This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up talking about what we picked up. This week, Douglas Wolk, Evan Narcisse, Mike Williams and Graeme McMillan discuss Batman & Robin #14 and Amazing Spider-Man #641.
DOUGLAS: If Grant Morrison was a gunslinger, there’d be a whole lot of dead wannabes. The current …
Comic-book games come and go, but it’s rare that major releases featuring superhero comics’ Big Two come out in the same week. Both Batman: The Brave and the Bold and Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions hits store shelves today and we’ve decided to celebrate with some good old-fashioned nerd deliberation.
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How can the best Batman TV show ever become even better? By bringing in Scooby-Doo to guest-star.
Yes, Cartoon Network’s wonderful Batman: The Brave and The Bold – which, if you haven’t seen it and like smiling, is highly recommended – has confirmed that the Mystery Machine’s most famous passenger will be re-teaming with the Dark …
The Jedi! Those calm, peaceful warriors who keep the universe safe from danger – Well, apart from when they’re not being slaughtered by the Sith, of course – with their lightsabers, telepathic powers and repression of all emotions other than smugness (That is an emotion, right? I can’t keep them straight after Blackest Night explained …
Look, we’re all nerds here, right? And at some point, you, me and everyone who reads Techland has tried draw or write up their own superhero ideas.
Don’t deny it.
Thing is, unless your name is Geoff Johns, you’d never be able to pit your metahumans against characters like Batman or Lex Luthor. This is where the appeal of DC …
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment’s upcoming Batman: The Brave and the Bold is going cross-platform on the Nintendo Wii and DS.
The game launches September 7 for both the DS and Wii, and if someone happens to be playing on the DS alongside someone playing on the Wii, the DSer can jump into the Wii version by controlling …
DC Comics announced yesterday that the single-named artist Jock–best known for drawing The Losers–would be joining writer Scott Snyder as the creative team on Detective Comics as of November. We spoke briefly with Snyder at Comic-Con (before the Jock announcement had been made public) about what will be coming up for Batman in …
Grant Morrison has been talking about what to expect from Batman, Inc., his new fall-launching series that takes place after The Return On Bruce Wayne and sees the Dark Knight rebrand himself and his community. In an interview with the LA Times’ Hero Complex blog, he expressed his view of a more cultured, less screwed-up Bruce Wayne than …
With the announcement of Arkham City, we can expect to see a whole new batch of characters from Gotham City to show up in the upcoming sequel. So, gamers and Bat-fans, who do you want to see in the game?
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Place your bets on who’ll win each category and the first commenter to guess …
Things have been quiet in Gotham. Too quiet.
Batman: Arkham Asylum blew everyone’s minds last year as the surprise hit was unanimously anointed the Best Superhero Game Ever by critics and players. The game delivered a playable Batman who used deduction, brutal combat and unparalleled stealth in a seamless fusion of gameplay.
A …
I haven’t liked a lot of Judd Winick’s superhero work. And that’s weird because I thought Pedro & Me was a heart-rending portrait of his friendship with his former Real World housemate, enjoyed his Barry Ween: Boy Genius series as manic and madcap fun and dug the depth he showed on his underappreciated Vertigo series Caper. I figured he …
Paul Cornell has been writing novels, comics and TV screenplays for 20 years, most notably as part of the Doctor Who franchise. More recently, he’s been making a splash in American comics, with Marvel’s Captain Britain and MI: 13 and Dark X-Men. He recently took over Action Comics for a serial starring Lex Luthor, and he’s about to …
