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Green Arrow, Vol. 2: Family First tpb review by Raphael Borg

ReviewsDecember 19, 20240Comments

Green Arrow, Vol. 2: Family First Joshua Williamson, Sean Itaakse (Artist), Phil Hester (Penciler), Eric Gapstur (Inker), Carmine Di Giandomenico (Artist), Trevor Hairsine (Artist), Tom Derenick (Artist), Romulo Fajardo Jr. (Colorist), Troy Peteri (Letterer) Joshua Williamson's stint on Green Arrow closes off with, sadly, more of the same. While Williamson - this time accompanied by Green Arrow mainstay Phil Hester - deliberately intends to put the street-level arrow family in the…

Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths Hardcover review by Raphael Borg

ReviewsJune 17, 20240Comments

Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths Hardcover by Joshua Williamson (Author), Daniel Sampere (Illustrator), Jim Cheung (Illustrator), Jack Herbert (Illustrator), Giuseppe Camuncoli (Illustrator) DC is well known for drastically shaking it's continuity in order to make a statement, and all in grand, spectacular narratives drawn by the likes of the late George Perez and his ilk. This, to some extent, is different yet similar. …

Dark Nights: Death Metal review by Raphael Borg

Comics, ReviewsAugust 15, 20220Comments

Dark Nights: Death Metal by Scott Snyder (Author), Greg Capullo (Illustrator) Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's Dark Knights: Death Metal is very much the sequel of its predecessor in all of its senses; it carries…

Batman/The Flash: The Button review by Raphael Borg

Comics, ReviewsMay 24, 20220Comments

Batman/The Flash: The Button Deluxe Edition Hardcover by Tom King (Author), Joshua Williamson (Author), Jason Fabok (Illustrator), Howard Porter (Illustrator) The next chapter in Joshua Williamson's run on the Flash continues! And this time, a crossover with the Batman title for something truly special. An unsolvable, ultra-high concept murder mystery between the speedy CSI and the Dark…

Dark Nights Metal review by Raphael Borg

Comics, ReviewsMay 9, 20220Comments

Scott Snyder is an acquired taste. He seeks to write as in a sub-textually meaningful way as Geoff Johns and Alan Moore with the cosmic scale of Grant Morrison, but more often than not just about missing the mark in being a little too ambitious and overt with his plans. Dark Nights: Metal is one such…

The Other History of the DC Universe review by Raphael Borg

Comics, ReviewsMarch 1, 20220Comments

What a beautiful, beautiful book. I have not said this about a book for a long time. I read good books; I read fun books, sure. But a beautiful one? Not since the Alex Ross books. And like Alex Ross and Kurt Busiek's Marvels, The Other History of the DC Universe seeks to make the history of…

Batman: Earth One reviewed by Raphael Borg

Comics, ReviewsJuly 12, 20210Comments

How do you reinvent a legend? While the origins of Batman have been told ad nauseam with varying degrees of success, Geoff Johns and Gary Frank's take on Batman's lore in Batman: Earth One is perhaps the most "real" of more recent takes, highlighting how much of a journey Bruce Wayne had to undertake to shift…

Trinity review by Raphael Borg

Comics, ReviewsJune 22, 20210Comments

I must admit with all the buzz around Matt Wagner's Trinity when I was younger I expected something a little more along the lines of a reflection upon the relationship between DC's big three. It is by no means a bad read - it is, in fact, a swift read and keeps you engrossed all the…

Batman V Superman film review by Raphael Borg

Movies, ReviewsMarch 16, 20210Comments

The notoriously divisive Batman v Superman suffered a great disadvantage when it was released in the form it did in mainstream theaters; not that the ultimate cut was perfect, but some glaring plot holes were smoothed over far better in such a way that most fans - myself included - refuse to watch it in…

Batman: Arkham Asylum review by Raphael Borg

Comics, ReviewsJune 30, 20200Comments

I don't usually promote Batman graphic novels as they get quite enough exposure without me trying to. However, this is by far one of my favorite books both as a Batman book as well as Grant Morrison one. Not only it has the same metaphysical quality one would expect from a Morrison narrative, but the…

Final Crisis review by Raphael Borg

Comics, ReviewsJune 19, 20200Comments

Leave it to Grant Morrison to write about something as headache inducing as a murder mystery centred upon a multiversal godlike presence and the side effects of its dying body falling through time itself. As headache inducing as it might sound, having read through it, one easily appreciates Morrison's typical metastructural thinking and way of…

JOKER

Movies, ReviewsNovember 6, 20190Comments

I was very ambivalent as to whether or not to watch Todd Phillips' Joker (2019) at first; I was very initially apprehensive about it being made to begin with, for the simple reason that I find that giving a definite origin to the character - who is not a favorite of mine in the comics…