Batman: White Knight Presents Harley Quinn #3 Review

Dressed To Kill?

Writer: Katana Collins
Art: Matteo Scalera
Colors: Dave Stewart
Cover Price: $4.99
Release Date: December 22, 2020

Batman: White Knight Presents Harley Quinn #3 follows Quinzel and Quimby as they track down the killer after a botched attempt on Simon Trent's life aka the Gray Ghost. Through some fairly solid detective sleuthing, Q2 discover the killer is filming interviews on special camera equipment that leads them to the next series of clues, and the revelation that Quimby is connected to the victims. With each bread crumb, the connections between Quimby, the movie star victims, and the killer get increasingly bizarre. We wrap with a cliffhanger that confirms one of the characters is cuckoo for cocoa puffs, and it isn't Harley... for once.

Wonder Woman #769 Review

 

One Way or Another

Writer: Mariko Tamaki

Artist: Steve Pugh

Cover Price: $3.99

Release Date: December 23, 2020

It's time to put Mariko Tamaki's run on Wonder Woman to bed as she goes off to write Detective Comics in 2021.  I don't know how Detective will turn out, but I hope it's better than this Liar Liar / Maxwell Lord nonsense!  Tamaki seemed like she couldn't decide who was the real big bad in this book, so she skimped on the details and changed stuff we did know many times.  Oh well, at least it's over after this!

Dark Nights: Death Metal: The Secret Origin #1 Review

 

Punching Upward

Writer: Geoff Johns, Scott Snyder

Artist: Ryan Benjamin, Francis Manapul, Jerry Ordway, Paul Pelletier

Cover Price: $5.99

Release Date: December 22, 2020

While I have been lukewarm with many of these Death Metal tie-ins, Scott Snyder teaming up with Geoff Johns had me intrigued when DC Comics announced this, and then they threw Jerry Ordway into the mix?  Oh my!  So, does this one-shot tell a good story AND manage to be critical with only one main Death Metal issue left?  Let's find out...

Batman Beyond #50 Review

What The Future Used To Look Like

Written By: Dan Jurgens

Art By: Sean Chen, Sean Parsons, Chris Sotomayor, Travis Lanham

Cover Price: $3.99

Release Date: December 22, 2020

It's the final time we'll be heading off to thirty-five years from now..... at least for the time being, Future State notwithstanding, and with that, we'll see Batman Beyond go up against something he's seen time and time again..... A final issue. There's no real arc to detail going into this so let's just quit with the jibber-jabber and see what Dan Jurgens has planned for us for Terry's final (for now) flight. Let's check it out.

Red Hood #52 Review

A Hill Of Beans

Written By: Shawn Martinbrough

Art By: Tony Akins, Moritat, Stefano Gaudiano, Paul Mounts, Troy Peteri

Cover Price: $3.99

Release Date: December 22, 2020

Let's head back to Gotham, to a little neighborhood called The Hill, where a group of concerned citizens got together during the Joker War and decided to take justice into their own hands and try the vigilante route. If that wasn't enough of a story, we also have a war going on within a gang in this neighborhood that has one aspiring shoe mogul in the gang going outside his comfort zone and bringing in Killer Croc to be his muscle. If you think it's weird that all fo this is going on and I haven't mentioned Red Hood once....... well, I find it pretty weird too but like we saw in the previous issue, there wasn't a lot of Red Hood to be found as we spent the majority of this new arc setting up a neighborhood that hasn't been talked about in comics for twenty years and throwing Jason Todd into it with little thought. Let's jump into this issue and see if things can turn around and we can start caring about.... and have an easier time following Jason Todd's foray back in Gotham. Let's check it out.

Black Adam: Endless Winter Special #1 Review

Frigid Frenzy

Written By: Ron Marz, Andy Lanning

Art By: Brandon Peterson, Mike Atiyeh, Wes Abbott, Marco Santucci, Arif Prianto, Troy Peteri

Cover Price: $3.99

Release Date: December 22, 2020

It's the penultimate issue to our Endless Winter Event and with that hopefully, we'll finally be getting more than our heroes punching ice monsters and actually get to the real meat of the story.... the Frost King himself. I have to think that will be the case since we're pulling a Black Adam one-shot out of nowhere to tell this chapter and if you've gotten anything out of this mini-event so far, it's that Black Adam is an asshole and that the Frost King has every reason in the world to want to see him laid low. Let's jump into Chapter 8 here and see if Black Adam will be able to hold his own against this chilly threat and if we'll find out more about the Frost King family suspended in ice at Stagg Industries. Let's check it out.

