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July 10, 2012 2:21 pm Was reading this in the store yesterday, and had to pick it up. It's very, very good - it would be easy to bungle up the mishmash of comic pages and traditional prose, but King and Fowler pull it off. I can't recommend it enough.

June 26, 2012 8:06 pm That Firestorm cover is pretty nice - mainly because of the old, flat style of coloring. If the inside is colored in the same manner, I might be tempted to check it out.

June 5, 2012 3:00 pm "And what do we say to death? Not today..." "Power resides where men think it does. It is a trick, a shadow on the wall. But even a small man can cast a very large shadow." "Any man dies with a clean sword, I'll rape his fucking corpse!" "Those are brave men outside - let's go and kill them!" I would rather a have a show with dialogue like that than any amount of battles and dragons and whatsohaveyou. Plus, I'm pretty sure that after after the first few episodes, every ep in Season 1 had at least one swordfight. Double-plus: there was that episode last week that did show a whole battle.

June 5, 2012 9:27 am Also of interest: A Batman Beyond movie that would have involved Paul Dini, Neal Stephenson and Boaz Yakin. Superman vs. Batman which came about as close to happening as the George Miller Justice League, which would have been directed by Wolfgang Peterson. We also can't forget that time WB hired Joss Whedon to write and direct Wonder Woman, which they passed on... You know that exec got fired once the box office came in on the opening weekend of The Avengers (if they were still there, that is).

June 5, 2012 9:15 am It's a shame none of these got off the ground, although I'm kind of glad we avoided the shitstorm that Batman: Year One would have surely created in its wake. I actually liked the script a great deal, but it's pretty R-rated (in his first mission, Bruce Wayne wears a hockey mask and stabs a dude through the eye with a pencil) and makes some rather drastic changes (Alfred's a black mechanic called "Big Al.")

May 21, 2012 5:52 pm it's 12 issues

May 18, 2012 1:53 pm Definitely worth picking up - especially if you're a fan of Ennis and/or the Shadow.

May 15, 2012 4:33 pm "Right now, The Hulk is like the “nerdy” girl in the teen romantic comedy. He just whipped off his glasses and let his hair down and suddenly all the guys are interested." That's kind of perfect.

May 11, 2012 6:00 pm I'm sure this has nothing to do with the Avengers being the biggest movie in the world (and probably soon to be all-time)

May 11, 2012 5:55 pm I wouldn't lay the blame entirely at Guggenheim's feet, considering his name was one of many attached to the script.