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Despite a long history of live action films with wildly varying tones, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm is still the only theatrically released Bat-film to truly understand the character and how best to build a story around him.

Scarlet Rue returns at a time when corruption and revolution parallel ongoing real-world relevance.

A not-so-memorable marriage of Batman and Catwoman with memorable implications.

Upheavals in the DC Universe unleash a new chaos for the Justice League, but only to a point.

A sane Joker's deconstruction of Batman enters uncharted territory, but the endgame still has plenty to prove.

Royalty, duty, and civil war throughout Atlantis gives Mera a chance to show why she's a worthy queen.

Wonder Woman's long lost brother comes onto the scene and she gains a new enemy in Silver Swan in this issue, but the drama is pretty lightweight.

Comics film Blade: Trinity ended the once-promising Blade series on a low note and, in a way, closed the first chapter of the Marvel film boom.

The producers of Black Lightning, the new CW series based on the DC Comics character launching Tuesday, have a broader agenda than creating another fantastic world where good battles evil.

Jack Napier, aka the Joker, exposes the joke in Batman's methods without cracking a smile.

Geoff Johns and Gary Frank gamble on the sacred status of Watchmen and it pays off.

Frank Miller locates our tragedy and warps it into his own brutal beauty.

The delightfully cheesy and entertaining conclusion to Zack Snyder's superhero opus makes the rest of this listless, disjointed film all the more infuriating.

Slugfest offers a fascinating look behind the scenes, detailing the treachery and real-life good vs. evil scenarios being played out between the twin giants of comics, DC and Marvel.

In Wacky Raceland #1, a post-apocalyptic Hannah-Barbera universe sees what classic characters do now that they're being written to think and act like adults.

Emotional depth mixed with forced insecurities create a shallow narrative.