Can someone tell Batman why not?!?

I don't quite get the venom being cut loose on the Adams' Batman. The thing is pretty much a straight up bronze age style comic, which should make sense considering who is making the thing. Clean up a bit of the language from Robin and you could drop this thing straight into a 100 Page Detective Batman Family Giant from 78. Maybe I have a heart or a soft head for such comics, I didn't think it was that bad. I just think fans now over think stuff to an extent.

Maybe they should have put on the yellow circle around the bat to make it obvious, I don't know.

As for the artwork, the guy really hasn't lost much at all, some of the pages are almost 3D. The inking style is more Klaus Janson than say Dick Giordano on a lot of the book, which is some of the difference.

http://i.newsarama.com/images/bmody_cv4_02.jpg

wtf is happening there

like, is Batman tripping and someone locked him in a hairdresser's basement or something

lol at the dialogue in that excerpt

TRIPPING BALLS.

tripping hairs

bump

This Neal Adams Batman is so crazy it makes the All Star Frank Miller Batman look like Papa Spank!

wait, wait, wait, Neal! You drew the bullet coming out her back! You can't take that back! But you did, so OKAY.

"What's worse than finding a worm in an apple. Answer... Finding half a worm." NOT THE RIDDLER WHO SAID THAT EITHER.

and that's before Man-Bat calls Batman a eunuch!

and then Aquaman shows up fresh from the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics!

scans, please?

NOTE: This is not the actual Riddler, but salsa singer, former Panamanian Minister of Tourism Ruben Blades, really.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y298/hukl/tastethatreuben.jpg

lulz at gordon

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y298/hukl/halfaworm.jpg

whoa

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y298/hukl/kirk.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y298/hukl/calgary1988.jpg

I like the idea that Batman names each fist a different sandwich, "Taste that reuben!" POW "Have a bite of this Monte Cristo!" BIF!

I hope this comic sells so strongly that its tone gets adopted by all Batman comics so that Neal Adams can hold the distinction of being the guy who took the camp out of Batman and then 40 years later put it back.

thanks you for posting those.

wow, i may buy that

Yeah, I'm making my first comic store trip for two months today. Will definitely have to get this.

Oh my god, this comic.

should I buy this just for the mindspasm?

wait, when did Aquaman get his hand back

also when did he start killing people

doesn't he get a new hand every three years or so?

also I don't know but I would assume he was killing dudes when he had a HARPOON for a hand

like, presumably he wasn't killing fish with it

but

ut ut ut ut take it to "Can someone tell Aquaman why not?!?""

as someone who doesn't know much about comics i have to ask, did aquaman always have a mullet?

not until the 90s

(maybe 80s? that Craig Hamilton mini with the blue costume?)

I've only ever seen this ad, dunno if that's mullet or bubbles

http://namtab.com/aquablog/aquaman1986ad.gif

In my memory that's a mix between a classic mullet and a Lief Garrett 70s winged monstrosity. By the way, that's his uniform in the mini - he looks like a figure skater covered in kelp.

Despite all that, I remember liking the story. I was young and dumb, I'm sure.

http://www.poeghostal.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/aquaman.jpg

Didn't Aquaman have a semi-long hair in the 90s, not a mullet? It was Supes who had the horrible mullet.

I thought Aquaman was now back to his "classic" (pre-90s) look, but apparently not, at least not in this comic.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_h9LIEjK3ohY/RsjlsfowRZI/AAAAAAAAAzw/VQaR_dHuud4/s400/aquaman-harpoon.jpg http://www.comics101.com/comics101//images/view.php?src=../news/Comics%20101/224/Aquaman2.jpg http://namtab.com/aquablog/hawkman15pg24.gif

Clearly the 90s Aquaman was inspired by Kurt Cobain, not Don Johnson.

Interestingly, Neal Adams has no use for continuity. I think it's supposed to be an early adventure, but it's so clearly just Neal Adams doing things the way they should be. As we shall next issue when Batman meets the current president, Ultimate Warrior.

yeah, the Hamilton mini was 1986 [xp to tuomas]

Aquaman was iirc given his hand back by The Lady Of The Lake in return for defeating The Thirst, although this was a water filled glove kind of affair. I think his proper hand came back after he used the bones of it to pull Sub Diego back onto dry land while he was the Dweller In The Depths and was properly fixed while he was a Black Lantern.

I should get out more.

Fucking DC. Return of Bruce Wayne is running so late that he's already back in these bloody 'Road Home' things. Why don't they delay THEm so it all makes sense. And why is Return running late anyway? Each issue has a different artist and they still can't get it right. Fucksake!

