Can someone tell Batman why not?!?

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

And also

https://i.imgur.com/IELzvR4.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/u92lgNq.jpg

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

That short Barr/Davis run truly is delightful. Should have lasted longer.

those are painful to look at, like every time ppl on the internet post old Marvel comics from online services

Good stuff -- is it this?: http://www.dccomics.com/graphic-novels/legends-of-the-dark-knight-alan-davis

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

Seems to be OOP...

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!”

hahahahahahaha!

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

I just saw a long article about the “NY Times spoiler”... Umm, people read about comics in the NY Times(?)

It was in the Weddings section

One more in a long list of recent black marks on the Times, I guess.

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?

Damn, Norm Breyfogle died! My favourite Batman artist by miles, stupidly uncollected for such a long time.

https://i.imgur.com/wdoonko.jpg

His run with Alan Grant is probably still my favourite extended run on Batman. RIP.

Aw, crap. My favourite too. The Grant/Breyfogles are my ideal Batman comics.

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.

Can someone tell Kanye why not

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/01/09/1400000-batman-comics-stolen-storage-unit/

in awe of the size of this bat. absolute unit

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.)

that would be a quote from kanye west, not adam west, iirc

lol

now wondering who would play robin in a world where kanye took on the mantle of the 60s batman

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 BALE
GEORGE CLOONEY
MICHAEL KEATON
VAL KILMER
ADAM WEST — FUCK THE REST

I TAKE MY BATMANS LIKE I TAKE MY T-SHIRTS: WHIMSICAL AND LIGHT-HEARTED, YOU MOTHERFUCKERS

now wondering who would play robin in a world where kanye took on the mantle of the 60s batman

Robinfest

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/66cc0e40441121d3a5443b1af9b2cab24b4695c0/0_0_1900_1264/master/1900.jpg?width=1920&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=dce2e9e8e9b8be6068a52b85c5a1f796

New 52 Batman is trying way harder to share his feelings than Bat D1ck of the DC New Earth from Batman Year One on. That said, the dude goes through planes and cars like mad though in the current comics.

New Adams Batman on the way shortly!
https://www.cbr.com/batman-vs-ras-al-ghul-neal-adams/

John Carpenter is also writing a Joker comic, which is kinda neat.

Neal Adams' artwork has all those thick lines, it looks more Kubert than himself in a way. I'm guessing he works on a digital board probably drawing on top of scanned thumbnails now. That modern style has altered the look of quite a few comic artists earlier works.

I know he’s a consummate professional, but I’d buy a Batman series where Neal incorporates his growing earth theories

I mean, professional and wouldn’t throw personal causes in

"Neal incorporates his growing earth theories"

You know he could just do a Warlord series and be able to make it work 'kinda' in-continuity.

Probably could somehow work it with K'un-Lun in Iron Fist perhaps too.

I always thought that one could easily do some AM radio crank character in the Marvel Universe reading into all this madness always going on in the comics upon the people. I'm kind of surprised that someone like Bendis did not do it, as it would have worked in some of his story lines.

A tribute character to Art Bell would be cool, but I think that would work better in the DC comics.

Man this looks cool:

https://i.imgur.com/XG2wn9B_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

recoloured by Continuity iirc?

https://www.polygon.com/2019/11/20/20972541/batman-vs-ras-al-ghul-neal-adams-recap

Laura Hudson and David Wolkin have done a sequel to their Batman: Odyssey recap and, folks, it's once again a wild ride

jazz wizards!

One of my all-time favourite scenes pic.twitter.com/zA7rJ6VJ7w

— Chip Zdarsky (@zdarsky) December 26, 2019

I’m finding this much funnier than I should

good work chip

the batman who shits

that dark knight returds

Stoked that someone will finally be exploring “the darker aspects” of Bruce Wayne:

https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/batman-begins-david-s-goyer-podcast-spotify-1234786099/

Kind of wild the idea that the radio drama making a comeback like 70+ years later.

...I haven't clicked that link but what do you think the last radio drama was

nice white parents iirc

The Archers has only been running for 69 years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS4QGEQaclk