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Comic Books
Anthony Silva

Does it Hold Up?: The Dark Knight Returns

I missed a lot from comics in the 80’s and early 90’s. That’s why I decided to go back to the classics. I’ll be writing a series of articles/reviews of classic comics and movies that I have never seen before. I’ll be looking to see if they “Hold up” to the hype that they’ve accumulated

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Dark Knight Returns: Introducing Alfred

With less a week left until the film comes out on BluRay and DVD, Warner Bros. and DC has released another clip from the upcoming release of The Dark Knight Returns.  In the same fashion that each previous clip (here & here) has had this clip is low on action, but still interesting to watch. 

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The Dark Knight Returns Presents: The Mutants

Hot off the heels of the last clip released for the quickly-approaching Dark Knight Returns animated movie, we are again graced with more teases. Although the new clip lacks a certain “Bat” element, it offers a great look at Part 1’s protagonist, the Mutant Leader – and it greatly improves over its lackluster predecessor. Oh,

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The Dark Knight Returns – Trailer

Throughout Batman’s long history a handful of stories are considered pivotal and influential, such as “The Killing Joke”, “The Long Halloween”, and the “Knightfall” series.  However, Frank Miller’s “The Dark Knight Returns” may stand head and shoulders above them all. First released in February of 1986, “The Dark Knight Returns” was a critically acclaimed story

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Reviews
Leland Pierce

Movie Issues Review: The Dark Knight Rises

Starting with 2005’s Batman Begins, Christopher Nolan gave the world a new-and-improved Batman. Gone were the familiar flashy comic book stereotypes, replaced by a dark, gritty hero of today’s world in a realistic noir vibe. Batman Begins captured the imagination of comic fans and proved Batman could be more than what he had (d)evolved into

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Comic Issues
Andrew Plein

Comic Issues #75 – Mass Effected

You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! With the Dark Knight being released this week. Our heroes and heroine RISE to the occasion. Today we discuss the much anticipated finale to the Nolan franchise. Then it’s onwards to space with the not-so-final ending of Mass Effect 3. We hit

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TV & Movies
Anthony Silva

DC Animated casts The Dark Knight Returns

Holy prime directives, Batman is Robocop! The Hollywood Reporter has a story announcing the cast of this fall’s DC Animated movie The Dark Knight Returns, and Robocop‘s Peter Weller will play the aged and retired Batman/Bruce Wayne. Also featured are Ariel Winters (Modern Family) as Robin/Carrie Kelley, Wade Williams (Prison Break) as Two-Face/Harvey Dent, Michael

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TV & Movies
James Huneycutt

Anne Catha…Woman?

The wrath of the faithful is dire. And the wrath of the comic faithful is far, far worse. Nothing raises the blood pressure and sends the spittle flying like a divergent interpretation of an origin story, plot-line, or character redesign. Enter the newly-minted shots of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises and Anne Hathaway as Selina

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Villians for The Dark Knight Rises Announced

Warner Bros has just named the two villains that will face off against Batman in The Dark Knight Rises. While it’s been known for some time now that Tom Hardy had signed on for the next Batman film, the role in question was still up in the air. Speculation was that he would be playing Dr.

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