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Batman and the Outsiders #14-15 by Mike W. Barr, Bill Willingham and Trevor Von Eeden

January 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Hmm… maybe DC hasn’t gotten more irresponsible with the messages it sends to its younger readers. I mean, comics are not particularly popular with kids today (especially, I imagine, DC’s comics), but Batman and the Outsiders was a big 1980s hit (right?) and Barr’s taken the male members of the team perving on sixteen year-old […]

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Batman and the Outsiders #9-10 by Mike W. Barr, Jim Aparo, Steve Lightle and Bill Willingham

November 26th, 2007 · No Comments

In today’s comics, supervillains are evil enough to compare to Armadillo on “The Shield.” In the 1980s, apparently they were just as evil, but had environmentally conscious nicknames and powers. (I’m mostly referring to the bad guys–the Masters of Disaster–killing their employer because they know it’ll piss off Black Lightning). These two issues contain three […]

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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