Tag: Gotham

GOTHAM Casts HARVEY DENT

Batman and Robin #23.1 Two-Face courtesy DC Comics
Batman and Robin #23.1 Two-Face courtesy DC Comics

Producers add another classic Batman character to Gotham.

 

Nicholas D’Agosto (Masters of Sex, Heroes) will play Harvey Dent according to Deadline. He will be a recurring player with an option become a series regular in Season Two.

 

Dent is the idealistic young lawyer who becomes District Attorney and the “White Knight” of Gotham City. In the comics mob boss Salvatore Maroni throws acid   which disfigures Dent and drives him insane creating a second personality. Dent becomes the super villain Two-Face. Continue reading GOTHAM Casts HARVEY DENT

GOTHAM Season Preview

Ben McKenzie as Jim Gordon in GOTHAM courtesy Warner Brothers Entertainment
Ben McKenzie as Jim Gordon in GOTHAM courtesy Warner Brothers Entertainment

Gotham reveals the origins of Jim Gordon and Batman’s greatest enemies.

 

The premiere set the stage for Gordon’s friendship with young Bruce Wayne, partnership with Harvey Bullock, the beginnings of future super villains and the power struggle under Carmine Falcone and Fish Mooney (Jada Pinkett Smith) and especially the twisted transformation of Oswald Cobblepot (Robin Lord Taylor) into Penguin.

 

Fox shared an extended trailer for the series via YouTube.

 

A major Batman villain seizes the stage, plans for Arkham Asylum are revealed and more classic enemies are teased.

 

Watch and enjoy: Continue reading GOTHAM Season Preview

GOTHAM Our Top Burning Question

courtesy Warner Brothers
courtesy Warner Brothers

Gotham premiered last night.

 

The new series explores the origin stories of Batman’s greatest ally and enemies. The first episode was packed with the Dark Knight’s most infamous rogues before they went bad but there’s one burning question and it’s not about the Riddler.

 

In the first episode Jim Gordon and Harvey Bullock pursue who killed Thomas and Martha Wayne. The trail leads to Fish Mooney (a new character created for the series) and Oswald Cobblepot, a scary Robin Lord-Taylor. A young street thief named Selina Kyle and troubled young girl named Ivy are introduced. Gordon and Bullock turn to forensic scientist Edward Nygma for help on the case. There’s even an appearance by….

 

Before I continue here’s a SPOILER ALERT. Continue reading GOTHAM Our Top Burning Question

Top Comics for September 24, 2014

Batman Eternal #25 courtesy DC Comics
Batman Eternal #25 courtesy DC Comics

Aliens: Fire and Stone #1

A brand new adventure in the terrifying universe of Aliens and Prometheus. A desperate band of colonists on the run from an alien outbreak but is there a greater danger in space? Chris Roberson takes the Dark Horse Comics franchise in new directions.

 

Batman Eternal #25

The pieces are all in place. Gotham City is about to erupt in riots. The corrupt force within the police is about the declare martial law. Can Batman and his allies stop the conspiracy? Is Hush really the mastermind of the plots within plots or is a greater evil pulling his strings too? Continue reading Top Comics for September 24, 2014

MOST WANTED For GOTHAM

Ben McKenzie as Jim Gordon in GOTHAM courtesy Warner Brothers Entertainment
Ben McKenzie as Jim Gordon in GOTHAM courtesy Warner Brothers Entertainment

Gotham reveals the early origins of the Dark Knight’s allies and enemies. The new television series focuses on rookie detective Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie) with Harvey Bullock (Donal Logue) fighting crime in the city that gave birth to Batman.

 

Robin Lord Taylor portrays Oswald Cobblepot as he’s on the path to becoming the Penguin. Cory Michael Smith is Edward Nygma before he becomes the Riddler. Camren Bicondova plays Selina Kyle as a teen thief before she’s Catwoman. The future Poison Ivy and Mr. Freeze are scheduled to appear this premiere season. The Falcone and Moroni mobster familes are sure to appear.

 

Which other future Batman rogues should appear in the prequel series?

 

Here are our Gotham‘s Most Wanted: Continue reading MOST WANTED For GOTHAM

BATMAN ETERNAL ACT THREE PREVIEW

Batman Eternal #39 courtesy DC Comics
Batman Eternal #39 courtesy DC Comics

Batman beaten?

 

Catwoman and Riddler may be the only ones left who can help the Dark Knight save Gotham City?

 

Here’s preview of the third act of Batman Eternal in December – the weekly series crafted by Scott Snyder and James Tynion IV with an all-star team including Ray Seeley, Kyle Higgins, Ray Fawkes with artist Tommy Lee Edwards, Andrea Mutti and Fernando Blanco.

 

BATMAN ETERNAL #35 Continue reading BATMAN ETERNAL ACT THREE PREVIEW

CORY MICHAEL SMITH of GOTHAM

Cory Michael Smith as Edward Nygma in Gotham courtesy Warner Entertainment and Fox
Cory Michael Smith as Edward Nygma in Gotham courtesy Warner Entertainment and Fox

Gotham is the upcoming television series revealing the origins of Batman’s greatest allies and enemies.

 

When is a Riddler not the Riddler?

 

When he’s still E. Nygma.

 

Cory Michael Smith plays Edward Nygma on the upcoming Fox series set after the murder of Bruce Wayne’s parents. The theater breakout is breaking into comics culture history by helping share the back story of an infamous villain.

In a break from comics continuity, Nygma will be a forensic scientist with the Gotham Police Department in the new Fox series. I asked Smith where is Nygma’s head is as we join the story. Continue reading CORY MICHAEL SMITH of GOTHAM