill De Jong — Before now, Jim Corrigan has appeared in the background picking through crime scenes of Gotham Central, collecting evidence and providing forensic analysis as a C.S.U. of the GCPD. In “Corrigan” he comes to the foreground, with a Gotham Central storyline where numerous established themes start to coalesce. It is a half-way point that connects the previous issues to a thread crucial for the book’s ultimate ending. Here, the GCPD corruption creeping around the edges of Gotham Central shows its clearest form yet. The previous “Unresolved” arc brought a reminder of Harvey Bullock’s old-fashioned self-justified corruption. Now “Corrigan” shows this corruption as a still-present part of the system, a toxic element that hinders even the ‘righteous’ elements within the department.
Read MoreGotham Central, Case by Case: UNRESOLVED
By Bruno Savill De Jong — Sometimes the past can trap us. Traumatic events can be a vortex, one that warps our perception of the world, and makes us unable to escape that moment. This theme underlies “Unresolved”, the latest case in Gotham Central, featuring various instances of past events destabilizing people, and creating a delusional world-view. Detective Driver sees it first-hand when his brother’s childhood best friend, Kenny Booker, takes a fast-food joint hostage to demand and talk with Driver. Eight years ago, Kenny was one of the few survivors of the Gotham Hawks Baseball team locker-room bombing, that case that still remains unresolved.
Read MoreCLASSIC COMIC OF THE WEEK: Batman - The Dark Prince Charming
By d. emerson eddy — This past Saturday was this year's celebration of “Batman Day” and it had me thinking of combining my current search through some favorite European comics and Batman. Somewhat surprisingly, given the sheer number of Batman interpretations across the decades in the North American market, there isn't a huge selection of foreign language originals, but what is out there is very well done. Batman: The Dark Prince Charming was technically published simultaneously in English and French (and Dutch, I think) by DC Comics and Dargaud, but it's one of the few out there in association with a European publisher. It's also good, so you needn't worry that being originally published by a European publisher was my only criteria.
Read MoreGotham Central, Case by Case: LIFE IS FULL OF DISAPPOINTMENTS
By Bruno Savill De Jong — Life is Full of Disappointments is an odd storyline. It feels almost purposefully removed from the tapestry of Gotham Central, downplaying the immersive world-building that was central to all the previous issues. Gotham Central might make minimal use of Batman, but Life is Full of Disappointments has zero Batman, nor any ‘freaks’, nor (nearly) anything connected to Gotham’s ‘culture’. Even the recognizable detectives from Gotham Central itself (Montoya, Driver, Josie Mac) are dropped to foreground the underdeveloped police from the Major Crimes Unit, the three issues rotating in a new pair of detectives to examine the case.
Read MoreGotham Central, Case by Case: SOFT TARGETS
By Bruno Savill De Jong — While Half a Life is Gotham Central’s famous storyline that examines the weight of Gotham upon a single cop, Soft Targets is another popular plotline that examines a single case’s impact upon the whole city. Over Christmas, Gotham is gripped by a supervillain’s terrorist threat. Now, that might sound like a typical superhero set-up. Indeed, Tom King did exactly this in The War of Jokes and Riddle (Batman Vol. 3, #25-32) a few years ago. But while I like that storyline, Gotham Central, well, centralizes Gotham in a way mainstream Batman titles cannot
Read MoreGotham Central, Case by Case: MOTIVE
By Bruno Savill De Jong — “The problem with motiveless crime is that there’s always a motive”, Detective Marcus Driver tells his temporarily assigned partner Romy Chandler, “we just can’t see it. ‘Cause no one kills someone with no reason”.
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