PaizoCon 2009: An Intimate Affair

At some point you just have to surrender to the realization that there are just more great conventions out there than you can possibly attend.  Hopefully that occurs somewhere down the line well after you’ve been to PaizoCon 2009.  Woot! PAIZOCON returns in 2009 bigger and better than ever! Officially sponsored and run by Paizo […]

Battle for the Cowl – Week One!

Well, week zero, technically, since the first issue of Battle for the Cowl doesn’t come out until next Wednesday.  Still, this week saw the release of Gotham Gazette: Batman Dead?, a sort of prelude to the storyline that introduces some of the bit players, rather than focusing on major characters like Robin and Nightwing. Gotham […]

The Crap You Should Buy This Week: 3/1/09-3/7/09

Trying to figure out how to spend your hard-earned cash this week? You know you wait with baited breath for your Tuesday Best Buy visit and your Wednesday comic shop visit! Well, here’s a list of the good stuff coming out this week – don’t waste your money on anything else! Well…stop playing Killzone 2 […]

Epic Fail: Not Watching Watchmen

Huge screwgie. The line I was in was the wait-and-see line. As in wait and see if there’s room after they’ve let in all the guys who got in line five hours ago. Now I have to see it like Paul – on or after the release date.   Poop.

Battle for the Cowl: Batman and the Outsiders!

Yeah, I know. I’m just as surprised as you are.  I count no less than SIX attempts to reboot The Outsiders by DC Comics.  It’s an odd animal.  Essentially, The  Outsiders is made up of superheroes who do not “fit” in with the mainstream superhero community They were founded by Batman during one of his […]

Battle for the Cowl: The Contenders – Tim Drake

Moreso than anybody else, Tim Drake deserves to be Batman. Tim Drake first showed up in Batman #436, in 1989. While watching Batman and Robin battle against the Penguin, he realizes that the moves are those that only Dick Grayson could accomplish, since he had seen the same move when watching the Flying Graysons. At […]