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Cliff Chiang Celebrates Gotham's "Lonely" Knight (Old News, New To Us Convicts...)
October 8th, 2026 BETTER LATE THAN EVEN LATER: From behind the Ultimate Firewall®, a lot falls out the cracks...it'd still be criminal not to weigh in on a 4 year-old trade I only landed today and learned about 2 weeks back. Luckily I have better resources for recent releases, still, if I catch something this sensational I'm gonna share... In 2026 unreservedly I'd call Cliff Chiang my favorite working creator in comics. For some span, I've been spellbound by his spa
Oct 83 min read
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"Catwoman: Trail of the Catwoman": A Dialogue For Anybody Who Don't Do Comics YET (...Or Those Who Do)
September 14th, 2026 "My little cousin'll murder me if something happens to this" claimed the(n) fat little poser writing this about an issue of the New Teen Titans comic clearly his, scapegoating a now deceased (RIP, K.J.!) then-6 relation. Back in 1982 for a middle-scholar not trying to look any more tragic than a 12 year-old whose dad ate a gun for Easter supper, being over 8 and still doing superheroes was maybe worse. "You're afraid of your little cousin?" that awfu
Sep 147 min read
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Compact Editions Make For Consuming Modern Comics: Digest-ing "DC's New Frontier" Again
August 23rd, 2026 Months back here I praised Mark Waid's timeless writing on "Kingdom Come" before garroting it on "Champions" then especially "Captain America: Home Of the Brave", his socially irresponsible propaganda pamphlet. Alex Ross's detailed Norman Rockwell Ubermenschen-dystopian-blitzkrieg clusterfuck (I hope y'all know compliments when you read 'em) overshadowed a clearheaded and ingenious taut political thriller with roots set in 1938 wrapping sometime that sm
Aug 235 min read
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Batmama's Northpoint Notes
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