Comic book artist Joe Quinones and Sam Hamm, the screenwriter for director Tim Burton’s Batman and Batman Returns, continue the DC Comics return to the dark deco world of Gotham City with issue 2 of ‘Batman 89.‘ Following issue one, Bruce Wayne feels guilty after an incident with Batman and the Gotham police goes awry and creating collateral…
‘Batman: The Adventures Continue’ Season 2 continues with issue 4 for DC Comics, picking up during the events of Batman: TAS final season. Alan Burnett and Paul Dini are handling the writing duties with Rick Burchett returning for the artwork and he does an excellent job. Rupert Thorne hires a hitman known as the Muscle…
Comic book writer Geoff Johns and artist Gary Frank return with the third volume of the DC Comics ‘Batman: Earth One.’ It is meant as a tough reboot of the Dark Knight. Batman is working with Alfred and Killer Croc, who goes by Waylan, to establish a base beneath Wayne Manor. Bruce plans on widening…
Comic book artist Joe Quinones and Sam Hamm, the screenwriter for director Tim Burton’s Batman and Batman Returns, brings DC Comics readers back to the dark deco world with ‘Batman 89.‘ Despite the best efforts of Batman and Commissioner Jim Gordon, Gotham City continues to be plunged into darkness to the point where the mayor…
The ‘Red Son Rising’ arc from Batman: The Adventures Continue comes to its conclusion with issue seven. The story was a retelling of Batman’s reunion with his second Robin, who has become the Red Hood. Jason Todd steals medicine from Dr. Thompson, informing her that he plans of getting revenge on the Joker and paying…
The dynamic duo of Paul Dini and Alan Burnett along with artist Ty Templeton and colorist Monica Kubina bring us Batman: The Adventures Continue issue six, continuing the story of Jason Todd. Batman continues to search the streets of Gotham City for the Red Hood, visiting his old friend Leslie Thompkins. Meanwhile, Alfred tells the…
DC Comics brings us the horrifying story of ‘Arkham Manor,’ written by Gerry Duggan with art from Shawn Crystal and coloring from Dave McCaig. What would happen if Arkham inmates moved into your home? The legendary home for the criminally insane, Arkham Asylum, is destroyed. The mayor of Gotham City uses an executive order to…
Like the previous installments, Batman: The Adventures Continue issue five is written by Paul Dini and Alan Burnett with artwork from Ty Templeton and colorist Monica Kubina. It puts a new twist on an old tale. Batman confronts the team’s mysterious stalker. It is none other than the second Robin, Jason Todd, now going as…
Originally published as a DC Comics online exclusive, Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight Vol. 2 is a collection of individual stories from a plethora of comic book writers. Similar to Volume One, each story tells of a different adventure that the Batman takes on in the streets of Gotham City. His allies Alfred, Commissioner…
Originally published in 1990 within the pages of Legends of the Dark Knight, DC Comics compiled them into the graphic novel Batman: Gothic. It is written by Grant Morrison and illustrated by Klaus Janson. A child killer named Mr. Whisper has returned to Gotham City after a twenty-year absence. He is exacting vengeance on a…
Tom King brings his time as the DC Comics “Batman” writer to a close with the “City of Bane” story-arc, which is a whopping ten-part series that starts with issue 75, has a side-story in the second issue of Batman: Secret Files, and concludes with issue 85 (variant seen above). There are some spoilers in…
DC Comics writer Tom King continues his bizarre conspiracy plaguing Gotham City. Bane and the ‘Flashpoint’ Thomas Wayne version laid out a masterful plan to break Batman’s heart, mind, and finally his body. In ‘The Fall And The Fallen,’ Batman learns of this conspiracy spanning issues 70 (seen above), 71, 72, 73, and 74. Warning, there…
Billed on the cover as “The Monster Inside,” issue four of The Batman Who Laughs continues the story of Batman fighting the evilest version of himself, a Bruce Wayne who has become a strange amalgam of the Dark Knight and the Joker. Continuing from issue three, Batman has become infected with the Joker Virus and…
DC Comics fans got an exciting announcement when trailers dropped for two television series based on their characters. One is set in an alternate historical premise and the other is related to Batman. First up, Watchmen, based on the comic book series by Alan Moore, will premier on HBO and features an all-star cast including…
Starting at issue 994 and ending at 999, Detective Comics takes Batman fans on a journey unlike any other in a story-arc written by Peter J. Tomasi and drawn by Doug Mahnke. Batman is facing an enemy that is incredibly dangerous. Whatever or whoever it is, he seems to know who that he is Bruce…
With the success of the “The Batman Who Laughs” one-shot during the DC Metals event, DC Comics brought the twisted version of the Dark Knight back for a miniseries that places him in the main DC Universe in order to fight Batman with the miniseries of the same name. The Laughing Batman was released following…
Writer Tom King and artist Tony S. Daniel work together for the conclusion of the “Beasts of Burden” story-arc in the DC Universe series Batman. Following the assassination attempt on Nightwing by KGBeast, the Dark Knight heads to Russia (as seen in issue 56). The two enemies are about to square off in the cold…
Actor Jack Bannon (The Imitation Game) has been cast in the upcoming Epix television series Pennyworth, created by Bruno Heller, the mind behind Gotham. According to CBR, the show follows Alfred in his pre-butler days. Instead he is working for a security form in 1960s London with a young industrialist named Thomas Wayne, who will…
Detective Comics #575-578 in 1987 was a four part storyline that ran as Batman: Year Two written by Mike Barr and illustrated by Alan Davis, Paul Neary, Alfredo Alcala, Mark Farmer and Todd McFarlane (yes the creator of Spawn.) It was meant to be written as a sequel to Frank Miller’s Year One, but never achieved…
Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo, Danny Miki, and FCO Plascencia brings us part two of DC’s New 52 origin for the Batman: Zero Year Dark City. The graphic novel also includes the epic finale Savage City. You can read my review of part 1 Secret City, as well. The Riddler has taken over Gotham City and…
Batman Earth One Volume 2, brought to us once again by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank, is the sequel to the New York Times bestselling graphic novel Batman Earth One (you can check out my review of that one by clicking on the link.) This one, once again featuring a vigilante trained by a British…
Son Of Batman is made by Warner Bros. Animation and is directed by Ethan Spaulding. It is the third entry into the DC Animated Movie Universe. It is said to be “inspired” by a DC Comics story by Grant Morrison, though we find the story very different from the one depicted in the New 52.…
Efrem Zimbalist Jr, Golden Globe Award Winning actor, past away on May 2, 2014 of natural causes. He was 95. While he was known as the genteel actor who was the star of such series as The F.B.I and 77 Sunset Strip, and the voice of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, he also starred with big…
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