Detective Comics, Batman, Batgirl, and Nightwing Issues #26 Review

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to the pull bag this is episode 52 because well

it's a new 52 after all oh boy I am your host

DFJ Mike joining me is Steve Megatron hello hello

how are you good And I'm still adjusting the

fact that I can't quote -unquote borrow images

from the DC website anymore since they updated

it to some strange new visual gag thing. I'm

getting over it, but still it's like if it ain't

broke don't fix it. So there is that. The bat

books ladies and gentlemen episodes might be

changing to a DC roundtable episode where we

get random DC titles because both Steve and I

are pretty much Steve's almost the point where

he's quitting Batman. I'm still gonna stick with

it, but unless zero year picks up I know I've

said this many many times since zero year started

but this whole hey let's have three issues of

build up one awesome issue in issue 24 and then

let's have two issues of oh my god what the hell

is going on and who knows what they're gonna

do next month for Batman 27 in 2014 but I I don't

know There might be some changes to the bad book

episodes coming next year for the pull bag, because

right now the way it's going, I don't know. Thoughts?

Yeah, I'm kind of in that general thought process

as well. I'm not quite sure what is going to

happen at this point. We could always replace

it with Batman Eternal. True Although I will

say I'm more enthused with Justice League 3000

then yeah, we will we'll be talking about Justice

League 3000 Justice League 25 and That be on

number five that be on universe number five at

the close of the show but for now we're going

to take a quick break and then we're going to

get into the three new 52 or four new 52 issues

we have after this. Alright ladies and gentlemen

so starting off the new 52 coverage here in the

bat books episode for the 26 issues we have detective

comics number 26 this when I first read this

I was like Hey, it's a comic version of on leather

wings And this is the start of my my epic nerd

hate I Can't stand the man bad. I don't know

what the hell DC's infatuation with it. Is it

at this point? I just there's something about

it just drives me AWOL. I can't stand it I don't

know. With Detective 26, I thought it was interesting

with what they were doing with it, and maybe

it's going to somehow lead into the Free Ark

event that's coming up next, Goth -Topia, which

is supposed to be some alternative universe story,

I think. I'm not looking at any information about

Goth -Topia at the moment, so I can't be for

sure. But I don't know I All the covers not necessarily

this month but all the covers that I've seen

for Batman related stuff within the new 52 Has

to do with these these monster things and we'll

get into that here in a minute when we talk about

Batman 26 proper but You know, it's it's just

one of those things where Wow I guess it could

be worse. I guess they could be doing stories

with Batmite. Shut up. What? But Detective 26,

it was an interesting story, and it did, for

me, it did remind me of On Leather Wings, and

I'm not a fan of that first episode of Batman

the Animated Series at all. I think it's slow.

