Best Comics of 2022 (So Far): DC Comics
Catwoman - Lonely City, The Nice House on the Lake, Action Comics Warworld Rising, and more, plus the best new collections and trades from DC.
Read MoreWhat Should the Next Batman Movie Be? Our Picks
The Cult…Dark Knight, Dark City…The Court of Owls…and more make our wish list for future Batman films.
Read MoreThe All-Time Best Batman Comics - Staff Picks
The Comics Bookcase staff goes beyond the obvious choices like Batman: Year One and the Dark Knight Returns to compile a list of the best batman comics of all-time.
Read MoreComics Anatomy: The Best of 21st Century Batman, Pt. 3 - Batman (1940) #656
While we wait for the new film The Batman to get here on March 4, we are reposting Harry Kassen’s excellent comics craft series, The Best of 21st Century in its entirety. The third and final part looks at Grant Morrison’s run…
Read MoreComics Anatomy: The Best of 21st Century Batman, Pt. 1 - Batman #12 (2016)
In this re-post from 2019, Harry Kassen’s Comics Anatomy series launches a 3-part exploration of the best Batman comics of the 21st Century (so far), starting with an issue from Tom King’s Rebirth Batman run.
Read MoreWho is THE BATMAN? The comics history, explained
A new movie called The Batman is due out March 4, and today we get audiences ready. Who is The Batman? Where did he come from? Where might he fit in with other DC superheroes? You have questions; we have answers.
Read MoreBest Comics of 2021 - #16 to #25 - Zack's Picks
By Zack Quaintance — My personal list of the Best Comics of 2021 is late this year, because, look, it’s been a year. But check out part 1 now, with parts 2 and 3 coming later this week…
Read MoreBest Comics of 2021 (So Far): DC Comics
On today’s list of the Best Comics of 2021 (So Far): DC Comics, we’ve selected 10 books and a number of collected trade paperbacks that represent the best of what the publisher has put out this year…
Read MoreBest Comics on ComiXology Unlimited
Our latest list is a Best Comics on ComiXology Unlimited, built specifically for folks stuck at home in quarantine but viable to anyone who wants to read some great graphic sequential storytelling digitally.
Read MoreComic of the Week: The Batman’s Grave #1, long-form ambition meets single-issue crunch
By d. emerson eddy — It pretty much goes without saying that DC Comics, that is “Detective Comics Comics”, publishes a lot of Batman comics. Just this week alone there's something like 16 Batman, Batman-related, and Batman-adjacent titles. It makes sense, Batman is a draw and continues to sell comics. He's one of those characters that lends himself to just about any type of story from action/adventure right on through to zombie horror, and it usually works. I tend to adhere to the belief that it's very hard not to make at the least a good, enjoyable Batman story and that there are many out there that are simply great. In some cases, even the best that the industry can offer. Granted, I am biased. It may not always seem as such, but Batman, like Swamp Thing, was one of the things that cemented my readership in comics.
Read MoreREVIEW: Batman #80, the Bat-Cat return to Gotham does not disappoint
By Alex Batts — This week sees the ‘City of Bane’ story arc shift its focus back to Gotham. The last two issues have served as an interlude of sorts that built up and solidified the relationship between Batman and Catwoman. Now, we return to Gotham, and with us, Batman and Catwoman return to their city as well. Tom King is joined by artist John Romita Jr., inker Klaus Janson, colorist Tomeu Morey, and letterer Clayton Cowles for this issue.
Read MoreHoly New Creative Team, Batman!
By Alex Batts — In celebration of Saturday’s Batman Day, DC Comics announced the next creative team for its flagship Batman comic. Writer James Tynion IV, artist Tony S. Daniel, inker Danny Miki, and colorist Tomeu Morey will be stepping on board with Batman #86 in January 2020. We’ve known for a while that a new creative team would be coming, and the Internet has run wild with speculation, but now that we’ve got confirmation, I think it’s time to take a closer look at these creators, specifically focus on prior experience writing Batman stories.
