Superman

By Caleb(noreply@blogger.com) That's the cover of Justice League of America #42, as revealed on DC's Source blog today. It's by artist Adrian Melo, and it seems like a fairly typically bland image of three superheroines thrusting their breasts at the reader (compare it with Mark Bagley's cover for the issue, which sugg...

By Caleb(noreply@blogger.com) I try not to think too much about Donna Troy, and am rarely forced to, but her joining the Justice League, DC's premiere superhero team, really just underscores the fact that she's lacking in one of the pretty fundamental, base-line requirements to being a superhero at all. Maybe even more...

By Caleb(noreply@blogger.com) Anyway, here's my question. What's the difference between the DCU of the comics and the universe/continuity of DC Universe Online. Like, how different are the two, and in what ways? (From what I've seen so far, it seem mostly a matter of costuming and freedom from the month-to-month goings...

By noreply@blogger.com (Caleb) This Showcase Presents volume collects the first twenty-six issues of the 1978-1986 Superman team-up title. The creators vary, but the format doesn't—with the exception of a two-part team-up with The Flash, each issue is a complete story in which Superman teams-up with another DC supe...

By noreply@blogger.com (Caleb) Amazing New Super-Villain" Starstriker and his amazing new mustache were drawn by Dick Dillin and Frank McLaughlin in DC Comics Presents #22, which is collected in Showcase Presents: DC Comics Presents—Superman Team-Ups Vol. 1).

By noreply@blogger.com (Caleb) The Protector (did no one use that name before either?) is a square-jawed, S-curled, cape-less Superman type in a revolting purple and gold costume. He flies to the rescue, but gets caught alongside Santa. Jessell’s not bad at what he’s doing—although the character designs are as dull and...

By noreply@blogger.com (Caleb) Batman: The Brave and the Bold #12 (DC Comics) Think you know the true meaning of Christmas? At least, the secular Christmas with the Santa Claus and the sled and the chimney and the Christmas tree and lights and ornaments and all that business? Would you believe we owe it all to Batman?

By Caleb(noreply@blogger.com) SUPERMAN/BATMAN #70 On sale MARCH 24 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US Written by JOE CASEY Art and cover by ARDIAN SYAF & VICENTE CIFUENTES As Batman springs his trap for the shape-shifting Durlan terrorist stranded on Earth, Superman and NRG-X battle out Round Two in the Fortress of Solitude!

By noreply@blogger.com (Caleb) 4.) Fred Van Lente (Incredible Hercules, Comic Book Comics) 16.) Brian Azzarello ("Batman" from Wednesday Comics) 5.) Comic Book Comics #4 9.) Supermen!: The First Wave of Comic Book Heroes 16.) Last Days of Animal Man #1 1.) Final Crisis: Superman Beyond 2.) Wednesday Comics 9.) Batman: Unseen

By Caleb(noreply@blogger.com) This volume takes its title from a mid-nineties crossover between the Milestone Universe and the Superman franchise, which is apropos, given that the subject here is a crossover between the Milestone Universe characters and the Justice League.

By noreply@blogger.com (Caleb) As a reader, the part of the announcement I found most exclamation point-inducing were the titles—Superman: Earth One and Batman: Earth One (and the indication that while the books are divorced from the regular DC Universe continuity, they will be set "on a new earth with an all-new cont...

By noreply@blogger.com (Caleb) Alternately, I wonder if this might have sold better if it was just branded as a Batman book or a JLA book. Batman is the main character, and there are just about enough Leaguers to hold up the weight of JLA branding (Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Arrow, Nightwing and Jason Blood/The...

By Caleb(noreply@blogger.com) SUPERMAN/BATMAN #66 Written by Scott Kolins The Blackest Night blankets the world of Superman and Batman yet again! But this time it’s not what you think! Get ready for a team-up of epic proportions as Bizarro and Man-Bat face down the undead power of Black Lantern Solomon Grundy!

By noreply@blogger.com (Caleb) I’m either a glutton for punishment, or have some crippling addiction to Superman and Batman that I cannot resist reading about them, but despite how little I enjoyed Michael Green and Shane Davis’ Superman/Batman: The Search for Kryptonite, I didn’t let that stop me from reading the ne...

By Caleb(noreply@blogger.com) It’s Doom that gives him the name "Annihilus," which annoys Johhny: “We’re calling him The Annihilator. I get to name all our villains.” Why on earth isn’t Christopher Yost, who was one of the main writers on the cartoon and is currently writing lame X-Men comics for Marvel Comics, writing U...

By noreply@blogger.com (Caleb) Avengers: The Initiative #19 (Marvel Comics) I really liked Marvel’s previous line-wide event comic, World War Hulk, although I thought the name and the promotion of the series was pretty misleading, since the Hulk didn’t actually wage war on Earth, or even America, or even all superhe...

By Caleb Superman #673 (DC) Superman vs. Ant-headed Supermen! America’s national past-time vs. The Insect Queen! Lois’ approach to parenting vs. Superman’s! Kurt Busiek wraps this three-part story arc up admirably precise plotting, in which no single part was wasted. It’s a dense, fun, smart rea...

By Caleb 1.) There’s an astounding amount of connectivity to the DC Universe and its recent past in this book. I’m not talking about the number of villains who appear, although Dr. Psycho, Dr. Trapp, Circe, Everyman and The Madmen all pop up in this collection, or even the one-off guest-stars who appea...

By Caleb In the case of last April's "death" of the original Captain America, it lead to tons of media coverage and a rush of people to comic shops snapping up what they were sure would be a collector's item, the last issue of the 67-year-old superhero Captain America's comic book.

By Caleb I've been writing a lot of pretty nice things about Kurt Busiek lately. Not only is he currently writing Superman, but thanks to the M.I.A. Action Comics creative team, he's pretty much writing that title too. The result? The Super-books are currently better-written then they've been in...well...