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From movies to comics, sequels will always be a mixed bag. DC and Marvel Comics tend to craft continuations of their most iconic storylines to profit from the original’s popularity. Frequently, many sequels are inherently inferior because they don’t understand the originals and have nothing new to add. However, sometimes a sequel comes along that…

Though he’s not yet a century old, Batman’s career spans ten decades. Since his first appearance in May 1939’s Detective Comics #27 to the latest issue of Matt Fraction and Jorge Jimenez’s ongoing “All In” Batman series, new adventures of the Dark Knight have appeared in print continuously, usually on a weekly basis. To celebrate…

Midway through the 1990s, the sausage festiest decade of American comics, Viz Media miraculously published three volumes’ worth of shojo (girls’) and josei (women’s) manga, collected inShojo Stories,A, A’,andLove Song.These books, the Holy Trilogy of old shojo, affected my college-age self too deeply for me to judge them objectively. It’s as useless to ask me…

Superman has reached a new level of popularity, thanks to the DCU. 2025’s Superman was a hit and, unlike its MCU counterparts was actually comic accurate, it brought fans to the comic stores in a way that previous superhero movies haven’t. There’s way more interest in the Man of Steel than there’s been in years…