Tag Archives: Batman

‘Arrow’ is losing its identity to focus on murdering again

Spinning out of fallout from last year’s finale, Arrow is tackling a huge issue: should Oliver just start murdering criminals to keep them off the street? Do the ends justify the means? After taking a life to save the city and nuking a small town to save a bigger one, this season opened with Oliver shooting thugs point blank without …

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Monsters, Robins and Cupids! Pull List – September 28, 2016

DC finishes up Rebirth, and Boom's Jonesy finally gets collected in the new comic releases for September 28, 2016.

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Batman’s giant monster story is pretty great

A story that should have been stupid is surprisingly well written.

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All-Star Batman might win me over yet

I didn't think I would care much for this book, so this is a pleasant surprise.

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Tom King is writing the Batman you didn’t know you missed

Only six issues into the new Rebirth era of Batman, and it's evident that DC is at the beginning of a new Golden Age for it's classic characters.

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Tim Drake is a Goddamn Badass Again, And I Am So Happy

In which Chris gushes over one of the best things to come out of DC Rebirth. Spoilers for DETECTIVE COMICS!

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‘Batman v Superman’ gets a new trailer, but what’s the tone?

I can’t figure out the tone of this movie, and it’s infuriating me. So much so that I don’t even have words to say about this. It’s not a bad trailer by any means, but both trailers we’ve seen so far have been all over the place. Worst for me is Jesse Eisenburg interrupting what looks like a very tense scene …

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The Many Origins & Retcons of the Justice League of America

I’ve been wanting to do something about JLA Year One for a while now, and was reading it for research when I made a casual tweet about a moment from the book that I loved years ago and still love today. I expected it to go nowhere, but boy, was I surprised to discover that people really want fun comics. …

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