The book of the year is here. MARVEL LEGACY marks a new beginning for the heroes and villains of the Marvel Universe and introduces the first Avengers.
New enemies strike, members of the Dark Knight’s family return and is the Batman Boot Camp breaking up?
In the aftermath of losing Tim Drake and “Strange” attacks in Night of the Monster Men, James Tynion IV launches his second arc of Detective Comics with thrills, mystery and feeling with the welcome return of a Gotham citizen who gave up the mask.
The Victim Syndicate begins with a fan-favorite couple reunited at the site of a horrible event with a haunting but familiar use of the Bat symbol and ends with evil party crashers.
For a book that’s more than 900 issues old, Detective Comics is stronger than ever with exciting changes for the Bat family.
Rise of the Batmen continues in Detective Comics #935 as Batwoman trains Red Robin, Spoiler, Orphan and Clayface against Gotham City’s latest threat. James Tynion IV bring a sense of fun and danger, setting up exciting character dynamics in the future. Tynion dives into each member of the team and teasing secrets that could drive them apart. Continue reading BATMAN FAMILY SECRETS In DETECTIVE COMICS
Monsters are coming to Gotham City. The Batman family will unite to stop them.
Batman #1 arrived this week kicking off a new era with a new creative team for the Dark Knight. DC Comics announced the first crossover event of the DC Rebirth era coming this fall.
Bruce Wayne is back as the Dark Knight with Duke Thomas (new costume, no code name yet) as his partner in fighting crime. Dick Grayson returns to his Nightwing code name and costume. Batman and Batwoman are co-leading Detective Comics.
“Night of the Monster Men” will spans the BATMAN, NIGHTWING and DETECTIVE COMICS issues on sale late September and early October, pitting the heroes of Gotham against a mystery-shrouded foe from the Dark Knight’s past! Continue reading FIRST DC REBIRTH Crossover in BATMAN Books
The iconic books the launched the Dark Knight and Man of Steel go in bold new directions while three iconic heroes get new beginnings as DC Comics Rebirth continues.
It’s a week so big we had to have a two sets of new comics picks of the week featuring an all DC edition of picks starting with Rise of the Batmen.
Detective Comics #934
The Dark Knight and Batwoman together. Bruce Wayne and Kate Kane lead the next generation of heroes (Cassandra Cain, Stephanie Brown, Tim Drake and Clayface?) as a mystery predator is outdoing Batman.
It’s “Batman boot camp” for Orphan, Spoiler, Red Robin and a redeemed villain. The classic book that launched the Dark Knight returns to its original numbering with new creative team James Tynion IV and Eddy Barrows. Continue reading New DC REBIRTH Comics for June 8, 2016
Major changes for two members of the Batman family ahead of DC Comics Rebirth.
Batman and Robin Eternal #26 marked the finale of the weekly series. It was the end of the Bat-family’s war with Mother and a new beginning for Cassandra Cain.
Scott Snyder and James Tynion IV were the show runners of the weekly series with a team of writers and artists. The duo wrote the big finish.
The story featured nearly every sidekick of Bruce Wayne and was The New 52 introduction of Cassandra Cain.
Cain chose an appropriate new code-name and one young hero is turned in the mask at the end of this final issue.
Did we see the future of Batman family in Detective Comics #40 and this week’s Detective Comics: Endgame #1?
This one-shot may be more than an intense tie-in to the Joker’s current reign of terror in Batman: Endgame.
If you caught this tale of teens taking action in a Jokerized infected Gotham City you may have seen some of the cast of We Are Robin. – the upcoming new book by Lee Bermejo and Khary Randolph.