Sticks To Anything

One of the bigger problems with the DCU before The New 52 reboot was continuity inconsistencies that would crop up between books. Characters would have a conversation about a topic in one book and then in a different book they wouldn’t have spoken or a character would do or say something completely opposite between two books. This was most obvious when looking at the Batman family of books, mainly just because there were so many of them. The New 52 books have been really good about not having these sorts of issues, surprisingly good in fact, and there were some times where a conversation from one book was directly referenced in a conversation from a second book. If you only read one or the other, you didn’t miss out on anything but if you happened to read both you had a much richer experience. Then there’s The Dark Knight that just doesn’t get it. Before the reboot we’d written off David Finch’s attempt at a writing gig. We were amazed that he got a new chance in The New 52. Even though he’s not actually writing this new book, we find its still tainted and we just don’t care.

Kris and I are both still really enjoying Batman: Arkham City. We each even picked up the tie-in comic that we had previously ignored. (It doesn’t add a lot to the story, but it has some nice touches in it.) If the awesome game that they’ve already released isn’t enough Rocksteady released a trailer for the next DLC pack that introduces Nightwing. His DLC will include two new challenge maps and will let you play as Nightwing in all existing challenge maps. Not only will there be an Arkham City design of the character, but the classic Batman: The Animated Series look will be available. Nightwing will have a completely new fighting style that from the trailer looks pretty cool. As Kris put it, this is why he actually bought Arkham City.

If more digital content for Arkham City wasn’t enough, Comic Alliance has some awesome pictures of a very authentic Arkham City Batman cosplay. I’ve thought that the Arkham Asylum/Arkham City Batsuit has been one of the most realistic designs and seeing a real-life version only confirms that.