The best stories are driven by conflict, and comic books are no exception.
Good vs. Evil, life and death, the fate of our civilization, the world, the universe, all reasons why readers keep coming back year after year.
And yet one of the most horrific acts of violence, one that has stayed with this reader all these years, centered on the flipping of an urn.
It remains distressing to this very day.
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“The LEGO Batman Movie” deserves to win the Best Picture Oscar.
No, “The LEGO Batman Movie” deserves to win all the Oscars.
Sure, the film doesn’t hit theaters until Feb. 10, but I am confident it is the best film either you or I will ever see in our lifetimes.
Check out the trailer!
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He’s the mighty mite, a six-inch dynamo with the weight and density of a full-grown man, the small scourge of crime everywhere.
He’s …. the Ant-Man!
You’re probably thinking of Marvel Comics’ Hank Pym right about now.
No, it’s not him.
Or maybe you’re guessing it must be his successor, Scott Lang, who recently received the big-screen treatment and was hilarious.
Sorry. This is DC’s Ant-Man – a character who made but one appearance in “Batman” No. 156, cover date June 1963.
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DC and IDW Publishing’s “Love is Love” welcomes the best and brightest comics creators today to honor the victims of the Pulse shooting in Orlando in June.
Marc Andreyko (“Batwoman”) has gathered such talents as Paul Dini, Gail Simone, Phil Jimenez and Brian Michael Bendis as well as a few folks you don’t typically associate with comics: Patton Oswalt, Taran Killam, Morgan Spurlock and Matt Bomer.
Most of the stories in this 144-page trade paperback run just one page.
One page?
What kind of impact can one page deliver?
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My favorite era in “Batman” comics – actually all of DC – is the late ’50s and early ’60s.
Oh, these weren’t the comics I grew up with.
By the time I came along, Batman was already years into his “New Look” – the artistic reboot that pushed for realism, jettisoned most of the Bat-Family and made for a dull crime-fighter.
Over the years, I have gone back and tried to collect as much as I can – not much, all things considered – of “Batman,” “Detective Comics” and “World’s Finest” during this era.
The stories are just so much fun.
Many comics fans – and certainly DC itself – disagree.
Mark Perigard 