In which DC begins its month of text-logo-free covers.

Reign of Doomsday: Steel #1 (one-shot; Steve Lyons/Ed Benes/Blond; DC)
Warning: this issue is about to be RELENTLESSLY SPOILED WITH SPOILEROUS SPOILERS EVERYWHERE. Not that there's that much to reveal, because there's just not much story ( Read more... )

A two-week catch-up in which I regain the teensiest bit of indie cred whilst still wallowing among all things Bat. (Seriously. There were, like, 75 Bat titles came out the last two weeks.)

Red Robin 17 (Fabian Nicieza/Marcus To/Ray McCarthy; DC): Well, DC can't have meant this to be the first title out of the gate to bear the Batman Inc. logo, but ( Read more... )

Hey, I'm not the one who decided to release 6,789 Batman-related titles every week through the end of time. Anyway, let's try for a few quick(ish) hits on some of last week's singles, shall we? Let's shall ( Read more... )

In which we get to see what happens when you tie one big event to another big event, and the last two issues of the first big event ship late.

Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne #5 (Grant Morrison/Ryan Sook, Pere Pérez, Mick Gray, Jose Villarubia; DC): In which Bruce finds himself in Gotham shortly after his parents' death. Of course, having no ( Read more... )

Life with Archie: The Married Life #2 (Kupperberg/Breyfogle/Pepoy; Archie Comics): Apparently, what we're supposed to learn from this is that living with or ever having dated -- or possibly even simply having known -- Archie Andrews is a passport to making your life an utter misery. In the "Life with Veronica" section, Veronica's life is miserable ( Read more... )

Hey, it seems to be something I've said a lot lately, and, well, some of this week's reviews qualify.

Batman Beyond #3 of 6, "Hush Beyond part 3: Close Encounters" (Adam Beechen/Ryan Benjamin/John Stanisci; DC): In which we discover that Terry has his limits, Bruce is still batguano-insane but knows how to manipulate his surrogates like anyone's ( Read more... )

Mighty Crusaders #1 of 6 (Eric Troughtman and Brandon Jerwa/ Julian Lopez and John Lucas; DC)So ... all of the Red Circle titles having apparently failed commercially -- even The Web, which was loosely affiliated with the Bat titles, and the only one of those that's doing anything like badly is Azrael -- it was decided to combine all of these ( Read more... )

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Library Wars, vol 1: Love and War (Hiro Arikawa, concept; Kiiro Yumi, story and art; Shojo Beat Manga)
OK, so picture this: just before Hirohito's death, Japan takes a sharp turn to the right. Akihito takes a different reign name. The government decides that there are many many many books which should no longer be read by the public, as they are ( Read more... )

So, let's see how short I can keep some of these.

The Brave and the Bold #33: "Wonder Woman, Zatanna and Batgirl in Ladies Night" (Straczynski/Chiang; DC ( Read more... )