Batman Archives

Last week we reported that Batman Vs Ra's Al Ghul #4 by Neal Adams had slipped first from the 20th of November, then to the 4th of December and then to the 11th December We speculated if it would slip any further, and get sucked into DC's Massive Week of the 18th of December Seems[...]

Superman wasn't the rising star to come from the DC Comics storyline Batman Hush However, he did make a remarkable appearance as he and the Dark Knight duke it out After being slightly hypnotized from Poison Ivy's deadly seduction the Man of Steel himself tried to show his new love he can take down Batman[...]

Batman collectibles or something that will never stop It the same with Spider-Man, Batman is just so iconic that they will beat Gotham's protector into the ground with as many collectibles as they possibly can What are the more interesting collectibles in my opinion, is Mezco's Exclusive Batman series figures The newest one to their[...]

Quinn has said goodbye to The Clown Prince of Crime (watching Alan Tudyk's Joker laugh as it happens is pretty sweet) and is set on being the "queenpin" of Gotham City's underworld. Three small problems: she has the Joker as a constant threat… she has Batman patrolling the streets and rooftops… and there's a pretty good[...]

Arrow is shuffling off the network's programming coil after an abbreviated 10-episode eighth season (making The Flash the "elder states-show" of the "Arrowverse"), Ruby Rose-starrer Batwoman joined the family alongside Supergirl and expanded the Batman mythos in CW's DCU Let's not forget a looming "Crisis on Infinite Earths" crossover that's less than a month away[...]

Arrow is shuffling off the network's programming coil after an abbreviated 10-episode eighth season (making The Flash the "elder states-show" of the "Arrowverse"), Ruby Rose-starrer Batwoman joined the family alongside Supergirl and expanded the Batman mythos in CW's DCU Let's not forget a looming "Crisis on Infinite Earths" crossover that's less than a month away[...]

And Batman is out this week so Batman is at the top, but Marauders came damn close, and squeezed in between Batman and Batman/Superman… Top ten bestselling comics of the week Batman #83 Marauders #2 Batman Superman #4 Excalibur #2 Absolute Carnage #5 Justice League #36 Amazing Spider-Man #34 Batman White Knight Presents Von Freeze #1 Avengers #26 Immortal Hulk #27 Thanks to the following retailers… Famous Faces[...]

Batman and Robin to the Batmobile, their costumes having to put up for sale Now this one is a real treat hear you guys and gals the Azarian collection if you don't know is founded by John Azarian who collected iconic items from shows and movies he loved as a kid Most of these items[...]

The highlights of the collection: the complete costumes of both Adam West and Burt Ward from the 1960s Batman television show. So yes, as the headline reads, if you bid on and win these items, you, yes you, could try on Batman's underwear Or Robin's underwear Or do whatever you like with them, for that matter[...]

The conclusion to "City of Bane" arrives in Batman #85, the final chapter that both brings Tom King's acclaimed run on the series to a close, before he gets to finish what he originally intended with Clay Mann in a truncated spin-off series, Batman And Catwoman later in 2020 As the solicitation reads; BATMAN #85 (W) Tom[...]

Incoming Batman writer James Tynion IV has launched a new newsletter, and he's inviting people to subcribe with the promise of Batman news that can easily be turned into clickbait articles Don't mind if we do, James Don't mind if we do. I have started a NEWSLETTER, because I am a monster and writing a[...]

The first is that Batman will appear on stage in their 2020 tour, in an officially licensed capacity. The second is that the Dark Nights: Metal series by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo, currently being published on Italian newstands is getting a variant cover For the recent Lucca convention in Italy, the Italian licensor published a[...]

Some people call that connective tissue, other parts has people wondering if this is closer to comic book recycling and which of the creative teams wrote these pages originally anyway? So we have Batman/Superman #4 byJoshua Williamson, David Marquez, Alejandro Sanchez and John J Hill, and Supergirl #36 by Marc Andreyko, Eduardo Pansica, Julio Ferreira,[...]

