In the last post, I examined the pre-Long Halloween comics of Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale, glancing at their little-appreciated oddball gem Challengers of the Unknown Must Die! followed by Fears (aka Choices) and Madness, their first two Halloween specials for Legends of the Dark Knight. With this second part and conclusion of my overlong prelude to TLH ( Read more... )

While working on my first review for the epic review of Batman: The Long Halloween that we'll be doing here over the next year or so, I'd wanted to give a quick overview of Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale's earlier work. I primarily wanted to focus on their Haunted Knight trilogy of Halloween specials from Legends of the Dark Knight, as they were all direct ( Read more... )

This week, Harvey Dent was featured in a one-shot story that not only set the stage for "The Big Burn" (his upcoming new storyline in Batman and Robin, which may or may include a new origin), but also served as a direct tie-in to DC's latest massive crossover event, Forever Evil, where the villains of the DCU take center stage. That's right, it's a ( Read more... )

While I'm older and wiser enough to know that McDonald's is shit that will kill me, I still have a great deal of fondness for the Happy Meal toys I had collected over the years as a kid growing up in the 90's. Of course, when it comes to which line of tie-in toys were my favorites, you can probably guess:

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Since real life has once again become far too real to allow free time for the usual in-depth bloggery, I think it'd be neat to post a gallery of Batman villains as drawn by a single artist of note, someone who has an amazing style of their own who also brings something unique to the Rogues. Today, I'd like to dedicate this post to Chris Samnee.


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Preamble: While I will be discussing this book to the best of my abilities, I know that there's nothing quite like seeing a work that's being critiques yourself rather than just hearing the critic's description. As such, if you're interested in checking this book out for yourself, I have found three separate extensive previews of this book: two ( Read more... )

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Welcome to the final part of our triple-feature review of Harvey taking a supporting role in the show to pal around with his "fellow miscreants" in episodes of Batman: The Animated Series.

In the show's second and third seasons, when it was retitled The Adventures of Batman & Robin, there were a lot of episodes which felt like sequels, follow-ups ( Read more... )

Welcome to the next installment of my three-part review series which I have dubbed "Harvey and pals!" Why? Because calling it "Harvfield and Friends" probably wouldn't have flown with anybody. That said, now the theme song is stuck in my head...The first uniting of the Unholy Three ended, unsurprisingly, with defeat and arrest, but this doesn't ( Read more... )

So hey, remember when I said that I'd discovered an even-more-obscure Batman newspaper comic strip, one which featured what may well be the single rarest Two-Face appearance ever?Well, good news, everyone! I have come into possession of several scans of the strips, including most of the Two-Face stuff! Not all of it, sadly, and I'm missing the ( Read more... )