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Thursday, Jan 28
Review: Trinity, Vol. 3 trade paperback (DC Comics)
The trinity," Tarot intones, "are not the universe," but rather "three of the many faces of those forces, those concepts, those ideas." In this way, Busiek successfully reasons out why Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman are the Big Three both in their own universe and ours. Yes, they defin...
Monday, Jan 25
Review: Trinity, Vol. 2 trade paperback (DC Comics)
Still, let me tell you, this book is a fun ride. The second volume of Trinity accomplishes what Superman/Batman still struggles with -- telling a story about DC's biggest heroes without devolving into obsequious hero worshipping. Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman barely make an appear...
Thursday, Jan 21
Review: Trinity Vol. 1 trade paperback (DC Comics)
I found this last concept most interesting, that Superman is the ultimate alien outsider while Batman is the ultimate human insider. We know this to be the obvious case, but Busiek takes it further in pointing out Batman not just as human, but the quintessential "self-made man." While Busi...
Wednesday, Jan 13
Review: Black Adam: The Dark Age trade paperback (DC Comics)
As a side note -- I picked up Black Adam: The Dark Age some time ago and waited to read it until I had Justice Society of America: Black Adam and Isis in hand. Looking around when I wrote this review, however, I come to find that The Dark Age is out of print, and sells for upwards of fifty dollars on s...
Monday, Jan 11
Review: Batman: Battle for the Cowl Companion trade paperback (DC Comics)
Both the "Commissioner Gordon" and "Underground" chapters intersect directly with Battle for the Cowl. In Battle, Gordon mentions his "run-in" with Mr. Freeze, and indeed this is that run-in. Chris Yost's "Underground" -- apparently what we call Batman's villains these days -- answers...
Wednesday, Dec 23
Trade Perspectives: DC for February/March 2010, Collections and Co-Features
I felt disappointed last month that DC's February 2010 solicitation of the Gotham Sirens: Union hardcover only included the first seven issues of that series, and none of writer Paul Dini's uncollected work, but there's a ray of hope in DC's March 2010 solicitations. The first collectio...
Sunday, Nov 1
Wednesday Comics, Superboy, Final Crisis and Batman RIP paperbacks solicited
Wednesday Comics HC Gotham Central Book 3: On the Freak Beat Batgirl Vol. 1: Batgirl Rising Superman: New Krypton Vol. 4 Wonder Woman: Warkiller Justice Society of America: The Bad Seed Final Crisis Batman R.I.P. Superman: New Krypton Vol. 1: Birth
Wednesday, Oct 14
Blackest Night trade collection, Showcase Presents Suicide Squad solicited
Batman: Long Shadows Outsiders: The Hunting The real question about this hardcover collection of Paul Dini's new series Streets of Gotham is whether it'll also contain Detective Comics #852 and Batman #685, which bridged Dini's Detective Comics and Streets of Gotham runs.
Thursday, Sep 17
Deluxe format for Johns/Frank's Superman: Secret Origins
From the "Why should Batman have all the fun?" department comes news that Geoff Johns and Gary's Frank's Superman: Secret Origin will be collected in DC Comics' deluxe oversized format. Previous deluxe books include Batman RIP, Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?, and the...
Friday, Aug 7
Further thoughts on Final Crisis from the Collected Editions blog
I've read Morrison's work long enough to know he's got something here, of course. But I wouldn't hand Final Crisis to a new comics reader. Though not as steeped in DC Comics lore as its immediate predecessor, Infinite Crisis, Final Crisis demands so much of the reader's understanding (righ...
Thursday, Jul 23
Review: Birds of Prey: Club Kids trade paperback (DC Comics)
Tony Bedard's been making the rounds at DC Comics lately (now regular writer on R.E.B.E.L.S., and I've been impressed with his work on Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes and the Black Canary miniseries. Birds of Prey is coming to an end, that's a fact, and maybe you might've preferred to sto...
