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In the most recent issue of The Batman's Grave by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch, Alfred Pennyworth has to face an intruder into Wayne Manor One heart-eating Mister Stirk And Alfred without a Batarang to his name That's okay, he manages to produce a far older gadget used for fighting crime – or, indeed, committing[...]

The Batman's Grave #9 by Warren Ellis, Bryan Hitch and Alex Sinclair was published by DC Comics the other week And a few people had questions about one panel early on on the issue Basically… what happened to Batman's chin? For The Batman's Grave #9, Bryan Hitch Takes It On The Chin Bryan Hitch gave an explanation[...]

Warren Ellis, Bryan Hitch and Kevin Nowlan are halfway through their series The Batman's Grave, and are going to take a planned month's publishing break to get caught up But that break won't be reflected in the collection Because, it appears, rather that twp 6-issue series, DC Comics will be going for the full twelve-issue[...]

But the question must be asked: is Batman okay himself? The Batman's Grave #5, by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch, provides a definitive answer to that question.   As Commissioner Gordon, a close friend of Batman's who is obviously worried about him, urges him to seek treatment at a world-renowned medical facility.   Batman does show up… And he's greeted[...]

I didn't see it in The Batman's Grave first two issues but it's there if you look And clearer in a couple of very specific panels Because Bryan Hitch is using Sir David Niven as a model for Alfred Pennyworth You know David Niven?   That's the fellow English actor, memoirist and novelist, notable acting roles included[...]

In recent issues of The Batman's Grave by Warren Ellis, Bryan Hitch, Kevin Nowlan and Alex Sinclair,  we have seen a more bolshy than usual Afred Pennyworth, which must come from being dead Whether it's critiquing Batman as a rich man just beating up poor people in The Batman's Grave #1. Then asking why Batman doesn't[...]

DC Comics may be experimenting with the idea of overshipping again, with The Last God #1, but the are much more comfortable with the idea of making certain comic books returnable. Retailers have just been told some new retunable titles, and what hoops retailers will have to jump through in order to send back hypothetical unsold[...]

This week's The Batman's Grave when it wasn't reinventing the Wayne family graves, alongside the freakiest gift that loving parents can get their child, and getting thematically interrupted by adverts for chocolate bars, had Alfred Pennyworth destroying the entire concept of The Batman. It would have been cheaper to buy Gotham Or, at least, buy off[...]

Something a little grander, more Egyptian. The graves have also been portrayed as on the grounds of the Wayne Manor, or at least having the cemetery be next door. In today's Batman's Grave #1 by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch, they are out of the mausoleum, out of Gotham Cemetery and on the grounds of Wayne[...]