In volume one of Rucka’s newest Wonder Woman run, something is very wrong. Our protagonist doesn’t trust her memory – everything from her birth onward is shrouded in mystery. Was she created by clay and a prayer? Is Zeus her father? How did she come to leave her home and enter our world? Is she the god of war? Wonder Woman doesn’t know. Rucka’s decision to make the powerful protagonist such an unreliable narrator is a good one. If Wonder Woman isn’t in control of […]
So Many Batmans
I don’t know much about Batman Beyond other than the fact that the big brother from Boy Meets World did the voice for Batman in the cartoon. That is pretty cool and enough to pique my interest. It turns out the YA section of my local library has a ton of DC trade paperbacks, and I found this bad boy there so I gave it a go. In the Batman Beyond world (which has a Gotham meets cyberpunk aesthetic), Bruce Wayne is an old man […]
Fab Babs Becomes Batgirl
While Batman is famous for lurking in the shadows, Beatty and Dixon’s Batgirl is in the shadows for an altogether different reason. Barbara Gordon is the daughter of Gotham’s top cop, Commissioner Jim Gordon. No matter she does, she’s Commissioner Gordon’s daughter. Perhaps that’s one of the reasons that the Commish doesn’t want his daughter fulfilling her dream of becoming a cop. “One in the family is enough!” he says. Does he mean one family member under constant scrutiny, or just that he doesn’t want […]
Great Harley and Ivy Stories, Non-Bus Friendly Art
Harley and Ivy is a followup to Dini and Timm’s Mad Love, a Harley Quinn-centric collection I gave a hearty five stars to only a month ago. While Mad Love was about Harley and Joker, this book follows the hijinks of two of Batman’s more famous villains. The main story in this collection is a fun around-the-world adventure in which Harley and Ivy cause trouble in Gotham, traipse through an exotic rain forest, and make their debuts in Hollywood. The varied settings provide opportunities for a […]
Gotham Academy continues to rock
Gotham Academy: Second Semester Vol 1 is the second arc of the YA-oriented series for DC and picks up after the winter break for the kids at GA. (Non-spoiler series blurb for those who missed the first arc: our main character is Olive Silverlock, a returning scholarship student at Gotham Academy. Olive suffered a pretty traumatic event over the summer which resulted in her mother being institutionalized. Her best friend is Mia “Maps” Mizoguchi, an enthusiastic and inquisitive freshman bent on uncovering all the secrets, […]
Introducing Joker(TM) Hot Topic
“Something, something Joker doesn’t have a face, something something Batman is so Edgy and Dark, something, something it’ll be AWESOME!” –Creative notes scrawled on a crumpled napkin by a DC exec during a coked-out party.
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