Tuesday, Jul 21
Crisis on Multiple Earths Vol. 5, Batman & Robin Deluxe HC Continue DC 2010 Collections
Also, the first hardcover collection of Grant Morrison and Frank Quietly's Batman & Robin, "Batman Reborn," will be in deluxe format to match Batman RIP. Batman & Robin Vol. 1: Batman Reborn Deluxe HC DC Comics Classic Library: Justice League of America By George Perez Vol. 2
Monday, Jul 6
Review: Death of the New Gods hardcover/trade paperback (DC Comics)
What takes place instead is a kind of faux-action that I think we often see in comics crossovers (thinking about this for a minute, Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters, much as I liked it, is another example). That is, the characters don't so much as act as they move from place to place and opine...
Tuesday, Jun 30
Review: Catwoman: The Long Road Home trade paperback (DC Comics)
There's much to be considered here, and much we won't really understand the implications of for years to come. I always thought giving Catwoman a child was a bad idea, since we all knew the writers would never let her keep it; now we find a Catwoman -- maybe good, maybe bad -- who takes as much of...
Friday, Mar 6
Batman: Battle for the Cowl Companion, DC Library Death in the Family, and More DC Fall 2009 Collections
Batman: Battle for the Cowl Companion Outsiders: The Deep Wonder Woman: Rise of the Olympian Superman: Adventures of Flamebird & Nightwing Batman: Private Casebook SC Superman/Batman: Search for Kryptonite SC Superman: Kryptonite SC Wonder Woman: The Circle SC
Thursday, Feb 19
Review: Nightwing: Freefall trade paperback (DC Comics)
Tomasi writes Nightwing as I'd like him to be (if not exactly where and why). Considering the sleazy Dick Grayson we saw in Bruce Jones's Nightwing: Brothers in Blood, Tomasi's Dick Grayson is a saint, charming around his new co-workers and love interest, and moreover friends with the ent...
Tuesday, Feb 17
Final Crisis collection details change, Batman RIP hardcover news
As of today's DC Comics May 2009 solicitations, it seems the Final Crisis Companion's contents have changed to now include the Final Crisis #1 Director's Cut and Final Crisis Secret Files, and no longer reprint Final Crisis: Superman Beyond and Final Crisis: Submit (thanks, Bob Schoon...
Thursday, Jan 29
Trade Poll: Which to read first, Batman: RIP or Final Crisis?
Nobody added a great comment to our discussion about the Batman: Black Casebook trade paperback, regarding the apparent crossover bewteen Batman: RIP and Final Crisis -- and it reminded me that I've been wondering lately, which book should I read first?
Monday, Jan 19
Review: Sandman Mystery Theatre: The Face and The Brute trade paperback (Vertigo/DC Comics)
Still, in and of itself, Sandman Mystery Theatre remains something of a wonder among mature superhero comics. It is indeed a superhero comic -- a man in a costume patrols the city and saves lives -- and is even perhaps more a superhero comic than what you'd traditionally find from Vertigo. It...
Monday, Dec 29
Review: Green Arrow: Year One trade paperback (DC Comics)
Green Arrow: Year One is a re-telling of the origin of Green Arrow by writer Andy Diggle and artist Jock (real name Mark Simpson) that tries to do what Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli did for Batman to its title character. Although it might not be quite up to the standard of the sublime Bat...
Tuesday, Oct 21
DC Comics Fall 2009 Trade Paperback Solicitations
Batman: The Black Casebook - I believe this indeed collects the Golden and Silver Age stories on which Batman: RIP is based. Batman: Two-Face/Scarecrow Year One - collecting stories, I believe, that came out around the time of the two new Batman movies.
Wednesday, Oct 15
Review: Huntress: Darknight Daughter trade paperback (DC Comics)
Constant readers know that Silver Age or pre-Modern Era stories are hit or miss for me, and as such I was pleasantly surprised by Huntress: Darknight Daughter, a collection of DC President Paul Levitz's early Huntress stories. This Huntress is not the Birds of Prey's Helena Bertinelli, o...
