Confession time: This is my first look at the new 52 Batgirl. Yes, I know, this comic came out in December 2014, and I’ve had it for months, but it’s the New 52 and I’ve been afraid to look. But really? I loved it. Very modern, very smart. This is not Nancy Drew, this is […]
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Review: Gotham Academy #2
March 15, 2016Olive is struggling to come to terms with what happened over the summer, more so because she doesn’t remember it. Her memory is a big hole, making the rumors of ghosts and mysterious movements in the night take a big step back and morphing her from a fun-loving student like the others, to a moody […]
Review: Justice League Season 1 Episode 5
March 13, 2016In Darkest Night Part 2 With John charged with destroying a planet Flash takes to his defense as the other Justice League members investigate the claims. Superman and Martian Manhunter quickly find plenty suspicious about the claims. Like with subsequent plots there’s more scheming and manipulation going on here than we’ve seen. The force behind […]
Review: Gotham Academy: EndGame #1
March 10, 2016Maps, Pomeline and Olive are hunkered down in the GA gym with everyone else waiting out a wandering horde of Joker-infected zombies causing chaos outside. The girls begin to tell each other scary Joker stories. Even one of the teachers joins in. Sure it’s a fun, creepy one shot. But um, there really are Joker […]
Review: Justice League Season 1 Episode 4
March 6, 2016In Blackest Night Part 1 Guess what…there are black people in this series! I mean, not just Green Lantern aka John Stewart, but at the opening of this episode he walks through a whole black community, casually busting petty criminals and tossing balls back to neighborhood kids. This series does a pretty fabulous job of […]
Review: Justice League Season 1 Episode 3
February 28, 2016Secret Origins Part 3 With Superman and Hawkgirl trapped by the aliens and Batman dead, the rest of the gang goes back into the hive to rescue their captured comrades. Since we started with Batman and Superman it’s nice to have a little time with our other heroes, Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter and Wonder Woman. […]
Review: Justice League Season 1 Episode 2
February 21, 2016Secret Origins Part 2 With the world in danger Princess Dianna defies her mother’s orders, steals some artifacts and runs off to help Batman and Superman fight the alien invaders. As our heroes begin their battler against the alien hive, Martian Manhunter telepathically calls to Green Lantern, Hawkgirl, and Flash for help. But the entire […]
Review: Justice League Season 1 Episode 1
February 14, 2016Secret Origins Part 1 When Superman shows up as Batman’s staking out a space research facility things go sour. Not that Superman is incapable, but the alien infection/invasion happening is outside of both men’s prior experiences. Something at the site gives Superman strange visions that haunt him as he goes about his normal superhero life […]
Guardians Team Up #10
January 7, 2016You are going to get exactly what you think with this one. Deadpool peddling a bike (that is apparently owned by Zelda) with an angry gun-firing Rocket Racoon in the basket sprawls over the cover and inside Rocket and Deadpool kill evil aliens and make smarmy jokes for 32 amusing pages. There is some continuity, […]
Review: Gotham Academy #1
November 7, 2014Soooo many questions left after this one. First, I love the cover and the very idea (A Gotham Prep School?) The execution is dark and creepy, a lot like Batman meets Hogwarts. Olive is in her second year at GA and feels like an outsider after some yet-to-be-explained summer break events changed her perceptions of […]