Listen: we’ve all had terrible first dates. The kind that makes us want to crawl into a hole and never come back out, or makes us want to move and adopt a new identity. Why should superheroes be any different? If I have one complaint about Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #12, it’s that it didn’t come out…
DC PUBWATCH – April 2022 Edition
World’s Finest #2 adds another cast member as it retains the number one position in my monthly rankings.
DC PUBWATCH: March 2022
For the first time in years, the Batman and Superman team-up book is titled World’s Finest, and issue #1 lives up to the claim.
REVIEW: Robins #3 Falters with Heavy Exposition
Robins #3 picks up where issue #2 left off for another action-packed installment. A conversation between Dick and Bruce frames the comic and recounts the events following the last issue’s cliffhanger. The gang teams up to defeat a group of ex-sidekicks who have acquired technology that allows them to physically transform into their prior partners…
REVIEW: Robins #1 and #2 Introduces a Long-Awaited Team-Up
Even before hitting stands, Robins had already won. According to CBR, back in March, DC Comics held a contest where fans could vote for the book concept they wanted to see in print as a miniseries. By the end, Robins, a team-up comic between all five of Batman’s canonical Robins, won out against 15 other…
DC PUBWATCH: August 2021 Edition
Here in the great white north, it is hot and humid this August, so I hope that you are able to keep cool this summer. I already told you that The Dreaming: Waking Hours #12 is my top pick of the month, and why, and sadly, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow remains my bottom pick of…
(A)Round Robin – An Interview with Lauren O’Connor
As a Robin fan (Tim Drake is the best Robin I will not be taking questions at this time), I was very excited to hear about Robin and the Making of American Adolescence, a new book that will be released August 13, 2021 as part of the Comics Culture series being published at Rutgers University…
DC PUBWATCH – End of Year Edition
Happy holidays from the DC Pubwatch! As we reach the end of the year, I want to reminisce a little bit. Over the course of the year DC published 729 books, of which I gave an overwhelming majority A’s or B’s. For the most part, other than a few books that missed the mark, it…
Young Justice #5: Repressed Memories and Kryptonite
Young Justice #5 Brian Michael Bendis (Writer), Kris Anka (Artist), Wes Abbott (Letters), Alejandro Sanchez (Colours), Evan ‘Doc’ Shaner (Artist), John Timms (Artist) DC Comics 1 May, 2019 Young Justice may have freed themselves from Dark Lord Opal’s prison, but that doesn’t mean the Gemworld villain will let them get away that easily. Scarcely minutes…
Young Justice #1 Review: Great Fun But Where’s Superboy?
Young Justice #1 Brian Michael Bendis (Writer), Patrick Gleason (Artist), Alejandro Sanchez (Colours), DC Lettering (Letters) DC Comics 9 January 2019 Gemworld has, for years, been affected by the tide of events afflicting Earth. But the denizens of the blue marble are unaware of this, blissfully living their lives while Gemworld suffers. The rulers of…
DC PUBWATCH – October Edition
The biggest news this month came out of New York Comic Con, where Brian Michael Bendis announced his new imprint “Wonder Comics.” The imprint is focused on the teenage heroes of the DC Universe, and headlining that announcement was the returns of Bart Allen, Tim Drake, Cassie Sandsmark, and Conner Kent as an updated Young…
So, Why Don’t We Have a Robin Movie?: Teen Sidekicks and the Relegation to Relation
Underneath the butt jokes and ‘80s flashbacks (and more butt jokes), Teen Titans Go! To the Movies poses a valid and complex question: Why don’t we have a Robin movie? Robin (the Dick Grayson iteration) was introduced before Wonder Woman, Captain America, and a host of other superheroes who have been given their own films….