Collected Editions

I acknowledge I may be coming to Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year Zero: The Complete Collection in something of the wrong way. As I understand it, there’s references to Year Zero among write...

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Oh, it’s so, so frustrating. Look, yes, Tom Taylor’s Nightwing Vol. 5: Time of the Titans is a perfectly satisfactory Titans tale. If, like me, you’ve been through some angsty Titans...

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Buyer beware — I’ll mention at the top that Ghost-Maker/Clownhunter by James Tynion IV is incomplete. Among other things, the book includes Tynion’s Ghost-Maker backup stories from Bat...

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DC’s next new publishing initiative is about to get underway for us trade-waiters — well, if “about to” is February 2025, but no matter. The DC Comics December 2024 trade paperback an...

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In my review of Earth 2: Society Vol. 1, I wondered what writer Daniel Wilson might do next. Silly me; while I knew DC stalwart Dan Abnett would finish this title, I didn’t realize the firs...

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Fans know that “the Kid” Superboy, later Conner Kent, debuted in 1993, and would be ubiquitous in DC Comics for 18 years, through to the New 52 relaunch in 2011. If indeed the New 52 Supe...

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Two tensions play on the end of Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year Five: The Complete Collection . On one hand, this is a book whose finale should be very easy to land — no sudden cancellation ...

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Among the vagaries of trade-waiting, I saw that Chip Zdarsky’s Batman Vol. 2: The Bat-Man of Gotham collected Batman #131–136, I clocked that in relation to the upcoming “Gotham War”...

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Though it’s unlikely this Flash run was going to end before the 800th issue, maybe the last volume would have been a good place to stop. Flash Vol. 19: The One-Minute War was a kicky mini-...

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BY GUEST REVIEWER ZACH KING. ZACH WRITES ABOUT MOVIES AT THE CINEMA KING AND ABOUT COMICS ON INSTAGRAM AT DR. KING’S COMICS .] Must there be a Skull Island? If there’s a Statue of Lib...

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As I’ve said before, I adore Earth 2’s premise, an ongoing alt-Earth multiverse title, almost an Elseworlds, but with the potential to cross-over with the rest of the DCU built-in from th...

https://collectededitions.blogspot.com/2024/08/review-earth-2-society-vol-1-planetfall.html

Given a “year” now with writer Brian Buccellato — being Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year Four: The Complete Collection — I can say definitively that Injustice was better under Tom Tayl...

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Tom Taylor’s Adventures of Superman: Jon Kent is the most Tom Taylor-written Jon Kent adventure of Tom Taylor-written Jon Kent adventures so far, and that’s a good thing. I’d be happy ...

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The DC Comics November solicitations are historically slim; we saw this last year too , coming as they do right on the heels of the Fall 2025 catalog solicitations and encompassing the tail ...

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At the outset I can tell you that Earth 2 Vol. 6: Collision is not required reading to follow or enjoy Earth 2: World’s End. (This is a throwback, I know, but I recently decided to go back...

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Given it’s been about a year since I read Tini Howard’s first two Catwoman volumes, I did go back and re-read them before I started Catwoman Vol. 3: Duchess of Gotham , and enjoyed them m...

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I admit, I’m not one for omnibuses. The bulk is such to preclude just casual reading for me. But considering the DC Comics Spring 2025 trade paperback and hardcover solicitations, clearly D...

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Given, especially, that Dan Jurgens' Superman: Lois and Clark from a couple years back dealt with a pre-Flashpoint Superman in a post-Rebirth world, all long since wiped away, the chance of a...

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A focus on DC Comics' magic characters gives Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year Three: The Complete Collection a nice boost, and there are some impressive crowd scenes here. As before, Injustice...

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I have a lot of affection for the Steel John Henry Irons character, who — looking back on it — is probably among the first characters that I was there for their debut, through to the pres...

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Bat Flash Elasti-Girl Alfred Pennyworth Miss Arrowette Hunter Guy Gardner Green Lantern Chester Mr. Terrific Hawkgirl Black Lightning Green Arrow Drakk Renee Montoya Atom Post your gu...

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Like Joshua Williamson’s Bane story, Tom Taylor and Ivan Reis' Batman: One Bad Day: Ra’s al Ghul is a keen Ra’s story, explicating some of the most interesting aspects of the character...

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Though the first DC Finest volumes were solicited last month, the DC Comics October 2024 trade paperback and hardcover solicitations see seven more, arriving throughout November and into Dece...

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Barry Alan Scott Ted Clark Jay Kent Al Katar Hal Nathaniel Adam Ray Max Michael Ryan Post your guesses in the comments (one set or all four)! Play more Comic Book Connections ! No...

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The more I read Tom Taylor’s Injustice: Gods Among Us with the benefit of hindsight, the more it seems a clear warm-up for DCeased. Tied to the video game’s specious origin story, Taylor ...

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