Welcome back to Upcoming Comics! As I write this, there are tons of fireworks going off outside my window and I’m just hoping that my dog is able to stay asleep without getting too stressed out. Thunderstorms bother her, but weirdly enough she’s actually been fine with fireworks so far. Oh well, she’s weird and I’ll never fully understand her. Let’s look at some comics:
Upcoming Comics
Batman: Gotham by Gaslight – A League for Justice #1
Last year, DC’s iconic Elseworlds was ushered into a new era with the release of Gotham by Gaslight: The Kryptonian Age, continuing the iconic saga of the Batman of the Victorian era and pulling some of DC’s most iconic heroes into the Gilded Age. Now, the team behind the hit series returns to tell the second part of this epic tale in Gotham by Gaslight: A League for Justice! Bear witness to the formation of a new kind of Justice League in a steam-powered adventure that will bring these once-familiar heroes from the open plains of the Midwest to the freezing Arctic as they unravel the mystery of alien artifacts from the Kryptonian Age! This jaw-dropping sequel series is not to be missed!
- Written By: Andy Diggle
- Art By: Leandro Fernandez
Thoughts: Taking a relatively restrained Elseworlds and then making a follow up where the whole Justice League shows up seems to be the pattern for a lot of these.
Batman News Critic: Chip
Batman: Dark Patterns #8
Case 03: Pareidola Batman’s vigilant investigation of the Red Hood Gang killing in the Rookery puts him on a collision course with the unlikely culprits at the heart of the latest mystery threatening to upend order in Gotham City.
- Written By: Dan Watters
- Art By: Hayden Sherman
Thoughts: Normally seeing “The Red Hood Gang” show up in a story would make me roll my eyes, but this series has my full faith.
Batman News Critic: Jack
Batman and Robin #23
Deep under Gotham City lies a subterranean echo of a lost time. This abandoned world has lain uninhabited for decades…until tonight. Now, Damian Wayne is the sole human resident of these abandoned catacombs…imprisoned by the entity known only as Memento. A father is desperate to track down his son, but will Batman be able to descend into the bowels of the city in time to save Robin? Or will the Dark Knight’s mind spiral into madness first?
- Written By: Phillip Kennedy Johnson
- Art By: Javi Fernandez, Miguel Mendonca
Thoughts: Maybe this storyline will read better in trade, but Memento feels like he’s been just sort of hanging around for a really long time.
Batman News Critic: Chris
Gotham City Sirens: Unfit For Orbit #2
There’s a hot new outer space-themed nightclub in Gotham City, and who better to rob it than Catwoman, Ivy, and Harley? But there’s more to this intergalactic discotheque than meets the eye(s), as the Sirens discover when they stumble headfirst into a plot to destroy the entire planet led by the club’s owner—the alien despot Despero! I hope you have good insurance, Gotham City, because you’re about to get wrecked. Special appearances by deadly DJs, hunky alien hotties, dancers dressed as aliens, mutant failures, one wild UFO, and lots and lots of fire!
- Written By: Leah Williams
- Art By: Haining
Thoughts: At the very least this series seems to recognize itself as mostly harmless fluff.
Batman News Critic: Jeremy
Beyond the Bat
Welcome to Beyond the Bat, where we take a quick look at the rest of DC’s comics coming out this week.
Graphic Novel Watch
Sometimes you need more than floppies. Sometimes you want something that can sit nicely on your shelf that proudly displays your favorite stories. That’s when you turn to graphic novels. Let’s see what bat collections are coming out this week:
Ratings
Most Excited: Batman: Dark Patterns #8– As always an easy pick. This is exactly the sort of comic I want more of with Batman.
Least Excited: Gotham City Sirens: Unfit For Orbit #2– Mostly harmless goofiness, but I’m still disappointed we can’t get something like the original series.
Wild Card: Batman: Gotham by Gaslight – A League for Justice #1– I guess we’ll see a lot more takes on Victorian versions of superheroes.
Well that’s it for this week! Let us know in the comments what comics you’re looking forward to.
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