Tag: Batman

The Dark Knight Rise Review

Travis

Dark Knight Rises to meet this reviewer head on. Traditionally trilogies fail to deliver.   One of the movies always seems to fail to grab the audience.  Movies, specifically in this genre of superhero films, starting with Superman 3, where a subpar screenplay and popular actors did not give the studio a blockbuster, and finishing with more recently with Spiderman 3, where the studio, not understanding the market, decided the popularity of the character Venom would sell more seats than the Vulture, one of Spiderman’s oldest foes.  Clearly, this is not…

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Batman Earth One

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Media Release — DC Entertainment, a Warner Bros. Entertainment company and home to iconic brands DC Comics, Vertigo and MAD, announced today the recently released Batman: Earth One by acclaimed writer Geoff Johns and artist Gary Frank is now available on the iBookstore. Batman: Earth One is the first of many graphic novels from DC Entertainment that will soon arrive on the iBookstore. “Our banner year for DC Entertainment digital comics continues and we’re thrilled to bring one of our bestselling graphic novels to iPad,” stated DC Entertainment Co-Publisher Jim…

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The New 52: Earth 2 #1

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MEDIA RELEASE: First issue of an ongoing series from writer JAMES ROBINSON and artist NICOLA SCOTT!• Who are the heroes of EARTH 2 – and what befell them?• Starring ALAN SCOTT, JAY GARRICK and many others!• You may think you know Earth 2…but this is DC Comics – The New 52, where anything can happen! “EARTH 2 is a big step in a new direction for me. “I haven’t previously had many opportunities to work on a truly epic scale but working with James [Robinson], on some of his favorite…

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DC Comics announces new and cancelled THE NEW 52 titles

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Media Release — In May of 2012, DC Comics will release a “Second Wave” of titles as part of its historic DC COMICS-THE NEW 52 initiative. Six new, ongoing series will build on the shared universe and bold concepts introduced in September 2011 with the renumbering of DC Comics’ entire line of comic books. Featuring a variety of different genres and storytelling sensibilities, the titles in the “Second Wave” will be helmed by some of the most legendary writers and artists in the comic book industry, and will also feature…

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What Is The Top Selling Comic Book Issue Of All Times?

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I have been around comics for many years and I know comics as well as the next guy but this question got me thinking for a while. What single issue comic sold the most issues of all times. I thought of the Death of Superman in Superman #75, The Amazing Spider-Man #583 (the Obama issue) went into I think six printings, and the Death of Robin in Batman #428 one of the first comic events to make mainstream news. Then I remembered the comic event by Marvel of the 1991…

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All Batman Costumes in One Convenient Infographic [Art]

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Benjamin Andrew Moore impresses us greatly with this remarkably thorough chart which tracks every major revision of Batman’s costume, starting from its first appearance in 1939 and all the way through 2012’s Batman: Earth One drawn by and Gary Frank. See the full-size image Click image above.  This is brought to us thanks to ComicsAlliance.com. It shows all the versions on Batman costumes in history of the character since Bob Kane  in 1939. Batman is an classic hero who has survived over the years and actually gained in popularity for…

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Official “Dark Knight Rises” Trailer Debuts

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Warner Bros. has officially released the long-anticipated first extended look at director Christopher Nolan’s final installment in his three-part Batman epic. I have been slow to comment about the new Batman movie because there has been very little information released about the story until now but the trailer reveals more mystery than answers about the the last of the Nolan trilogy. The trailer begins in a football stadium then goes to Alfred (Michael Caine) who relates how he has failed to protect Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale).  Bane (Tom Hardy) coordinating…

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Creator of the Joker Dies Jerry Robinson

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Jerry Robinson was an American comic book artist known for his work on DC Comics’ Batman line of comics during the 1940s. He is best known as the creator of the Joker, and for his work on behalf of creators’ rights. Born January 1, 1922 he passed away on the afternoon of December 7, 2011 in New York City. He was 89. For his work in comics, he won several awards, including the National Cartoonists Society award for the Comic Book Division in 1956, their Newspaper Panel Cartoon for 1963 for Still…

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MOVIE: Justice League: Doom voice cast and Trailer

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That’s a pretty impressive list of actors, each having voiced the characters for years. Now, no mention has been made of Aquaman or Plasticman, so the adaptation may not include them in the story. The film is executive produced by Bruce Timm (Batman: Year One), and directed by Lauren Montgomery (Batman: Year One), who is also credited as producer alongside Alan Burnett (Batman: The Animated Series). Justice League: Doom is the final script from the late Dwayne McDuffie (All-Star Superman, Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths).

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Justice League #1 The New DC Universe

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Well Flashpoint is over it ends with a new DC Universe with the Flash and Batman the only ones that have knowledge that things have changed. Justice League #1 introduces Batman, Green Lantern, and Superman as the early stories of how the Justice League came together. The next Justice League #2 is named Batman vs Superman and will show how the characters evolved in the new universe as a group of heroes, if they survive the the first meeting. Well the art work is great Jim Lee and Scott Williams…

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Batman 80 Page Giant #1 Caramagna introduces autism to comics

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Batman 80 Page Giant #1 for 2011 was a great collection of Batman stories but the last story written by Joe Caramagna really caught my interest and pulled my heart strings. It’s a story about Solomon Grundy, Batman and a little autistic boy named Lucas. Lucas shares an adventure with Batman which gets him to speak for the first time delighting his parents who struggle with raising this wonderful young man who happens to have autism a very misunderstood mental condition. This is the first time a Batman story has…

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After Flashpoint: DC Comics New 52 shows up Marvel

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Well we have a pretty good idea what DC is trying to do with the new titles and re-numbering. They are trying to attract new readers and they are betting on the new digital market to be a gold mine. Just maybe they will do a great job with the Re-Launch the talent is there, but what was so bad about the old universe? The answer is nothing except the fact Marvel has beat you for the last 40 years in every way possible. So it is time to shake…

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Is Comic Creativity In A Funk?

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I just read an article about comic creativity from Mark Millar on the current state of comics and why he left the big two Marvel and DC. He was very negative about the Big Event comics and why Marvel and DC do them. The Article is found on Comic Book News if you would like to read it. I must say that I understand why he may criticize the big guys, Millar is currently doing only his creator owned comics, having recently announced he will no longer be doing work…

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New Supergirl New Costume

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Supergirl is being re-introduced this September with a new restart of the character. The female Girl of Steel and what will be different about her is not clear but she is getting some new threads. Wow has her costume changed over the years. She was created by writer Otto Binder and designed by artist Al Plastino in 1959, and she first appeared in Action Comics, in whose first issue Superman himself was introduced. The official first appearance of Kara Zor-EL was in Action Comics #252 you see a great example…

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