Every week, Comicosity brings you our Hot Five, a short list of the top books we think you’ll want to be checking out. Be they new title launches, key issues or just continuing stories from some of the industry’s most acclaimed books, this list is your guaranteed gold for the week in the comic market.…
LGBT Visibility: You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby
As the decades have worn on, the comic book industry has made a conscious effort to focus on diversity by creating, reinventing and promoting characters that defy what is considered normative. Popular fiction often represents the general mind-frame of the time in which it is written and the comic book industry is a prime example…
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…
Crisis of Epic Proportion: Death and the Robin
Sigh. It’s not often I get sad or angry about comic books. If you’ve read anything I’ve written, you’ll know I’m generally the first guy to find the bright side to any story, situation or change. But Damian Wayne was unequivocally my favorite Robin, and so recent events (is there even a point to pretending…
Review: BATMAN AND ROBIN #17
BATMAN AND ROBIN #17 Written by Peter J. Tomasi Art by Pat Gleason and Mick Gray Release Date: February 13, 2013 It’s almost a crime that Tomasi and Gleason’s Batman and Robin comes out on the same day as Snyder and Capullo’s Batman. I mean, it makes for a great beginning of the month for…
THE HONOR ROLL: February 15, 2013
Each week I delve through my read pile to find the best five comics of the past Wednesday. This week’s releases from February 13, featured some heavyweight books, including the finale of Death of the Family and the start of Uncanny X-Men. What books made my top five? Well, that’s all below. Let me know…
BEST OF 2012: Gavin Craig
With 2012 coming to an end, we’ve now seen the first full year of DC’s new continuity, and the beginning of the second. Every title has completed its initial major storylines, and we got a look back in the company-wide zero month. A few titles have been canceled, a few new titles have been launched,…
Review: BATMAN AND ROBIN #0
BATMAN AND ROBIN #0 Written by Peter J. Tomasi Art by Pat Gleason Release Date: September 12, 2012 Batman and Robin is the best Batman title that you’re not reading,1 and #0 is a triumph. From the beginning, Peter J. Tomasi has had his finger on the insecurity and, well, ten-year-old-ness that informs Damian Wayne’s…