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Detective Comics #31

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Detective Comics #31Given a woman overdosing on a drug Harvey Bullock and his former partner pushed out of Gotham six years ago was found on Bruce Wayne‘s doorstep the detective is mighty suspicious of the billionaire. Although Bruce clears himself by proving he has no Icarus in his system, Bullock is far from satisfied that Wayne has nothing to hide. If he only knew.

Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato’s opening arc on the title continues with some beautiful drawn and inked pages from the pair while setting Bruce Wayne in Bullock’s crosshairs and giving Batman some action of his own including taking on a rather large individual known as Sumo.

Focusing on the detective work of both Batman and Bullock separately as the Dark Knight hears the first mention of “The Squid,” while also throwing in some action and beautiful visuals, DC may have finally put together a creative team to consistently sell me on a Bat-book that doesn’t star Scooby-Doo. Worth a look.

[DC, $3.99]

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Son of Batman

/ / Home Video
  • Title: Son of Batman
  • IMDB: link

Son of BatmanAfter the train wreck of Justice League: War, which to be fair should be laid at the feet of the source material rather than the adaptation itself, I wasn’t sure what to expect with DC Animation’s latest home video release and yet another adaptation of an existing comic storyline. Now I think DC should let James Robinson adapt all of Grant Morrison‘s work (and not just what DC decides to make into surprisingly good movies).

Based loosely on Morrison’s Batman and Son storyline which introduced Damian Wayne (Stuart Allan) into the DCU, Robinson takes quite a few liberties with the storyline (almost entirely for the better), most notably introducing Deathstroke (Thomas Gibson) into the story as the catalyst whose attack on Ra’s al Ghul (Giancarlo Esposito) and attempt to wrest control of The League of Assassins causes Talia (Morena Baccarin) to put her son in Batman‘s (Jason O’Mara) hands.

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Batman ’66 #10

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Batman '66 #10Batman ’66 #10 finds the Dynamic Duo matches wits against Mr. Freeze who takes advantage of a Gotham heat wave to sell personal air conditioning units to to unsuspecting Gothamites unaware that the villain will use the units to bring an early winter to the city. Despite the villain’s new advantage, and fancy new freeze-canon tank, Batman and Robin are able to bring summer back to Gotham

Although the Freeze story is entertaining (even giving us Batman and Robin skiing their way through downtown Gotham), of more interest is the comic’s back-up story featuring Batgirl saving Bruce Wayne after he’s poisoned by Cleopatra.

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Coming Soon

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  • Title: Gotham
  • wiki: link

Here’s the first look at Gotham. Ben McKenzie stars as Detective James Gordon in the new TV series set during Bruce Wayne‘s (David Mazouz) pre-Batman childhood with teen versions of his various enemies making appearances including Catwoman (Camren Bicondova), the Penguin (Robin Taylor), the Riddler (Cory Michael Smith), Two-Face, the Joker, and Poison Ivy (Clare Foley). I wonder how long it will take before one of them pushes Bruce into a locker or steals his lunch money? Sigh. The show also stars Donal Logue as Harvey Bullock, Sean Pertwee as Alfred Pennyworth, Sara Paxton, Victoria Cartagena as Renee Montoya, and Zabryna Guevara as Sarah Essen. The trailer certainly looks slick, and looks more Gordon (and less Bruce) driven than I expected, but I’m still having trouble investing anything in this concept and would have far preferred the idea of resurrection the original Smallville pitch around a late teens/early twenties Bruce Wayne’s journey to become Batman. Gotham will premiere this Fall on FOX.

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