Wow, I had forgotten how much fun it is to spend an entire day just reading comics and celebrating 4/20. Doesn’t change the fact that almost every book released this week is NUTTY. What the hell, *insert publisher here*?

Case in point: Barbara Gordon making a NEW internet.

This is what I get for reading Batgirl.

Let’s start with GL #65 and GLC #59:

Yeah, okay. We knew the palette swap would happen sooner or later, it was inevitable. Yes, it was kinda stupid. This whole arc is kinda stupid. Hell, everything since Brightest Day is kinda stupid. Wait, what am I talking about again?

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Grant Morrison’s run on Batman and Robin has finished, and with it, he ends the Batman: Reborn and Batman R.I.P. era. He’ll be back next month in the pages of Batman Incorporated, but before he starts the new arc in his epic Batman tale, let’s take time to review the last issue of Batman and Robin before Paul “Awesomely British” Cornell takes over.

Comicgasm editors Ade & RJ sit down and talk about what they liked and didn’t like in this issue and Morrison’s run in general, and what they expect in the so-called “Season Two” of Morrison’s Batman epic.

WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD

Ade: Before anything else, I must say I loved it. I was excited for this issue since the cliffhanger ending of Batman and Robin #15, and boy, was the wait worth it.

RJ: A BANANA PEEL? Really, Morrison? REALLY? Wait, does that count as a spoiler?

Ade: I have no idea man, but right now, Chekov’s gun is now a banana peel. Oh, before I forget, when we saw that last page from #15:

Ade: Were you hoping that it was either Joker or Alfred in the Batsuit? Because I was. It totally won’t make any sense at all, but that’s what Morrison’s good at – taking those things and making it work. (continue reading…)

Truth be told, I wasn’t really looking forward to reading Superman: Earth One. J. Michael Straczynski was already in the middle of writing for the regular Superman comic, with his insanely ambitious and head-scratching Grounded arc, which aims to make Superman reconnect with ordinary people by taking flying out of the equation and making him walk throughout America. Grounded’s been a mixed bag so far, with a great first issue and with every other issue devolving into a boring and preachy mess, which shows that there’s only so much you can do with Superman not punching stuff.

I admit that my opinion of Grounded has been influenced by comparing it with the infinitely better All-Star Superman, but that’s another story. Also, I’ve had my misgivings about Earth One from the first time I saw the preview art. Brooding Superman in a hoodie? When the hell did Superman become a hobo-hipster, and more importantly, since when did anyone think that brooding Superman was a great idea? 

Superman: Earth One was meant to present Superman’s origins in a modernized and reimagined way, not unlike Superman: Man of Steel, Superman: Birthright, and more recently, Superman: Secret Origin. This has been the third attempt to reimagine Superman’s origins for this decade, but unlike the three other origin stories I’ve mentioned before, Earth One does not attempt to reimagine Superman’s origins in mainstream continuity. It’s a huge hardcover original graphic novel, free from decades of continuity of DC’s shared universe. It is sort of an Ultimate Universe version of Superman. (continue reading…)

Well, not exactly. One of my new favorite writers, Paul Cornell, is indeed taking over from Grant Morrison after he finishes his tenure on the totally fun and Dick Grayson-centric Batman and Robin. But it’s not like Cornell’s going to be the regular writer of the series, though- he’s just writing a 3-issue arc starting with #17 on November 24, basically filling in until Pete Tomasi is ready to take over the title. I don’t have any complaints though – Cornell and Tomasi have proven to be great writers, although I feel that Cornell fits the “60′s-Batman-on-recreational-drugs” feel of Batman and Robin better.

So what can we expect from Cornell’s very unfortunately short run on Batman and Robin? Here are a couple of paragraphs taken from his interview with IGN, just to give us an idea of what’s going to happen: (continue reading…)

I don’t think that there’s anyone here who doesn’t like Grant Morrison’s All-Star Superman. The 12-issue miniseries was very, very close to perfect, giving us the idealized version of Superman and it showed us how everyone since after John Byrne got the character all wrong.

When DC announced that they are making an Original Animated Movie adaption of All-Star Superman, I was a little apprehensive even though Dwayne McDuffie was writing it. Don’t get me wrong – I am very, very excited to see an animated All-Star Superman movie, but there’s just way too many things to screw up with a near-perfect comic book.

Now we have the first teaser trailer for All-Star Superman, and even though I have a few gripes with it, which I will discuss later, it makes me all the more excited for the movie. Trailer after the jump!

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