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· by Nathan Kerner · Jun 24, 2020

How the Snyder Cut and a child’s question sum up modern fandom

So my daughter and I are both big fans of the anime series Inuyasha. I would tell you what it’s about, but like a lot of shows in the stateside anime boom of the late ’90s/early 2000s, there’s a…

· by Tyler Peterson · May 6, 2020

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), a recap (part 5 of 5)

Previously on Harley Quinn & Friends: All the movie’s colorful mismatched personalities with their own motivations have finally realized that they have to team up and kick ass for womankind against the marauding fuckboi army. The girls engage in…

Movie Recap / Movies / Text

· by Tyler Peterson · Apr 29, 2020

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), a recap (part 4 of 5)

Last time on Curds of Whey: An insanely valuable diamond is currently traversing the colon of the school-aged thief Cassandra Cain, and a group of badass babes with improbable personal connections to her are all wanting to get it…

Movie Recap / Movies / Text

· by Tyler Peterson · Apr 22, 2020

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), a recap (part 3 of 5)

Previously on Birds of Prey, Yup, Just Birds of Prey, That’s The Whole Title: Harley Quinn broke up with Joker. That’s good! But without Joker’s protection, Harley’s in the crosshairs of Roman Sionis AKA Black Mask, who wants to…

Movie Recap / Movies / Text

· by Tyler Peterson · Apr 15, 2020

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), a recap (part 2 of 5)

Previously on BoPatFEoOHQ: Professional bad girl Harley Quinn read enough Tumblr posts to convince her that her relationship with the Joker was abusive and needed to end. She blew up a chemical plant to show how Not Mad she…

Movie Recap / Movies / Text

· by Tyler Peterson · Apr 7, 2020

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), a recap (part 1 of 5)

It was perhaps inevitable that the 2020 female-centric superhero movie Birds of Prey: Harley Quinn’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day would become the subject of several rich and pungent threads of Film Discourse. A lot of this discourse…

Agonizer / Comic Book Review / Text

· by Thomas Stockel · Feb 3, 2020

Birds of Prey #58 and #59 “Of Like Minds” parts 3 and 4 (of 4)

We open up with a woman in a martial arts uniform sparring against an aged Asian man, and the inner monologue has her talking about how her judo wasn’t cutting it and she had to up her game. She and…

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· by Thomas Stockel · Jan 27, 2020

Birds of Prey #56 and #57 “Of Like Minds” part 1 and 2 (of 4)

When I posted a link to my last article in the Comic Book Resources community section, someone had been nice enough to show me this article regarding the creation of Birds of Prey. All this time I had thought Chuck…

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· by Thomas Stockel · Jan 20, 2020

Black Canary/Oracle: Birds of Prey #1 (1996)

It might be hard for some modern readers to believe, but there was a time when Batgirl was not interesting. At all. In fact, the only pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths Batgirl story I can remember was a story where…

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· by Thomas Stockel · Jan 13, 2020

Batman: Harley Quinn (1999)

There were a couple reasons why I picked this particular comic this time out. The first is the Birds of Prey movie is coming out in a few weeks. The second is Thundercats Roar snuck onto the internet, and it…

Agonizer / Comic Book Review / Text

· by Thomas Stockel · Jan 6, 2020

Superman: Red Son #3 of 3 “Red Son Setting”

Remember how last time I praised that opening for issue #2? As a Dark Lord of the Sith once said: Impressive. Most impressive. It’s the 21st century and Superman has celebrated his 63rd birthday. Brainiac has told him almost six…

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· by Thomas Stockel · Dec 30, 2019

Superman: Red Son #2 of 3 “Red Son Ascendant”

Last issue, Superman, having grown up in the Soviet Union, had become a staunch defender of all things communist. After Stalin’s death, Superman decided to lead the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, and the only person who might be…

Agonizer / Comic Books / Text

· by Thomas Stockel · Dec 9, 2019

The 10 best comics maxi-series (part 2 of 3)

As promised, I continue to take a look at the “maxi-series” format and explore my top 10 favorites of all time. If you missed the first part of this list, you can read it right here. And now, on with…

Agonizer / Comic Book Review / Text

· by Thomas Stockel · Oct 21, 2019

Batman #429 “A Death in the Family” (part 4 of 4)

We last saw our heroes, they were confronted by the Joker, now ambassador of Iran to the United Nations. The final part of our story opens with Batman and Superman in a dark room with CIA agent Ralph Bundy, who…

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· by Thomas Stockel · Oct 14, 2019

Batman #428 “A Death in the Family” (part 3 of 4)

In part two of “Death in the Family”, the Joker blew up a warehouse with Jason Todd inside and DC left it up to us to decide if he would live or die. Part three opens with Batman stumbling through…

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· by Thomas Stockel · Oct 7, 2019

Batman #427 “A Death in the Family” (part 2 of 4)

Last time, in a story jam-packed full of coincidences, Jason Todd, the least popular Robin, discovered his dead mom was not his biological mom. He went on a quest to find her and he and Batman wound up in the…

Movies / Text

· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Oct 2, 2019

Hit or Bomb? October 2019 movie predictions

It’s October, and since Halloween lasts an entire month nowadays, that means plenty of dark, gothic, creepy, and emo films are on the release schedule. Here to determine which of this month’s movies will put a scare into audiences (or…

Agonizer / Comic Book Review / Text

· by Thomas Stockel · Sep 30, 2019

Batman #426 “A Death in the Family” (part 1 of 4)

DC Comics post-Crisis on Infinite Earths was a weird time. Initially, me and everybody I know who read that epic considered it one of the best stories ever printed. George Perez’s art was top notch as usual, and the…

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· by Thomas Stockel · Sep 23, 2019

Avengers/JLA #4 of 4 “The Brave... and the Bold”

Our story opens with a series of viewscreens showing calamity and disaster as a universe dies, as someone monologues about the end of this reality while we see a nebulous face that calls itself the “sentience of the universe”. It…

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· by Thomas Stockel · Sep 16, 2019

JLA/Avengers #3 of 4 “Strange Adventures”

It’s another amazing cover from George this time, with an honest attempt to get every single JLAer and Avenger on it. I mean, he has both Crimson Foxes on this thing! If he missed anybody, it must have been a…

Tagged: Batman

How the Snyder Cut and a child’s question sum up modern fandom

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), a recap (part 5 of 5)

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), a recap (part 4 of 5)

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), a recap (part 3 of 5)

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), a recap (part 2 of 5)

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), a recap (part 1 of 5)

Birds of Prey #58 and #59 “Of Like Minds” parts 3 and 4 (of 4)

Birds of Prey #56 and #57 “Of Like Minds” part 1 and 2 (of 4)

Black Canary/Oracle: Birds of Prey #1 (1996)

Batman: Harley Quinn (1999)

Superman: Red Son #3 of 3 “Red Son Setting”

Superman: Red Son #2 of 3 “Red Son Ascendant”

The 10 best comics maxi-series (part 2 of 3)

Batman #429 “A Death in the Family” (part 4 of 4)

Batman #428 “A Death in the Family” (part 3 of 4)

Batman #427 “A Death in the Family” (part 2 of 4)

Hit or Bomb? October 2019 movie predictions

Batman #426 “A Death in the Family” (part 1 of 4)

Avengers/JLA #4 of 4 “The Brave... and the Bold”

JLA/Avengers #3 of 4 “Strange Adventures”

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