Category: Batman

  • You Gotta Read Absolute Batman

    You Gotta Read Absolute Batman

    Warning: this article contains minor spoilers for ‘Absolute Batman’ Issues 1-16. If you’re interested in this run, consider picking it up from your nearest comic book store. Support your local merchants! Batman is one of the most versatile characters in any comic book. You can do pretty much anything with him, and chances are it…

  • I Love the Dark Knight Returns (Parts 1 & 2)

    I Love the Dark Knight Returns (Parts 1 & 2)

    Thanks to He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named, there’s quite a bit of discourse surrounding this particular Batman story. His defenders often site it as a source to justify their Batman killing people, and his detractors post panels from the Frank Miller comic to prove them wrong. To which the defenders loudly sing the chorus of “I Can’t Hear You,”…

  • Why We Need the Bat Family

    Few comic book characters have been brought to the big screen as many times as Batman. Just about the only one that can compete at this point is Spider-Man. From Adam West to Christian Bale, Michael Keaton to George Clooney, Ben Affleck to Robert Pattinson, we can hardly go five years without a new version…

  • Does Batman: Mask of the Phantasm Live Up to the Hype?

    Does Batman: Mask of the Phantasm Live Up to the Hype?

    This’ll be the last Batman article for a while, I promise. During a discussion my friends and I had about the new Batman movie, one of them brought up Mask of the Phantasm. I hadn’t seen it in ages, so I couldn’t really give my input on it. But it got me thinking: is that…

  • The Batman: Fixing a Damaged Man

    The Batman: Fixing a Damaged Man

    In the last few years, I have suffered major burnout on the character of Batman. Once, he was my favorite superhero. But between the Snyder movies that butchered the character, the over-abundance of animated movies or shows that range from middling to decent, and the overuse of characters like the Joker and Harley Quinn, I…