And as you've said before, kind of boring. This

one, it was a little bit more interesting because

they kind of did... John Layman, who is the writer

on Detective right now, he kind of wrote the

story in a way where Francine was a combination

of herself and Miriam, the queen of the vampires

from Blade, you know? so that was that was kind

of interesting and cool but I don't know overall

I I enjoyed detective 26 not as much as I enjoyed

detective 25 but still alright so Batman 26 the

cover it's when I first saw this online I'm like

what Batman standing on then I read the issue

when I looked at the cover again, and I'm like

oh He's standing on a skull hand coming out of

the ground I Wish these covers were more interesting

Yeah, it's all kind of boring it No offense to

Greg Capolo. He's an amazing artist. I love his

art. I love his work, but I just don't Feel compelled

to Pick up this issue off the shelf Like looking

at it on a comic shelf this issue does not When

I when I was at my comic shop getting this book

it did not stand out at all So getting into it

apparently young Bruce Wayne is under arrest

what would you find out towards the end yeah

yeah because you have to continue on with the

story of why Lucius stabbed an injection in him

yeah which it also explains in the issue see

it explains it and then it I don't know maybe

I was lost in this well the gist I got is Lucius

knew that this creature was coming back so his

kind of hodgepodge cure he stabbed it into Wayne

but made you know because he heard that creature

coming in okay which is why in the previous one

you see him and then Wayne's going why you know

and then It kind of leaves you to think that

he's gonna transform too, but And then this this

guy's trying to you know kill them and Practically

breaks Bruce's skull Yeah, pretty much I do have

to say right off the bat My issue with my problem

with this issue of the series is not the art

at all Greg Kaplow and his team do an amazing

job with the art. Absolutely. I mean, it's the

story It was real. I I don't know if I'm just

losing brain cells or something, but It was really

hard for me to fall like you really follow and

understand what in the hell is going on here

And it's just one of those things where it was

a boring issue for me it really was the story

It is not progressing worried issue 26. This

is supposedly Supposed to end at issue 32 or

30. Oh that was the other thing. I was gonna

bring up earlier in the intro they pushed back

the finale of Dark City part 4 or whatever the

hell To issue 29 instead of 28 so 28 is gonna

be some one -shot story that takes place six

months in the future six years if it's gonna

go back to the or the Continuity like the now

timeline like right now So yeah, that was another

thing I wasn't too thrilled about so that means

that zero year probably won't be ending until

issue 33 instead of 32 But we're my point in

all this is we're at issue 26 if this is gonna

end in Six issues or seven issues or whatever

the hell it is Yeah, we're basically at the middle

point right now The middle point should not be

this damn slow It really shouldn't Out of issues

21 to 26, there's been one fast -paced issue

that I've read and that was issue 24 um... the

only thing story -wise that i like about this

issue is the stuff with wayne and gordon that

was awesome oh yeah that was definitely cool

and then he called him out for something that

happened years ago i really do like that i like

that part of the story uh... i love the whole

thing uh... where where where bruce says uh...

Where he says is this this view and he's got

the gun pointed at at Gordon and it's I Know

what he's going for here He's he's trying to

show Gordon how he felt as a kid having the gun

put to his face into his parents faces But seen

Bruce Wayne with a gun just it's just strange.

Oh, I agree. It's strange, but he He's proving

a point. Oh, yeah, I I got that Now we move on

to the story and we see a bat boat which is kind

of cool, but The bottom left -hand panel of that

Okay, I get it. This is supposed to be his when

he first put on the suit But seriously purple

gloves you still have the purple gloves Know

that's supposed to be an homage to something

and I don't know if it's Adam West or or whatever

But you still have purple gloves on isn't that

gonna you know make you more of a target. I Don't

know I don't I just tired of Yeah, I'm just tired

of freaking zero year So we have I will say that

as far as the art goes as far as capulose designs

on Batman when he's actually in the bat suit

I really do like all the facial designs Of the

cowl and and how is how that looks I think that's

really cool But yeah, I agree with you. I'm getting

really really tired of zero year and Why hasn't

DC listened to us yet? Get rid of channel 52.

It's such a waste. Yeah So much a waste I'm actually

thinking about Because I don't care to own them

anymore really I'm thinking about sending half

of my single -issue Batman comics to a lot of

people I don't know I just, zero a year is not...

