News & Notes

• DC's source blog has another teaser image of the upcoming Batgirl series. Still no real clue as to who it is, but with them being careful not to show her face, there's a pretty good chance it's not Cassandra Cain.


• Topless Robot counts down the 9 best fan films ever with a few Batman entries.


• Eco-comics, which looks at the economics of superheroes and supervillains, discusses the value of Batman villains cooperating and whether the villains should betray each other. Lots of nerdy economics at both links, if that sort of thing appeals to you.


• MTV's splash page looks at HBO's promos for the Dark Knight.


• Robot6's "Send us your shelf porn" feature asks people to send in pictures of their shelves full of comic book stuff, and this most recent one has a pretty impressive Batman theme.


• And Eddie Murphy appeared on the Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien recently, and addressed those silly rumors from way back when about him playing the Riddler:

News & Notes

The new Batman & Robin #1 comic came out this week, and I thought it was pretty good. Here are some reviews (with spoilers): Robot 6 and Comics Should Be Good.

To mark the occasion of the new Batman and new Robin in this comic, Splash Page counts down their favorite alternate Batmen and their favorite Robins.

A while back I linked to this piece by a writer hoping that Bruce Wayne stays dead, but now there's a pro-Bruce counter argument up.

And finally an artist named Dean T. Frasier did a nifty Star Wars/Batman mashup, mostly in the style of the 90s Batman animated series. Here's Darth Bat, but check out the whole set:

News & Notes

Busy week at work for me, so I've been slow getting this out, but here's some news:

• Batman on Film has some Batman 3 stuff, it's mostly non-news, but they raise a decent point:
  

  at some point soon, Warner Bros. is going to have to publicly lay claim to Summer 2012 release date for BATMAN 3 -- the clock is ticking on that and the ticks are getting louder.

  
  Studios announce the opening dates for big summer movies years in advance so that they can lay claim to the big movie weekends (and typically they don't like to release two big movies at the same time, it would just cause both films to earn less at the box office). For a summer 2012 release, something would probably be announced by the end of this year.


• Unsurprisingly, Heath Ledger won the Best Villain award at the MTV movie awards.


• Bam Kapow lists Five Batman vs Joker stories you may have missed. I'm not a huge fan of any of these, probably Devil's Advocate would be my favorite of the three, just because it's a cool concept (Joker gets the death penalty, but for murders he didn't commit, so Batman's sense of justice forces him to prove Joker's innocence).


• This past week's Brave and the Bold cartoon was pretty excellent, with appearances from Bat-Mite, Ace the Bat-Hound, Catman, Calendar Man, Catwoman, Riddler, and many others. io9 has a nice review up.


• And as long as I'm linking there, io9 has a review of Battle for the Cowl and a piece hyping the new Batman & Robin comic, which comes out Wednesday.


• And finally, some French folks made a pretty impressive looking fan film (it's very R-rated, probably not work-safe). The film borrows the Sin City/Spirit look, and creates what can only be called an unusual take on Batman, as a sort of murderous avenging monstrous man. I didn't really care for it, but I really appreciate the effort that went into making it.