Growing up, Batman was my guy thanks to Batman: The Animated Series. I loved the look and the mood of the show. Two guys largely responsible for that landmark show are writer Paul Dini and illustrator Bruce Timm. The third member of that B:TAS trinity is voice director Andrea Romano, who gave us our definitive Batman – Kevin Conroy. The success of the animated show translated well back into comics, many of which have been collected and reviewed by me in The Batman Adventures. Dini […]
Even Fictional Cancer Can F*ck Right Off
It’s almost like this volume was written just for Cannonball Read. Dr. Jane Foster, The Mighty Thor, has breast cancer which has metastasized to her liver. When she picks up Mjolnir, she is the healthy and strong Mighty Thor. When she sets it down, she is the dying Jane Foster. Becoming Thor eradicates the poisons that kill the cancer, but not the cancer that is killing her. Regardless, she picks up the hammer when she is needed, because Fu*k Cancer. The Dark Elves are warring […]
Intensely Well Done
CN for entire review: Racism, Rape, Slavery Best for: Really anyone. I don’t think you need to be into graphic novels or science fiction to enjoy this work. In a nutshell: Somehow Dana — a young Black woman living with her white husband in 1976 — ends up being transported back to the mid-1800s when a young son of a slave master fears death. Without warning, she is then transported back to 1776. This cycle continues, and times including her husband. Line that sticks with […]
Come Home
Jessica Jones is back as the hard drinking, self-loathing private investigator. She is much more together than she was at the beginning of Volume 1, but get a couple of drinks in her and she will fuck inappropriate people. Jessica heads to a small town to investigate the disappearance of a teenage girl who is either a mutant, lied about being a mutant, or had rumors spread about her that she is a mutant. In this small town, mutants are the hated group du jour. […]