TheDarkKnightRises

Warning: The following contains major spoilers for The Dark Knight Rises. Proceed at your own risk! It probably won't surprise anyone to learn that I liked The Dark Knight Rises quite a bit. I was, after all, part of the team here at ComicsAlliance that wrote somewhere in the neighborhood of 60,000 words about how much I loved Nolan's last Batman film, and I walked out of this one feeling satisfi

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To celebrate the release of The Dark Knight Rises, Pomplamoose created a lighthearted, lightly dubstep-infused video last week covering Danny Elfman's 1989 Batman movie theme starring the duo in superhero personas. Before the duo could release their video, however, tragedy struck in Aurora, Colorado...

In a familiar development concerning superhero movies and their characters' creators, Chuck Dixon -- one of the two men responsible for Bane, the villain from The Dark Knight Rises -- is giving interviews about sharing the success of his creation...

While a more traditional, multi-part Cinematic Batmanology analysis of The Dark Knight Rises is certainly forthcoming, the majority of ComicsAlliance contributors walked away from the film with thoughts and feelings. The writers were directed to be brief, informal and even irreverent, with the published piece envisioned to comprise a variety of reactions -- love, hate, quibble -- that would offer

Last Friday, just after midnight, a masked gunman opened fire in a crowded cinema of moviegoers who'd lined up to see the early morning screening of the new Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises, in Aurora, Colorado. More than 70 people were shot or otherwise injured in the attack, with 12 ultimately losing their lives and several still in critical condition...

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James Holmes was arrested Friday morning in connection with the horrific shooting deaths of at least 12 people at a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado, a suburb of Denver. Authorities say the 24-year-old gunman, who was wearing a mask, injured at least 50 other people...

You probably know about Rush Limbaugh's latest embarrassing conspiracy theory, whereby DC Comics writer and artist Chuck Dixon and Graham Nolan created the villain Bane 20 years ago as a spectacularly circuitous eff-you to Republican candidate Mitt Romney, who likes to brag about founding the investment firm Bain Capital, during his presidential campaign this year...