Remake/Remodel: DC Rebirth so you don't have to

I suppose, though it retains a ton of other elements from the "real" continuity (a cameo by the Justice League; a bunch of first-, second- and third-rate Batman villains who are painstakingly taken from canonical sources; etc.). Weird to have a Bat-world where Harley Quinn and Bane are familiar nemeses; Barbara Gordon is older than usual and taking over as commissioner, has never been Batgirl, and Batman has a crush on her; and Dick Grayson is a young orphan whom Batman is just now meeting...

I know I sound like I Hate Fun or something, and that's totally overstating it... it's not a huge deal, just more like -- that's not "Batman," you know? He's not an egotistical jerk who thinks he's the greatest, etc. And the Lego Batman in those straight-to-DVD movies is more like a traditional idea of Batman. Being small and made of plastic (and cracking frequent jokes) doesn't mean they can't still "feel" like characters drawn inside the lines of canon, and the movie was outside the lines for me somehow.

(And also the fact that they explicitly allude to all those movies and iconic comic book covers, which implies a connection to a history that is then flouted/ignored... but I know, you're not supposed to read that much into it.)

it's an elseworlds batman

I can understand what you mean by feeling it's off, though. I think I've seen an episode and a half of whatever Spider-Man animated show is currently on and it has characters and locations with familiar names, but none of them fit together in a way I'm accustomed to.

I feel like the meta-commentary of some of the Lego junk means that it takes place in a world similar to ours where somehow there both is a Batman and there's Batman fiction that's the same as our Batman fiction

Yeah - one of the jokes is like, "Remember that time with the parade and the Prince music?"; so it can be pretty aggressively meta.

morrisp you're overthinking this. just enjoy it!

I DEMAND FEALTY TO THE ALMIGHTY BAT-CAN(N)ON!

Crucially this Batman is the Batman from the Lego Movie, so most of your objections are not really on very solid ground.

Yah - but he's not dating "Wyldstyle" and fighting the "kragle" in this one... he lives in the Batcave, protects Gotham City, interacts with tons of other DC characters, etc. It gets close enough to being a "real" Batman production, that the odd ways in which it deviates are highlighted; making it (for me) fall into a kind of "uncanny valley" of "off-brand Batman." I've said my piece!!

fudd/batman xover has my full attention

The Lego Batman Movie is at least the second-best Batman movie

The last Nolan movie is definitely less plausible than the Lego one

"You should use your given name more often... ROBIN"

mask of the phantasm still pretty good

just got a blu-ray release too

Chuck is right, the BatFudd book is really good. I actually think I like the backup more, but well worth your time.

Backup was also good! And considerably less pitiful than the wile e coyote issue.

The Facebook mobile app is letting you, er, cosplay as the justice league right now

BatFudd is solid

I didn't think 2017 could get much more surreal, but I was wrong.

Found a Justice League mini-comic (focusing on Aquaman) inside a box of Honey Nut Cheerios. Is it "canon"?

Not Rebirth I guess, but I'm excited about a DC comic for the first time since, hm, Seven Soldiers I guess -- maybe Morrison on Batman. Tom King's Mister Miracle series. First issue was a great appetite-whetter.

I've become a real King believer the past year

I loved it but wish King had tried a *teensy* bit harder to make it accessible to new readers.

Also I hope/assume loveable supporting character *redacted* isn't actually dead

Not really enjoying the new King story on Batman (except the Kite man oneoff) which is a shame as the art kills whenever it's not David Finch

Throughout the debut issue of Mister Miracle, the new 12-issue limited series from superstar team Tom King, Mitch Gerads and Clayton Cowles, two words recur:

“Darkseid is.”

Those words, colored white and in contrast to a stark black background are bone-chilling at best, truly harrowing at worst. As the issue progresses, they become more defining on the page, darting around a nine-panel grid, slowly, but surely occupying more and more panels. It’s a testament to exactly how good Clayton Cowles is as a letterer that these words alone are enough to invoke a sense of feeling trapped.

lads

Glad I've been preordering it (haven't read it yet), based pretty much entirely on how much y'all have talked up King. Which I guess makes it the first mainstream DCU book I've bought since Multiversity (although I'm not sure to what extent either book really counts as mainstream DCU).

i kinda hate any repetitive bullshit in comics for the sake of pretense (full page black, double page spread recaps) and the "darkseid is" stuff is egregious but the new miracle man isn't half bad. needs a few more issues to tell.

I enjoyed the issue but sic’s quote there is indeed lol

METAL! It reminds me of a *slightly* more readable 90s Jim Lee comic

Not as good as those Justice League backups in Cave Carson, though

man the ads for metal make it look like the absolute worst...

i went to my local and bought #1, sounded silly enough

i read it. not very good. art kinda lackluster too

..but it's snyder so i'll give him the benefit of the doubt for now

If I hadn't personally witnessed the decline of DC over the past six years or so, I would've been somewhat aghast at their attempt to paint this Metal thing as an actual event rather than the ignorably-tertiary blip (a la, say, the Batman/TMNT crossover) that it so clearly is.

I wonder what will need to happen for mainstream DC to approach must-read status again. DiDio retiring, at the very least.

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"VERY METAL"

i'd honestly rather have these "blip"-style events vs the omega clusterfucks DC/Marvel put out every year, all year long, now. i mean is Secret Empire over yet? even Generations has like 20 tie-ins or something

also these are much easier to read 6 months after the fact from the library

i just read Civil War II, that story made like no goddamn sense

wait this is the DC thread sorry

why don't they just do this shit as some elseworlds thing

bring back elseworlds

Heads up, fucking sandman (g not k) is in this thing

because multiversity means everything is fair game for the dumbest iteration :/

This is kind of a dumb question but - what's up with the appearance/skin color of Helena Bertinelli/Huntress? She had a darker skin tone for GRAYSON, and I just read the first arc of BATGIRL AND THE BIRDS OF PREY and she's back to being lily-white?

So Superman #32, published this week, suddenly announces that it takes place before Deathstroke #21, published 4 months ago. I'm sure that won't have any implications at all, I mean, not unless you were planning a massive event book that will have huge repercussions for your entire universe continuity and centred around the Superman line of books.

(also the Mr Oz reveal seems to have been in line with the late rumours and is k-rub.)

Do you find yourself enjoying enough of these books to offset the damage you're doing to your constitution?

Of course not.

we need to start a therapy/electroshock fund for aldo

You love the pain, admit it

Rebirth is gonna get Bendisy