The book is basically '70s-era Marvel "Tomb of Dracula" Dracula fanfiction written by someone with whom I share exceptionally similar narrative tastes (i.e., pirates, zeppelins, death traps).

I picked up the first volume of the collected Tellos by Mike Wieringo and someone I'm going to have to look up Todd Dezago on Comixology. I'm only partway into it, and so far it's… not very good, but I'm enjoying it anyway?

No, that's Jem.

… gawrsh.

We've got separation of powers, checks and balances… and Mickey Mouse, vetoing things and sending them back to the Hill!

Why, there are no laudatory Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice reviews here at the AV Club, either! Am I so out of touch?

In Gotham Academy Volume 2, Clayface and Simon Trent have a Shakespeare-off. And if you don't want to see a mud monster and a character inspired by Adam West duel by means of thematically appropriate Shakespeare recitations, I don't even know why you'd bother reading comic books.

Upvoted for Wawa, but c'mon… it's Tastykakes.

Can you really describe the process of observing something like DKSA as "reading," though?

Well, Japan's got more of a horse in this race than I do. Keep chasing those pervert dollars, Nippon!

Enough with fucking the anime!

One person who's repeatedly given credit to Bud Collyer is Kevin Conroy, which is something for which I've always respected him. Great as his performance as the DCAU Batman is in its own right, Conroy always acknowledged that the trick of changing his vocal register for Bruce Wayne and Batman is straight from Collyer.

Rubber bullets.

Somebody's a big fan of Lobster Johnson?

Actually, it's about ethics in community-based film review voting.

The only winning move is not to pay!

Be strong. Go watch the "World's Finest" episodes of Superman TAS instead—better cast, better story. Everyone wins.

Three cubic acres of schadenfreude.

Yowza.

Of the tie-ins I read, Siege and Thors are definitely the most relevant to the main story, and are the first I would recommend. Less "essential" to the plot but still fun exercises in jumbling together aspects of continuity were 1872, Weirdworld (neither of which have maintained the allure for me as new ongoings),…