Note: I figure there are a couple people interested in the new Batman film here who also don't read about_faces, which is where I usually now post all my Bat-fan stuff. Just trying to make your skimming easier, my non-comic-reading friends!

So, a couple weeks ago, I finally started a fan project wherein I looked at every single appearance of Hugo Strange, ( Read more... )

First, Aaron Eckhart is "heartbroken" to learn that Nolan is definite on Harvey Dent being dead, and thus will not be in Dark Knight Rises. It's worth actually reading Eckhart's story of how he learned the news. I predict it'll launch a number of slash-fics ( Read more... )

EgoTV Online lists "10 awesome Batman stories you've probably never heard of."

This list makes me extremely happy, and not just because they've included my favorite Two-Face story, Eye of the Beholder (included with what I suspect is one of my own scans, no less!). I consider Prey to be one of the ten best Batman stories ever written, and one that ( Read more... )

Chris Sims rates the 14 best title cards from BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES.The title cards were one of my very favorite aspects of BTAS, and one of the big reasons why I thought the fourth and final season lost its way (an unpopular opinion, as luminaries such as my very own Henchgirl celebrate the final season as the show's greatest, but bah says I ( Read more... )

At a strip mall in PA, at a store I won't name (it rhymes with Shmot Shmopic), while I was totally not listening to Lady Gaga on the store's awesome headphones, I saw a guy there who happened to have the Best Tattoos Ever.


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In my ongoing project to turn Henchgirl into a comic-stuffed foie gras of a girlfriend, I've organized an entire longbox of BATMAN issues from my collection: starting with all of NO MAN'S LAND through the entirety of Greg Rucka's run on DETECTIVE and Ed Brubaker's run of BATMAN (we can all just forget that Hama's run existed, cool ( Read more... )

Every so often, I feel like I need to do a list weighing the things I love and hate about modern superhero comics, to figure out if it's really worth the emotional and/or financial investment anymore. I'm still very much in the pro camp, but damn, it's like every week, something else comes out to anger the blood.

( Like, take this past week's BATMAN for example (and all of BATMAN from the past year, actually, including Winick's run), with a dash of Grant Morrison ranting... )

THE WOLFMAN was terribly disappointing, particularly because I feel like I could just see all the good intentions scattered somewhere inside the horribly-edited mess of a film. Could a different cut salvage it? I'd love to think so, but I doubt it. Sigh. In fairness, the original WOLFMAN wasn't that great either, what with the stalker-tastic love ( Read more... )

While I'll almost certainly never write for DC Comics in the long term (I just don't have the stomach to deal with those kinds of inter-company politics and BS), working on this Harvey Dent novel has really whet my appetite for what I would do if they ever offered me a chance to play in their mighty cosmic sandbox.

( In no particular order... )

Last week's post on Harvey's sides(s) in NIGHTWING: THE GREAT LEAP provoked some absolutely awesome discussion over at scans_daily (as well as on this very LJ), which was so great to see after all the work I put into that'un. I realize that most of these posts are catering to a specific niche, and will usually just get a handful of comments ( Read more... )