Give 'Em Elle: Visualizing Music for Comics
I love music, and I often find myself thinking about how it relates to comics; which characters would listen to which artists, and so forth. But what's the best way to get around the medium's...
View ArticleThe Batgirl of Burnside Comes to the World of Funko Pop
When the first Funko Pop arrived in 2010, I don't think there was anyone not under the employ of the company that believed just a scant six years later, Funko would rule the world. Since the line's...
View ArticleYour New Crush: Fletcher, Stewart, And Tarr Talk 'Motor Crush'
Motor Crush is the highly anticipated new Image ongoing from the team behind the wildly popular "Burnside" Batgirl run: Brenden Fletcher, Cameron Stewart, and Babs Tarr. The new comic, hitting stores...
View ArticleDC Icons Batgirl of Burnside Deluxe Figure Review
Since becoming the cornerstone of the DC Collectibles action figure line, the DC Icons series has been filled with some terrific interpretations of our favorite heroes. With Icons, DC Collectibles has...
View ArticleRead Five Pages Of DC Comics' 'Gotham Academy' #1 [Preview]
Becky Cloonan, Brenden Fletcher and Karl Kerschl's Gotham Academy is the comic I never knew I wanted until it was announced, and every moment since then has been an eternity of waiting for it to...
View Article'Gotham Academy' By Fletcher, Cloonan & Kerschl Gets An A++
Gotham Academy is exactly the comic book I want to read. That probably doesn't come as a surprise to anyone who's been reading ComicsAlliance for any significant amount of time. I mean, if you made a...
View ArticleBatgirl #35: Defeating The Forces Of Misogyny [Review]
Barbara Gordon is for girls. This truth has been obscured over the years, most notably in the Batman: The Killing Joke, in which the classic Batgirl was shot, sexually abused and paralyzed by the Joker...
View ArticleBookworm Returns In 'Gotham Academy' #2
Listen, Gotham Academy: I already liked you. You had me hooked from the very first promise of teen boarding school drama in a city full of supervillains with Batman showing up to try to reach these...
View ArticleThe Art of Batgirl With Babs Tarr And Cameron Stewart
Years after her rebooted New 52 series debuted, the Bat Signal illuminates the iconic hero Batgirl more brightly than ever before in a retooled title written by Cameron Stewart and Brenden Fletcher,...
View ArticleCrimefighting Gets Glam In 'Batgirl' #37 [Preview]
We've been pretty stoked about the cover to Batgirl #37 ever since we saw it way back in September, but here's something that might surprise you about the glittering, rhinestone-studded costume for our...
View Article'Batgirl' #37 Criticized For Transphobia; Creators Apologize
DC's new take on Batgirl has been one of the pioneers of a new movement towards mainstream comics for a progressive young female audience -- a movement whose other flagbearers have become a mantra of...
View ArticleBatgirl And The Perpetual State Of Transphobia
In my online discussions of transgender representation in media, I’ve mentioned that I expect a degree of transphobia is every medium I read, watch or listen to. That’s simply how pervasive the problem...
View ArticleOn Imperfect Allies, And Why 'Batgirl' Still Deserves Support
On Monday I reported on the controversy surrounding the most recent issue of Batgirl, issue #37, and the hurt it caused readers with the presentation of a character who played into transphobic tropes....
View ArticleIf You're Not Reading 'Gotham Academy', We Can Never Be Friends
Aside from the obvious, I don't usually like to refer to things as being my "favorites." I talk about so much stuff that I love all the time that every time I settle on a favorite, I almost immediately...
View ArticleThe 'Vocal Minority' And Artistic Integrity In Comics
Things got interesting over the past few days for comics folks who keep their ear to online skirmishes over how welcoming comics is or isn't --- and how welcoming comics should be in the first place....
View ArticlePreview: 'Gotham Academy: Endgame'
The return of the Joker and his latest rein of crazy over Gotham comes to an end in April with the concluding chapter of Endgame in Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's Batman #40. The effects of the...
View Article'Black Canary' Leaves 'Batgirl' Behind For A Rock Brawl
Like pretty much everyone else who read it, my reaction to Brenden Fletcher, Cameron Stewart and Babs Tarr's Batgirl relaunch was something along the lines of, "Yes, please, I would like more of this."...
View ArticleCloonan, Fletcher, and Kerschl talk 'Gotham Academy'
Earlier this month, DC released the first paperback collection of Gotham Academy, Becky Cloonan, Brenden Fletcher, and Karl Kerschl's fan-favorite series about Olive Silverlock, Maps Mizoguchi, and...
View ArticleSan Diego Comic-Con 2015: What We Saw On Saturday
Not everyone can make it to San Diego Comic-Con to see what's happening in person, but ComicsAlliance has you covered! We know that it's not just about the news that comes out of the biggest con of the...
View ArticleShake, Rattle & Rolling Into Modernity: 'Black Canary' #2
Reading Black Canary wasn't just reading another comic book --- the character comes with a lot of baggage for me, so I felt bound to be more critical of it than I am of any other book. But by the time...
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