Can someone tell Batman why not?!?

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We're never gonna find out whether Bruce was naked or not.

In other news, most recent Batman Inc was super-fun

Agreed! Also: wow, Grant reads Scalped.

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Try again:

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Not me, by the way.

YES!

BATMAN: ODYSSEY VOL. 2 #1

Written by NEAL ADAMS
Art and cover by NEAL ADAMS
1:10 B&W variant cover by NEAL ADAMS
On sale OCTOBER 19 • 1 of 7, 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T
Retailers: This issue will ship with two covers. See the Previews order form for more information.
BATMAN: ODYSSEY is back in a new volume from legendary writer/artist Neal Adams!
It's finally happened: Batman must kill or be killed. The threat is real and can't be stopped by man or hero. To combat it, Batman must bring time itself to a standstill so that he can embark on an odyssey of self-discovery to a place unknown to mankind, where he can find himself. But is this a place where only failure awaits?

Yay! Maybe they'll collect the first chunk in a trade to coincide.

Maybe I should just hold out for the Absolute edition.

Reading the summary, it's Neal Adams' own BATMAN R.I.P.!

Plus: NOTED USE OF THE WORD "ODYSSEY". Look out!

But is this a place where epic failure awaits?

Did they renumber this to coincide with the DC universe restart? That's hilarious!

I saw they're making a Batman t-shirt with an image from this on the front. I'd totally buy it if it was hirsute Bruce, but alas it is just running Batman.

If it was hirsute Bruce talking about being on a t-shirt in a non-sequitur manner, I would wear it every day.

I'd only buy one shirt, but still wear it daily because being smelly and weird kind of fits with the tone of the comic

man even the synopsis makes no sense

i was talking about this series with a friend while we were in a comic store and the guy behind the counter had clearly not read it and clearly didn't know adams and couldn't figure out why i was so excited by its existence

how can you work at a comic store and not know Adams

that seems like working at a jewelry store and not knowing about bracelets

file under: kids these days

he interrupted my diatribe to ask how it was any different from any other cape/tightfest and i showed him the iceaxe splash page and he glanced at it, shrugged and said it didn't seem any different from morrison so go figure

well there's the thing where Morrison's sentences all seem to be related to each other, for starters

that's.... sad

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in dude's defense, grant morrison is also bonkers.

sure, but Morrison's stories tend to be crazy in the sense of "I can't believe he just did that", not in the sense of "what the fuck does this mean"

eh I dunno some of his stuff can be pretty oblique, especially if you aren't paying close attention to seemingly minor details. otoh the clerk's comment just seems wrong

maybe Morrison is in control of his madness, where Adams is not

Morrison does a lot of big picture crazy where all the details really only make sense if you look at the whole storyline (and have a deep understanding of kabbalah).

Adams is just nutso

the only Morrison thing I've read that I thought didn't make sense no matter how many times I read it was Mr Miracle and that was only because it relied heavily on assumed knowledge outside of the book; even Shining Knight had a massive "A-HA!" moment that made the first two issues intelligible in retrospect

well there's the thing where Morrison's sentences all seem to be related to each other, for starters
― a variable (sic) "League of Nations" (DJP), Wednesday, July 20, 2011

TBF, that is hardly a consistently accurate assumption

lol being a Kirby nerd I had no problems with Mr. Miracle

The main criterion one should have of a solicitation is "Does it make me wish to read the book in question?" This one, in all its jolly oddness ("...BY MAN OR HERO."; "...BRING TIME TO A STANDSTILL.") most certainly does.

I think what's drawing the most attention is the lack of any exclamation marks, thus rendering all its absurdity po-faced. Absurdity is always better sans hyperbole - who knows what awaits?

Adams has been a mentalist very occasionally making terrible, unreadable comics for thirty years now (until Odyssey, which is either terrible and compulsively readable, or amazing and unreadable) - clerk otm

TIME... ITSELF!

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It's BEAUTIFUL.

What the hell? The head cages made of tusks - how are they attached? And why?

Can't guess how, but as to why I'm postulating those are like the lampshade things vets put on pets so they don't lick/bite a healing wound or surgical scar etc.

So that they can't attack the rider or people standing nearby when stationary, I think

Has anyone ever addressed the unlikely coincidence that Bruce Wayne & Boy Wonder share the same initials? If not, I have a pitch for THE summer event of 2013!

Batman: Odyssey is the only Batman book I ever want to read

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just read this whole thread, i am dying

it's a tragedy if this was canceled

it's still running; they started a volume 2

need to sit down and reread all of these

gonna do a first readthru finally in about five minutes

oh my god every page is immensely impossible and utterly insane
this is kind of magic

I liked Ra's moping around like Charlie Brown. "Sigh..."

i was drowsy when i read this and i fell asleep and when i woke up everything i heard or read sounded like gibberish to me

i was drowsy when i read this and i fell asleep and when i woke up everything i heard or read sounded like gibberish to me

So Batman: Odyssey was the only sane thing in an insane world? Awesome.

Might as well post this here because it's a goddamn Batman book by any other name -- but omg, Holy Terror is so insane and bad. Miller didn't even try to make it good, he just had to get the loathing down on paper as quickly as possible.

explains why he spent eight years working on it

oh what an octopus of a thing