Oh and I have to say after the hermetic convoluted insanity of the Morrison run (which I enjoyed) it's a total breath of fresh air to read what is just a solid, well thought out mystery
― Brakhage, Thursday, 4 September 2014 18:47 (nine years ago) link
One insane Batman book - the David Lapham series, City of Crime, which made NO sense but in a way is totally modern Batman nuttiness (grimy underclass life mixed in with bizarre mud-people dopplegangers!)
The Morrison run start to finish is fucking boss, bigger investment than 1 GN though
― Nhex, Thursday, 4 September 2014 18:59 (nine years ago) link
oh! if you don't mind batman being more of an ominous background force (which is how i think batman works best because otherwise you're dealing with a focal character who is a dork in tights), gotham central is really really good. up there with year one (which works with batman as the focus because it's constantly pointing out how dorky he is).
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 4 September 2014 19:46 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, the Morrison Bat-Opus is maybe my favorite mainstream comics thing from the past five years or so.
People seem to be pretty keen on Synder's run but I haven't read any of it. That might be a place to start.
― Gwumpy Bubby Want Hims Ba-Ba (Old Lunch), Thursday, 4 September 2014 19:47 (nine years ago) link
Snyder, rather.
― Gwumpy Bubby Want Hims Ba-Ba (Old Lunch), Thursday, 4 September 2014 19:48 (nine years ago) link
i remember "Joker" being okay
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 September 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link
I have no idea what the actual sequence of events are in 52-Bats
lol yeah wasn't GMoz just given carte blanche to continue doing his thing totally independent of the rest of the DC Universe?
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 4 September 2014 20:30 (nine years ago) link
he must have because if that shit is canon, canon ate itself
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 September 2014 20:31 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I've been reading Snyder's run which is great (the colorist is fantastic) but this Year Zero thing totally confused me as to what exactly the Bat history is now. I don't have the fortitude to actually find out, I'm just along for the ride
― Brakhage, Thursday, 4 September 2014 20:43 (nine years ago) link
If I remember right he had just gotten going on Bats Inc when the 52 rug was pulled out and there was no way Inc could have existed in continuity, so he just said 'look at least let me finish this damn book' so Inc kept right on going
― Brakhage, Thursday, 4 September 2014 20:48 (nine years ago) link
I'm not absolutely sure about that, so please correct me. One of the hangovers from this reboot is Memento-esque brain damage
― Brakhage, Thursday, 4 September 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link
IIRC, Batman Inc and Johns's GL were the only New 52 books generally unaffected by the reboot.
― Gwumpy Bubby Want Hims Ba-Ba (Old Lunch), Thursday, 4 September 2014 20:53 (nine years ago) link
they should just abandon continuity altogether imo
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 4 September 2014 21:08 (nine years ago) link
I think you could make a solid argument that they already have, however unintentionally.
― Coarse Apple Slaw (Old Lunch), Thursday, 4 September 2014 21:30 (nine years ago) link
i believe that's known as "the liefeld effect"
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 September 2014 21:38 (nine years ago) link
I loved it in the recent Inkstuds pod where Matt Fraction compared the new 52 to putting your dick on a table and handing somebody a ruler to hit you with
― Brakhage, Thursday, 4 September 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
Intrigued by this one, which came out a year ago but which I only just found out about -- Batman vs architecture
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/B009MD2N5Q.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Friday, 5 September 2014 01:47 (nine years ago) link
two years ago!
― boney tassel (sic), Friday, 5 September 2014 03:04 (nine years ago) link
I love the 70s
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WStGdxfxH0o/VElwkqCBvMI/AAAAAAABEe8/RnnUC4Ryv5c/s1600/3978.jpg
― Οὖτις, Friday, 24 October 2014 20:07 (nine years ago) link
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theledger/obituary.aspx?n=stephen-merrill&pid=174158574
WINTER HAVEN - Stephen Merrill, 31, passes away February 12, 2015, due to a uppercut from Batman. He was born January 28, 1984, the son of Larry Ronald Merrill and Bridgett I. Dotson Merrill. He was in retail sales at The Big Shop in Legoland, Florida. In addition to his parents, Stephen is survived by his fiancée, Stephanie Vella; son, Noah; and sister, Kimberly. Visitation is Tuesday, February 17, 2015, from 12-1PM with a celebration of life at 1PM, both at Ott-Laughlin Funeral Home, Winter Haven. - See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theledger/obituary.aspx?n=stephen-merrill&pid=174158574#sthash.qRsMf30j.dpuf
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 05:24 (nine years ago) link
http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/winter-haven-mans-obituary-lists-cause-of-death-uppercut-from-batman
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 05:25 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/EV4wiZA.jpg
This is the best batman story I've read in tears
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 5 November 2016 14:34 (seven years ago) link
I mean years, but tears too
I picked up the Alan Davis batman book in the sale. It's fun and campy. Never heard about this run before.
E.g.
https://i.imgur.com/LlG4xdd.jpg
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 23 November 2017 19:29 (six years ago) link
And also
https://i.imgur.com/IELzvR4.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/u92lgNq.jpg
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 23 November 2017 19:30 (six years ago) link
Here's the first one without the first half of the gag cut off
https://i.imgur.com/CpULv1P.jpg
And my favourite trope, where batman can only enter a room by crashing through some wooden blinds
https://i.imgur.com/kicFJIO.jpg
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 23 November 2017 19:34 (six years ago) link
That short Barr/Davis run truly is delightful. Should have lasted longer.
