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The excuse made up for reboots and numbering gimmicks is often that new readers need a 'jumping on point'. First of all, they usually fail and it's just as incoherent and weird as before but now with a false start to make it even more confusing. Secondly, I've never needed any such thing. I...

First of all, I read Morrison's entire run, lots of the graphic novels and a bunch of New 52 comics with Damian. I say this because the exact comics people tell me to read about him are exactly why I don't like him. Like all semi-popular characters he's stuck in a loop of zero character...

Despite his considerable engineering talent, Toyman seems like a total schmuck in basically every other department. He's a known felon, he's too obsessed with Superman to make a good criminal partner, and he's grossly outmatched and cannot actually defeat Clark. So why does he keep showing up...

Capes are almost synonymous with superheroes, though it's not a very common design overall. The utility of capes has long been a question. Comic books will portray Superman using his cape to contain explosions or stretch across two trees to make a slingshot, etc. Batman has cape uses that range...

In terms of artistic direction it's "because comic book characters are usually good looking and muscular, also that's what comic artists are best at drawing easily". But even in-universe the public, other superheroes, Lex Luther, and alien queens, remark on how good looking Clark and his...

Essentially all powerful characters forget their powers and act like morons at random, because most writers have difficulty writing characters who defy physics and are virtually perfect in real world terms. Nonetheless I view it as a mark of a superior writer to create a good story without...

I was reading Black Hammer Omnibud v1 at the store yesterday and found it interesting. I'm going to get the v1 Omnibus but I don't know how all the other series/collectiond fit into it. If I like a series I tend to be a completionist (my Action Comics boxes could break a mule's spine), I...

In the Bruce Timms series the Batmobile often looks absolutely enormous, like a 20s touring sedan on steroids. Part of this is the angle of shots and the stylized nature of the art in general, but I'd be interested to figure it out. I don't have access to the digital tools I'd need to measure it...

I've been a fan of the DCAU shows since they came out, in particular the early seasons of Batman, Superman and Justice League. Like many people I've often wished there was more of it. I've known there were tie in comics, but not that there were so many! I will probably eventually read all of...