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April 16, 2019 7:59 pm This was awesome! Nice work Josh! You should fly solo more often (no offense Conor. We still love you!).

April 15, 2019 8:26 am And by “bi-monthly” of course I meant “bi-weekly”. Curse you iFanboy for not having an edit feature!!!! Anyways, there could be some truth in your theory BionicDave.

April 14, 2019 11:21 am Enough of the Bi-Monthly comic book! This obvious cash grab by DC is the main reason we get “filler” issues like the current Batman “Knightmares” arc. I’m okay with one Batman issue a month. There are plenty more Batman centric books out there to keep me sated for 30 more days. Tom King’s run is unlike any I’ve read in my many years of being a Batman fan, and that’s good thing, but the twice a month schedule is, of you pardon the pun, the bane of his existence. I understand DC is running a business, but the product produced by this business is creative in nature, and that creativity is being hindered by “the suits” that only care about the returns.

March 31, 2019 11:48 am Josh, did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed? ;) Here's my ranking of the 11 Detective Comics #1000 stories. Starting with my least favorite to the best! #11. "Return to Crime Alley" - I felt super bad for Batman in this Denny O'Neil story. Perhaps Leslie Thompkins was a little too harsh on Bruce. O'Neil was good back in the day but his glory days are over. #10. "Heretic" - Christopher Priest and Neil Adams deliver the issues most forgettable story. Not a fan of Adams art. #9. "Medieval" - Tomasi and Mahnke set up the next story arc of Detective here. I know we are suppose to be excited but was left feeling a bit underwhelmed by it. #8. "The Last Crime in Gotham" - Geoff Johns and Kelly Jones answer the question "what does Batman do when he's succeeded in his quest to rid Gotham of crime?" The answer is eat some birthday cake. Subpar story and art. #7. "I Know" - interesting story by Bendis and Maleev but kinda falls flat in the end. But stellar art by Maleev. #6. "Batman's Design" - No surprise twists in this straight up Warren Ellis story. Becky Cloonan does a nice job in translating the grim and grittiness. #5. "Longest Case" - Snyder and Capullo. Nuff said. #4. "The Precedent" - Nice flashback tale about the problem of taking in orphans and training them to be crime fighters by Tynion and Martinez-Bueno. #3. "Legend of Knute Brody" - Paul Dini pins a fun little tale with BTAS style art by Dustin Nguyen. Nice one. #2. "Batman's Greatest Case" - Tom King shows is his lighter side in this heartwarming story, wonderfully drawn by Daniel and Jones. #1. "Manufacture for Use" - this night the best thing Kevin Smith's done since Clerks! Loved this one. Smith played to Jim Lee's strength which is drawing pin-ups of Batman and his rogues gallery.

March 24, 2019 12:49 pm There seems to be a Mazzucchelli resurgence lately in comics with artists like Weeks, Fornes, and Aja doing their best imitation. But I recently revisited Miller's Year One and holy mother of god, no one can come close to the mastery and beauty of David Mazzucchelli. The dude is too good. It's crazy to think that those 4 issues of Batman back in 1987 was enough to cement Mazzucchelli as a comic book legend that still has an impact on modern day comics. So yeah, Batman number sixty fucking seven. Ugh, yeah, I'm over the Knightmares story arc. So is the Joker "the roadrunner" and Batman "Wile E. Coyote? No, wait the dead man in the beginning of the story was named William Ernest Coyote. So does that make Batman "Porky Pig"? Nope, Porky Pig was the bar owner. Ahhh, I give up. Thank god we have Tomasi's Detective Comics where there's a normal Batman story that takes place in the real world and not all inside Batman's head. Uh... wait.... uh.... fuck.

March 10, 2019 1:18 pm Stellar show guys! I'm stoked at the caliber of comics DC is putting out right now. Honestly I could give two shits about continuity and the problems DC has surrounding that. I just want well told stories with fantastic art, and we got just that this week! The Green Lantern #5: excellent pick for book of the week Josh. From the get go of this series Morrison and Sharp have made their intentions clear - to remind us readers why we fell in love with comics in the first place - to escape into worlds that jar our imaginations. And the older we get, the harder that is to do. The Green Lantern has made this 40 something comic book reader feel 14 again. Justice League #19: you dudes may not care for the current overreaching story arc concerning the Source Wall and Dark Metal, but I'm digging the hell out of the Snyder's cosmic opus. There is sense of fun mingled in with all the universe ending doom and gloom, something Snyder has perfected in recent years. And yeah, fucking Jorge Jimenez might be the best artist working at DC right now. Beautiful art. Doomsday Clock #9: talk about slow burn, this series is a text book example of that technique. I have a feeling once it's all said and done, this series will read much better in a collected form (much like Mr. Miracle). Unlike Snyder's Justice League story, Johns and Frank's "crisis" feels heavy and catastrophic for the DC heroes. But the question is, will it matter at all when it's over? Not sure, but I'm enjoying the ride. Batman #66: it's time to question whether or not Tom King is right for this book. There is no way in hell a new, causal reader, that picked up this book at their local Barnes and Noble would know what the fuck is happening. And I'm not sure that is good for a flagship title like Batman. This book should be welcoming to new readers while still delivering drama for long time fans. But at this point, even the long time fans are getting annoyed. Wrap it up King! (But keep Jorge Fornes on art forever!!!!)

February 3, 2019 5:34 pm Jose Luis Garcia Lopez!

February 3, 2019 4:44 pm Honestly l, I think King got in over his head with Heroes in Crisis. It didn’t help that DC promoted this as the next big DC CRISIS! King seems to excel in more tight-nit, personal stories, and not epic scale ones. Plus, the way he writes isn’t the most “casual reader” friendly. In my opinion, King’s stories need a little more exposition to follow his narrative better.

February 3, 2019 4:38 pm Poor Dan Jurgens, seeing his creation Booster Gold being written in such a manner. What’s King gonna do next? Give Booster a mullet and have Doomsday kill him? ;)

February 3, 2019 4:33 pm Action Comics my friend!