I keep track of the DC Trade Paperback Timeline through a database I designed on top of third party tools think Airtable . I download the data as JSON and process it with JavaScript to output HTML, which is what you see on the web. For a while, the structure has been something like this: ...

   There ;s a sentiment in a related franchise that you either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain, and it ;s possible that ;s what ;s transpired here. Sean Murphy ;s Batman: Beyond the White Knight is still mostly well drawn and more complex where it...

   A week of Batman Beyond related reviews kicks off with a guest review by Zach King. Zach writes about movies at The Cinema King and about comics on Instagram at Dr. King ;s Comics. It might surprise readers to learn that I ;m lukewarm to neutral on Batman Beyond. The animated series...

   With I Am Batman Vol. : The Right Question, John Ridley caps off his upward trend on this series. This is absolutely a case of leaving the audience wanting more, and I sincerely hope this isn ;t the last time Jace Fox and family grace DC ;s pages. Much like Tom Taylor has been able to...

   So, speaking of Triangle Titles, it ;s pretty cool that the new Robin: Tim Drake Compendium One includes Superman: The Man of Steel and Superman . Not only did those issues continue a somewhat long running vampire story from those pages, but I recall thinking it was pretty cool when...

   Dear DC, I ;m so sorry. This is all my fault. I can see how I got us into this mess. All these years I ;ve been clamoring for a Triangle Titles omnibus, I was not specific enough. I realize now, in your announcement of the new Triangle Era Omnibus, you thought I actually meant an...

   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. I love crossover comics. There ;s something almost alchemical about two creative universes colliding. If you ;re not familiar...

   The DC Comics Fall trade paperback and hardcover catalog solicitations seem more focused on collecting classic DC material than recent, previous seasons have. If you look at Spring , Fall , and Spring , in all of those we were concerned about the dearth of collections of classic...

   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...

   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’...

   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. ...

   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...

   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...

   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...

   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...

   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...

   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...

   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...

   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...

   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...

   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 ...

   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...

   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...

   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...

   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...