Author Archives: I.M. Baytor

COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (15 January 2024)

Don’t you just love close-ups?

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Ty Templeton’s playful Batman

Last month/year, I addressed how Ty Templeton wrote what I consider to be a quintessential take on Batman comics. Today, I want to focus on a specific aspect of Templeton’s scripts, namely their sense of humor. Harley Quinn and Batman … Continue reading

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (8 January 2024)

This year’s second reminder that comic book covers can be awesome…

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Gotham Calling’s 120 Cold War movies – part 9

This is the latest installment of Gotham Calling’s 12-part journey through Cold War cinema (if you’re only joining us now, you can find the previous installments here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here). It’s also probably the most … Continue reading

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (1 January 2024)

Have a Gotham 2024! In this year’s weekly reminders that comics can be awesome, I’m going back to spotlighting ten covers every Monday. To get things started, I’ve chosen covers from very different genres (including from peaks of the medium … Continue reading

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2023’s book of the year

Before delving into Gotham Calling’s pick for book of the year, I tend to briefly highlight comics that didn’t earn such dubious title because, although awesome in their own way, they’re too distant from the kind of genre narratives this … Continue reading

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (25 December 2023)

A Christmas reminder that comics can be awesome! Batman #45

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Gotham Calling’s 120 Cold War movies – part 8

Like the previous installment of Gotham Calling’s mega-list of Cold War films, this week’s selection has a relatively ‘adult’ sensibility (in a non-sleazy sense), with a handful of heavy dramas about weary men and women. That said, we are now … Continue reading

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (18 December 2023)

An amusing (yet also depressing) reminder that comics can be awesome: Wonder Twins #4

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Ty Templeton’s quintessential Batman

Along with Alan Grant and Denny O’Neil, Ty Templeton is one of the core writers who has defined my platonic ideal of Batman comics. In fact, his work on the Batman Adventures line in the 1990s / early 2000s is … Continue reading

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