If one issue out of six has really impressed

me, that's a problem. No, I agree. Yeah. So we

move on to Batgirl26. Now, I've got Batgirl26

and Batman26 side by side. Batgirl 26 cover is

done by Alex Gardner. The cover for Batman 26

is done by Greg Capolo. I like them both as cover

artists, but Batgirl 26 stands out more. It really

does. And it doesn't have to be... Oh, what is

it? Glossy. It doesn't have to be a glossy cover,

which it isn't. Batgirl 26 cover. This is the

conclusion to the wanted Batgirl wanted storyline

The cover is Batgirl pulling her mask off to

reveal Barbara Gordon and Jim Gordon behind her

pointing a gun at her I have loved this storyline

since it first started you basically have Batgirl

Because that's the only thing I have to kind

of fill everybody in on Issue 24 was part 2 issue

25 was that zero -year tie -in so issue 24 the

end of that issue She was at her van at her Wherever

she had the suit and she was like Okay, one more

time Because she was done issue 24. She Barbara

was done being bad girl She didn't want to put

the suit on anymore at the end of it. She's like

alright one more time And this is kind of where

that picks up and leaves off because she's going

up against all these gang members and all these

villains she's faced in the past that Nightfall

has basically employed to kill her father and

what's interesting about this is you have Batgirl

and Jim Gordon teaming up they don't want to

but You know, the situation forces them to do

so. And I love the interaction between them.

And what's great about Gail Simone's writing

is the inner dialogue, the monologue that Batgirl

has with herself. It's very, very, very awesome.

This issue, it's not Fernando Passeron this time

around in the art. It's Daniel Sampiri, I believe

is how you say his name. I could be wrong. But

you basically have them in the basement fighting

off all these these gang members and I I don't

want to ask y 'all Simone this so bad on Twitter,

right? I might and the issue has been out long

enough to where It's not gonna be a spoiler I

really want to ask her if she had watched over

the edge the btas episode over there the new

Batman adventure episode over the edge because

it's the end scene with her and with that girl

and her father it's just simply amazing because

she pulls the mask up says and so am I what what

are you doing you're never gonna trust me as

long as I'm keeping secrets so no more secrets

stop it I don't want to know what I don't want

to know Do you think I'm a fool? I'm a cop, a

good cop. If I wanted to know who was under all

those capes, I would make it my business. I'm

not going to arrest you for now. But you aren't

welcome here, ever. So when I read that whole

panel, that whole section, I was like, ooh, it's

not exactly the same as Over the Edge because

in Over the Edge, he basically says, you know,

I don't. I can't know this. You know, this is

not something I need to know. Just know that

I love you all. Obviously, this is a little bit

different since he believes that she killed his

son. Which, surprisingly, James Jr. is alive.

