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Art by Joelle Jones At this weekend’s C2E2 convention in Chicago, DC Comics announced a new ongoing for the feline fatale herself, Catwoman, from the excellent creative team of writer/artist Joelle Jones and colorist Laura Allred. Jones has done an excellent job as artist on recent issues of the current Tom King “Batman” series, where […]

This Sunday is Mother’s Day. I love my mom, and so I want to say that this list is no reflection of my feelings about my mother, mothers in general or the institution of motherhood. Because, you see, it’s an interesting thing I’ve noticed that most comic book characters with a maternal naming convention are,

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