The plot focuses on Batman trying to stop Two-Face and the Riddler in their scheme to extract information from all the minds in Gotham City while adopting an orphaned acrobat named Dick Grayson-who becomes his sidekick, Robin-and developing feelings for psychologist Dr. Williams III J.Batman Forever is a 1995 American superhero film directed by Joel Schumacher and produced by Tim Burton, based on the DC Comics character Batman by Bob Kane and Bill Finger The third installment of Warner Bros.' initial Batman film series, it is a sequel to Batman Returns starring Val Kilmer and replacing Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne / Batman, alongside Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, Nicole Kidman, Chris O'Donnell, Michael Gough, and Pat Hingle. Vaughan Brian Michael Bendis Brian Wood China Mieville Chris Bachalo Chris Samnee Clone comics Cullen Bunn Daredevil Dark Horse DC DC Comics Dial H Dynamite Dynamite Entertainment Ed Brubaker Fatale Fiona Staples Fred Van Lente Garth Ennis Goran Parlov Grant Morrison Greg Rucka Harbinger IDW Image Image Comics J.H. Tag Salad! Ales Kot All-New X-Men Animal Man Archer & Armstrong Avatar Batman Batwoman Bloodshot BOOM! Brian Azzarello Brian K. ![]() Next Wednesday can’t get here soon enough! What I’m thinking now: What won’t be inside my bag in a month’s time? #2. Not surprisingly, his best moment–on page 9–is finely built upon a finely-built coed. ![]() Hughes’s work seems to live down to the story he was given. We’re looking at fewer highs here than in JMS’s own inconsistent Nite Owl. There are a couple of moments–including the drawing of partners’ names in the context of the quantum universe–that are OK but that’s it: OK. He was unable to take apart this complex character and put him back together to any positive end even here at the beginning of his story. Straczynski completely misses the mark, which, sadly, was expected. What I thought while: Why am I still reading this? After: “ What’s inside the box?” Nothing, you dumb blue bastard! And then I bagged it and put it in a box. The mystery? It’s a bit wait-and-see, which pretty well means it is what it’s meant to be but what I’ve already seen of Samnee? Pow! The first five pages are sky high! And the splash goodbye, leaving me verily vexed? Like Betty, I’m hangin’ on happily to Cliff, till the next. Story-wise, I love the vibe Waid’s got it down, even where it’s so down its up and over the top. Revved it up with The Rocketeer: Cargo of Doom #1. (OK, it’s true: I may be a bit biased here after all–and I’m not afraid to admit it–I do have a comic crush on Zatanna.) Looking forward to seeing how this plays out. Houses of Mystery and Secrets! Lemire and Janin housin’ it–making a magical book out of a wacky bunch of magical B-listers. Overall, I liked it enough to forge ahead with the flashy one: I’ll pick up the annual and #0 and then we’ll see if it’s time to put the book back on the pull list. His art, too, is solid throughout with a couple of nifty layouts thrown in for good measure. ![]() Luckily, the Rogues are a fun bunch, and Manapul manages them very well he avoids the muddiness that multiple villains could have brought to the flow of the book. Boy, does Barry come off as a little red whiner. My head never quite made it under, but that’s all right at least I got to see the bad-ass birth of Redbird, who got all LL Cool J on Alfred after knocking the old butler out. So, after the ominous opening–which could totally happen, by the way–Morrison strikes with Matches and had me happily sinking in quirksand through page 10. But just because you receive it, it doesn’t always mean you’ll understand it–or that it’s understandable. Oh, that Grant Morrison! Ask and ye certainly shall receive. I read Batman Incorporated first and sure as heck got the quirky I had wished for. Or maybe there was and I did-which may explain Matches Malone’s thumbs up on the cover of Batman Incorporated #3. If there were a Like button at the bottom of my bag of books for the week, I would have clicked it.
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