Comic Shop Comics: April 27

Batgirl #51 (DC Comics) Last issue certainly read like the last issue of Brenden Fletcher, Cameron Stewart and Babs Tarr's run on Batgirl , if not the end of the book itself. That issue capped …

Playing Robin

My nephew recently graduated from Teen Titans Go! to The Batman and Young Justice , and has therefore learned the secret origin of one of his favorite characters. My sister sent me the above messag…

Other Dicks.

That's the image that artist Mikel Janin's created for the cover of Grayson #4 , which offers a pretty decent view of the costume that Dick Grayson wore throughout the title, which will soon …

Marvel's July previews reviewed

Michael Cho is the actual best. Well, there doesn't seem to be much of interest in this month's Marvel solicitations , at least, not unless you find Civil War II particularly interesting, be…

Comic Shop Comics: April 20th

Legends of Tomorrow #2 (DC Comics) I started a post discussing the first issue of this series, and the book on a sort of conceptual level, but only got a few paragraphs in before I became distracte…

DC's July previews reviewed

Clay Mann's cover for Action Comics, depicting Doomsday, Superman and a Clark Kent DC has released the solicitations for the comics they plan to publish in July of this year , and just what the h…

The one passage in Luke Skywalker Can't Read that I did not care for at all

Becky Cloonan makes history in 2012's Batman #12 , by being the first woman to draw an issue of Batman. The character was around 73 years at that point.  I've been reading author Ryan Britt&…