December 2011
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Also, we will have a return to insightful posts that don’t involve grotesque splashes of law-enforcing amputees obliterating murderous convicts soon. Honest.
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Leviathan Strikes actually makes every other comic book released this year seem like so much flimsy garbage in retrospect.
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Hey, remember that time DC Comics released a four-page preview of Batman Incorporated: Leviathan Strikes and it was better than 95% of the comics released in all of 2011? I do!
I love that this takes place in the “old” DCU. I love — love! — Chris Burnham’s art. I love that a Batman villain slithers these lines: “The gas you are breathing contains a mind-eroding...
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The first nine pages of the new Batwoman are, in a word, staggering. In two more: utterly perfect.
Everyone — everyone — should be picking this series up. More on it soon.
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12/14 Pull List
Lots of very nice, very red covers from DC tomorrow.
I would totally buy the Frankenstein cover in poster form.
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1,152 pages of "Infinite Crisis"
Collected Editions has spotted an Amazon.com listing for the upcoming “Infinite Crisis Omnibus,” which is apparently coming in at 1,152 pages. One massive hardcover. $150.
It must be said: on its own, Infinite Crisis isn’t really the best story ever. It’s kind of an angry mess, Batman nearly blows a dude’s head off, etc. But it came out at the right time for me and...
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So long, Batwing
Judd Winick’s Batwing, the “Batman of Africa” book, is, perhaps three issues too late, no longer welcome on my pull list.
I mean, okay, the book’s always been of somewhat questionable taste, but issue #4’s foray into, uh, AIDS and military use of children (oh jeez, I know) has really solidified how utterly dumb the entire project is.
Worth noting as a point of...
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March cover and solicit for Batgirl →
Ugh, screw this. Seven issues in and we’ll still be mired in a Killing Joke retrospective? I couldn’t possibly think of a more misguided direction for this series. Of course, I’ve obsessed over this previously.
… Also: “Grotesque”? Barf.
Via dcwomenkickingass:
Adam Hughes’ cover magic is sorely missed. Guess this is the big “reveal” issue on how Batgirl is...
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No matter the occasional gripes I have about the New 52, it must be said: there is no better book on the market right now than Jeff Lemire and Travel Foreman’s Animal Man.
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The Fatal Flaw of the New 52?
The first wave of New 52 #4s rolled out today, and while I’m practically writhing with anticipation when it comes to Animal Man, Swamp Thing, and Action Comics, I can’t quite say the same of some of the other books I picked up: Batwing and Justice League International.
(So why did I buy them? The mind of a comic book reader is laden with mystery, my friends, but mostly because...
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Marvel Announces "Avengers Vs. X-Men"
On the one hand, I don’t know that there could possibly be a less intriguing premise than “the Phoenix Force returns and the Avengers and X-Men wallop each other because of it,” but man, those are quite some creators. Hickman! Aaron! Brubaker! Kubert and Romita, Jr.! This shall be nommed.
Via Comics Alliance:
“The next major Marvel Comics event has been...
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Gotham Spoilers: Leviathan Strikes set in "old"... →
Pretty interesting post from Gotham Spoilers about Leviathan Strikes. I haven’t seen the Cameron Stewart page in question, and I’m not really sure I would trust one of his tweets to accurately convey the, uh, editorial intent behind the upcoming special’s placement in the DCU timeline. Still, the prospect of Grant Morrison being able to wrap up his Batman epic in the same setting...