Aw C’mon Gotham: Season 2, Episode 19: “Azrael”

Fox’s “Batman-without-Batman” soap opera is the most amazingly weird show on television. For every episode this season, Deadshirt’s own Sarah Register, Kayleigh Hearn and Max Robinson discuss the good, the bad…the beginning? of little Bruce Wayne, skinny Oswald Cobblepot, and Jim Gordon sans ‘stache as they try to find their Read More …

Deadshirt is Reading: Batman and The Ultimates!

Deadshirt Is Reading… is a weekly feature in which Deadshirt’s staff, contributing writers, and friends-of-the-site offer their thoughts on Big Two cape titles, creator-owned books, webcomics and more.  Joe Stando is reading… Batman #49 Written by Scott Snyder and James Tynion IV Art by Yanick Paquette Read More …

Deadshirt Is Reading… Batman #47

Deadshirt Is Reading… is a weekly feature in which Deadshirt’s staff, contributing writers, and friends-of-the-site offer their thoughts on Big Two cape titles, creator-owned books, webcomics and more. For more of our thoughts on this week’s new comics, take a look at Wednesday’s Deadshirt Comics Shopping List. Read More …

Deadshirt Is Reading… Bar Decorum and Robot Racist Batman

Deadshirt Is Reading… is a weekly feature in which Deadshirt’s staff, contributing writers, and friends-of-the-site offer their thoughts on Big Two cape titles, creator-owned books, webcomics and more. For more of our thoughts on this week’s new comics, take a look at Wednesday’s Deadshirt Comics Shopping List. Read More …

Deadshirt is Reading… Endings and Convergences

Deadshirt Is Reading… is a weekly feature in which Deadshirt’s staff, contributing writers, and friends-of-the-site offer their thoughts on Big Two cape titles, creator-owned books, webcomics and more. For more of our thoughts on this week’s new comics, take a look at Wednesday’s Deadshirt Comics Shopping List. Read More …

Deadshirt Is Reading… Crime, Convergence, and Kitty Pryde

Deadshirt Is Reading… is a weekly feature in which Deadshirt’s staff, contributing writers, and friends-of-the-site offer their thoughts on Big Two cape titles, creator-owned books, webcomics and more. For more of our thoughts on this week’s new comics, take a look at Wednesday’s Deadshirt Comics Shopping List. Read More …

The Rundown: A Host of Creators Summon The Demon

In The Rundown, Deadshirt dives into our cardboard long boxes to shine a light on important, unusual or otherwise remarkable comic runs (mainstream or otherwise) from a specific creative team or teams. The Series The Demon (Vol. 3) #1-58, The Demon Annual #1-2 Written by Alan Read More …

DC’s Gotham Academy is the All-Ages Romance-Adventure Comic We Need Right Now

From the second it was announced, the one thing everyone could say about Gotham Academy for sure is that it’s unlike anything else DC Comics is publishing, or has published for quite a while. Written by Becky Cloonan (Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Tales, East Coast Rising) and Brenden Read More …

The Talented Mr. Nygma: Batman Forever as Gay Cinema

Is Batman gay? According to my seventh grade schoolmates, Batman is “Sooooo Gay,” and so was I. It’s certainly a popular opinion among those with a basic understanding of psychology, one shared by noted anti-comic book doctor and Hater Hall-of-Famer Dr. Frederic Wertham. In Seduction Read More …

Deadshirt Presents: A Holiday Comics Digest

In honor of the holiday season, Kayleigh Hearn, Sarah Register, Max Robinson, Patrick Stinson, and Jason Urbanciz share some of their favorite seasonal comic book stories. Consider it a Christmas, Hanukkah, non-denominational winter solstice gift to you from Deadshirt. The Transformers (UK) #145 “Stargazing!” Plot by Read More …