With the recent cancellation of the Legion of Super-Heroes title and the announcement that Justice League 3000 would be joining DC Comics’ New 52 this October, fans of both super-hero teams have been atwitter about the identities of the previewed characters. With little to no information to go on, speculation has run wild as to…
Read Between the Lines: Crisis on Infinite Wolverines
Age of Ultron ends not with a bang, but with complete nonsense. Once again the double standard of Marvel fan rage compared to DC fan rage has left me flumoxed. Marvel has essentially done Flashpoint, integrating the Ultimate Universe and Angela into the Marvel Universe and no one seems to have noticed. Age of Ultron…
Read Between the Lines: Who is the Batman of Earth 2?
Fast on the heels of the Batwing mystery is that of the Batman of Earth 2. This character is very likely to be a focus of the rumoured Earth 2 spin-off book, so there will be a lot of attention on the hints. Having correctly predicted Batwing’s identity as “a new character with a familiar…
Read Between the Lines: Who is Batwing?
The introduction of a new Batwing in April is building a bit of mystery. Writers Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray have hinted that the new Batwing may be a someone readers already know. In their recent interview with Comicosity, Palmiotti and Gray said that their vision of Batwing will tie closer to Batman Incorporated and the…
Read Between the Lines: I Come to Praise Damian Wayne, Not to Bury Him
Yes, it was planned all along. Yes, writers who have told us great stories with Damian over the past few years always knew that it would end here. Yes, editorial is supporting the decision of a creator, an area of complaint when not done. But… Here’s the deal. I never liked Damian. I tried reading…
Read Between the Lines: Spider-Man, 100 Steps At A Time
Amazing Spider-Man #700 came out this week and odds are you are going to react in an extreme way either for or against when you read it. Before that happens, let’s look back at the other 100th issue milestones from Amazing Spider-Man. Usually met with fanfare, it’s a bit of a mixed bag of the…
Read Between the Lines: Constantine’s Bulletin Board
Years ago, Rip Hunter’s chalkboard in the mini-series 52 gave readers many hints for upcoming stories all over the DC Universe. Though Rip hasn’t reappeared so far in the New 52 (though we know from the Justice League International Annual that he does exist), his chalkboard has been replaced by John Constantine’s bulletin board. In…
Read Between The Lines: History of the DC Universe 3.0
As I have mentioned frequently on the podcast I co-host, We Talk Comics, I am very engaged with DC’s New 52 but think it would have been better served to have offered up a variation of the History of the DC Universe that followed the reboot of Crisis on Infinite Earths and the History back-ups…
Read Between the Lines: From 0 Month to Infinity and Beyond
From 0 Month to Infinity and Beyond Or: why sorting my comic book collection gives me nose-bleeds With 0 Month coming up soon from DC, I was inspired to look at some of the odd numberings we’ve seen over the years in comics. My Twitter follower @mattbpodcaster joked that they should do Minus One issues,…
Read Between the Lines: Sam MacGuffin
It might be a Scottish name, taken from a story about two men in a train. One man says “What’s that package up there in the baggage rack?”, and the other answers “Oh, that’s a MacGuffin”. The first one asks “What’s a MacGuffin?”. “Well”, the other man says, “It’s an apparatus for trapping lions in…