Detective Comics #1033 Review

Writer: Peter J. Tomasi
Pencils: Brad Walker
Ink: Andrew Hennessy
Colors: Dave McCaig
Letters: Rob Leigh
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date: December 21st, 2020

It's Peter Tomasi's last issue in this run of Detective Comics. Although his run overall wasn't all that special, and it got frustrating at times unless you're way too much into cults, it had moments that I really did enjoy sprinkled all the way throughout. But does it end on a high note?

Justice League Dark #29 Review

Some Old Friends And Some Nice Cold Drinks

Written By: Andy Lanning, Ron Marz

Art By: Amancay Nahuelpan, June Chung, Rob Leigh, Marco Santucci, Arif Prianto, Troy Peteri

Cover Price: $3.99

Release Date: December, 22, 2020

It's about to get cold in here as we move back into the Endless Winter, where previously we saw our heroes running around and not doing much beyond punching ice monsters, which is kind of nuts since this is Chapter 7 of our story, but thankfully it looks like we're finally going to do something here because in the last Chapter, the Teen Titans: Endless Winter Special #1, we were told by Donna Troy that our current situation feels a lot like a bedtime story that Hippolyta used to tell her...... and with that, Barry Allen and Donna Troy made their way to Themyscira to get the 411 on what our Amazon Queen knows. Yeah, it's a bit of a silly clue to get us to our main bit of information, but at this point, I'll take it as we get this story moving. Let's jump into this issue and check it out.

Action Comics #1028 Review

 

Play Free Bird!

Writer: Brian Michael Bendis

Artist: John Romita Jr.

Cover Price: $3.99

Release Date: December 22, 2020

It's the end of the line for Brian Michael Bendis on the Superman books, but don't cry for him (Argentina) since he will be writing the Justice League book in 2021.  So, how does he wrap his story up here?  Well, a little bit of catch-up, some over-explanation...

Batman / Superman #15 Review

Grundy Go BOOM!

Written By: Joshua Williamson

Art By: Andrei Bressan

Colors By: Alejandro Sánchez

Lettering By: John J. Hill

Cover Price: $3.99

Release Date: December 22, 2020

Batman / Superman #15 brings the World's Finest together to help the current Solomon Grundy cool off before he goes nuclear.  We learn that each reincarnation of Grundy comes with some random quirk, and this time just so happens to be a nuclear energy buildup that threatens to take out half of North America when he blows. Poison Ivy grudgingly lends a hand and concludes they can diffuse the situation by getting Grundy to the swamp that "birthed" him. It's a mad dash to get Grundy home before he goes BOOM! Of course, the Secret Society of Super-Villains sees this as an opportunity to use WMD Grundy for their own nefarious purposes and show up at the worst possible time.

Weird Science DC Comics Podcast Ep 331: DC Comics, Death Metal, Endless Winter, Batman, Heists & Endings

 

DC Comics has a bunch of big books this week and we take 3 1/2 hours to go through things. Justice League #58 & Endless Winter: Teen Titans #1  were Patreon Spotlight books and If you would like to help out the podcast and get a ton of exclusive shows in return, head over to our Patreon  (patreon.com/weirdscience), and If you can, please leave us a review on iTunes! We would love to hear from you!  Send us your thoughts, dreams, hopes, corrections...anything to weirdsciencedccomics@gmail.com Also, Check out our Youtube Channel - Weird Science Comics

PREVIEW: Detective Comics #1033

 

Writer: Peter J. Tomasi

Artist: Brad Walker

Cover Price: $3.99

Release Date: December 23, 2020

Detective Comics #1033 Preview -On the eve of some of the biggest changes ever in Gotham City, Batman finds himself at a crossroads with the people of the city he has sworn to protect. A landslide victory for anti-vigilante mayoral candidate Christopher Nakano is bringing with it new legislation to outlaw the Bat-Family’s very way of life-and with his rogues gallery still knocking on his door, Bruce will need to make some tough decisions about the future...