Read MoreREVIEW: Batman #78, ‘every panel of every page is stunning’
By Alex Batts — Up until this point, the City of Bane story arc has been pedal to the metal, full force insanity. This week’s Batman #78, however, puts on cruise control, sending readers on a semi-vacation with Batman and Catwoman. It’s a welcome break in pace, which keeps things interesting. Tom King is joined by frequent collaborators Clay Mann and Tomeu Morey on art duties, with Clayton Cowles on letters. This interlude — I’m not sure it’s officially called an interlude but I’m rolling with that — does something similar to the Kite-Man interludes in The War of Jokes and Riddles arc, in that both serve as a break from fast-paced high octane action while also lending it all an incredible amount of emotional weight.
Read MoreREVIEW: Detective Comics #1008 is a creepy reunion one-shot for Batman and Joker
By Alex Batts — Detective Comics #1008 sees the return of artist Doug Mahnke, accompanied by inker Jamie Mendoza and colorist Dave Baron. This isn’t the only return seen in the issue though, because for the first time in a while The Joker makes his way back to Gotham. This time with a devious plan to terrorize pedestrians at the local amusement park (named Bolland Park after Brian Bolland, artist of The Killing Joke, which has its own iconic amusement park scenes).
Read MoreREVIEW: Detective Comics #1007 is a showcase for top-tier artwork
By Alex Batts — Detective Comics #1007 sees the end of a two-part tale featuring the Vengeance of God, the long-tenured DC character, The Spectre. The creative team of Peter Tomasi, Kyle Hotz, David Baron, and Rob Leigh set the stage for this story last month in Detective Comics #1006, with another great mystery for Batman to solve. The inclusion of The Spectre adds an unorthodox element, and the interplay between him and Batman has been a blast to read.
Read MoreREVIEW: Detective Comics #1006 launches another intriguing mystery story
By Alex Batts — The Arkham Knight story arc in Detective Comics wrapped up a few weeks back, excellently introducing the character to the mainstream comics continuity. With the closing of one arc starts the beginning of another. Detective Comics #1006 is part one of a new arca called “There Will Be Blood,” and it sees Jim Corrigan and macabre The Spectre character in Gotham City for a grizzly murder mystery in which the Vengeance of God seeks out the help of the World’s Greatest Detective.
Read MoreWhat’s Up With Batman’s Knightmares Story Arc?
By Alex Batts — Before we dive into the recent arc of Batman that just wrapped yesterday, I’d like to review the basic info to make sure we’re all up to speed. Also, this serves as a SPOILER WARNING. I will be discussing events from Tom King’s Batman run leading up to issue 61 as well as the events of this story arc, issues 61-69. I’ll avoid divulging everything that happens in these issues, mainly because…
Read MoreREVIEW: Tom King’s Batman #69 is a gorgeous ending to an audacious story arc
By Zack Quaintance — This is it, everyone, the six-part largely separate Knightmares story arc has now come to an end. This has been an audacious set of stories, each illustrated by a different artist and designed to explore a different part of Batman’s psyche, revealing as they did that our hero was suffering some form of torture. Remember those old campy and elaborate death traps Batman always got stuck in back in Batman ‘66? Well, this arc has been like that, but the booby trap is Batman’s own…
Read MoreA Batman Comics Reading Guide
By Alex Batts — I consider myself a die-hard Batman fan. Lucky for me there are a ton (to put it mildly) of Batman stories out there to read. Unlucky for me, however, it’s a bit difficult to find one easy-to-digest checklist of Batman comics to read. Which made me wonder, how great would it be to have one comprehensive and organized reading guide for the Caped Crusader? What if I could find the magical list I was looking for? Well, folks, I stopped wondering and went out and made the thing myself.
Read MoreREVIEW: The Detective Comics #1000 stories ranked
By Zack Quaintance — Well, here we are, the second GIANT-SIZED celebration of a seminal DC Comics character in as many years, commemorated once again by a set of vignettes that clearly aimed at capturing 80 years of fictional superhero history via narrative. Detective Comics #1000 has arrived, bringing with it a set of creators old—Denny O’Neal, Neal Adams, Paul Dini, Jim Lee, Kevin Smith—and new—Brian Michael Bendis, Alex Maleev, Priest, James Tynion, Tom King.
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