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.
Beautiful tribute to Wonder Woman
For years my only knowledge of Jill Thompson was as the artist for the run of Sandman that is collected in Brief Lives, my favorite book of the series. In 2015 she was a special guest of San Diego Comic Con and we had the pleasure of attending her panel. Her panel was the first one of the day in that room and she was worried people wouldn’t come, so she brought doughnuts for those who did come. In person she is funny, sweet and a […]
What Makes a Hero a Hero
Wonder woman was not simply a story of One Exceptional Woman who is as good as men…. No, Wonder Woman was about more: the value of women and female relationships, unimpeded by male authority. … This was a radical idea at the time, and was certainly not reflected in any other mainstream comic book. … And the idea is still important and meaningful today. Some people may insist that we actually do live in a post-feminist world, where men and women are judged on the […]
As through a glass darkly …
Gotham is a monster. Gotham is the dark. Gotham lives and breathes and eats. It creates the Bat and the Bat creates it. And no one knows for sure if either deserve saving.
What even is this nonsense I just wrote.
Okay, so, context: 1. Superman is my favorite superhero. I have been smitten since watching the old Fleischer Technicolor Superman cartoons my dad bought me on VHS when I was five years old, but the big oaf became a life-long love in 1994 when Lois & Clark premiered on TV. Each iteration I’ve seen since has only made me love the character more (excepting Man of Steel and its sequel, which do not represent anything that I love about the character, which in fact actively takes […]
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