DC Unveils Batman's Future

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Published Aug. 30, 2010 at 10:47 a.m.

Grant Morrison's "Batman Inc" begins an era of two Batmen in Gotham as Bruce WAyne and Dick Grayson retain the cowl, but more surprises lay in store for the Bat-franchise including a team-up with Catwoman against a new foe ...

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Batman R.I.P. won’t die

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Published July 14, 2010 at 5:27 p.m.

I picked up Batman #701 today. It’s part 1 of the Lost R.I.P. story, which maybe is going to explain the holes in R.I.P. (what was the ultimate betrayal after all?) or maybe it’ll just be another story.But what it very clearly is is yet another continuation of the Batman R.I.P. story. I remember finishing [ ... ] ...

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What the CMX Shuttering May Tell Us About the Future of Comics Publishing at DC

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Published May 25, 2010 at 3:58 p.m.
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Last week's abrupt ending to DC's CMX manga line really should come as no surprise. It was always the bastard stepchild of the DC publishing family; a sub-imprint of an imprint (WildStorm) that is headquartered across the country. One imagines that the manga line was originally developed because the powers-that-be at DC saw that manga was becoming popular, and so maybe they should dip their toes in the water and see what the what was ... The only surprises about CMX closing down are a) the

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New Library Comics: May 2010

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Published June 4, 2010 at 12:25 p.m.
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Here's a list of a comics we added to our library collection in May: ... Adam, Peggy. Luchadoras / Madrid : Sinsentido, c2007 ... Alexander-Tanner, Ryan. Television. Issue Number One, "The pilot" : a comic book / [S.l.] : Ohyesverynice Comics, [2007] ... Archer, Dan. Archcomix no. 1 / [S.l.] : archcomix.com, c2009- ... Archer, Dan. Whopper / Palo Alto, CA : [archcomix.com], 2009 ... Aya, princess of darkness no. 1. / Giza, Egypt : AK Comics, 2005- ... Bagge, Peter. Hate annual. no. 8 / Seattle,

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Diversity in the DCU

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Published June 9, 2010 at 8:48 p.m.

I suppose I should comment on Ian Sattler's comments in a Q&A at HeroCon that have been sliced and diced across the comics blogosphere (no links because I can't remember all the places I've seen them) ... A serious topic came up about how characters who are minorities who happened to be legacy characters like Ryan Choi are killed off so their caucasian counterparts can return and how they feel like they are being cheated or sidelined out of their roles. Sattler took a more serious tone.

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New This Week: June 8, 2010

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Published June 8, 2010 at 3:56 p.m.
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What should you look for at the comic shop tomorrow? I'm glad you asked! ... Dark Horse has a hardcover omnibus collection of the three Blacksad stories by Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido. I read the first two stories when they were published previously by iBooks; they are pretty good anthropomorphic noir stories with some gorgeous art ... I Box have the first volume of Stardrop, a sci-fi comic by Thieves & Kings creator Mark Oakley about an alien princess hiding out on Earth. I remember

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The To Read Stack Gets Whittled Down

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Published June 7, 2010 at 12:19 p.m.

And yet, I've hardly made a dent. I keep wondering if it's worth posting reviews for old books. Anyway, here goes ... Detective 864 ... No Batwoman; no doubt she's busy getting ready for her new book. The Batman story was just creepy, though well told. The Question story was okay. I've never been a big Vandal Savage fan ... Batgirl 10 ... This is getting better and better. Steph and Babs make a great team and I'd love for Gail to use Steph as a guest star in BoP. The Calculator, meanwhile, is

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Cyclical.

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Published June 8, 2010 at 11:00 a.m.
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So this one time DC decided that Batgirl was too kitschy to work well within the context of the grim world of Batman, so they had the Joker shoot her, strip her naked, and take pictures of her naked, crippled body with which he'd later torture Commissioner Gordon ... And Jason Todd, the second Robin, wasn't working out, so they set up a 1-900 number poll to see if he'd live or die ... He got blowed up real good ... Green Arrow tossed aside his Robin Hood hat and trick arrows and started using

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FCBM6 Day 21

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Published May 21, 2010 at 8:46 p.m.
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It's day twenty-one of the Sixth Annual YACB Free Comic Book Month! ... Our ... next selected entry is from Jason Metcalfe. The five comics that Jason ... likes are: ... 1. Hellboy/BPRD ... 2. anything by Paul Pope ... 3. From Hell ... 4. Planetary ... 5. Batman: The Long Halloween ... And his other ... thing of interest is the tv show Breaking Bad ... For Jason I have the first issue of Jonathan Lethem & Farel Dalrymple's trippy re-imagining of Omega the Unknown ... For Jason's ... bonus

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FCBM6 Day 26

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Published May 26, 2010 at 8:55 p.m.
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It's day twenty-six of the Sixth Annual YACB Free Comic Book Month! ... Our ... next selected entry is from Joseph Briggs. The five comics ... that Joseph ... likes are: ... 1. Batman & Robin ... 2. Marvel Two-in-One ... 3. Amazing Spider-Man ... 4. Daredevil ... 5. Maus ... And his other ... thing of interest is wine ... For Joseph I have all four issues of Daredevil/Spider-Man by Paul Jenkins & Phil Winslade ... For Joseph's ... bonus ... comic, I'm ... sending him the Popeye Halloween

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