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.
― earlnash, Monday, 29 July 2019 23:26 (four years ago) link
New Adams Batman on the way shortly!https://www.cbr.com/batman-vs-ras-al-ghul-neal-adams/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 11 August 2019 22:52 (four years ago) link
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.
― earlnash, Sunday, 11 August 2019 23:00 (four years ago) link
I know he’s a consummate professional, but I’d buy a Batman series where Neal incorporates his growing earth theories
― untuned mass damper (mh), Sunday, 11 August 2019 23:59 (four years ago) link
I mean, professional and wouldn’t throw personal causes in
― untuned mass damper (mh), Monday, 12 August 2019 00:00 (four years ago) link
"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.
― earlnash, Monday, 12 August 2019 21:32 (four years ago) link
Man this looks cool:https://i.imgur.com/XG2wn9B_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium
― Spry at 78 (morrisp), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 20:35 (four years ago) link
recoloured by Continuity iirc?
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 21:07 (four years ago) link
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
― mh, Wednesday, 20 November 2019 16:51 (four years ago) link
jazz wizards!
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 20 November 2019 16:57 (four years ago) link
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
― babu frik fan account (mh), Monday, 30 December 2019 17:00 (four years ago) link
good work chip
― Nhex, Monday, 30 December 2019 17:03 (four years ago) link
the batman who shits
― babu frik fan account (mh), Monday, 30 December 2019 17:06 (four years ago) link
that dark knight returds
― hot nuts (small) (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 30 December 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link
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/
― I Hate the Aedes (morrisp), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 01:18 (three years ago) link
Kind of wild the idea that the radio drama making a comeback like 70+ years later.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 30 September 2020 02:40 (three years ago) link
...I haven't clicked that link but what do you think the last radio drama was
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 02:47 (three years ago) link
nice white parents iirc
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 02:55 (three years ago) link
The Archers has only been running for 69 years
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 03:04 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS4QGEQaclk
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 03:08 (three years ago) link
that's TV iirc
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 05:51 (three years ago) link
Technically it's youtube
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 06:39 (three years ago) link
guessing this isn't technically radio tbf
batman-begins-david-s-goyer-podcast-spotify-1234786099/
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 06:54 (three years ago) link
Update on the storage locker guy: https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/batman-comics-auction-stolen-randy-lawrence
― it's AG in your faaaace.... (morrisp), Sunday, 15 November 2020 04:12 (three years ago) link
Just to say Cliff Chiang‘s Catwoman miniseries is friggin DELIGHTFUL and I recommend it HIGHLY. It’s a standard DKR “what if but old and more dystopia” miniseries setup, but the execution is wonderful. WHY ARE NOT MORE COMICS LILE THIS, THINKS OLD MAN
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 17 January 2022 00:04 (two years ago) link
Heard a lot of good things about this! Also about gentrification supposedly?
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 17 January 2022 11:52 (two years ago) link
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
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 17 January 2022 17:01 (two years ago) link
It's fun. Really love his artwork
― Nhex, Monday, 17 January 2022 18:12 (two years ago) link
(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)
― koogs, Monday, 17 January 2022 20:01 (two years ago) link
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
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 17 January 2022 21:32 (two years ago) link
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
― Nhex, Monday, 17 January 2022 21:46 (two years ago) link
This does look cool, thx for the recYeah 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.
― Rockin’, and rollin’, and whatnot (morrisp), Monday, 17 January 2022 21:52 (two years ago) link
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?
― koogs, Monday, 17 January 2022 22:30 (two years ago) link
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
― rob, Monday, 14 March 2022 14:12 (two years ago) link
wow!
― mh, Monday, 14 March 2022 14:39 (two years ago) link
Strongly dislike Riseman, but good clip!
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 14 March 2022 15:06 (two years ago) link
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
― rob, Monday, 14 March 2022 15:11 (two years ago) link
His Stan Lee biography is really good (if, like me, you're firmly in the Stan = old fraud camp)
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 14 March 2022 15:13 (two years ago) link
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
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 14 March 2022 15:37 (two years ago) link
Is the new movie any good? y/n
― u swear (morrisp), Monday, 14 March 2022 15:55 (two years ago) link
(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
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 14 March 2022 15:55 (two years ago) link
morrisp, there’s a thread Robert Pattinson IS The Batman
I would say it’s fine, Adam West reading the script might be better
― mh, Monday, 14 March 2022 18:27 (two years ago) link
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!
― begrudgingly bound by duty of candor (morrisp), