Batman

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...