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With production underway on the second season of Epix's Pennyworth, we have some major intel on who will be joining Jack Bannon in the Warner Horizon Scripted Television series. New additions James Purefoy (The Following, Sex Education), Edward Hogg (Taboo, Harlots), and Jessye Romeo (Curfew, In the Long Run) have all been cast in series […]

There is no Alfred in today's The Batman's Grave #5 by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch, which is a crying shame, as recent issues' highlights have revolved around just what insult, criticism or takedown Alfred Pennyworth is going to throw Bruce Wayne's way – and maybe even that he is a figment of Bruce's imagination, […]

Batman #86. New writers, editors, artists, we can all forget about what some saw as those stylistic excesses of Tom King for the past four years of Batman. No more discussions of whether it was the roof, the boat or the beach, no more Kite-Man hell yeahs, no more punching people with POWs, no more […]

Batman #83 is in stores from DC Comics this week, as the City of Bane arc races to its conclusion. We've got a preview below of the issue by Tom King, Mikel Janin, and Jordie Bellaire.   Batman awakens at his dinner table, seated across from his longtime friend and father figure. How nice! But […]

Last month saw Warren Ellis, Bryan Hitch, Kevin Nolan and Alex Sinclair give us The Batman's Grave #1 from DC Comics, including an Alfred Pennyworth on the whisky who had some suggestions for Bruce Wayne. Today, the UK left-wing political movement Momentum that supports Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party, echoed such sentiments in a […]

Following up on his shocking and surely permanent death in Batman #77, Alfred Pennyworth is getting his own one-shot comic book from DC Comics, though it still has Batman's name billed first in the title. Batman: Pennyworth R.I.P. will be written by James Tynion IV and Peter Tomasi with art by Eddy Barrows, Eber Ferreira, […]

Looks like viewers are going to have another season to learn everything they didn't know about Batman's trusted aide and the Wayne Family protector. EPIX has given a green light for a second season of Pennyworth, with filming on the 10 episodes set at the UK's Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden in the UK beginning January […]

Alfred Pennyworth is dead. In Batman #77, killed by Bane, in front of Damian Wayne. A fact that the rest of the Batfamily are keeping from Bruce Wayne who believed that Alfred was safe, no longer being used as a hostage to prevent the Bat-excursion into Gotham, the City of Bane, He was wrong, and […]

Today, in the utterly gorgeous Batman #79 by Tom King, Clay Mann, Seth Mann, Tomeu Morey and Clayton Cowles, we get a resolution on whether Batman or Catwoman met on the street or the boat. It's been quite a matter of contention in the series, reflecting both origins of Catwoman, from the forties and from […]

It was the story that saw Batman #77 blow out of the doors the other week, as Tom King, Mikel Janin and Tony Daniel told a story in which Damian Wayne entered the boundaries of Gotham, despite the warnings that Bane would kill Alfred Pennyworth if any of the Batfamily did so. Which lead to […]

EPIX's Pennyworth opens with a wide open shot, panning back through the misty countryside as a mounted group of gentry plow ahead, dressed to the nines in a fox hunt set to The Rolling Stones' "Paint it Black". The scene twists suddenly as one of the upper-crust is abducted by a mysterious woman (Paloma Faith) […]

Batman Vs TMNT figures are coming exclusively to Gamestop stores this fall. DC Collectibles has teamed with Nickelodeon to produce five two-packs of figures based on this years animated feature, releasing in September-December of this year. September will see the release of the Batman and Leonardo pack and the Robin and Raphael pack. October is […]

The series finale of FOX's Gotham is only a bit behind us, and for Gotham, it was… fine? Maybe on the decent side of "okay"? I can honestly say that the series may have over-extended its stay by a season, and that's coming from someone who watched loyally, season after season, wading through the dreck […]

Epix has a series set to debut this summer that chronicles the early relationship of one Alfred Pennyworth, and his friendship to a certain American named Thomas Wayne. That series is Pennyworth, and it's a prequel to the FOX series Gotham. I'm not sure if one network has ever developed a prequel to another network's […]

Ever since The Batman Who Laughs made his grand entrance in Dark Knights: Metal, one question has been on the mind of readers and Bat-Fans alike: How the hell does he see trough that visor of his? Well, thanks to issue four of The Batman Who Laughs, we now know: Turns out his visor is […]

Conventional wisdom says that Batman can beat anyone in a fight… as long as he has prep time. But even absent prep time, one would expect that Batman would be able to take his geriatric butler, Alfred Pennyworth, right? Well, maybe not, as this preview of Wednesday's The Batman Who Laughs #4 demonstrates. In an […]

With FOX's Gotham coming to an end (with The Dark Knight expected to make an appearance in the series final that will most likely be longer than Tom Welling's blink-and-you'll-miss-Superman ending to Smallville), Batman fans are going to be in need for some more Caped Crusader mythos. No frets, folks! Epix has unveiled an official […]

Emma Paetz (Gentleman Jack) is joining Epix's Batman prequel series Pennyworth in a very "maternal" series regular role, while Lovesick's Jessica Ellerby is set as a recurring character. Paetz and Ellerby join Jack Bannon (Alfred) and Ben Aldridge (Thomas Wayne) in the 10-episode, one-hour drama from executive producer writer Bruno Heller (Gotham, The Mentalist), executive producer/director Danny Cannon (Gotham), and Warner Horizon […]

The writing team behind the madness that is FOX's Gotham have been working a very long, very patient con with viewers for five seasons now. Speculation about whether Cameron Monaghan's Jerome Valeska would eventually become the Joker has been brewing since the character blew into town with the circus during the first season. Now, five season […]

Gotham has a lot of story to cram into its last five episodes on FOX–and from the look of this trailer, that's not going to be a problem! Jeremiah (Cameron Monaghan) managed to find an unwitting accomplice in Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie), whose lack of mustache made him think driving a truck full of toxic […]