Ben Affleck is Batman? And Other News Around the Net
So Ben Affleck will be playing Bruce Wayne/Batman in the upcoming Man of Steel sequel (currently titled Superman vs Batman). How about that? I have very mixed feelings about this announcement, but this isn’t coming from a place of being an Affleck hater. Quite the contrar
Josh Reviews the latest DCU Animated Adventure: The Flashpoint Paradox
After the dreadful Superman: Unbound (click here for my review), I am very pleased that the latest DCU direct-to-DVD animated movie, Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox, is a very solid, entertaining adventure, one of the strongest DCU animated outings from the past several years.
Grant Morrison’s Batman Epic Part 3: Batman & Robin
Grant Morrison began spinning an epic Batman story, back in 2006, one that is only now, in mid-2013, wrapping up. You can follow these links to read my previous reviews of the last several years of Batman continuity: Part 1 of Grant Morrison’s run on Batman, part 2 of Grant Mor
Batman: Reborn
Following the much-ballyhooed death of Bruce Wayne in Final Crisis, in 2009 DC Comics re-launched all of their Batman books, with former-Robin Dick Grayson assuming the mantle of Batman, while young Damian Wayne (Bruce Wayne’s son as seen in Son of the Demon from 1987, and broug
Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?
What started as an attempt to re-read Grant Morrison’s weird, epic, years-long run on Batman (which began back in 2007 and is just now wrapping up) has expanded into a more thorough re-reading of the last few years’ worth of Batman continuity. It’s been fun! Clic
Why Man of Steel is Good but not Great
It’s been fascinating, over the past few weeks, reading all of the varied reactions to Man of Steel. It has proved to be a tremendously divisive film, with some loving it and some really loathing it. Personally, I am somewhere in between. I had a great time seeing it in th
Josh Kneels Before Man of Steel
I love Richard Donner’s Superman: The Movie from 1978, and for much of my life I thought Superman II was even better. (My preference has swung back slightly, in recent years, towards the original film.) Those two movies were a huge part of my childhood, and more than any Sup
News Around the Net!
OK, this is the greatest thing I have seen in a long time (BUT BEWARE SPOILERS IF YOU ARE NOT UP TO DATE WITH GAME OF THRONES!!!) I love The Princess Bride! I’ve completely lost faith in M. Night Shyalaman over the past decade, but that being said I still think Unbreakable is hi
Superman Unbound
The latest DC Universe animated direct-to-DVD/blu-ray film has arrived: Superman: Unbound. Like many of these DCU animated DVDs have been, this new film is an adaptation of a great story from the comics — in this case, Geoff Johns, Gary Frank, and Jon Sibal’s reinvention
Re-Reading Batman the Animated Series’ Paul Dini’s Run on Detective Comics!
I am digging deep into some old Batman continuity, friends! After starting a project to re-read Grant Morrison’s years-long run on Batman (click here for part one, and click here for part two), I decided to also re-read some of the other Batman comics of that era. Parallel t