This week on Gotham: Gordon’s secret creates a problem in his relationship with Barbara. Meanwhile, Cobblepot makes a play and climbs up the ranks of Maroni’s gang. Finally, councilmen are assassinated left and right, the only link…Arkham Asylum. [Read more…] about Gotham Episode 4: Arkham Review!
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X-Necrosha Overview
Every now and again, a comic storyline builds up into something that really needs to have a wider impact. That’s happening at the moment, in AXIS; it happened in 2009 with the X-Men’s ‘Necrosha’ plotline. [Read more…] about X-Necrosha Overview
DC Comics Reading Order
Ever since I started Comic Book Herald the blog has been extensively Marvel Comics focused. This is largely because Marvel is my first love. I grew up on Spider-Man and X-Men animated cartoons, yet somehow NEVER saw Batman: The Animated Series until much later. Nonetheless, DC Comics have played an important role in developing my love of comic books, from Geoff John’s Green Lantern
Avengers & X-Men: Axis #1 Review! World War Hate Begins!
The event that Rick Remender has been hinting at since the beginning of Marvel Now! The story that he has been setting up throughout both his Uncanny Avengers and Captain America runs is finally here! The event that will change…ah screw it that joke’s not funny anymore. So yes, Marvel’s latest event, Avengers & X-Men: Axis has begun, and boy has it been a while since Marvel’s last event (for the record, Original Sin ended a grand total of five weeks ago). Who wants to bet that Marvel is going to announce its next “Game-changing” event halfway through this one? I mean they announced Axis before Original Sin even began. Anyway, event-fatigue aside, I have been looking forward to this book since it was announced, and now that I finally got to read issue one, how does this book begin the next event? [Read more…] about Avengers & X-Men: Axis #1 Review! World War Hate Begins!
Old-School X-Men with Lincoln Crisler: Uncanny X-Men #202
Our last installment showed us the first appearance of the man called Cable–baby Nathan Christopher Charles Summers. Not only that, but his daddy, Cyclops, received an early Father’s Day gift–a killer beatdown by a powerless Storm during their Danger Room faceoff to determine which of them would lead the X-Men! Uncanny #202, written by Claremont with art by Romita, Jr and Al Williamson, opens with his other child–Rachel Summers, the X-Men’s new Phoenix–working out some issues of her own. [Read more…] about Old-School X-Men with Lincoln Crisler: Uncanny X-Men #202