Talking About Comics

Batman: Dark Patterns #1-3 Originally released in 2024 Written by Dan Watters Art by Hayden Sherman  All I know about this series going into it is that it's a mystery that stars Batman.  Some early dialogue indicates that it's about three years into Batman's career, seemingly before Robin joins him. (It's probably for the best that Robin isn't involved, since some of this seems like it would be traumatizing for an eight year old) Gotham has a new coroner, Dr. Sereika, who's meeting Batman for the first time.  In my experience, it feels like a new character who's introduced in a modern Batman story and given a moderately prominent role is going to turn out to be masterminding the events or at least working for the villain in spite of how friendly they are when they're introduced; Batman notices that Sereika shows signs of addiction to chemicals like formaldehyde, so I'm not sure if they're doing the opposite here by immediately setting him up as s...

  Ultimate Spider-Man #7-10 Originally released in 2024 Written by Jonathan Hickman Art by Marco Checchetto After their attempt at intimidating the Kingpin, Peter and Harry work with Doctor Otto Octavius to unlock new features for their suits, as it turns out that they've been running in "safe mode" all this time.  This includes picking brain patterns to base their onboard AIs on - Peter picks himself, and in a move that seems like it's going to backfire spectacularly, Harry picks his late father. With the Daily Bugle taken over by the Kingpin, J. Jonah Jameson and Ben Parker look to Robbie Robertson as their man on the inside.  Considering that this is the Kingpin we're talking about here, I have a bad feeling about Robbie's chances of survival since this is an alternate universe, though maybe he'll be luckier than I thought. Meanwhile, Kingpin meets with Captain Britain, a member of the Maker's council, who offers to help Kingpin by letting him use a...

Green Lantern #185-188 Originally released in 1985 Written by Len Wein (#185-186), Paul Kupperberg (#187), Steve Englehart (#188) Art by Dave Gibbons (#185-186), Bill Willingham (#187), Joe Staton (#188) The first episode of Lanterns (DC's Green Lantern streaming series) came out yesterday, so I decided to read the other DC comic that appeared in season 3 of Stranger Things.  Hal Jordan had recently quit the Green Lantern Corps. to be with Carol Ferris, the woman that he loves (why he had to quit in order to do that is beyond me, especially when he has two back-up Green Lanterns at this point with Guy and John), so John Stewart has taken over as the main Green Lantern. While being interviewed over a dinner date, John thinks back on how he became Earth's full-time Green Lantern. (He was a back-up before, but I guess that doesn't count) He wasn't too keen on the idea at first, but Katma Tui (a fellow Green Lantern) said that humans must be cowardly, and when John denied i...