Tag Archives: Catwoman

COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (19 August 2024)

This week, a tribute to awesome comic book covers showcasing the members of Batman’s rogues’ gallery:

Posted in COVERS OF BATMAN COMICS | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (15 January 2024)

Don’t you just love close-ups?

Posted in AWESOME COVERS | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

2022’s book of the year

I read less comics than usual in 2022 – especially new stuff – so the pool for Gotham Calling’s book of the year was somewhat limited. Like last time, the one graphic novel that was bound to be the strongest … Continue reading

Posted in BOOKS OF THE YEAR | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Ed Brubaker’s mature Batman

Ed Brubaker is one of the most critically acclaimed comic book writers of the 21st century. Heavily influenced by crime fiction and by the superhero revisionist turn of the 1980s, he has continually sought to imbue American comics with a … Continue reading

Posted in WRITERS OF BATMAN COMICS | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Gotham crime graphic novels

The trailer for the upcoming The Batman movie looks pretty darn awful, once again doubling down on the gloom without any hint of what makes the source material so much fun in the first place. That said, I suppose the … Continue reading

Posted in BATMAN COMICS FOR BEGINNERS | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Gotham City’s sex workers – part 2

If you read last week’s post (or just this post’s title, really), you know I’ve been looking at some of the many, many depictions of sex workers in Batman comics. This week, let’s focus on the sinuous paths of two … Continue reading

Posted in POLITICS OF BATMAN COMICS | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Gotham City’s sex workers – part 1

Detective Comics #464 While City on a Hill has been doing its damned finest to emulate The Wire (albeit in Boston), in recent years the show that came the closest to recapturing that kind of TV magic was The Deuce, … Continue reading

Posted in POLITICS OF BATMAN COMICS | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

An extra meta-Batman cover

I just couldn’t resist adding this one…

Posted in COVERS OF BATMAN COMICS | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Taking a break… (November 2020)

It’s getting harder and harder to keep up, so Gotham Calling is going on yet another hiatus. Like in the summer, I’ll try to keep the weekly COMICS CAN BE AWESOME section alive, though, so that at least you can … Continue reading

Posted in GOTHAM INTERLUDES | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

On the discreet BATMAN DIES!!! event

In November 2000, the ‘Next Issue’ blurbs in the Batman family of comics announced that something big was about to go down… Batman #585 Catwoman (v2) #88 Robin (v4) #84 The premise of a story in which the Dark Knight … Continue reading

Posted in WEBS OF FICTION | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment