February 19, 2021

Batgirls Is Great, Everything Else Is a Slog in This Week’s Bat Chat

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin4 years ago4 years ago024 mins

We’re back in the future Gotham, where the Next Batman must race the Magistrate to save people who tried to kill him, Cass Cain and Stephanie Brown save a lost ally from the Magistrate, and Catwoman and Poison Ivy have one last girl’s weekend in Future State: The Next Batman #4 with: “The Next Batman,”…

Is X of Swords a Tournament Arc, Part II: Well, Is It?

Ian Gregory4 years ago4 years ago025 mins

We’ve established a definition for tournament arcs and identified their function in a story, as well as some of their standard tropes (and if you don’t know what I’m talking about, read the previous installment in this series). There are a surplus of manga tournament arcs, but they occur significantly less frequently in superhero comics….