This is an origin story for Huntress, which is intriguing simply for providing background to the world of Gotham. When a member of the Panessa family, one of Gotham’s premiere mob families, is killed on the streets of Gotham with one of the Huntress’ trademark crossbow bolts the press and Batman assume her guilt....
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For years Dick Grayson was the eternally youthful, fearless and wisecracking boy wonder Robin. Then he grew up and became the first leader of the Teen Titans and later a superhero in his own right, Nightwing. This left Batman without a Robin, and everyone agreed that Batman needed a Robin, if only to provide...
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One of the most fascinating things about this series is that it isn’t particularly about Batman or Bruce Wayne. He is the catalyst, but the focus of the story is on how everyone around him reacts to the events that he precipitates. At the end of the last volume Bruce Wayne escapes from prison...
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It has been three months since Bruce Wayne escaped from prison. It has been three months during which Batman has had no obligations to anything other than his mission. His friends/family have figured out that he was framed, but Batman seemingly isn’t interested in proving Bruce Wayne’s innocence because so long as Bruce Wayne...
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The mystery is solved, Bruce Wayne is cleared of the murder charge and both Batman and Bruce are back in Gotham. Bruce/Batman has even admitted to his Bat-family that he knows he’s not the easiest person to live with (and their expressions of shock and amusement are priceless). Before reading this volume I did...
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Bruce Wayne– handsome, rich, and Gotham City’s favorite playboy.
Batman– dark, brooding, and Gotham City’s guardian angel.
It’s hard to say which is the ego and which is the alterego, and when Bruce Wayne is accused of murdering Vesper Fairchild, up and coming investigative journalist and a former girlfriend of Bruce Wayne, Batman takes advantage of...
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This title, in many ways, is a clever mix of ideas. Famed Japanese manga and anime creator Kia Asamiya tackles one of our most distinctly American heroes, Batman. DC Comics handed the keys to Gotham over and brought in Max Allan Collins, of Road to Perdition fame, to adapt Asamiya’s words, and released the...
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You’re probably looking at this cover and wondering: who is that woman? Does Batgirl have a new costume? All right, so maybe you’re better informed than I am and you know exactly what’s going on. I thought that when I first saw this cover.
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No Man’s Land has ended, but Gotham isn’t back to her normal self yet. The gangs have moved back into town, and there is an increasingly acrimonious divide between those who stayed in Gotham during No Man’s Land (old gothamites), and those who left Gotham and then returned (deezees). Told by Greg Rucka, which...
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Hush stars Killer Croc, Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn, the Joker, the Riddler, Scarecrow, Ra’s al Ghul, Clayface, at least two Robins, Superman, Catwoman, Oracle, ex-Commissioner Gordon, Harvey Dent (aka Two Face), the Huntress & Krypto, the Hound of Krypton. The plot is very simple. Batman’s foes attack him in new, unexpected ways–Killer Croc turns...
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Introduction
Gotham’s shadows color every Batman story. Her buildings loom better than the Bat himself. She has always been the unnamed lead actor in the Batman universe. As Bruce asks himself in this series, did Gotham make him, or did he make Gotham? No Man’s Land is about Gotham and her residents. In the absence...
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In a place where there are no external sources to measure yourself against, you have to rely on your own sense of what is right. Where do you draw the lines, and if you cross those lines do you destroy what you are trying to rebuild? Commissioner Gordon isn’t the only one asking those...
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Commissioner Gordon is fighting to reclaim the city from one end, and Batman is fighting from the other side, but it is the citizens of Gotham who are the real soldiers. They are caught in the middle trying to survive, and trying to preserve some basic human decency in the midst chaos and war....
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Retaking Gotham City would be so much easier if it was just ordinary street thugs running the gangs. But this is Gotham, and Gotham never does anything the easy way. Penguin is running (and profiting wildly from) a free trade zone, and circumstances suggest that he has access to goods from outside the city...
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Lex Luthor has decided to show up in Gotham and defy the governmental ban on communications with the city. He’s pouring money, man power and infrastructure into the city, and nobody’s entirely sure why. Except, Batman has a pretty good idea. He and Oracle having been waiting for a move like this, but they...
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Commissioner Gordon has been shot. The GPD suspect Catwoman, but the Batfamily have their doubts since guns aren°t really her style. Nightwing, Robin, Batgirl and Oracle are all trying to track down Catwoman to ask her what she saw and trying to get to the bottom of who shot Commissioner Gordon. Commissioner Gordon’s shooting...
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Sigh. I like Birds of Prey. I like the female-centric story lines and the DC Universe’s women coming together to make a formidable crime solving/fighting team. It’s just that I find it hard to believe that women who are as smart and as kick-ass as Black Canary and Huntress really think that the most...
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This volume made precisely no sense whatsoever. Black Canary and Lady Shiva are running around Hong Kong promising not to kill each other while they try to avenge the death of their beloved master. Meanwhile, Oracle is back in Gotham having her computer system hacked before getting kidnapped by some fake government spooks, and...
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“You people aren’t just readers, you’re consumers. How special do you feel…?”
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” My world is all just shades of grey, Batman”
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