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28  mars     02h08
Review: Batman: One Bad Day: Catwoman hardcover (DC Comics)
   What is the meaning of value It ;s a potent question that G. Willow Wilson asks in the context of DC Comics’ preeminent thief, Catwoman. It ;s not that there ;s so many double crosses in Batman: One Bad Day: Catwoman as that the value of the McGuffin keeps changing what was...
25  mars     02h13
Review: Flashpoint Beyond trade paperback (DC Comics)
   I enjoyed Flashpoint Beyond immensely, much more than I expected. The book is very much of a piece with writer Geoff Johns’ and Booster Gold runs the deliciously cryptic chalkboards and vague references to future events, lots of timestream shenanigans such to make concrete aspects of Johns’...
21  mars     00h57
Review: Deathstroke Inc. Vol. 2: Year One hardcover paperback (DC Comics)
   I assuredly understand the appeal to DC Comics to have a book on the stands called ;Deathstroke: Year One. ; At the moment this book is called Deathstroke Inc. Vol. : Year One, but inevitably when Slade Wilson makes his next big multimedia appearance, that title will be simplified. ...
18  mars     02h08
Review: Batman: One Bad Day: Bane hardcover (DC Comics)
   Joshua Williamson and Howard Porter ;s Batman: One Bad Day: Bane still does not quite live up to my subjective, arbitrary standards for what a ;One Bad Day ; story should be, but it is one of the better books of this series. If still not at the level of Batman: One Bad Day...
14  mars     00h02
Review: Talon by James Tynion IV trade paperback (DC Comics)
   With a lot of time to read the other week, and some idea maybe the Talon characters were coming back though now I think I ;m wrong because I can ;t find the reference again , I decided to finally open the plus page Talon by James Tynion IV volume. I ;ve been known to say that...
11  mars     00h02
Review: Planet of the Apes: Visionaries hardcover (BOOM Studios)
   A series on Planet of the Apes comics by guest reviewer Zach King. Zach writes about movies at The Cinema King and about comics on Instagram at Dr. King’s Comics. ;My earliest version of the script featured an ape city, much like New York. It wasn ;t carved out of rocks with caves on...
07  mars     01h42
Review: Aquamen trade paperback (DC Comics)
   Although the Aquamen miniseries has neither the punch of writers Brandon Thomas and Chuck Brown ;s respective Aquaman: The Becoming or Black Manta preludes, I ;d still have happily kept reading an Aquaman series in this vein. Traditionally Aqua series have struggled to make interesting...
04  mars     01h56
Review: Doomsday Clock: The Complete Collection trade paperback (DC Comics)
   Since the publication of Geoff Johns and Gary Frank ;s Doomsday Clock, we ;ve seen two other notable Watchmen spin off projects, Damon Lindelof ;s superlative television show and Tom King ;s excellent Rorschach comics miniseries. These focused, biting, relevant, with...
29  février     01h25
Review: Batman: One Bad Day: Mr. Freeze hardcover (DC Comics)
   Among the writers for the ;Batman: One Bad Day ; series, Gerry Duggan caught my eye as the only one not currently or recently working on DC properties. I know Duggan ;s a Marvel stalwart who did good work on Deadpool and I recalled favorably his Batman Eternal spin off miniseries...
27  février     21h52
Trade Perspectives: On DC Finest collections, beginning November 2024
   Hot on the heels DC ;s recent announcement of new DC Versus Marvel and DC Marvel: The Amalgam Age omnibuses, they ;ve also released information on DC Finest, a new collections series. From the publisher emphasis mine : DC also announced DC Finest, a new line of comprehensive...
26  février     04h00
Review: Flash Vol. 19: The One-Minute War trade paperback (DC Comics)
   As is too often the case, this run is about over just as it ;s getting good. Jeremy Adams’ tenure has been an overall improvement on Flash of recent years, even if the quality hasn ;t been even issue to issue. But when it ;s working, it ;s working, and Flash Vol. : The One...
22  février     03h25
Review: Superman: Kal-El Returns trade paperback (DC Comics)
   The final issue collected in Superman: Kal El Returns, Action Comics , gives me much optimism for the Man of Steel ;s immediate future. It ;s a fun issue, reigniting one of my favorite comics rivalries, and teasing interesting things for the future. That said, while I ;m glad...
19  février     03h10
DC Trade Solicitations for May 2024 - Batman and Robin Adventures Omnibus, Wonder Woman and Penguin by King, Flash Vol. 1 by Spurrier, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow Deluxe, Superman by Busiek Book One, Adventures of Young Diana
   Looking back, there were a lot more books announced last year at this time than there are in the DC Comics May trade paperback and hardcover solicitations. I can ;t fully quantify why it is that this is a smaller month this year, though looking over the single issues in the May ...