PREVIEW: Dark Nights: Death Metal: The Secret Origin #1

 

Writer: Geoff Johns, Scott Snyder

Artist: Ryan Benjamin, Francis Manapul, Jerry Ordway, Paul Pelletier

Cover Price: $5.99

Release Date: December 23, 2020

Dark Nights: Death Metal: The Secret Origin #1 Preview - The DCU’s darkest secrets are explored while two titans clash! The heroes search for a way to defeat the Darkest Knight through the universe’s past, while Superboy Prime faces down the demonic Batman!

PREVIEW: Action Comics #1028

 

Writer: Brian Michael Bendis

Artist: John Romita Jr.

Cover Price: $3.99

Release Date: December 23, 2020

Action Comics #1028 Preview - The powerhouse creative team of Brian Michael Bendis, John Romita Jr., and Klaus Janson wrap up their run on Action Comics with “House of Kent: Epilogue”! With the final fate of Metropolis’s underworld revealed at last, it’s time for each member of the House of Kent to face their unknown futures head-on, including Lois, Conner, Jon, Kara, Jimmy, and, of course, Clark Kent! This standalone Superman story connects threads from Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen, Lois Lane, Superman, Justice League, Legion of Super-Heroes, and other unforgettable series in epic-and unexpected-ways!

PREVIEW: Batman / Superman #15

 

Written By: Joshua Williamson

Art By: Andrei Bressan

Colors By: Alejandro Sánchez

Lettering By: John J. Hill

Cover Price: $3.99

Release Date: December 22, 2020

Check out our Batman / Superman #15 Preview - “Solomon Grundy died on a Sunday!” But when this monster man kicks the bucket, all hell breaks loose! When the body of Grundy begins to break down, so begins a toxic time bomb that could wipe out half of North America! It’s up to the Man of Steel and the Dark Knight to get Grundy from S.T.A.R. Labs to Slaughter Swamp before the clock hits zero...but with a horde of super-villains all looking to snag the sizzling super-titan for their own nefarious ends, our heroes had better move quickly!

PREVIEW: Black Adam: Endless Winter Special #1

Written By: Ron Marz, Andy Lanning
Art By: Brandon Peterson, Mike Atiyeh, Wes Abbott, Marco Santucci, Arif Prianto, Troy Peteri

Cover Price: $3.99

Release Date: December 22, 2020

“Endless Winter” chapter eight! Seeking to bolster his nation’s place in the world, Black Adam arrives in Gotham City demanding action to end the threat causing an endless winter across the globe. But Black Adam isn’t telling the world’s leaders everything-especially not that he’s faced the mysterious Frost King before and won. Find out what Adam’s hiding in the penultimate chapter of “Endless Winter.”

PREVIEW: Justice League Dark #29

Written By: Andy Lanning, Ron Marz
Art By: Amancay Nahuelpan, June Chung, Rob Leigh, Marco Santucci, Arif Prianto, Troy Peteri

Cover Price: $3.99

Release Date: December, 22, 2020

“Endless Winter” chapter seven! The past holds the key to surviving the Endless Winter, as the Justice League Dark seeks to resurrect both Swamp Thing and the spirit of Viking Prince. Queen Hippolyta reveals a shocking secret to Wonder Woman as the past and present collide. Buried secrets are unearthed as the Justice League and Justice League Dark must come together with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.

PREVIEW: Red Hood #52

Written By: Shawn Martinbrough
Art By: Tony Akins, Moritat, Stefano Gaudiano, Paul Mounts, Troy Peteri

Cover Price: $3.99

Release Date: December 22, 2020

After making his dramatic return to Gotham City, Jason Todd finds himself in the middle of a turf war between a violent gang aided by Killer Croc and a new group of vigilantes dedicated to protecting his old neighborhood of the Hill. When a childhood friend is targeted for assassination by a vicious new crime lord on the rise, the Red Hood must forge an uneasy alliance with the vigilantes to save her.

PREVIEW: Batman Beyond #50

Written By: Dan Jurgens

Art By: Sean Chen, Sean Parsons, Chris Sotomayor, Travis Lanham

Cover Price: $3.99

Release Date: December 22, 2020

The finale of Dan Jurgens’s iconic run on Batman Beyond finds Terry McGinnis accused of crimes he didn’t commit! When one of his greatest rogues, the formidable Inque, poses as Batman and causes havoc around Gotham City, Wonder Woman will stop by to confront Batman Beyond. Will Terry be able to convince her that he’s innocent or will he find himself the enemy of one of the DC Universe’s greatest heroes? The epic conclusion of the series is here!