Good point, it's Longstreet who actually comes across better in the
film. Intentionally so, since The Killer Angels book is kind of a vindication of Longstreet, who IIRC historically was considered something of the Lost Cause scapegoat to exonerate Lee—the dear Old Man would've won the day if only Longstreet hadn't…

Hollywood, come on. Just give me 2-ish hours of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain being scholarly and badass instead of continuing this Northern Aggression bullshit.

Chinese have a lot of Hells, Jack.

I hope the sequel will be called A Tornado Made of Arms and Teeth. And Fingernails.

Excite up.

Fair point. Maybe I'm just happy enough to get more folkloric comics stories give them a pass, but I hear you.

Admittedly, my only cite for that is this ComicsAlliance article, and Sims doesn't give his source for it. But if you can't trust the Internet's Foremost Batmanologist on such a thing, who can you trust?

There have been a few comics anthologies from Archaia that continue The Storyteller—I think the first volume even included a never-filmed script from the show. That volume was a general folklore medley, and the second followed a theme of stories about witches, and I believe the upcoming third collection will be about…

Charles Dickens or GTFO.

Yeah, hi, Roy.

There's a joke to be made here about a heartless backstabbing bastard being the son of a lawyer, but I try not to denigrate the profession.

The claim that Kane was underage when he signed that contract with DC is a lie promoted by Kane himself. Kane was born in 1915 and "created" Batman sometime after Superman debuted in Action Comics #1… in 1938. So he would've been 23-24, not a minor.

Well that's mildly encouraging—and I seem to remember DC giving Finger a cover credit in some book around the time of the 75th anniversary of Batman's debut in Detective Comics #27. At least it's recognition after all these years.

That was a great run on JIM by Immonen. The issue that focused on Hildy and Co. trying to reforge Fenris' chain was one of the best single-issue stories I've read in years.

Alliteration has quite the allure, but cliche or not, I think the term feisty should be reserved for felines (and, occasionally, elephants).

A ballpoint banana!

I find it pretty easy to hate someone who screwed over his coworkers and routinely claimed credit for work he didn't actually create.

I was never so enraptured with a long-form Twitter story as I was when Steranko posted about that. Bless the man.

I read this title as "The contentious classic Batman creation story" and was all ready to angry up the blood again.

Counterpoint: There's a Devil Dinosaur book on the schedule so I don't know what you're talking about.