Bob Greenberger invited John Wells to nominate appropriate stories for a new Batman collection, Batman in the 80s, and then he was invited to contribute introductory text. The stories selected seem to be originalchoices, in that they avoid all the noteworthy stories while providing a good example of style and storytelling of the era.

In the last few months, “JLA” has established that the new Doom Patrol wipes out all previous DP history (which is odd, since Beast Boy’s adopted mom and dad are from that team). Once again, as with Hawkman and Wonder Woman, a major team is simply rebooted without explanation. John Byrne has said that it…

Spoilers, so I’ll use the extended entry.

At the urging of our own Mr. Arndt, John “Mikishawm” Wells has come up with a complete list of Ronald Reagan’s appearances in DC Comics. These include minor appearances, pre-President appearances (HE is the one who put Brother Power the Geek in orbit, as governor of California) and major plotlines such as banning superheroes in…

Green Arrow Fan Film – Nuff Said.

A few weeks ago I started doing some detective work as to who will die in “Identity Crisis.” Newsarama gives us the Identity Crisis Death Pool and writer Brad Meltzer gives his opinion for each one. However, not only does the article skip over several of the possibilities that I came up with (Sue Dibny…

Alexander Rose reviews Red Son on NRO. Thanks to Bill Wiist for the link.

Green Lantern: Rebirth will bring back Hal Jordan and return him to the Green Lantern role. Green Lantern will end with issue 181, to begin again shortly afterward. For more, see Newsarama. Hal Jordan fans, rejoice, and give a hearty shout to Geoff Johns, the man with the golden touch.

gottlieb just pointed me to this article about a Batman and Robin that people are trying to unmask. Once found and unmasked, they will be put into a ticking deathtrap that will kill them in an hour while Penguin makes his getaway. WAUUGHK WAUUGHK WAUUGHK!

John Byrne has two pages of preview art up on his forum. He also muses that, in his opinion, Captain Marvel is “really” a DC character (an opinion that is quite obvious to readers of his “Batman/Captain America” one-shot).