Originally published on The Gutter Review on October 8, 2021. The spirit of The Gutter Review lives on today in the form of Trash Humper, a zine you can buy with your grubby hands right now: head h…

Originally published on The Gutter Review on October 8, 2021. The spirit of The Gutter Review lives on today in the form of Trash Humper, a zine you can buy with your grubby hands right now: head h…

By Steve Morris There’s not many characters like Batman in media as a whole. He’s existed so long that writers and artists can genuinely take the character, wrap him up in any issues or…

By Steve Morris There’s not many characters like Batman in media as a whole. He’s existed so long that writers and artists can genuinely take the character, wrap him up in any issues or…

Originally published on The Gutter Review on May 26, 2023. The spirit of The Gutter Review lives on today in the form of Trash Humper, a zine you can buy with your grubby hands right now: head here…

Originally published on The Gutter Review on May 26, 2023. The spirit of The Gutter Review lives on today in the form of Trash Humper, a zine you can buy with your grubby hands right now: head here…

“There was a time above. A time before… There were perfect things. Diamond absolutes. But things fall – things on Earth. And what falls… Is fallen.” ~ Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck), from Ba…

By Lillian Hochwender We all have our own personal Batman: for some, it’s the mascara-smeared Robert Pattinson; for others, it’s Frank Miller’s blocky brute. But over the decades, the specifics of …

By Steve Morris When Batman was first created by Bill Finger and a dozing Bob Kane in 1939, billionaires were as rare in the real world as depressed vigilantes dressed as nocturnal mammals. The con…

By Andy Tuttle Obsession; it’s a hot word right now thanks in large part to Curry Barker’s 2026 horror film of the same name, in which a lovesick loser makes a wish that the girl of his dreams woul…

Originally published on The Gutter Review on May 31, 2022. The spirit of The Gutter Review lives on today in the form of Trash Humper, a zine you can buy with your grubby hands right now: head here…

Originally published on The Gutter Review on May 31, 2022. The spirit of The Gutter Review lives on today in the form of Trash Humper, a zine you can buy with your grubby hands right now: head here…

By Alex Jaffe “What if The Question… fought The Riddler?” The Question, Steve Ditko’s faceless, iconoclastic ode to The Spirit for Charlton Comics, is my favorite superhero. But it’s not the hero a…

By Gregory Paul Silber On paper, Animal Man seems like a joke. It’s about as generic-sounding as a superhero name can be, and with the power to absorb the abilities of any creature in the animal ki…

By Hank Kennedy The battle between Marvel’s Sgt. Fury and DC’s Sgt. Rock was, to my eyes, no contest: I would take the Combat Happy Joes serving under Frank Rock over the Howling Commandos any day …

Originally published on The Gutter Review. The spirit of The Gutter Review lives on today in the form of Trash Humper, a zine you can buy with your grubby hands right now: head here to buy it, cree…

By David Brothers Shuzo Oshimi is a cartoonist who is largely known for works that blend youth and perversion, in the specific sense of a deviation from the norm, but still with all the sexual subt…

By Steve Morris He may be a new sensation, and the most fantastic man alive, but Plastic Man didn’t make the main cover for Police Comics #1, the dubiously-titled comic featuring his debut. I…

By Steve Morris He may be a new sensation, and the most fantastic man alive, but Plastic Man didn’t make the main cover for Police Comics #1, the dubiously-titled comic featuring his debut. I…

Originally published on The Gutter Review on March 17th, 2022. The spirit of The Gutter Review lives on today in the form of Trash Humper, a zine you can buy with your grubby hands right now: head …

By Chad “Steve” Nevett Bibliographies for comic book writers are a funny thing. I had finished reading We Called Them Giants or maybe one of the Brubaker/Phillips hardcovers from the pa…

By Chad “Steve” Nevett Bibliographies for comic book writers are a funny thing. I had finished reading We Called Them Giants or maybe one of the Brubaker/Phillips hardcovers from the pa…

Originally published on The Gutter Review on August 27, 2021. The spirit of The Gutter Review lives on today in the form of Trash Humper, a zine you can buy with your grubby hands right now: head h…