How many times have you visited the YouTube to watch videos of flash mobs doing…
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No, DC Entertainment hasn’t cancelled the First Wave series (yet) as the long awaited third…
I think Kevin Smith may have topped himself in Batman: The Widening Gyre #6 that…
If you didn’t see her pictures scattered across the Intardwebz already this past week, here’s…
You know the story, it’s been 20 years in the making. If you’ve been reading…
“I think it’s good to have a lot of different Batman books. I much…
Here’s our roundup of DC Comics news that floated out of the various panels and…
A trope is a recognizable theme used in storytelling. The kidnapped princess, the final battle, the training montage, these are all tropes we have seen again and again. Usually recognition of a familiar trope is a good thing, it lets the audience know how they should feel about things and sets them up either for a satisfying conclusion or an excited twist. But what happens when a trope goes stale? When you can’t watch two hours of TV without seeing the same situation over and over, like the wriiers just emptied their cliche bladders all over the place? Some themes have suffered this fate, through excessive use now they accomplish the opposite of what the writers want, to take the viewer out of the experience. What follows is a list of tropes that I find tiresome, troubling and most of all trite.
Remember when Batman: R.I.P. jumped right into Final Crisis and there wasn’t a whole lot…
DC Comics has announced that Scott Snyder, writer of American Vampire, has been tapped by…
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I don’t remember seeing this when it hit the Intardwebz a while ago – perhaps…
It certainly is a day of Batman announcements from DC. Previously, we reported on the…
DC has announced that David Finch will bring an all new Batman book to store…