Or maybe a bit of both. Today's Batman #83 gives us such a story from beyond the grave We have previously looked at the death of Alfred as seen in the comics First believing it was some kind of subterfuge (which maybe at one time it was, but things changed). After what seems to have been a[...]

In the Batman comic books, Dick Grayson, the original Robin and also the original Nightwing, suffered a major brain injury You may remember a certain rooftop scene with Batman, the Commissioner and Nightwing And across the way, the KGBeast, operating under the command of Bane. BANG And for Dick Grayson, Robin, Nightwing, everything changed. He survived[...]

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 something is wrong[...]

Christian Bale once considered reprising the role of Bruce Wayne for a fourth Batman film Out of respect for director Christopher Nolan, the actor turned down the offer from Warner Bros. Editorial credit: Denis Makarenko / Shutterstock.com Bale spoke with the Toronto Sun while promoting his latest film, Ford v Ferrari when the questions eventually turned to[...]

Back in the Batman/Flash crossover The Price by Josh Williamson last year, we got to see a near future in which Batman and Superman were involved in what appeared to be rather intensive surveillance of everyone around them, trying to track what we would later learn were the Infected Superheroes who had been turned into[...]

DC Comics is celebrating Valentine's Day this year in the most outrageous way possible: by having Catwoman cheat on Batman with Nightwing in a comic book special hosted by a character with such a racist history it forced DC Comics to cancel their Detective Comics Before Batman collection That's right, for just $9.99 this February,[...]

Which will see the release of the final issue of Doomsday Clock, the final issue of Scott Snyder's Justice League, the launch of Hell Arisen, the final issue of Batman: Last Knight On Earth, Tom King's final issue of Batman and more, much more It's like a black hole, sucking in all big DC Comics[...]

Batman has had a wide variety of costume changes in his time as the caped crusader The video game world easily takes advantage of these costumes as alternate outfits that the character can play as One of Batman's most famous games is the Batman: Arkham Asylum franchise Prime 1 Studio is taking another look at Batman Arkham[...]

And they seem to come in response to yesterday's video from Momentum that used Batman and the Joker to talk about taxation and modern-day British politics and priorities. Visiting a vehicle manufacturer in Warwickshire, he gave a speech that included the following observation; Today Britain has more Nobel Prize winners than any country aside except the[...]

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 political[...]

And Joelle Jones, writer and artist, gets to revisit those issues around Batman #50 and before, from a different perspective. …and so we get to see all those who led to her decision, and all manipulated by Bane… There must be a recking there And it does give a certain frisson to last week's Batman #83… Catwoman #17[...]

And with the British General Election in less than a month's time, Momentum released a new political advert using Batman and The Joker asking if Batman is the Bad Guy, including clips from Batman films, Joker, the Batman TV series and original footage filmed with two actors playing the Batman and The Joker… Here's the video,[...]

Batman: The Animated Series is a pop-culture classic cartoon It opens up the world for DC Animation and honestly, it's one of the strangest things from the outside of the comics Marvel hasn't ever seemed to capture the essence that DC does with their animated films or shows It's time to relive that classic animated Batman[...]

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,[...]

Quinn has said goodbye to The Clown Prince of Crime (watching Alan Tudyk's Joker laugh as it happens is pretty sweet) and is set on being the "queenpin" of Gotham City's underworld. Three small problems: she has the Joker as a constant threat… she has Batman patrolling the streets and rooftops… and there's a pretty good[...]

But as we see in this preview of Detective Comics #1015, in stores this week from DC Comics by Peter Tomasi, Doug Mahnke, Jaime Mendoza, and more, you have to be careful what you wish for… As Batman and his allies do their best to revive the victims Freeze kidnapped for experimentation before waking Nora up,[...]

And as this family of old and new Titans – including Conner Kent and Rose Wilson – learn to co-exist, the arrival of Deathstroke, brings to light the sins of the old Titans which threaten to tear this new Titans family apart once more. DC Universe ● After decades of fighting crime as Batman, Iain Glen's (Game of[...]