Or, not surprisingly, but very, very awesome

issue. Very great story, great art. And then

coming up next for Batgirl, she's going to be

in Gothtopia. So I'm really stoked to see what

Batgirl 27 is going to bring us. Did you have

any thoughts on the wanted conclusion? I think

it was pretty interesting. I mean, having not

read the previous ones and reading that one,

I mean, I enjoyed it for what it was. It was

interesting seeing Gordon kind of stand down

a little bit and then he was stating the fact

that you know, he's not sure if Bruce Wayne would

actually, you know Batman would actually meet

with him Yeah Yeah All right, so final issue

we're gonna talk about for new 52 is Nightwing

number 26. Now, when I first saw this cover,

it's basically Nightwing covered in blood. His

weapons have got blood on them, and it's basically

him and his suit. That's really all the cover

is. When I first saw it, I thought, oh, that's

kind of cool because of what's going on in Forever

Evil and everything else. Nightwing... the ongoing

has not caught up to what Forever Evil is doing

with Dick Grayson because they just wrapped up

the Tony Zuko storyline and they haven't had

a chance to really catch up yet and plus Nightwing's

fate isn't going to be decided until issue 6

of Forever Evil we're coming up on I believe

it's the 31st of December? New Year's Eve day

or yeah New Year's Eve day that Tuesday Is the

release of forever evil number four so we're

not even close to What's gonna be happening with

Dick Grayson in his own book They've already

revealed his identity It doesn't show it here

obviously like I said, it's not it's not caught

up, but we have this story where It's basically

a one -shot that sets up a new villain And they

it's the story About people stealing about this

this woman stealing drugs And what's really interesting

about it is it's the woman that we had seen a

number of issues ago marionette or I forget what

her name is off the top of my head but Nightwing

still has his same you know sarcastic edge and

where the where the credits are in the in the

title of the story some strings attached I'm

kind of dying to see how you do this last part

I do really love Will Conrad's the way he draws

Nightwing in action poses and how they kind of

show him at one point and then they show like

a faded version of him to show that he's in action

or he's in movement. I love that. I think that's

great. So basically this story is he's got this

new female villain after him and she's trying

to steal Something called what is it came in

there canine nurse? I don't know. It's some drug

basically Yeah, her name is Marionette So it's

basically him chasing her through the city of

Chicago And it's also him dealing with Having

a larger apartment now since he has room more

roommates and you know living in chicago is ex

living alone in chicago is expensive so he has

to deal with everyday stuff from his roommates

like i said before Conrad's art and the the colors

in this are absolutely amazing they really really

are what's interesting for me is when Kyle Higgins

brings in someone you would never expect because

by the end of the story we have the Mad Hatter

in Chicago. Yeah I was a little surprised to

see him actually show up. I was very very happy.

Like his design his designs pretty cool. I wish

it was more BTAS inspired or not yeah Yeah, more

more BTAS kind of style, but I like it for what

it is I understand that's the fit of the world

of Chicago And the next issue is entitled or

according to this it says next issue mad world

I've got a complaint, yet again. This isn't about

the story. It's about the DC editorial people.

Okay, the story ends. Nightwing does not have

backup stories. Nightwing isn't like Batman.

It doesn't have backup stories, but it has one,

two, three, four. It has two actual physical

pages, but... Two pages that are two -sided,

so it has one, two, three, and it has four ads.

So it has two additional pages in the book that

have nothing to do with the story. Not counting

whatever ads are already there in the midst of

the story. Come on, DC. And these last two pages,

I don't know if you've seen them, but they're

basically... An exclusive Mad Magazine sampling

for DC readers. Here's a special six page look

as the garbage you'll be subject yourself as

a mad subscriber. Didn't Mad Magazine die? Isn't

that damn thing dead yet? No, I just think it

went quarterly. Oh. And it's basically a movie

satire as tales from the Krypton department.

Oh my god. To pick two full pages of this Yeah

Like They have I mean this is so bad Actually,

no, I take it back. It's not it's not is it two

pages. No, it's not two pages. Oh my god it is

On it's three two -sided pages oh my god the

only cool thing about this and i just noticed

this now um politics a ben and jerry's flavory

will be soon seeing impeachment each in mint

ice cream with three scandalous uh yeah i it's

too small i i can't Oh, I completely missed actually

you'll like this now I completely missed they

do Ben and Jerry's does flavors for different

celebrities like Stephen Colbert's Americone

dream or the new Ron burgundy flavor Scotchety

Scotch Scotch or whatever the hell it is for

anchorman to This ad here says Barack Obama's

impeachment I'm not kidding ladies and gentlemen.

I will put the I will put the picture in the

post I'm not making this up. I'm not trying to

bring politics into this whatsoever That's what

it says in this comic. It says Barack Obama's

impeachment as a Ben and Jerry's flavor So well,

I knew you wouldn't. All right. We're gonna take

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back and really quickly we're going to go over

some issues in brief that will probably get coverage

at some point down the line, at least the Batman

Beyond stuff will. You had said you wanted to

check out Justice League 3000, this new ongoing

that they've got going on. What's that all about?

Well, it's actually surprising because it takes

place in, you guessed it, the year 3000. the

main aspect of the story is is there's like this

horde of Beings that kind of can possess people

and it's like a psychic entity kind of thing

and They've kind of enslaved the universe almost

kind of like a brainiac type thing. Yeah But

you know, there's nobody to fight it well enter

the Wonder Twins What is that you ask? Well,

it doesn't name them specifically It doesn't

call them the Wonder Twins. It just says they're

twins. Yes, but Batman calls them the Wonder

Twins. Yeah so Suffice to say It kind of sticks

What you end up with is You find out Cadmus has

cloned the Justice League. So you have, you know,

Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Flash,

and Batman. There is, however, a flaw. And it's

a key flaw. They realize that when they clone

them, I mean, they have their DNA to a T. So

that's all good and secure and everything else.

