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…
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Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 9 of 9)
Well, we got through Suicide Squad. If you just started reading this recap here, I’ll let Superman sum the movie up for you:
But despite Suicide Squad’s banal ugliness, its addled editing, its incoherent characterizations, its risible villain, and its…
Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 8 of 9)
A while ago on Suicide Squad: The most useful member of the team found his cojones, only to sacrifice them (and everything else) to kill Enchantress’s brother “Chester”, whose real name I never heard even once. But Enchantress’s machine…
Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 7 of 9)
Antecedently on Suicide Squad: The chips are down for our plucky band of felons. Waller’s been kidnapped and mind-probed. Joker’s escape attempt went awry; he got in a helicopter crash *snicker* and he’s *snort* totally…
Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 6 of 9)
Heretofore on Suicide Squad: Our titular Squad began their first big assignment: to travel to Gotham Central Star National Fawcett Coast Keystone Gorilla Midway City and rescue an unidentified person from a brother/sister duo of omnipotent wizards who are wrecking…
Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 5 of 9)
Erstwhile on Suicide Squad: Amanda Waller’s cunning plan to engineer a romance between an ultra-powerful witch and the single person guarding her somehow ran into problems. Enchantress slipped her leash and went rogue, releasing her brother from his Pier…
Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 4 of 9)
Precedingly on Suicide Squad: Waller’s getting the band together. Harley Quinn’s pimp is coming to her rescue. Enchantress is off the leash and up to no good.
Enchantress teleports by wrapping her cloud of bodily funk around her. Her…
Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 3 of 9)
Previously on Suicide Squad: Government stooge (and three-time Detective Wyms Cosplay Contest runner-up) Amanda Waller wanted to protect America from a hypothetical terrorist threat by a Superman-type figure. To that end, she assembled a team of lame-o supervillains with…
Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 2 of 9)
Last time on Suicide Squad: The Wall got an idea.
An awful idea.
The Wall got a wonderful, awful idea.
She’s smiling because, with Superman dead, it’s the perfect time to pitch this wonderful, awful idea to her fellow…
Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 1 of 9)
The DC Expanded Universe: four cursed words if ever there were any.
The twelve hours that comprise the DCEU represent such a pathetically inept wall-to-wall pooch-screw that dunking on the franchise at this point seems almost mean, like laughing at…
Suicide Squad (2016): A flawed but fun end-of-summer blockbuster
Maybe I'm being too generous, but I think in light of the context that Suicide Squad was made in, it did the best it could with what it had, but really, it was capable of so much more.
DC’s Convergence re-relaunch: The bottom 5
“Here are the five books I think DC is going to struggle with. Quite a few of them I actually want to see succeed, but even I’ll admit they have an uphill battle ahead of them.”
VIDEO: Stop freaking out about Suicide Squad
People are freaking out about the Suicide Squad movie and Jared Leto's Joker, and as usual, Sybil has all the answers.
VIDEO: Birds of Prey “Devil’s Eyes” (series finale!)
In the explosive series finale, Birds of Prey comes dangerously close to quality!
VIDEO: Birds of Prey “Feat of Clay”
After all the people she's killed, imagine what the Huntress will do to someone who's actually wronged her directly. Find out in the penultimate episode of Birds of Prey.
VIDEO: Birds of Prey “Reunion”
Someone is killing New Gotham High school alumni, but more importantly, we discuss why the Huntress is an remorseless sociopath. (Contains Game of Thrones season 4 spoilers!)
VIDEO: Birds of Prey “Gladiatrix”
A man starts drugging women and exploiting them for his own gratification. Not in the way you're imagining, though.
VIDEO: Birds of Prey “Nature of the Beast”
Nonsense ensues when the Birds are forced to protect a mob boss (Mitch Pileggi) who killed one of their own. It's not nearly as cool as it sounds.
VIDEO: Birds of Prey “Lady Shiva”
An enemy from Barbara Gordon's past returns for revenge, in the worst episode (so far... again!) of an already awful series.
VIDEO: Birds of Prey “Split”
The Huntress meets Darkstrike, a new superhero with the same terrible fashion sense as her, as Birds of Prey recycles plots from four episodes ago.
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