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Entries from June 2008

Detective Comics #809-810 and Batman #643-644 by Andersen Gabrych, Bill Willingham, Pete Woods and Giuseppe Camuncoli

August 24th, 2005 · No Comments

Holy shit.
First off, I hated Batman: War Games. I didn’t think DC could get any stupider in their attempts to create some anti-character “universe” of storytelling. Oh, how good event-based plotting is, huh? Whatever, I save money on comics in a couple months, no big deal… But Batman: War Crimes, a totally unnecessary sequel to […]

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Tags: Andersen Gabrych · Batman · Bill Willingham · DC Comics · Giuseppe Camuncoli · Pete Woods

Batman: Dark Detective #1-6 by Steve Englehart and Marshall Rogers

August 12th, 2005 · No Comments

The 1970s Englehart/Rogers Batman stories are famous. They’re the stories the 1989 Batman movie was based on, before Jack Nicholson came along. DC finally reprinted them in a collection in the late 1990s, after there was significant clamoring for them. Significant clamoring was difficult before the internet really took off (now that the flight is […]

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Tags: Batman · DC Comics · Marshall Rogers · Steve Englehart