But the problem is, is like Superman is all cocky

and high and mighty because he didn't grow up

with the Clark Kent entity. Bruce Wayne is kind

of more of a dick, if you can say that. Only

for the fact that he hasn't had his parents death

to impact his life And then you end up with Wonder

Woman who's more Amazon than she need be Flash

realizes that his powers are artificial To some

degree because they interview them after they

debrief them after a rescue mission And flash

is like I don't have the the speed force, you

know electrical charge around me and Realizes

that So it bothers him and then Hal Jordan Well,

yes, he's wearing this Green Lantern cloak and

in this universe, or in this time, the Green

Lanterns are evil. So he says that he misses

the feeling of having the ring and being able

to do all this stuff. He has to wear the cloak

in order to have the powers. But a lot of these

costumes are reminiscent of Earth 2. Kind of

mixed with a modern flair So it's kind of interesting

seeing all that But It's it's an entire cadmus

experiment they have enough of their Their memories

to realize certain things, but they don't have

enough to like I said with the you know how they

Their origins basically So it's a lot of them

trying to figure out how to work as a team and

I think Superman and Wonder Woman are the biggest

screwed up components because they're not actually

human But yeah, there's it's a lot of it has

to do with The dynamic of them learning to be

a team when they're not I it suffice it to say

there's been a lot more character development

in this than in zero year in my opinion Yeah,

this is in one issue But You know it says You

know Like I said the the supermans without the

Kent's guiding hands Batman without the motivating

trauma of his parents death Wonder Woman who's

pure Amazon flash whose powers just might burn

him alive and the sole remaining Green Lantern,

the most despised organization in the universe.

It's strange how... The only thing I don't like

is the looks of the faces of the Justice League.

They match nothing close to anything in the other

comics, which I understand is a new continuity

and everything. I mean, it's the same continuity.

It's in the future. And I love the new Batsuit

in this. Yeah, that's what I was going to say.

The other thing that's different in this is the

Super Suit and the Batsuit because there were

a couple of times where I could have sworn when

I was reading this comic that the S on his chest

looked like a dollar sign, not an actual S. It

was drawn really, really weird. The Batsuit...

I still don't like the hell I don't like the

cowl the way the helmet is around the I don't

like that but the actual aesthetic of the suit

itself the actual uniform I really do like because

it's basically similar to the bat beyond suit

well they it's almost like they mix the earth

to the bat beyond and the new 52 batman and kind

of came up with this amalgamation of it um I

really I really do love this um Batman design

Wonder Woman isn't that far different other than

the fact she's closer to her injustice gods Costume

only because of her headgear Yeah, flash is more

close to kid flash And Green Lantern is close

to the specter character that he was in the 90s

during a lot of the issues with the Green Lantern

Corps Is more so what he looks like here? but

i think the biggest screwed up component of this

entire thing is going to be superman yeah um

because especially in the last page like uh bruce

and uh superman are they pretty much argue through

the entire issue and he keeps calling him kent

and he says i'm not kent i'm superman or he refers

to himself in the third person so batman throws

an explosive on his face at one point um and

he says what i wouldn't pay he says or something

along the lines of I'd pay good money for a for

a nice chunk of kryptonite about now yeah that's

that's one thing I absolutely loved about the

issue he kept saying I wouldn't give for some

kryptonite right about now and it seems like

the you know the main like I said the main three

that are pretty close to their original selves

is Bruce Wayne Hal Jordan and Barry Allen But

I love the last page where it says you have Superman

getting ready to pound Batman in the face and

he's just standing there like you weren't going

to touch me and everybody else is holding him

back. And he says, I'm going to incinerate you

with my heat vision, you annoying little twit.

And then Batman says, fact check nurses, you

don't have heat vision. And then Superman says,

I'll do it. Then I'll do it with my bare hands.

