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Batman Incorporated: Leviathan Strikes – Review

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Cameron Stewart & Chris Burnham (artists), Nathan Fairbairn (colorist) The Story: Now that’s a boat ride you’re not bound to forget. The Review: While it’s unclear where Batman Inc. fits into this refreshed DCU, with everyone still in the youth of their vigilante careers, it’s obvious Morrison’s grand idea for the [...]

Batman Incorporated #8 – Review

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Scott Clark & Dave Beaty (artists) The Story: Look, just as long as you don’t let your kid starve to death, play online all you want. The Review: The idea of taking our technological connections, the virtual threads that seem to wrap us tighter together by the day, and going one [...]

Batman Incorporated #7 – Review

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Chris Burnham (artist), Nathan Fairbairn (colorist) The Story: These guys are cowboys and injuns! The Review: We all know how important fleshing out a story beyond its skeleton of plot points can be.  Going about it, however, takes a certain amount of craft, otherwise you wind up with huge swaths of [...]

Batman Incorporated #6 – Review

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Chris Burnham (artist), Nathan Fairbairn (colorist) The Story: No matter where you go, you can always count on your Bat-family. The Review: Early issues of Batman Inc. made out this series as a world-hopping, adventure extravaganza—which it still is.  But recently, Morrison revealed an even bigger scope to Batman’s mission, as [...]

Batman Incorporated #5 – Review

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Yanick Paquette (penciller), Michel Lacombe (inker), Nathan Fairbairn (colorist) The Story: I’m afraid a bat’s too big to be caught in your web, Dr. Dedalus! The Review: In talking about Batman Incorporated, plenty of people have made references to the James Bond quality of the series’ adventures.  The comparison has only [...]

Batman Incorporated #4 – Review

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Chris Burnham (artist), Nathan Fairbairn (colorist) The Story: Batman doesn’t like a lot of people, so killing off his first love is not a great idea. The Review: Probably the most distinguishing trademark of Morrison’s writing is the grand scope of his vision: his ideas stretch far into the future, and [...]

Batman Incorporated #3 – Review

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Yanick Paquette (penciller), Michel LaCombe (inker), Pere Perez (supporting artist), Nathan Fairbairn (colorist) The Story: Pack in your venom antidote and tie up your bandana, muchachos—Batman’s going south of the border! The Review: A good idea doesn’t always pan out into a good story.  Quite often, once you start bearing down [...]

Batman Incorporated #2 – Review

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Yanick Paquette (penciller), Michel Lacombe (inker), Nathan Fairbairn (colorist) The Story: Lord Death Man rises again, and this time he’s ready to bring senseless crime back into fashion for the great nation of Nihon.  With Mr. Unknown out of the picture, it’s up to Batman to make sure Shiny Happy Aquazon [...]

Batman Incorporated #1 – Review

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Yanick Paquette (penciller), Michael LaCombe (inker), Nathan Fairbairn (colorist) The Story: Bruce Wayne begins his mission to recruit an international association of Batmen by looking up Mr. Unknown, his counterpart in Japan. Lord Death Man, boss baddie of the Land of the Rising Sun, however has announced his goal to “Kill [...]

What We’re Looking Forward To In November

Dean There is a LOT to look forward to in November. For one thing, there is a lot of neat stuff in the Spider-Man world as Amazing Spider-Man kicks off its new “big” story line Big Time written by Dan Slott with art by Humberto Ramos. This is also the end of the thrice-monthly ASM [...]

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