Last year Ashley wrote an essay for us called Snap His Neck! I return to it from time to time. Violence is something you can’t get away from if you’re at all interested in superhero comics. Superhero violence, as cartoonish and sometimes antisocial as it can be, isn’t interesting to me on its own. I’m…
August Staff Picks: Comics
Displaced Persons Derek McCulloch (Writer) and Anthony Peruzzo (Artist) Image I don’t know much about Displaced Persons. It’s an OGN by an Eisner nominated writer, Derek McCulloch of STAGGER LEE and Gone to Amerikay, and Anthony Peruzzo, an artist I’m not familiar with. I haven’t seen much advance buzz. What I have seen is this cover…
The DC Daily Planet: San Diego Detox
Anybody else disappointed with the lack of big announcements from DC this past weekend? Except, of course, the one I’ve been waiting for ever since I heard Wondie was going to be in Batman v. Superman:
The Penguin’s Goose is Cooked: Batman Eternal Check In #14-15
Previously in Batman Eternal . . . Tim and Harper stole our hearts, Lieutenant Bard dropped the hammer on the gang war, Gordon had an identity crisis when his not-so-dead son came to visit, and Stephanie Brown’s father made us question his skills as a villain. Got all that? Good, because things are just getting…
Throwing Popcorn: Justice League
Through the power of Netflix I was recently able to rewatch one of my favorite TV shows of all time, Justice League. The animated DC series—a part of the larger animated universe typically known as the DCAU or DC animated universe—focused on the combined lives of the Justice League members Green Lantern, Hawkgirl, Flash, Martian…
Review of Grayson #1: And They Say “You Don’t Know Dick” To The Readers?
Grayson #1 Tim Seeley and Tom King (W) Mikel Janin and Jeremy Cox (A) TW: sexual harrassment, rape I don’t mind coming in “in media res.” That’s a grabby way to start a story.
The DC Daily Planet: America’s Next Top Robin
Marvel may have stolen the spotlight this week, but DC has a few tricks up their sleeve, too. Let’s see what’s on the horizon:
The DC Daily Planet: Hellos and Goodbyes
There’s a lot of new faces this week, DC fans! New creative teams to be excited or angry about, new cast members to muse over, and, of course, a few familiar names we’ll be sad to see go.
Brand New Batgirl Design Revealed, Internet Has Feelings
Let’s begin this way: Batgirl got a new design and it is awesome!
Tim & Harper Will They Or Won’t They: Batman Eternal Check In #12-13
Here we are again, same Bat-time, same Bat-channel. It’s another Batman Eternal Bi-Weekly Check In. For those of you just tuning in, Batman Eternal is the year-long, weekly comic book event being run to celebrate Batman’s 75th Anniversary. Gotham is falling to pieces, Gordon has been arrested, the new commissioner refuses to work with ‘costumes’,…
The DC Daily Planet: Tie-ins and Teases
Happy Independence Day to those of our readers in the USA, and happy Friday to everyone else! To start you off on this best of all weekdays, we’ve got new-new books, new-old shows, and an apparently never-ending stream of Batman to discuss: it’s the DC Daily Planet!
Batman Eternal Check In: Issues #10-11
Originally, I wasn’t sure if I wanted to write about the year long event that is Batman Eternal. I have been burned by DC events in the past (*cough* Villains Month *cough*) But the promise of Stephanie Brown and a superstar creative team (Snyder! Fawkes! Layman! Seeley!) convinced me to check out the first issue….