• The death of Robin…again

    So another comic has made it into mainstream news again and once again it is involving the death of an iconic character. This time it’s Batman’s ever-present sidekick, Robin. But before we get into that here’s a little comic history lesson for those of you who either don’t follow comics or haven’t followed in a…


  • The Question emerges

    ***SPOILERS*** You can catch up on our faceless hero by reading my last post on The Question. So now The Question has made a more fleshed out appearance so to speak in the pages of Phantom Stranger #5. While The Phantom Stranger battles The Spectre over the disappearance of Stranger’s adopted family. The Question appears…


  • The Return of The Question?

    ***NO QUESTION ABOUT IT, THERE ARE SPOILERS*** I know. I haven’t been blogging about comics in a while. There’s a couple of reasons for that. The first is that my regular crime readers aren’t that interested in comics. That’s cool. No worries there. The other is that because of my real-world responsibilities I no longer…


  • Comic of the Week: Justice League #7

    Not for the main story which shows Steve Trevor as a congressional liaison to the Justice League which I did think was clever. But no, it’s comic of the week because of the picture above, the return of Captain Marvel, or Shazam as he’s now being called. And I didn’t like this issue just because…


  • DC Comics The New 52: Week 26…I think

    I haven’t been doing these posts in the past few weeks because there was really nothing to talk about. However, since this is week 26 that marks the halfway point in the year for The New 52 and I wanted to do sort of a brief state of the union kind of post on The…


  • Trench reviews Justice League: Doom

    As you should probably know by now I am a huge fan of the DC Animated movies. To me, Bruce Timm and company can do no wrong. However, I was a little disappointed in Justice League: Doom. First off it’s based on the comic JLA: Tower of Babel which I have not read so I…


  • Review of Batman: Year One DVD

    It’s been a while since I read Year One. I probably haven’t read it since shortly after it came out however I’m sure this is still pretty faithful to the comic since the DC Animated series of movies are either as good or in some cases better than the comics. I really think they should…


  • Review of Action Comics #900: Superman renounces US citizenship

    There was a minor kerfuffle recently when the news came out that in the comics Superman was going to renounce his US citizenship. This outraged some as Supes is supposed to stand for truth, justice, and the American way. I’ll have to admit even I had a modicum of outrage over this. That was until…


  • A Questionable Comic Indeed

    A few months ago I told you about my favorite comic book hero The Question. At the time I lamented the fact that The Question went from a man who swore never to kill to a sociopathic killing machine. This past Saturday I picked up the final issue in the limited six-issue run of the…