It's just What's that what does that remind you

of I'll crush you with my bad hands Yeah It's

just it's entertaining to say the least I think

I have high hopes for the 3 ,000 line Yeah, it

was a pretty fun book. It was an interesting

look at Specifically Batman. I thought that was

really cool The other one that I read was because

I thought it was gonna be Nightwing's Final Fate.

I read Justice League number 25. It's basically

more of Owlman's story where this Owlman is...

I think it's Earth 2. It's one of those other

Earths. He's Thomas Wayne, Bruce's brother. In

an alternate universe. in an alternate universe.

And apparently the Dick Grayson of that universe

is dead now and he's come here to basically force

the Dick Grayson of our universe to help him

to stop Ultraman because his goals and Ultraman's

goals are not the same thing. I like the story.

It's interesting. I thought it was really cool.

I thought there were some really cool moments

in it. I just want to know what's going to happen

to my favorite character already. I'm not disappointed

in anything I've read to do with Forever Evil

or to do with what Nightwing is going through

in the outside of his own ongoing, but Jesus

Christ. Can we just find out already? And I know

there have been... I haven't done this personally

because I know he won't give me an answer at

all. But I know there have been plenty of people

that have asked Kyle, what's gonna happen to

Dick? What's gonna happen to Dick Grayson? Tell

us, tell us, tell us. And he's been very tight

-lipped about it because I just, I don't know.

I don't know. They've already revealed his identity.

The only other thing you can do to the guy is

either kill him off or send him to the damn Phantom

Zone or do some, I don't know. I'm just getting

really, really... Anxious about all this crap

with new 52 The the other issue I Can't go into

the chapter 10 that's in here because I don't

want to spoil it for you because it's just so

awesome It really is but I picked up Batman Beyond

universe number five which the cover is echoes

from the past You can go ahead and spoil it.

I'm fine with it Are you sure? Yes, I'm positive

Are you sure? Yes. Alright. The cover is done

by Raphael, I believe it's pronounced Albuquerque,

as in bugs forgot to take the left turn at Albuquerque.

The title is Echoes from the Past and it's basically

purple sound waves with a black background and

it's Batman all scratched up and bloodied. I

really love how Raphael did this cover. I love

how he Accentuates the bat beyond belt and suit.

I think that's a really really great so This

as I say collects chapters 9 and 10 we start

out with these two city officials working on

stuff in Gotham after rewires whole attack and

Some lady shows up and says hey boys. We're here

to kidnap you Meanwhile, in the park, Terry is

being chased by Shriek. So we've got that going

on. So Shriek is back, and Shriek has got a new

weapon. He basically has upped his sound engineering

to basically destroy the inner... Most smallest

bone in your ear What's so great about this is

Terry goes deaf and I love what they did here

They have one on I Damnit DC number your pages

The page after shriek attacks him He says Because

there are no monologues in this series. It's

all radio chatter between Terry and Dick Grayson

Terry are you there? Can you hear Shree Shree

Shree and the next page is It shows Terry and

it shows Shree your hearing is probably shutting

down as we speak I guess I should mention all

the phase shifting plays havoc on the inner ear.

So Terry is basically gone deaf. The greatest

single thing about this part of the story is

how they show that he can't hear. It's blank

speech bubbles. Yeah, that is pretty damn funny.

It's blank speech bubbles. Now my question is,

I don't think this is the same guy and dog, but

Was it in Return of the Joker? I don't know.

It was in one of the Batman Beyond things on

part of the series, or it might have been part

of Return of the Joker. I don't remember. Or

am I thinking of something else? No, I'm thinking

of something else. I thought the man and the

dog that are in the park were something that

we had seen before. the cartoon series so we

go back to Dick Grayson's loft and the blank

speech bubbles continue and Terry's like what

I still can't hear what better oh yeah I can

hear what are these things bone induction audio

the connectors stimulate the skull bypassing

the ear and he was like try not to beat yourself

try not try to try not to be too hard on yourself

you have no idea how many of these i've botched

over the years yeah like what off the top of

my head the scarecrow one sticks out nightwing

days not quite and i knew when i read this this

issue digitally i knew exactly where it was going

it's and tony silas he nails btas era It's so

awesome Yeah, I I actually did read this then

You read this one. Yes, you didn't read them.

