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Over a lifetime of reading comics, Senior Writer Chris Sims has developed an inexhaustible arsenal of facts and opinions. That's why, each and every week, we turn to you to put his comics culture knowledge to the test as he responds to your reader questions...

Superhero comics have a diversity problem. The leading characters are largely male, mostly white, and overwhelmingly straight. By definition, well-established characters come from an era when the culture was even straighter, whiter and more male than it is today, and as a result the characters fail to represent the diversity of their audience. ...

When word broke that Tim Drake was designed with a potential cage fighting background in mind in Batman: Arkham City, fans were a little flustered. Tim's traditionally been more about brains than brawn, after all. It's too soon to know exactly how this personality modification will play out as part of Best Buy's (and GameStop's, in other parts of the world) exclusive Robin DLC, but judging from tw

If you haven't been sold on Batman: Arkham City's more brooding take on Tim Drake thus far, the Arkhamcity.co.uk board has spotted additional looks for the anti-Boy Wonder that might be more your speed. An image collecting the standard outfit along with Drake's Red Robin and (Dick Grayson's) Batman: The Animated Series skins have popped up on Amazon...

Fans rejoiced last month when it was finally confirmed that Robin would be a playable character within the Best Buy exclusive challenge maps of Warner Bros. and Rocksteady Studios' Batman: Arkham City. Aside from a clean black and white image to look at, though, Robinites haven't been able to find out a whole lot about Batman's partner in crimefighting...

After being 'dead' for about a month and traveling through time for upwards of a year, Batman has finally returned. It's doubtful that anyone missed his return to the world of the contemporary living, since he did it in about ten different books over the last two months...