Tag: Batman

The “titles” of Batman Begins showed the symbol of a bat formed in a swarm of bats, the titles of The Dark Knightshowed it in fire, now The Dark Knight Rises shows it in ice. The bats in Begins were a symbol of fear, the titles a metaphor for an identity forming out of shadows. The fire of The Dark Knight was like a wall of fire for that bat, that symbol, pushing through the chaos inflicted by the Joker. Now, the bat is, literally, the cracks in the ice formed by the isolation of Gotham City at the hands of Bane.

Hello and welcome! We are starting a weekly art thingy and have -rather thoughtfully- set it for Friday, that interminable day where the weekend is within touching distance and yet you still have to...

Some early morning ramble to go with your coffee. While all around us creators are struggling with editors, artists are flying from one series to another every three issues, books are chopped and movies...

One accusation thrown at DC is that their comics are very stern, and there's little room for silliness and fun jokes in their Universe. And it's an accusation which does tend to hit the...

For those of you that don't have cable or watch television, CBR broke the heart breaking news that Green Lantern and Young Justice was not renewed for another season to make room for Beware the...

This has been making the rounds, but it's too lovely not to share: Jeremy Bastian's Gotham by Gaslight, a commission he did for artist Dustin Nguyen. bastian is bets known as the artist of Cursed Pirate Girl, and if you haven't seen the recent collection that came out from Archaia, you are missing one of the most physically beautiful graphic novels of the last year. Bastian is insanely talented...and also not the most prolific artist in the world. Nguyen got his sketch in 2007...smart move.

Hey! It's one of those dates where American readers can't shout at me for getting the day and month the 'wrong' way round! Hurrah! That's a relief. This week was Dennis Hopeless Week, with the...

As an early Christmas present for my cousins, who live far away in the south, ugh, I decided to give their mum a break and buy them some Lego Batman. They're both 7, which means...

Yes we're all attempting to adjust to life in this new, crazy, Disney-owning-Lucasfilm landscape, but let's return to comics for just a little bit, okay? Because DC have announced that that artist/creator Dustin Nguyen's...

The last day of New York Comic-Con was a day of relative peace and tranquillity, unless you were Dan Slott in which case it was a day of  being chased by an angry mob whilst...

By Hannah Means-Shannon It’s no surprise that Michael Uslan’s panel drew celebrity-level crowds away from the con floor on Friday afternoon to wait in intricately directed lines just to hear about “How a Boy Who...

Michael Uslan, executive producer of the Batman motion picture franchise and a pioneer of the academic study of comic books, thereby elevating the stature of the medium, will receive an honorary doctorate from Monmouth...