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Strange Times & Places: Batman: Digital Justice

Chris Walker — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 12:00:20 +0000

Welcome back to Strange Times & Places, where today we’re looking at a cyberpunk superhero tale created with the absolute best digital artwork 1990 had to offer: Batman: Digital Justice. How’s It Different? Being a tale set in a possible future, this would be classified as an Imaginary Story. Somewhat unusually for a Bat-Future, no…

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Strange Times & Places: Catwoman: Guardian of Gotham

Chris Walker — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 11:58:46 +0000

Welcome back to Strange Times & Places, where I once again found it easier to work reading some comics into my schedule rather than watching a movie or binging a TV show. Today, we’re looking at the really uneven two issue mini-series Catwoman: Guardian of Gotham. How’s It Different? It is an Imaginary Story, where…

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Strange Times & Places: Justice League America Annual #10

Chris Walker — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 12:00:26 +0000

Welcome back to Strange Times & Places, where we’re sticking to the theme of “90s Justice League Annuals” with Justice League America Annual #10, “The Alliance”. How’s It Different? It, like all the Legends of the Dead Earth annuals, would be an Imaginary Story. It takes place in a possible future, year not given but…

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Strange Times & Places: Justice League America Annual #8

Chris Walker — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 12:00:30 +0000

Welcome back to Strange Times & Places, where we’re sticking with 1994’s Elseworld Annuals by look at Justice League America Annual #8, “The Once and Future League”. How’s It Different? I would call this one another “For Want of a Nail” story, in which the original Justice League (with a very Pre-Crisis line-up) is killed…

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Strange Times & Places: No Rules to Follow

Chris Walker — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 12:00:23 +0000

Welcome back to Strange Times & Places, where today we’re taking an active detour into the realm of poorly executed Elseworlds with Justice League International Annual #5, “No Rules to Follow”. How’s It Different? It’s a For Want of a Nail story, in which a world lacking in Men of Steel has a rocky relationship…

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Strange Times & Places: Justice League: Gods & Monsters Mini-Series

Chris Walker — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 13:00:55 +0000

Welcome back to Strange Times & Places, where in honor of sadly underperforming Justice League movie, we’re looking at another Justice League’s origin story: the Justice League: Gods & Monsters prequel mini-series. How’s It Different? This universe remains a Royale With Cheese. Batman is Kirk “Man-Bat” Langstrom (albeit with an origin reminiscent of Morbius), Superman…

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Strange Times & Places: I, Joker

Chris Walker — Mon, 04 Sep 2017 12:00:44 +0000

Welcome back to Strange Times & Places, where today I’ve noticed that The Joker’s been getting a lot of protagonist love lately – so we’ll be reading 1998’s prestige format one-shot Batman: I, Joker, in which Mr. J is a straight up hero. How’s It Different? It takes place in a distant possible future, which…

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Strange Times & Places: Batman & Captain America

Chris Walker — Tue, 04 Jul 2017 12:00:21 +0000

Happy Independence Day from Strange Times & Places, where this week we’ll be visiting a world the Sentinel of Liberty coexists with the Dark Knight Detective during World War II – the world of John Byrne’s Batman & Captain America! How’s It Different? It’s hard to categorize, but I suppose I’d call this one a…

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Strange Times & Places: Batman The Doom That Came to Gotham

Chris Walker — Tue, 20 Jun 2017 12:00:07 +0000

Welcome back to Strange Times & Places, where today we put Batman in a genre he rarely visits, Lovecraftian cosmic horror, in Batman: The Doom That Came To Gotham! How’s It Different? It’s an Imaginary Story, utterly divorced from anything more than cosmetically familiar from the mainstream DCU. What’s The Story? Bruce Wayne and his…

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Strange Times & Places: Secret Six #24

Chris Walker — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 13:00:17 +0000

Welcome back to Strange Times & Places, where we’re talking about one of the stranger issues to ever cross my desk – Secret Six #24. How’s It Different? It’s an imaginary story setting the Secret Six, spiritual successor to the Suicide Squad, in the old west. It was sandwiched between a one-off story by Suicide…

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