Batman Ambient Music?

Batman Lofi? Maybe this will help me with my comics writing...

Good to Have the Attention

Glad my essay on Kevin Conroy is getting attention during Pride Month. Check it out now at The Ugly Monster.

Crawling Through the Muck to Get Caught Up

Catching up to more recent comics slowly but surely. First, my Comic Book Haiku on  Batman: One Bad Day — Clayface #1, up now at The Ugly Monster. 

A Moment of Comics

Kevin Conroy, the voice of Batman for decades, was gay. I had no idea until last week when he passed. Below is the opening page for "Finding Batman,' a story written by Conroy and drawn by J. Bone for the 2022 DC Pride issue. I wish I had read this when it came out. Rest in peace, Mr. Conroy.

RIP Kevin Conroy

 

So Much Catching Up to Do

My Comic Book Haiku on Batman: One Bad Day — Penguin is up now at The Ugly Monster.

Obligatory Batman Comic Strip (with a swerve)!

Geoffrey Fallon's comc lets you know what he did this weekend as he kicks off the week with "The Secrets of Skinny People." Read it now at Oddball Magazine. 

Adult Now, but...

I still keep this statement from The Dark Knight Returns close to my chest.

New Article Up

For fun, I reviewed the last issue of Batman: Last Knight On Earth. It's up now on Medium.

Update: While I appreciate everyone clicking on this post, I'd feel great if a few of you would click on the actual article. It would help me out.

I Had Issues! My Old Review of Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox

Now that I'm almost done posting these reviews, I feel less proud of these "By-The-Numbers" reviews. They served their purpose, but they're like CinemaSins without ever hearing a "ding." Still, it was fun to write them at the time. That's how I was able to get this out before my time was done at the site. I just don't see myself ever doing another one. I'll still tackle the Identity Crisis mini-series someday, just not as a By-The-Numbers. Hope you liked them for what they were. Originally published October 3, 2013. Edited for clarity. Additional note: Number 4. had twice the number of links, but I choose not to link some of that work this time around.

I Had Issues! My Old Take on "Batfleck"

I had a rare moment of fun with this. At this point of my time with the comics website, I gave less and less of a flying f---. The site looked less and less like a source for clever comics discourse and more like a cosplay fetishist haven. My original title for this piece was "Obligatory Ben Affleck Post: A Tired And Weary Topic." The redundancy in the title speaks much of my feelings towards certain people's mindsets at the time.

I had zero investment in the DC Cinematic Universe, and it turns out that might have been down to good instincts. The original post got around a bit, even getting featured at a now-defunct Italian website. I have wanted to double down on my commitment to write intelligent essays, but I would love the time and venue to write goofy pieces like this too. One can dream. Originally September 13, 2013. Edited to protect the guilty.

New Comic Book Haiku

Up now at Medium. It's a surprise.

Getting Goofy

I've done a lot of Comic Book Haiku in the past. I'm getting into it again. Because it's fun. Here's my first new one in a while, on Batman: White Knight, up now at Medium.

I Had Issues! My Seventh Comic Book Haiku

I did eventually read the full Death of the Family story. Just couldn't get over this initial cover. Originally published October 11, 2012.

I Had Issues! My First Comic Book Haiku

I can explain.

I Had Issues! My Old Review of Batman #6

Crossovers. For the most part, I hate them. That's why I had to go crazy when the then-ongoing Court of Owls storyline was going to get "bigger." A little hyperbolic, to say the least, but it had been a while since I was this passionate about a mainstream title. Originally published March 1, 2012. Slightly edited for clarity.

I Had Issues! My Old Review of Three New 52 Comics

Hope you had a good new year. My archiving continues. I called this my "Five of Kinds" for my "52 Pick Up" series of reviews. I reviewed the fifth issue of three different comics. Seemed like fun at the time. Plus I thought it was a quicker way to write reviews (as the intro below shows).
Originally published January 28, 2012. Edited for clarity.

I Had Issues! My Old Review of New 52's Action Comics #4-5

Another New 52 Pick-Up review. Thought I was so clever with a "Draw Two" in the original title. Originally published January 5, 2012. Edited for spelling and clarity. Also, I'm not including the million of links referencing my own work. That was too much the first time around.

I Had Issues! My Old Review of New 52's Batman #1-4

My "Aces High" pick in my continujing 52 Pick Up review from a few years back. Not much here, which made me consider not including it in my archived work, but I went back to Batman one or two more times at least, so I'll keep it here just to mark what I was thinking as time went on. Originally published December 31, 2011. Edited for clarity. 

I Had Issues! My Old Review of New 52's Batman #1

At least I liked a book that turned out to be the one definitive winner in the entire New 52 line (even if I did find much of the book problematic in the end). I really was banging these pieces out as fast as I could. The New 52, if ultimately disappointing, was at least exciting in the beginning. Originally published September 27, 2011. Edited for much needed clarity. I was writing way to fast back then.