There’s been some fan grumbling about Batman having four series of his own, and certainly they stick out among DC’s 52 relaunched titles, and more so when you consider the many other Bat-Family titles in the mix: Batgirl, Batwoman, Catwoman, Batwing, Nightwing. Oh, and Batman’s also in Justice League and Justice League International, and...
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Batgirl #1, by Gail Simone & Ardian Syaf, DC Comics, $2.99, out September 3.
When DC announced its linewide relaunch this September, there were a lot of aspects of this starting-over that troubled some of the preexisting fans, and high on that list was the news that Barbara Gordon was going to be returning as...
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Action Comics #1, by Grant Morrison & Rags Morales, DC Comics, $3.99, out September 3.
When DC announced that was going to start all its comics over from #1 in September, Action Comics was one of the shockers. It had been running continuously since the first issue that introduced Superman in 1938, second only to...
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Justice League #1, by Geoff Johns & Jim Lee, DC Comics, $3.99, released August 31.
There’s one thing I didn’t think of when I decided to review this comic. Nothing really happens in it. Before the last decade or so, it used to be that if you picked up a comic you’d get a complete...
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As anyone who pays any attention to comic books already knows, this month DC Comics relaunched its entire line of comics, restarting them all from number 1. Well, not all: Some titles were discontinued, and a number of new ones are starting that weren’t there before. But in one month, DC is restarting from...
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I don’t make much of a secret of my lifelong love of comics, but I haven’t really talked about it much on the blog because I have a hard enough time keeping up with all the theater I’m seeing. But I just ran across something that captures so much of what I love about...
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