Tag: comics
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Breaking Down The Knightfall Saga: Knightquest – The Crusade Part 4
One more superpowered assassin this time, as Batman takes on the Rocket Roller-blade wearing ex-CIA super-assassin Mekros.
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Breaking Down The Knightfall Saga: Knightquest – The Search Pt. 1
We start off Knightquest with Bruce Wayne, Bronze Tiger, Green Arrow, and Gypsy trying to rescue Dr. Kinsolving and Jack Drake in Santa Prisca.
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Robin #3 Recap
It’s time to go back to Robin, and deal with the aftermath of the Blackgate Breakout.
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Breaking Down The Knightfall Saga: Knightfall Prelude, Act 6 – Jailbreak
This time Bane personally intervenes, before staging a breakout from Arkham, kicking off Knightfall proper.
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Robin Annual #2 Recap
Getting back to some of the Bloodlines storyline, to take a bit of a break of the end of the world around me.
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Detective Comics #619: Comics Recap
When we last left off the Road to Knightfall, Tim Drake’s parents, Jack and Janet Drake had been kidnapped by The Obeah Man, and their plane was reported missing.
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Rogue Squadron: The Phantom Affair – Comic Review
We’re continuing with the Dark Horse Comics take on the Star Wars universe this time, with Rogue Squadron: The Phantom Affair.
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Legends of the Force Part 39: Boba Fett – Death, Lies, and Treachery
We continue with some scum and villainy with a trilogy of single-issue stories based around Boba Fett, set after Empire’s End.
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Rivers of London – Action at a Distance: Graphic Novel Review
In the Rivers of London series, there’s always been something of a gap between what Thomas Nightengale, The Folly’s “Gov”, was up to between the end of the Second World War and the start of the series. There’s an implication that he’s been involved in varying degrees with the Met, but not heavily – if
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Uncanny X-Men Vol. 5: Comic Review
Age of X-Man was a very interesting event, which played with dystopia in a manner that the X-Books hadn’t really done before. However, leading into it and running parallel to it was Uncanny X-Men Volume 5 which, frankly, was something of a slog.
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Legends of the Force Part 35: The Thrawn Trilogy Comic Adaptations
This month I’m taking a look at the Dark Horse Comics adaptations of the original Thrawn trilogy.
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Mr. & Mrs. X: Comic Review
There is running theory in stories with romances that the chase is better than the catch – that once characters in a romance get together, there is no motivation to continue the story. These are people who never watched Hart to Hart nor are familiar with Nick & Nora Charles. In the X-Books, probably the
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X-23 (Vol. 3): Comic Review
This past year, when Marvel comics brought back Logan, someone else had already taken on the mantle of Wolverine – Laura Kinney, formerly known as X-23, complete with having her own book branded as All-New Wolverine. Marvel editorial decided that rather than letting Laura keep the code name (as they’ve done with the multiple Hawkeyes),
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Savage Sword of Conan #1-5: Comic Review
There aren’t a lot of fantasy comics out there, and the ones we get in the US are generally licensed from another property, whether Games like D&D or Pathfinder, or literary works like Game of Thrones, Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, or Conan the Barbarian. So, when Marvel got the license to Conan comics again,
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X-Men: A Case for Diverse Voices
Recently Marvel announced that, as part of Jonathan Hickman’s upcoming run on the X-Men books, the X-Line would be contracted to just two books – House of X and Powers of X, each with a 6-issue run. According to an interview with ComicBook.com, the decision was pitched by Hickman essentially to create a jumping on
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DC Comics: Zero Year (New 52) – Comics Review
DC Comics: Zero Year is meant to be something of a starting point for various characters in the DC Universe, showing Superman, Batman, and Catwoman in the early days, if not the start, of their superhero careers. The book also shows Dinah Lance, Barry Allen, Jason Todd, Dick Grayson, John Stewart, and Oliver Queen either
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Legends of the Force: Part 31 – Empire’s End
This time we conclude the Dark Empire trilogy with Star Wars: Empire’s End.
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Comics Review: Star Wars Droids – Season of Revolt
I’m returning to the Star Wars comics this week with the conclusion of Dark Horse’ Star Wars Droids ongoing.
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Graphic Novel Review: Ghost in the Shell – Global Neural Network
This week I have a review of an anthology comic from Kodansha set in the universe of Shirow Masamune’s Ghost in the Shell.
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Comic Review: Detective Comics (Rebirth) Vol. 2 – The Victim Syndicate
One of the ongoing criticisms of Batman as a character is he’s a superhero whose stories solely consist of “punching brown/poor people and the mentally ill,” and at no point does he use his money to address the social ills that affect Gotham. It’s a criticism that frustrates me because, all the way back in
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Comic Review: Batman – Night of the Monster Men
Batman: Night of the Monster Men is the first post-Rebirth Bat-Line crossover, with all three of the main Bat-Books (Nightwing, Detective Comics, and Batman) crossing over to deal with the larger threat of a series of, for lack of a better term, Kaiju attacking Gotham City at the same time that a major hurricane hits the
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Comic Review: Detective Comics (Rebirth) Vol. 1: Rise of the Batmen
Rise of the Batmen is something of a launch for a new status quo for Detective Comics in the post Rebirth DCU. Someone is putting together a literal army of Batmen – a black-ops team with skills comparable to members of the Bat-Family, except they’re willing to use deadly force. So, Batman puts together his
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Comic Review: Cable Vol. 3
With the release of Deadpool 2 this past year, a whole new range of audiences were introduced to Wade Wilson’s grumpy-Gus soldier from the future buddy, Nathan Christopher Askani Summers, aka Cable. Consequently, Marvel also put out a new Cable book, with a mid-volume shift in the numbering to line up with Cable Vol. 1’s
