The pages of Booster Gold #10 included a look at an all-new Rip Hunter blackboard as first seen in 52. The good folks at Newsarama break down the clues: Board: Gotham isn’t safe – MIDNIGHT HAS THE HEARTS! Meaning: That’s pretty clearly a reference to the new Batman: Gotham After Midnight series. If you read…
DC shipped the final issues of both Gotham Underground and Salvation Run last Wednesday. While I had actually been enjoying these series up until this point, both of these endings sucked. It certainly didn’t help that these issues shipped after Final Crisis #1, which they were supposedly leading up to. For that matter, it didn’t…
Which is a cooler response to the phrase, “Go with God,” or, “God be with you, Frank?” Is it a) “God’s gonna sit this one out,” or b) “Sometimes, I’d like to get my hands on God?” If you answered B, I guess you should watch this trailer. I answered A, because I loved Tom…
This week’s dip into the Secret Invasion involved several short stories that fill in a few gaps and create several more. Part 1: Captain Marvel Chapter 1 explains the actions leading up to Captain Marvel’s decision to attack Thunderbolts mountain in Secret Invasion #1. The rationale is a bit convoluted, so it makes me wonder…
In the lead: A gradually expanding solar system appears in Metropolis, but Superman grabs the sun and flings it into outer space, dragging the planets with it. Gotham City is transformed into…something different, and Batman turns it back by refusing to believe it’s real. Wonder Woman gets attacked by three giant robots and beats them…
I don’t remember. This week, DC put the latest ad for Final Crisis in all of its funny books, asking the question of where we all were when the Martian Manhunter died. It’s supposed to evoke this weight or gravity to the situation that just simply wasn’t there, not since the villains, “changed the rules,”…
By Adam Slutsky and Joseph Phillip Illidge (W)and Shawn Martinbrough (A) Published by BDG Entertainment, 2008; 96 pages; $19.95 There’s an issue of the Grant Morrison / J.G. Jones “Marvel Boy” miniseries in which Marvel Boy battles with Hexus, a living corporation. It establishes Brand Hex — a company that dabbles in a little bit…
This clip’s got me all jazzed up for what has been, up until this point, a movie that really hasn’t interested me all that much. CGI still looks fake, but who cares?
Chris Sims at The ISB has a post on The Untold Legend of the Batman, a miniseries in which someone who knew all of Batman’s deepest, darkest secrets had set out to destroy him. I had a small black and white copy of this book, which I think I got from a grade school book…
Grant Morrison is out doing damage control for that underwhelming kickoff to Final Crisis in an interview with Newsarama. The most striking thing to me was Morrison’s apparent irritation that some readers have dared to notice countless glaring inconsistencies between Final Crisis and the full calendar year of $2.99-and-over marketing that led up to it….