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REVIEW: Green Arrow: Year One

brettstevens | Oct 18, 2019 | 0

When Arrow first began its run, two things kept coming up in interviews. The first was that the initial pitch was that they wanted it to be The Dark Knight, the TV show. The second was that they were inspired by the comic series Green Arrow: Year One in the telling of the titular character’s &...

REVIEW: Flash Forward – Ch. 2 “The Line Forms on the Left”

andrewrodriguez | Oct 16, 2019 | 0

What does it take to make a truly great comic book? Not just something readable as opposed to throw-away garbage, but something that will either objectively stand the test of time, or is just a fun romp through 20-something pages of gorgeous art. Does it require decades upon decades of in-depth lore...

DC’s New Relaunch And What It Means

andrewrodriguez | Oct 15, 2019 | 0

There have been rumblings in the comic book world that DC’s universe is heading for another Crisis-level event. This has been apparent to readers of the current ongoing Justice League, The Flash, Superman, and, most recently, Flash Forward. Without doing a massive anthological recap of Scott S...

First Footage of CW Seed’s Deathstroke Arrives Online

brettstevens | Oct 11, 2019 | 0

We have our first look at Deathstroke’s next mission as the first trailer for the CW Seed’s animated series Deathstroke: Knights and Dragons has arrived online. The project is written by Justice League International’s J. M. DeMatteis and stars Michael Chiklis as the titular mercenary. While th...

This Year in Batman

brettstevens | Oct 10, 2019 | 0

Five years ago, as I noodled with my blog, I came across a fantastic Bruce Timm-produced Batman animated short featuring our beloved Bat characters Bruce Wayne and Terry McGinnis as they fought to defend the Bat Cave. It was the perfect way to celebrate our dear Dark Knight’s 75th anniversary....

REVIEW: Flash Forward – Ch. 1 “Incursion Point Zero”

andrewrodriguez | Sep 18, 2019 | 0

What does it truly mean to be a superhero? Do you run headlong into danger and face down catastrophe because it’s what you love to do? Are you beholden to the threads of fate and allow destiny to dictate your actions? And what do you do when you’ve fallen from grace and feel that there … ...