Morrison's at fault there, as evidence by artists dropping out when the scripts don't arrive and rush-jobs by hacks going to print late instead.

kinda goes with morrison, but can't believe they don't make him turn in the whole fucking series in advance at this point.

DC have still blown their own scheduling on it though, dropping FOUR of the side-mini-series issues in ONE WEEK and getting the "now read X next!" blurbs wrong in at least one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT0U8-JZyLg

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b-man, u are trying to build your life, and I will never, ever come between you and any of that.....I know things are the way they are, and I have agreed to accept it.... but like right now.... when I feel broken.... i think of you and i feel the connection again.... it doesn't matter who i am with.....you know i am always with you -J

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Neal Adams: Too lazy to draw a banana.

Batman to Aquaman: "You know...sometimes...not always, but sometimes, you are a scary-looking dude, my friend."

JACKSON H. MONKEYSPIT!

Heard a lot of good things about this! Also about gentrification supposedly?

Yeah it feels like the first DC comic I've read since the 90s that was **about something** instead of the usual self-regarding DC bullshit about **what I means to be an icon** etc etc

But it wears all that lightly - mostly it's just a delightful, grounded, fun "one more heist" story with a good villain, and makes a couple staple characters (Croc, Riddler) more interesting than I've seen them before, possibly ever. It's **really** good if it's Chiang's first writing job.

Kind of reminds me of the Cooke runs on Catwoman and Spirit in the '00s

It's fun. Really love his artwork

(surprised by how much this was, £5.60 for 50 pages on comixology, but then wonder if that's just inflation for you)

(TDKR was $2.95 in 1986 which would be $8.84 in 2020, about £6.50, physical copy, so maybe ok)

(but i will wait for a sale)

I’m mostly still a shameful stealer but this is the first time I’ve read and enjoyed something enough to buy it in print

Don’t want to oversell it! But it’s definitely actually-good not graded-on-a-curve-good

Lonely City is a Black Label book, so it's being printed in oversize magazine format. That's probably why the digital price seemed jacked up, to match the physical

This does look cool, thx for the rec

Yeah the two physical issues (so far) seem to be $8.99 / $11.99 for 48 pgs. (each); vs. $2.95 cover price for my 1986 copy of TDKR 3 (46 pgs.) = $7.50 in 2021 dollas… I’ll wait for the collection, I guess.

my 20th anniversary hardback copy of tdkr now goes on ebay for less than i paid for it, even before inflation. and i don't think i've actually read it, other than the extra bits.

but every 5 years that seems to have an anniversary edition. or they decide to reprint it without the colouring or some crap. did they ever fix the swastika tattoo on that one woman's chest?

omg

I am once again thinking about how an obscure PBS documentary got Adam West (RIP) to read 20 seconds’ worth of narration from Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns, and how those 20 seconds are my favorite Batman movie: pic.twitter.com/eKenX2hz6H

— Abraham Riesman אברהם ריסמן (@abrahamjoseph) March 14, 2022

wow!

Strongly dislike Riseman, but good clip!

he's in that category of people I see on twitter (I don't follow him) but don't really know what their ~deal~ is

His Stan Lee biography is really good (if, like me, you're firmly in the Stan = old fraud camp)

I believe he was involved in some online harassment a while back, that put him firmly on my “fuck this guy” list, but I may be misremembering

Otherwise I just hate the way he writes, he seems part of that AV Club influenced-turn in alt-weekly style culture writing to overinflated word counts and boring personal anecdote

Is the new movie any good? y/n

(Or maybe that’s a pitchfork thing but I don’t read pitchfork.)

Anyway: Adam west really hits that both-funny-and-scary sweet spot with this. Should have had him on all-star Batman too

morrisp, there’s a thread Robert Pattinson IS The Batman

I would say it’s fine, Adam West reading the script might be better

I ended up with this huge hardcover of a thing called Gotham Central Omnibus (a guy was cleaning out his office, and gave it to my wife). Is it good / worth getting into? Looks like Batman isn’t in it very much!

it's decent pulp - Rucka and Brubaker writing different shifts of weary regular cops but! in a supervillain world

very fond memories of it

The first arc is a little stiff, but after that it gets better and better.

Greg Rucka is a good influence on Ed Brubaker but an inferior writer in almost every way. One Brubaker leaves, it gets less interesting, but it's still worth finishing.

It exists in an interesting space where crime writers still wanted to riff on Homicide: Life on the Streets (a huge influence, even down to the colouring) but no one was really watching The Wire yet.

Allen and Montoya were two fun characters that DC lost sight of because of racism and editorial carelessness

*Once not One

Really nice Michael Lark art on the early issues.

Montoya hasn't been completely forgotten at least, she later became The Question II and has showed up in various films and TV series. Crispus Allen for sure though