15  février     02h36
Review: Batman: One Bad Day: Penguin hardcover (DC Comics)
   Yes After Batman: One Bad Day: Two Face seemed to lose the thread of these books, Batman: One Bad Day: Penguin is a return to form, an even clearer roadmap than the superlative Riddler perhaps for how the One Bad Day stories should work. John Ridley and Giuseppe Camuncoli tell a fine crime tale...
12  février     04h23
Review: Planet of the Apes Adventures: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus hardcover (Marvel Comics)
   A series on Planet of the Apes comics by guest reviewer Zach King. Zach writes about movies at The Cinema King and about comics on Instagram at Dr. King ;s Comics. When Disney acquired th Century Fox in , comics fans began watching the Marvel solicitations to see what properties might...
08  février     03h55
Review: Flash Vol. 18: The Search for Barry Allen trade paperback (DC Comics)
   Regular readers know I often give big collections a break on the principle that if it ;s not good, at least there ;s a lot of it. Flash Vol. : The Search for Barry Allen is issues long plus an annual , so there ;s a lot of it, but here it may not work in the book ;s...
05  février     03h56
Review: Tales From Dark Crisis hardcover paperback (DC Comics)
   The legacy of Dark Crisis may turn out to be ;OK event, terrible tie ins. ; I am shocked how many questions I still have about the main series having finished now the last of the tie in books, Tales From Dark Crisis. All that ;s left is the Flash book, but it seems a lot for Jeremy...
01  février     03h10
Review: Dark Crisis: Worlds Without the Justice League hardcover paperback (DC Comics)
   Blackest Night had seven collections in total; Dark Nights: Death Metal had five. So Dark Crisis is about average or maybe even less with four five if you count the Flash book . But worryingly, I ;ve read two of the tie in volumes so far, Dark Crisis: Young Justice and now Dark Crisis: Worlds...
29  janvier     01h25
Review: Dark Crisis: Young Justice hardcover paperback (DC Comics)
   Dark Crisis: Young Justice read to me as if written by someone who heard about Peter David ;s Young Justice secondhand and then wrote about it based on that secondhand knowledge. I am not opposed to a meta examination of Young Justice, but there are aspects of this story that feel as though...
27  janvier     17h02
Shortcuts from Infinite Earths
   In the course of reading Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths and related titles, a few of the books make many, passing references to various Earths of DC ;s Multiverse Justice League Incarnate and Dark Crisis: The Big Bang in Tales From Dark Crisis are two of those. I ;m a sucker for...
25  janvier     03h22
Review: Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths hardcover paperback (DC Comics)
   What a beautiful, beautiful mess Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths is. And it is beautiful; for one, artist Daniel Sampere is doing the work of his career. The book is far more akin to DC ;s Infinite Crisis than it ever is Crisis on Infinite Earths, and one indication is how much Sampere evokes...
21  janvier     02h10
DC Trade Solicitations for April 2024 - Dark Crisis paperbacks, Batman Catwoman: The Gotham War, Flash by Messner-Loebs Vol. 1, Nightwing and Titans by Taylor, Waid’s Shazam Vol. 1, Secret Six by Simone Omnibus, Hawkgirl, Prez
   If you ;re waiting for paperbacks, the DC Comics April trade paperback and hardcover solicitations will be your month, with the paperback releases of Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths Dark Crisis: Young Justice, and Tales From Dark Crisis and watch the site this week for my reviews . For...
18  janvier     03h18
Review: Batman: One Bad Day: Two-Face hardcover (DC Comics)
   After the triumphant Batman: One Bad Day: The Riddler, the second volume, Mariko Tamaki and Javier Fernandez ;s Batman: One Bad Day: Two Face, is shockingly poor, the unfortunate answer to whether all of these books will be able to go toe to toe with The Killing Joke. The editors on each book...
15  janvier     02h53
Review: Batman: One Bad Day: The Riddler hardcover (DC Comics)
   The Batman: One Bad Day series has struck me as dangerously ambitious, like a high wire act purposefully evoking Batman: The Killing Joke and setting out to tell stories as defining of eight other of Batman ;s rogues. Not unlike, perhaps, something like Before Watchmen, success would a...
11  janvier     04h02
Review: Batman Vol. 1: Failsafe hardcover paperback (DC Comics)
   Batman Vol. : Failsafe is a pulse pounding summer action flick, I ;ll give writer Chip Zdarsky that. Taken with a bucket of popcorn, this book is just fine; Zdarsky tugs some particular strings to win over long time fans, and taken in tandem with his Batman: The Knight, we see a specific and...