Tag: backward

Superman’s backward Millennium and Batman gets a robot watchman for some reason

When you have three books a month to write for the crossover, it makes a sort of sense to do your own thing. John Byrne does just this by starting his crossover issues with barely anything connected to the Millennium event. Instead, it reintroduces another old-school Superman villain. Art by ...

Saving Lives: Steps Forward and Steps Backward

If you know someone who’s died of a drug overdose, you are far from alone. A new study from the esteemed RAND Corporation is shocking; it finds that 2 in 5 Americans know someone who’s died of a drug overdose. Here in New York, the problem is only getting worse. More than&nb...

Opinion: A huge step backward on opioids

The latest statistics on the overdose crisis — roughly 64,000 deaths in the United States in 2016 — also reveal that fentanyl and other synthetic opioids are now the driving force behind US overdose deaths. Fentanyl is an opioid estimated to be 50 to 100 times more po...