This review may contain spoilers.

Questlove: Here’s my SNL doc with the coolest mashup you’ve ever seen.

Ryan Coogler: Hold my beer.

(Also, Ludwig Goransson did not need to go so hard.)

2D animation, forever and ever.

Just a fun movie — the animation is so dynamic, and the writing sharp.

Can’t say I expected a homage to John Carpenter’s The Thing?

Shout out Ketchup Entertainment.

Back in 2020, superstar comic artist Dan Mora posted a random idea. Mashing up the Batman characters with the style of Japanese tokusatsu, the genre which we in the states know best for Ultraman and Power Rangers.

People were very into it, and it’s hard to blame them.

And some of those people? Pretty well known for comics of their own – Radiant Black’s writer, Kyle Higgins, and Inferno Girl Red artist Erica D’Urso.

They have some history with writing and illustrating toku inspired comics, with Radiant Black borrowing key elements from the genre, and Inferno Girl Red being a spin-off in the same universe, called the Massive-Verse.

It’s taken five years, but DC Comics listened, as revealed this past weekend at the C2E2 Convention…

AIPT:

During the “Kyle Higgins Presents: Radiant Black, The Massive-Verse and More!” panel, Kyle will announce a new DC Elseworlds limited series, Immortal Legend Batman. It features co-writer Mat Groom (Radiant Black, Inferno Girl Red) and art by Dan Mora (Superman, Justice League Unlimited, Batman/Superman: World’s Finest).

“In Immortal Legend Batman, Dan, Mat, Erica, and I are using elements of ‘superhero tokusatsu,’ so readers can expect to see cool and recognizable elements like mech/armor-style transformations, specifically named combat moves, a gradually expanding team, and more,” said writer Higgins.

That’s right, Immortal Legend Batman is the title, and the first issue hits shelves in August 2025. It’s awesome to see a company like DC not be afraid to embrace alternative versions of their characters, and put name creators on the book as well.

Sadly, Mora will be working more on the covers than the interiors, but I know D’Urso is up for the gig.

Massive kudos to whichever editor approved this…more of this, big two, more of this.

I feel like this is a DVD which my friends and I would’ve circulated amongst each other.

Fun enough of a movie, though, man, Jack Quaid is having a tough time with relationships on the big screen this year.

More Amber Midthunder, please.

I really loved the book the movie is based on, Mickey 7, but the tone is very different for this film version. Maybe I would have been more enamored with it without the context, but this didn’t entirely work for me.

Just keep giving me stylish Soderbergh movies with David Holmes scores, and I’ll be happy forever.