A new adversary, The Architect, is targeting historical properties in Gotham City and it’s up to Batman, Red Robin, Robin and Black Bat to bring him to justice. That one sentence summary would seemingly apply to 99% of Batman stories but hey, that’s OK, it’s Batman after all. With Gates of Gotham, writer Scott Snyder,…
It’s been a year since the Clown Prince of Crime has battled Batman. After slicing off his own face and hitting the highway, Joker had disappeared leaving Batman to tangle with a mysterious society bent on Gotham’s destruction. Now, he’s returned and he has grand plans for The Dark Knight and his allies. Will Joker…
American Vampire Vol. 3 In professional wrestling, there’s this term for a specific kind of character called a “tweener”. A tweener is basically a guy who’s generally in it for himself. He’s not exactly a heel (bad guy) or babyface (good guy), he’s more so inbetween. A prime example would be Stone Cold Steve Austin, a guy who exhibits…
American Vampire Vol. 2 The setting for Volume 2 moves to Las Vegas where Police Chief Cash McCogan is tasked with the unenviable job of investigating Jim Smoke, the man believed to be behind the murder of his father.I’m legitimately shocked with how much I’m truly enjoying these books. As I said in my review…
American Vampire Vol. 1 I’ll start this off by saying that I fully expected to hate this.. or at least be bored by it. Despite the fact that Scott Snyder is highly regarded in the comic industry at the moment – what with kicking all kinds of ass with the recent Batman reboot/relaunch/whatever – and…
Snyder’s Batman: The Black Mirror This was probably the easiest 5 stars I’ve ever awarded a book. I’m not someone who follows Batman on a regular basis so I really appreciated the short blurb at the beginning bringing me up to speed on what’s been happening in Gotham leading up to this arc. Basically, Bruce…
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