“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 MoreBy Zack Quaintance — The musical metaphors are too easy with DC Comics’ big summer event, Dark Nights: Death Metal. You can call it an encore to the first event — Dark Nights: Metal — a simple echo of ideas, inflated to new volume to give the audience more of the things they’ve cheered all along. Or, perhaps you can call it a sophomore album, a tricky followup to an earlier success that needs to check similar boxes while also going in new, stimulating directions.
Read MoreBy Zack Quaintance — Welcome back to the weekly feature that I ripped off (concept-wise from the nation’s best national basketball reporter, Zach Lowe). This week there were four total comics things I liked and didn’t like, including a new book that has been on fire through two issues, a book about creating fire, and more.
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