HBO Max’s Webby Award-winning Batman: The Audio Adventures podcast (opens in new tab) returns to comics in September with a sequel series picking up right after the season 1 finale. Prior to the podcast’s September launch last year, DC also released a prequel special. In the podcast, Batman is deputized …
Read More »The Els flash fly Prince Wayne in Dark Knights of Steel #7 preview
DC’s Dark Knights of Steel follows the publisher’s long tradition of putting well-known DC heroes in new situations, new contexts, and new worlds (once upon a time, we called them Elseworlds, but that’s a story for another time), with a medieval fantasy setting centered on – who else? – Batman …
Read More »Best DC Comics stories
The best DC Comics stories of all time feature heroes such as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and the rest of the Justice League. But how many of the legendary comic book tales behind those heroes have you read? Whether you’re a time-worn DC fan who’s looking to re-read some …
Read More »Nightwing thinks the Justice League will return
“The Justice League are coming back.” Hey, that’s not Newsarama talking, that’s Dick Grayson AKA Nightwing, in a conversation with Jon Kent, AKA Superman in May 31’s Justice League: Road to Dark Crisis, an anthology one-shot leading into Dark Crisis #1 later in June set in the immediate aftermath of the …
Read More »The DCU mourns in Dark Crisis #1 preview
With the Justice League now ‘dead’ in April 26’s Justice League #75, the pieces are in place for the post-Justice League event series Dark Crisis, and DC has released the first seven pages of the debut issue, along with a Jim Lee-drawn variant that pays homage to the original Crisis …
Read More »Batman is dead – heres what you need to know
Batman is dead. RIP the Dark Knight, 1939-2022. That’s right – the Caped Crusader has been killed, along with the rest of his fellow superheroes including Wonder Woman and Superman in the Justice League. In April 26’s Justice League #75 (opens in new tab) appropriately titled ‘Death of the Justice …
Read More »You watched Paul Danos creepy movie Riddler, now meet the comic book Riddler
DC’s longest-running series Detective Comics is getting its latest new creative team this July (opens in new tab), but current writer Mariko Tamaki still has some unfinished business and it involves the classic Batman villain the Riddler, just off his big-screen star turn in The Batman portrayed by Paul Dano. …
Read More »Sparks fly between Bruce and Talia in Batman #122s Shadow War part 2
DC’s three-legged crossover Shadow War kicked off on March 29, when Slade Wilson AKA Deathstroke (or at least, someone dressed like him) took to the rooftops of Washington DC to put a bullet through the head for the reformed (or so he said) Ra’s Al Ghul. And yet, the deadliest …
Read More »A classic Batman villain is murdered in Shadow War Alpha #1 – but did Deathstroke do it?
Since its announcement in December, DC has been framing the Batman-Robin-Deathstroke Inc. crossover Shadow War written by Joshua Williamson as the League of Assassins going to war with Deathstroke over what appears to be the assassination of Ra’s Al Ghul by Slade Wilson. But hey, this is comics, so if …
Read More »Tom King teases bigger mysteries, more JLI in the “very sexy” Human Target
In all of DC history, few characters have gone from obscure to A-list faster than the Human Target. Christopher Chance’s Black Label 12-Book whodunit adventure is drawn and colored by Greg Smallwood and written by Tom King, who’d be the first person to tell you Smallwood’s name should go first. …
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