Batman carries on beginning in ... The Dark Knight

You're not my intended audience.

Leee I will fight you for I Love Comics ownership.

I checked "The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told" out of the library recently, and despite an inevitable emphasis on one-issue stories, it has a lot of great material in it.

I really dig Matt Wagner's three-parter "Faces" from Legends of the Dark Knight. I think it got reprinted as a tpb. There was another one "Blades" from around the same time with art by Tim Sale and written by James Robinson that was also high quality. Dunno if you can still find that one, though.

Also, the recent "Mad Moon Rising" or whatever it was called thing by Wagner retelling the early Hugo Strange and Mad Monk stories is a lot of fun. Fact is, though, I'm just a Wagner fanboy, so take that as you will.

Oh yeah! Also the first Grendel/Batman crossover, the one with Hunter Rose. The later one with Grendelprime kinda sucked.

Now that I think of it, when it comes to superheroes I've always preferred bright-coloured cosmic fables to dark and edgy vigilante stuff, so I guess I do hate Batman.

good now get out

Bring it if you can, monster jessie.

xpost s1ocki otm.

slocki harsh but fair -- it's like Tuomas is wishing the sky wasn't blue.

tuomas would probably like the batman story in mike allred's solo tho.

yay Matt Wagner

If you can find them in the back issue bins, Pete Milligan's Batman one-issues are just as awesome as their titles suggest they might be ("The Executioner Wore Stiletto Heels" and "The Hungry Grass!"). Also, the Wagner/Grant run is bestest -- definitely more "funny dark" than "tortured dark."

i dunno guys tuomas is saying it in a really annoying way as usual but i think hes right that this is some bullshit dark re-imagineered david fincher joker instead of classic funny-yet-crazy joker - do yall also like this?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/American_McGee_Alice_box.gif/256px-American_McGee_Alice_box.gif

No one likes American McGee.

tuomas would probably like the batman story in mike allred's solo tho.

Also sci-fi closet Morrison? There were really only a couple of good issues though.

I like Year 100 but Tuomas wouldn't.

I dunno, I thought the Nolan movie was quite light-hearted in places. It wasn't dark in a "grim 'n gritty" way.

classic funny-yet-crazy joker

"classic" is subject to debate, as this thread makes rather obvious. which interpretation a reader/viewer priveleges is entirely up to their own prejudices.

I dunno guys we have two photographs and a totally inconsistent narrative spanning nearly a century involving perhaps hundreds of authors, surely we can nail down the probable levels of genuine intent and fitting nuance mr ledger will bring to the role, and what the script will have in it.

I predict Ledger dances a killer Batusi

I hope Ledger's Joker tries to out-do Bale's Batman in a contest of BONERS

definitely psyched about the prince song.

R. Kelly should do the soundtrack.

Perhaps snorggirl should play the Joker.

Snorggirl? Is that some superhero?

better if it were Snoggirl

genuine intent and fitting nuance mr ledger will bring to the role

I predict Ledger dances a killer Batusi

I hope Ledger's Joker tries to out-do Bale's Batman in a contest of BONERS

Can y'all call him Heath otherwise I get a little taken aback whenever I open the thread.

i just realized while watching it again this weekend that while its not my favorite batman movie i think mask of the phantasm has by far the best batman characterization of any of them

bruce wayne kneeling on his parents grave in the rain begging them to let him not be batman, and you know that hes going to have to anyway, is some tragic shit

http://rjr10036.typepad.com/proceed_at_your_own_risk/images/batman.jpg

if i could count the times i begged my folks not to be batman...

and yet they insisted on being batman

family outings were no fun at all. mom and dad were always on the lookout for some evildoers to bust.

The big trip to Disney World was a fiasco.

"Dad, the mad hatter is PART OF THE RIDE ffs"

Should I make my comic-lord brother get me copies of Arkham Asylum, Year One and the Alan Moore collection w/ The Killing Joke for a Batman introduction?

Yes.

obviously

btw dude, I woulda taken you up on that Drink offer if I'd caught it before I called it a night!

The world's gin supply is safe for the moment, so there will probably be more opportunities.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2007-05-28-dark-knight-firstlook_N.htm

http://www.comingsoon.net/images/newbatmansuit.jpg

fuck that robocop shit

best batman
http://www.brokenfrontier.com/img/2005/mar/DC/BatmanLegendsOfDarkKnightCv.jpg

...is that Moebius?

the late Seth Fisher, from his and JH Williams' and D. Curtis Johnson's LOTDK.

Well well:

http://www.latimes.com/media/alternatethumbnails/story/2007-06/30587677.jpg

Story.

whatever that is i love it

ok so they went and decided to top the actual jumping batmobile? that's good news. fuck a CGI.

Is that the Batvibrator?

No.

2nd best Batman

http://www.freegorifero.com/weblog/assets/060226.jpg

Year 100! I loved that.

So, I finally got around to seeing Batman: Mask of the Phantasm last night. I'm not sure if it's as great as some have hyped it to me, but it's really more solid than a lot of the 90s Batman films and does some interesting rewriting of the Batman origin story including a romantic interest that's scripted more maturely than other film versions, and it's in a cartoon! The whole thing reminded me how great the Batman animated series was.

http://video.whysoserious.com/TDK_Teaser_HD_Best_L98hufT.mov