Jul 11 2013
Don’t have time for full reviews of comics? Then check out Graphic Bits: bite sized chunks of comic book goodness designed to get behind the panels and into your hearts. This week (10 July 2013) we focus on the best of DC Comics with their origin story in Batman #22, a more groovy take in Batman ’66 #2, …
Jul 05 2013
Strap yourselves in, old chums. Batman goes retro and digital, and this is one Bat Channel you’ll want to tune into at the same time every week.
Jul 04 2013
Sam Humphries and Andre Araujo bring the funbots out for this much-needed dose of humour in the wake of Age of Ultron. One of the best things to come out of the inconsistent and disappointing Age of Ultron was the renewed focus on Hank Pym. As we saw in Mark Waid’s excellent epilogue issue Age of …
Jul 04 2013
Matt Fraction and Howard Chaykin form a perfect dream team, and then subvert those dreams as they gleefully trip through the seedy underbelly of 1950s television. Some of the great comics throughout history have shown us worlds we can only imagine. The best peel back the curtain and reveal things that we might have imagined …
Jul 03 2013
Almost two years under the New 52 has been leading us to the Trinity War, and it all begins here. It was a single page in the epic Flashpoint #5 that introduced us to the mysterious “woman in red” back in August 2011. As she turned up in random panels across all of the New …
Jun 30 2013
A sci-fi thriller with a mafia twist is the latest in a series of comics that measure the disparity between rich and poor. In the last few months, mainstream comics have been developing quite the social conscience. While DC has been giving us both sides of the coin in The Movement and The Green Team, …
Jun 27 2013
This one-shot epilogue to Age of Ultron almost makes the whole series worthwhile, restoring Hank Pym to our good graces. With the Age of Ultron event finally stumbling over the finish line, the Marvel faithful breathe a sigh of relief as one of the most inconsistent and dollar-centric events comes to a close. Completely ignoring …
Jun 27 2013
A classic team-up returns to recap their first meeting in glorious Jae Lee art. Yet this may not be everything that it seems. One of the casualties of the post-Flashpoint DC world was the excellent team-up book Superman/Batman, originated by Jeph Loeb back in 2003 and running under various artists and writers until the line-wide …
Jun 25 2013
Warner relaunches its DC Cinematic Universe with its most famous of characters, but is it still Superman? As the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues to prove that superhero box office is alive and well, Warner has struggled to advance its own properties to the big screen. Despite the successes of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy, and …
Jun 20 2013
The truth is still out there as The X-Files marks a welcome return with this first chapter in a new ongoing series. For nine seasons of television and two feature films, FBI agents Fox Mulder (played in the series by David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) investigated the paranormal, often battling a larger conspiracy within the highest …
Jun 20 2013
It’s all been building to this. The inconsistent series reaches its final issue, and the major surprise is finally revealed. Was it worth the wait? There’s been an established pattern the last few years for Marvel events: one major event begets another. It’s a cycle readers of comic books should we well and truly used …
