Last week, the first issue of a brand new comic series, Gotham Academy, hit shelves. It’s a series set within the Bat-verse, but it focuses on the daily lives and hijinks of the students of an elite prep school. Think of it as the Gotham version of Hogwarts. To celebrate the release of this book, the…
The DC Daily Planet: How Do We Merch
Loyal readers, I apologize for the lateness of this article. I know you’ve been hung on the WWAC homepage all day, hungrily refreshing the page, only to be disappointed again and again. Well, please allow me to sweep in at the eleventh hour with all the DC news you can handle — or at least,…
Cook Your Comics: Gotham Academy Survival Sandwiches and Soup
Fall is finally here. School is back in session, and the weather is getting cooler. I find fall energizing because here in Texas, the summer is so oppressively hot that its end is greeted like spring is in places where it’s freezing and snowy all winter. At my house, we get excited about “cold weather…
Merch Fail: Training to be Batman’s Wife
DC licensing team? You’re stupid and I hate you. Yes, I am calling names. So juvenile. But so are they by proxy (by neglect), and they’re doing it in crueller, quieter ways.
The DC Daily Planet: Fox News is Totally Up On Comics, Guys
Today in DC, Fox News laments Wonder Woman’s pants (?), Supergirl is getting a new origin story (scandal!), and Harley Quinn breaks the fourth wall (like usual). Let’s dig in.
The DC Daily Planet: December Solicits
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The DC Daily Planet: Crisis Not Averted
Happy Friday, caped crusaders! I don’t know about you, but this week has been all uphill over here. Fortunately, it’s almost over, and we can all party for the weekend! My place at 8, bring margaritas, okay?
Gotham: No Straight or Whitewashing for Renee Montoya
Advocate.com wrote today about the diversity of Fox’s newest superhero show, Gotham. It looked at three of the show’s female characters: women of colour, one of whom is a lesbian. Zabryna Guevara plays Sarah Essen who is the captain of the GCPD Homicide Squad — which also means she’ll be James Gordon’s boss.
The Windy City Special: Batman Eternal #19-20
#19 – Breaking Bat Story by Scott Snyder & James Tynion IV Script by Tim Seeley Consulting writers: John Layman & Ray Fawkes Art by Emanuel Simeoni After a number of mediocre issues, it’s beginning to feel like this story is back on track. Or maybe it’s just that I care about these subplots more…
The #WWACComicClub talks Y the Last Man
On the first Monday of every month we meet up on Twitter for the #WWACComicClub. Last week we discussed Y The Last Man Volume 1: Unmanned by Brian K Vaughan and Pia Guerra .
The DC Daily Planet: Secret, Secret, Secret TUNNEL — I mean, Six!
Big news this week! Let’s take a moment from stopping volcanoes and unwinding twisters to discuss, caped crusaders.
Sensation Comics #1: Wonder Woman in Gotham
There may have been someone out there more excited than me to hear that DC was launching (or re-launching, maybe) the Sensation Comics title as a digital first, but I’m totally not making it a competition, because we can all like the same things at different levels, right, pals?