I'm not up to the second half of the story the

chapter That's gonna be coming out or that the

chapter that came out on the 21st And oh man,

he nailed the BTIS and then the the final part

of this section of the story is We see that Kirk

Langstrom is alive. Manbat is alive. Annoying.

I like it here. It ties in... Even though I don't

like On Leather Wings, I like what Kyle's gonna

do with this character here. Because we've already

had all the stuff in the past that is annoying.

Um... So these... What will be digital chapter

10 or what would have been digital chapter 10

we see Terry at college And because this is the

digital chapter 10 guess who shows up Melanie

Walker 10 from the royal flush gang Formerly

10 of the royal flush gang So she's in the she's

in the same class as terry uh part of the story

is manbat actually crashes into police headquarters

hello barbara you're looking well kirk you're

i'm more alive i'm more than alive barbara i'm

in charge and he basically wants um actually

i gotta go back to that page He basically wants

the three pounds of canium Now canium is what

I was talking about earlier when I was talking

about Nightwing when we were covering Nightwing

earlier in this episode Canium was the drug that

they were trying that the woman that Marionette

was trying to steal from the three hospitals

in Chicago back in the new 52 So it's interesting

that Kyle is bringing the canium here to bat

beyond universe uh... so mandat wants that he's

given twenty four hours uh... we have melanie

and and batman facing off because she knows that

she knows the secret how this issue ends is a

stroke of genius it really really is the ending

of this terry says Let me guess you want me to

track down Shriek the other sound genius and

convince him that we have to work together For

the sake of the city the good guy and the bad

guy have to team up just like the vids right

and you see an image of Dick and Barbara just

kind of glance at each other and Dick is like

no Shriek's a madman and a loose cannon. How

could we trust him? Which is what Barbara says

and Terry was like but for the sake of this You

know what? Never mind. So if not Shriek, then

who? Someone who knows Langstrom inside and out.

Someone who helped build his weapons. Someone

he has history with. And Bruce shows up. And

it ends. Nice. Next issue, Apprehensive Allies.

Oh my god. Yeah. thinking if Batman ongoing continues

to go down the path it is we might just have

to replace it with universe yeah it's such an

awesome read it really really is the digital

chapter that I just talked about with Millingwalker,

formerly 10, came out December 21st, 2013, so

very awesome. That's gonna do it for us, folks.

We've got one more episode this year. This is

the final numbered episode of 2013 for the Pull

Bag. The next episode you'll hear is on New Year's

Eve. it is the start of the pull bag turning

out the lights as we go after dark the new discussion

based episodes that we will be having in the

pull bag after darks will happen hopefully once

a month maybe once Every other month. I don't

know yet. It just depends on what topics we have

and what hosts I can wrangle but That's where

all the general comic discussions are gonna go

just like the origins have their own episodes

Just like the back issue classics have their

own episodes. There are plans to have several

year -long Stretched out spotlights I'm not sure

if those are going to come to fruition. Next

year we will be having at least three character

months. May will be Batman, celebrating 75th

anniversary of Batman. July will be Green Lantern,

and of course November will be Punisher Month

again. I'm not sure if there are going to be

other character months. I do know I did make

plans with Joe Reed of Off the Cuff to do a monthly

TMNT trade. review where we review the current

IDW ongoing for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Not the new adventures, but the actual, you know,

the stuff that Kevin Eastman and all that do.

So yeah, 2014 is going to be huge for the poll

bag. Thank you so much to everyone who has supported

us this first year. And here's to year two. Any

other thoughts, sir? No, I think that about rounds

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