It’s an All-Batman week over here at “A Beautiful Gory Display”! That’s our favorite kind of week, frankly. This week, I’ll be reviewing all of the Batman: Reborn books. Yeah, June’s been a big relaunch month with a new Batman and several new series. I’ve already reviewed the awesome Batman […]
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A Beautiful Gory Display: Seriously, G.I. Robot!
Last time I said I’d be doing some hardcover reviews, but I ended up not getting anything done, and then some things came out that warranted reviewing, so those hardcovers will have to wait. This week, I want to start off by making a point. And not just my usual […]
A Beautiful Gory Display: Batman and Bill Hader
This week, we’ve got a new Batman series, SNL cast members write Spider-Man, and more action than you can shake a stick at, provided you don’t mind ending a clause with a preposition. Personally, that is something up with which I will not put. And yes, I have now started […]
Muppets, Seaguy, and Not-Quite-Batman
With a drastic reduction in our recapping schedules, we have to write about something to keep that sweet, delicious content coming over the good old series of tubes and into your throbbing eyeballs. That sounded much more disturbing than we intended, and we apologize. Anyway, it’s time to take A […]
BEST OF spunkybean: A Beautiful Gory Display – The Watchmen (from October 16, 2008)
*** Due to our excitement about this weekend’s release of The Watchmen, spunkybean is proud to re-run EJ’s column reviewing and explaining the two-decade love affair with this classic graphic novel. *** Thanks to the trailer for next year’s Watchmen movie that ran with The Dark Knight, DC Comics has […]
A Beautiful Gory Display: Inauguration Day Special (Jan 20)
So, right up until the coolest pilot in the world managed to land a plane on the Hudson River and, if the facts I am making up are correct, didn’t even have to ask the flight attendants to interrupt meal service in the process, a surprising amount of news coverage […]