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Being a henchman or villainous sidekick in Gotham City is no easy thing. If you’re lucky, you wind up working for the Penguin and wearing a nice suit and standing around looking menacing. If you’re less lucky, you have to wear some crazy “Alice in Wonderland”-themed outfit and hang out with Mad Hatter, and hope […]

Welcome to our new monthly feature, “This Month in Gotham,” where I, Matt Lazorwitz, your friendly Batmanologist, will discuss something Batman. Maybe it will be a look at the past month’s Batman comics. Maybe it will be a movie review. Maybe it will be a think piece. Who knows? I have a lot to say about

The following is a non-exhaustive list of things I have personally experienced that were more pleasant than reading the collected “Batman: White Knight” by artist and writer Sean Gordon Murphy: I bought the first four issues of “White Knight” when they dropped in 2017-18. Maybe I read the first three. Or two. It’s hard to

“My name is Wally West, and I’m the Flash, the fastest man alive.”  Throughout the ‘90s and early ‘00s, those words appeared at the beginning of pretty much every issue of “The Flash.”  Wally West is my Flash. I started reading the series right around the time of 1994’s “Zero Hour” event and never missed

I was exposed to the animated versions of superheroes even before I was exposed to their comic book counterparts. As a kid, I loved Saturday morning cartoons, and while I can’t remember many of the details, I remember being very young and watching “Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends,” the various iterations of “Super Friends,” and

Jason Todd is an essential member of the Bat family. He’s the black sheep, the one who walks closest to crossing Batman’s line on a regular basis. But of all the members of the Bat family, he probably has the most confusing and convoluted backstory. His origin has been tweaked, altered and improved multiple times