― Duane Barry, Thursday, 23 November 2017 19:43 (six years ago) link
those are painful to look at, like every time ppl on the internet post old Marvel comics from online services
― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Friday, 24 November 2017 20:02 (six years ago) link
Good stuff -- is it this?: http://www.dccomics.com/graphic-novels/legends-of-the-dark-knight-alan-davis
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Saturday, 25 November 2017 20:25 (six years ago) link
Yeah that's it. the run is only six issues or so. the book's padded out with a (not very good) graphic novel included.
I take sic's point but the recolouring isn't quite as heinous as on e.g. the neal adams reissues
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 26 November 2017 12:16 (six years ago) link
Seems to be OOP...
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Sunday, 26 November 2017 19:47 (six years ago) link
My son, unclear on the concept, play-acting young Bruce Wayne discovering the Batcave:
“Alfred! — I fell into a big hole in the backyard... it was a cave that had a computer built into the wall!”
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 04:04 (five years ago) link
hahahahahahaha!
― Arthur Funzonerelli (stevie), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 08:59 (five years ago) link
Well, I managed to avoid the nyt spoilers, but that was a bit fucking boring either way
I’ve never seen the appeal of full-page posters in the middle of a comic, and there are some spectacularly butt-ugly examples in this issue
King is entering his bad Malick phase, it seems
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 5 July 2018 16:12 (five years ago) link
I just saw a long article about the “NY Times spoiler”... Umm, people read about comics in the NY Times(?)
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Friday, 6 July 2018 00:14 (five years ago) link
It was in the Weddings section
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Friday, 6 July 2018 01:29 (five years ago) link
One more in a long list of recent black marks on the Times, I guess.
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Friday, 6 July 2018 02:48 (five years ago) link
Spoiler question about #50...
Wait, so who was the Batman in the last frame? And are we supposed to believe Bane somehow set this all up?
― Nhex, Friday, 13 July 2018 18:04 (five years ago) link
Damn, Norm Breyfogle died! My favourite Batman artist by miles, stupidly uncollected for such a long time.
https://i.imgur.com/wdoonko.jpg
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 23:08 (five years ago) link
His run with Alan Grant is probably still my favourite extended run on Batman. RIP.
― Duane Barry, Thursday, 27 September 2018 00:38 (five years ago) link
Aw, crap. My favourite too. The Grant/Breyfogles are my ideal Batman comics.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Thursday, 27 September 2018 00:59 (five years ago) link
In response, an audience member yelled, “F— Trump.” West added, “Now you got a situation where we need to have a dialogue and not a diatribe because if you want something to change, it’s not going to change by saying, ‘F— that person.’ Try love. Try love. Try love. Try love.”Some audience members laughed. “You see they laughing at me. You heard ’em, they scream at me, they bully me. They bullied me backstage they said, ‘Don’t go out there with that hat on.’ They bullied me backstage. They bullied me. And then they say I’m in a sunken place. You want to see the sunken place? Okay, I’ma listen to y’all now.”He removed his MAGA hat before putting it back on. “Or I’ma put my Superman cape on, which means you can’t tell me what to do,” he said.
Some audience members laughed. “You see they laughing at me. You heard ’em, they scream at me, they bully me. They bullied me backstage they said, ‘Don’t go out there with that hat on.’ They bullied me backstage. They bullied me. And then they say I’m in a sunken place. You want to see the sunken place? Okay, I’ma listen to y’all now.”
He removed his MAGA hat before putting it back on. “Or I’ma put my Superman cape on, which means you can’t tell me what to do,” he said.
― Ah, the minty egg bits (sic), Sunday, 30 September 2018 18:45 (five years ago) link
Can someone tell Kanye why not
― brush ’em like crazy (morrisp), Sunday, 30 September 2018 20:35 (five years ago) link
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/01/09/1400000-batman-comics-stolen-storage-unit/
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Friday, 11 January 2019 06:48 (five years ago) link
in awe of the size of this bat. absolute unit
― more ham for me myself and i (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 11 January 2019 07:16 (five years ago) link
I read that West quote above, and in this thread context, wondered a) Adam West is speaking about loving Trump? and b) isn't he dead? (Fun fact: Walla Walla, WA - his birthplace - has had two Adam West Day events.)
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Friday, 11 January 2019 15:00 (five years ago) link
that would be a quote from kanye west, not adam west, iirc
― more ham for me myself and i (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 11 January 2019 15:03 (five years ago) link
lol
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Friday, 11 January 2019 15:09 (five years ago) link
now wondering who would play robin in a world where kanye took on the mantle of the 60s batman
― more ham for me myself and i (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 11 January 2019 15:10 (five years ago) link
I’ve never had a chance to mention this to anyone, but I loved it... at an auto show, four years or so ago, I saw a guy wearing the following T-shirt (picture the final line in super-big text):CHRISTIAN BALEGEORGE CLOONEYMICHAEL KEATONVAL KILMERADAM WEST — FUCK THE REST
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Friday, 11 January 2019 15:54 (five years ago) link