Cian Tormey - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Thu, 30 Jan 2025 01:47:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/comicsxf.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cropped-orange-favicon-2.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Cian Tormey - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 BatChat solves mysteries in Detective Comics, Justice League Unlimited and The Question https://comicsxf.com/2025/01/24/batchat-tec-jlu-question/ Fri, 24 Jan 2025 13:19:10 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51474 The Bat family races to save the young men targeted by the serial killer Asema. Batman confronts the killer, but the results are not what he was expecting. Detective Comics #1,093 is written by Tom Taylor, drawn and colored by Mikel Janin and lettered by Wes Abbott.  The Amazon rainforest burns with mystical fire. While...

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]]> 51474 BatChat covers Absolute, Batman & Robin Year One, World’s Finest and The Question https://comicsxf.com/2024/12/20/batchat-absolute-yearone-worldsfinest-question/ Fri, 20 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51186 Bruce Wayne faces a moral dilemma: let the Party Animals operate without Batman’s interference for a week and receive a large sum of money and the gang going easier on Gotham. As Bruce tries to make his decision, political wrangling makes it more clear exactly who is behind the chaos in Gotham. Absolute Batman #3...

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]]> 51186 Mark Waid continues to be good at comics in BatChat (Plus, The Question in space!) https://comicsxf.com/2024/11/22/batchat-yearone-worldsfinest-question/ Fri, 22 Nov 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=50901 While Two-Face joins forces with the General, and Batman and Robin experience growing pains in their relationship, Bruce Wayne faces a threat like none he has ever experienced: Gotham Child Protective Services. Batman & Robin: Year One #2 is written by Mark Waid, drawn and colored by Chris Samnee and lettered by Clayton Cowles and...

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]]> 50901 Heart to Hearts and Trips to the Zoo In SuperChat https://comicsxf.com/2022/12/02/heart-to-hearts-and-trips-to-the-zoo-in-superchat/ Fri, 02 Dec 2022 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44052 Kal-El is back. And he’s brought change with him — change that are making a lot of people nervous. Now that he’s back home, though, Superman’s focus is clear: his family comes first, above all else. Watch him deal with the fallout of claiming Olgrun’s Fire in Action Comics #1,048, written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson,...

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]]> 44052 Two Big Endings In This Week’s SuperChat https://comicsxf.com/2022/09/22/its-two-big-endings-in-this-weeks-superchat-warworld-apocalypse/ Thu, 22 Sep 2022 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=43126 All good things come to an end, but if you’re a Superman fan, all tyranny does too. We wrap up several long arcs in this month’s Superchat, beginning with the conclusion to the Warworld Saga in Superman: Warworld Apocalypse, written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, drawn by Brandon Peterson, Will Conrad, Max Raynor and Miguel Medonça,...

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]]> 43126 Jon Kent Stands up to Batman and Clark Faces Warworld in this Month’s SuperChat https://comicsxf.com/2022/05/31/jon-kent-stands-up-to-batman-and-clark-faces-warworld-in-this-months-superchat/ Tue, 31 May 2022 19:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=41194 As Superman leads a revolution on Warworld, something deep beneath the planet rumbles — and we find that this conflict with Mongul is a lot bigger than anyone imagined in Action Comics #1042 and #1043, written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, drawn by Ricardo Frederici and Will Conrad, colored by Lee Loughridge, and lettered by Dave...

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]]> 41194 Lois Lane Fights for The Truth and The Doom Patrol Shines in This Month’s SuperChat https://comicsxf.com/2022/04/28/lois-lane-fights-for-the-truth-and-the-doom-patrol-shines-in-this-months-superchat/ Thu, 28 Apr 2022 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=40359 Lex Luthor is bad mouthing Superman in public as part of a deeper, nefarious scheme. It must be Tuesday. Luthor is armed with bad takes on several of Superman’s recent actions, and cinches it all with a devastating video that frames Superman for murder. Jon Kent, though? He’s got The Truth on his side. Superman:...

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]]> 40359 Plenty of Team-Ups in This Month’s SuperChat https://comicsxf.com/2022/02/28/plenty-of-team-ups-in-this-months-superchat/ Mon, 28 Feb 2022 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=38195 It’s a Jon Kent team-up extravaganza on this week’s Superchat! DC’s newest Superman and Aquaman deal with the leviathan threat (not THAT Leviathan threat) once and for all—but interference from Bendix’s Gamorran super task force has cost lives. How responsible is Jon Kent for the lives lost? Find out, in Superman: Son of Kal-El #8,...

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]]> 38195 Supermen of Different Worlds Face Different Problems in This Month’s SuperChat https://comicsxf.com/2022/01/31/super-chat-january/ Mon, 31 Jan 2022 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=37732 Things change, things end, things begin again, but one thing remains—Superman fights for a better world, no matter which world it might be.  On Earth, Jonathan Kent tries to stop a leviathan, but things get quickly out of hand when Bendix’s Gamorran task force shows up in Superman: Son of Kal-El #7, written by Tom...

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]]> 37732 Bat Brothers Gotta Hug in Nightwing 2021 Annual #1 https://comicsxf.com/2021/12/02/bat-brothers-gotta-hug-in-nightwing-2021-annual-1/ Thu, 02 Dec 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=35558 Jason Todd, black sheep of the Bat family, has been caught red handed (and hooded) on video murdering an FBI informant, but Nightwing is convinced there’s more to this than meets the eye. An exploration of the bond between Bat brothers, the Nightwing 2021 Annual #1 is written by Tom Taylor; penciled by Cian Tormey...

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