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Comic Book Reviews: DC Comics Round Up Week 08-10-2016

Scott Snyder is back on Batman in an "all –star" way! (see what I did there?) as he teams up with two fantastic artist in Veteran John Romita Jr. and upcoming superstar Declan Shalvey. How does it hold up to his previous Batman New 52 run? Well read on to see! Also we get the return of the deadliest man in the world -- Deathstroke -- which was penned by the super talented Christopher Priest.

Action Comics #961

Story: Dan Jurgens Art: Stephen Segovia, Art Thibert

Review: Typically I don’t like it when a series keeps changing artist issue to issue, but honestly each illustrator that’s jumped on to Action Comics with Dan Jurgens has been top notch! I’m a huge fan of Tyler Kirkham and Patrick Bircher, and equally a huge fan of Stephen Segovia! And, to be fair,...

Comic Book Reviews: DC Round-up Week 07-27-2016

DC’s Rebirth is going strong, as the company gives us some fantastic books with great creative teams. Geoff Johns begin given more power and helping craft this road for the company was definitely the smart choice here. So with all the praise being given, there are a few areas I’d like to see some improvement. The most important is being “continuity”. Part of what brought about this change was getting the characters back to basics, back to remnants of their pre-new52 personas which so many readers were drawn too. That’s great, and I think it’s starting to show through the writers the company has on each title (thus far). However, there are some aspects that make feel like these books exist in their own self-contained worlds, which is fine, but then at other points some series try to reference other series,...

Robin War #2

Written by Tom King

Art by Khary Randolph, Alvaro Martinez and Raul Fernandez, Carmine Di Giandomenico, Steve Pugh, Scott McDaniel and Andy Owens

Colors by Chris Sotomayor, Emilio Lopez, Mat Lopes

Letters by Tom Napolitano

Published by DC Comics

Robin War #2 ends up being about a theme that has permeated the Batman family of books since the beginning of the New 52: family. As Dick Grayson plays the lone martyr battling Lincoln March at the Court of Owls’ HQ and pleading for Damian to leave, the rest of the original Robins, the We Are Robin kids, and even the Gotham Pd and Batman band together to score a resounding victory for the Talons. It’s a grand moment that gets cast in the shadow of Dick Grayson’s continual moral compromise as he tries to pull a Batman at the end of “Endgame” and sacrifice everything for Gotham,...

Batman: The Twelve Cent Adventure #1 (2004)

Written by Devin Grayson

Penciled by Ramon Bachs

Inked by Raul Fernandez, Rodney Ramos

Colored by Steve Buccelato

Published by DC Comics

Since “Knightfall” in the early 90s where Batman’s back was broken by Bane and he was replaced by Azrael, the Batman family crossovers have turned Gotham City into a playground of violence, status quo shifts, and occasionally teamwork. Batman: The Twelve Cent Adventure #1 is the prelude to the yearlong “War Games” crossover, which involved the biggest gang war in Gotham history. The crossover showed that Batman didn’t just have to fight costumed supervillains, like the Joker and Scarecrow, but could also deal with the labyrinthine threat of organized crime. (Even if these crime lords have masked and/or metahuman bodyguards like Deadshot and Silver Monkey.) The Twelve Cent Adventure introduces the major crime players of Gotham in a manner that is...

Los Angeles may be considered the film capital of the world, but what is “film” these days anyway? A new L.A-based festival has just popped up that addresses and celebrates all of the unique forms that visual storytelling can take in our new media world.

The inaugural New Media Film Festival will run the course of one weekend, June 11-13, at the Downtown Independent theater and show a mix of Internet-based short films, “webisodes,” documentaries that deal with the way media influences and is influenced by real world affairs and feature films in which new media figures as a major story element.

While the festival is strictly concerned with new media, I do want to note that there is a slight “underground” connection. While the fest was founded by Susan Johnston, the event’s Artistic Director is David Kleiler, who founded the Boston Underground Film Festival way back in 1998. Plus,...