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I’ve never really liked Harley Quinn. Growing up I was exposed to the character through different mediums, without the clear character progression that other older fans who were there for the birth of Harley in Batman: The Animated Series had. The video game Arkham Asylum was my introduction to...
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It’s been five years since the release of Batman: Arkham Knight and discussion of a new instalment in the franchise has been eerily quiet of late. While Rocksteady seems to have moved on from Batman and are producing a new mystery game, it’s likely that WB Games Montreal are...
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Ben explores what has been done with some geekier franchises in Dreams and if they can live up to their movie, game or comic counterparts. Explored are Dreams by R_KingDaddy, bluerabbit27, Mystical_Vortex_ and finally corleonehitman. Hit me up if you’ve any Dreams you want to share @nova_47 on twitter...
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This article contains spoilers for Joker. After months of buzz, backlash, backlash to the backlash, and just general Internet chatter, Joker is finally in cinemas. It’s certainly a bold film and one I enjoyed greatly. Joaquin Phoenix stars as the eponymous clown prince of crime and he delivers a...
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Ben and Aadil get together to discuss the visual novel recently released by KFC, ‘I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin’ Good Dating Simulator’. This spurs on a conversation around Visual novels, games such as Hatoful Boyfriend, and the developer’s other titles. Ben then brings up Arkham Knight...
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On the third of June earlier this year, Warner Bros released the Burton/Schumacher series of Batman films on 4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray, and, as an avid fan of this growing home entertainment format, I snatched them up. Not all of them of course, I’m not a crazy person. I bought...
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After 88 episodes and 4 seasons I still don’t know if Gotham is a good show. It’s often poorly plotted, convoluted and tonally unbalanced and yet at times it feels totally self-aware of its own craziness and comes out the other side bearing gifts of genuine drama and comedy,...
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Considered to be the first ‘Elseworlds’ story of the DC Universe, Gotham by Gaslight was a 1989 single-issue comic, written Brian Augustyn, detailing an alternate origin for Batman. An origin set one hundred years prior in a Victorian-era Gotham City where the caped crusader is forced to go up...
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Described as the first Elseworld, the comic-book Gotham by Gaslight gave us a retelling of the Batman mythos set in a Victorian-era Gotham City. The 1989 book sees Bruce Wayne become Batman and take on Jack the Ripper, who has chosen the dark industrial streets of Gotham City as...