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Spotlight on Slam Bradley

The Dark Knight isn’t the only detective in Batman comics. In fact, having finally read last year’s six-part mini-series Gotham City: Year One, my mind has been on the astounding significance gained by one of the oldest detectives around: Slam … Continue reading

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Catching up with crime comics – Ed Brubaker edition, part 2

As much as Ed Brubaker’s work can be hit-and-miss for me, he remains one of those writers – like Garth Ennis or Warren Ellis – whose comics I always end up checking out, sooner or later. For one thing, their … Continue reading

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Catching up with crime comics – Ed Brubaker edition

Last time I did one of these ‘Catching up with crime comics’ posts was a year ago, back in November 2022, looking specifically at Texas-set yarns (in the meantime, I’ve finally read Ethan Hawke’s and Greg Ruth’s Meadowlark, a superb-looking … Continue reading

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Gotham Calling’s 120 Cold War movies – part 3

Welcome back to Gotham Calling’s ongoing list of notable films that gave an audiovisual expression to the Cold War (previous installments here and here). This time around, many of my choices are less explicit, as by the mid-1950s sci-fi horror … Continue reading

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (2 October 2023)

October’s first reminder that comic books can be awesome is a tribute to the voluptuous femmes fatales who were all over the covers of Golden Age comics:

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Gotham Calling’s 120 Cold War movies – part 2

The second post in this 12-part series about Cold War cinema focuses on the early 1950s, when the conflict reached its first peak, in Europe as well as in Asia. The films below are all profoundly shaped by the booming … Continue reading

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On Joe Simon’s covers for Dick Tracy

This week we’re back to spotlighting comic book covers in Gotham Calling. I’m quite fascinated by the work of Joe Simon on the covers of Dick Tracy back in the early 1950s, when monthly issues collected Chester Gould’s iconic daily … Continue reading

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Gotham Calling’s 120 Cold War movies – part 1

It’s Gotham Calling’s ninth anniversary! This past year was especially irregular in terms of posting because I had more classes than usual, but I’ve finally found a way to turn this in the blog’s favor. One of my courses looked … Continue reading

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More Batman movies without Batman

Crisis on Infinite Earths #2 I was hoping to be back to longer posts this month, but it has been one hell of a year, so I’ll just stick to the regular COMICS CAN BE AWESOME section for a while … Continue reading

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (28 November 2022)

And here is another reminder that old copaganda comic book covers can be awesome, Headline Comics edition:

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