The Trench Reynolds Report

  • Comic Recommendation: Shazam! #15

    Single issue stories do not get enough love these days. Anymore it seems to be all about the massive world-changing crossovers. That’s why Shazam! #15 was such a breath of fresh air. Without getting into any spoilers, this comic was so fun for me on several levels and it showed many things without being patronizing.…

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  • Question-Watch 2019

    As I’ve said before, my favorite comic book character is The Question. You can read about why he’s my favorite here. Since he’s not the most popular of DC’s cast of characters and hasn’t had his own book in over a decade, it’s always great to see the character being used in almost any capacity.…

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  • In defense of Titans

    First, I want to apologize for indulging my geekier side lately. I’ll hopefully be getting back to my crime side shortly, but without superheroes, I would have no crime side. Secondly, I wanted to write this post last week after the first episode came out but the second episode hasn’t really changed my opinion on…

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  • Trench on the DC Rebirth

    ***MINOR SPOILERS*** I just wanted to do a quick blog post about DC Comics’ new universe reshuffling called DC Rebirth. I know it’s only been happening for two weeks but I’m really enjoying it so far. It seems that Rebirth is correcting a lot of mistakes that the New 52 created. I mean I still…

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  • Trench reviews DC Comics’ Convergence

    As a continuity crossover reboot crisis Convergence felt kind of underwhelming. It didn’t pack the gravitas of a Flashpoint or Crisis on Infinite Earths. It felt just kind of ‘meh’. While it was nice to see characters from various pre-New 52 universes it felt like you had to know around 40 years of DC Comics’…

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  • Comic of the Week: Convergence The Question #2

    ***SPOILERS*** While I haven’t been wowed by the Convergence storyline as a whole yet I really did like this issue. Pre-New 52 Renee Montoya, the 2nd Question, had to watch the original Question, Vic Sage, suffer and die slowly of cancer. Now her father is close to the death because of cancer and he hasn’t…

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  • Trench’s early impressions of DC Comics’ Convergence

    I don’t think I’m dropping any spoilers but just in case you’ve been warned. I Know it’s only the first week of DC Comics’ latest continuity crossover reboot crisis whatever but I’ve come away with two things from it so far. The first is that the concept reminds me a lot of 2013’s Deathmatch by…

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  • Comic of the Week: Action Comics Future’s End

    MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED In my entire life I’ve never cried at a movie or about a book or any work of fiction for that matter, until this past week. Believe it or not I was legitimately moved and almost got choked up over a comic book. But I’m getting a head…

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  • The first transgender character in DC Comics, or is it?

    DC Introduces First Transgender Character in Mainstream Comics: Comic books keep making the mainstream news lately. I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing but we’re going to take a look at the latest development. ***SPOILERS AHEAD*** In the final pages of Batgirl #19, Barbara Gordon confesses a lot of things…

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