Una morte in famiglia. Batman

Finally! I've been wanting to read this one forever, but I've never been able to find it anywhere (free). But Amazon has kindly included it in their Prime reading section, so I snatched it up and here we are. Ok, while I did know the basic gist of the story, there were several surprises in here that Leggi tutto

Treasure of the Rubbermaids 8: Dial 1-900 For Murder The on-going discoveries of priceless books and comics found in a stack of Rubbermaid containers previously stored and forgotten at my parent’s house and untouched for almost 20 years. Thanks to my father dumping them back on me, I now spend my spa Leggi tutto

SPOILERS Joker busts out of Arkham Asylum (the place is useless, really) and heads to the Middle East to sell a cruise missile he's had in storage, and Batman follows to stop him. Meanwhile Jason Todd aka Robin is working through some emotional issues and finds out that the woman he thought was his m Leggi tutto

"Gayness" he said, "is built into Batman. I'm not using gay in the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay. There's just no denying it. Obviously as a fictional character he's intended to be heterosexual, but the basis of the whole concept is utterly gay. I think that's why people like it. Al Leggi tutto

Jim Starlin 's late 80s headline grabbing 'death in the Batman family' story, encompassing the search for his real mother; the Joker becoming a UN ambassador(!); and one of the Batman family daring to go it alone against The Joker! I read the comic books Batman #426-429. Lots of Jokerish audacities, Leggi tutto

Although it was a seminal story for modern Batman history, A Death in the Family isn't really that good. Jim Starlin is much better at cosmic space opera than gritty mysteries. It's actually hard to believe this story was published after Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns and Batman Year One. On its Leggi tutto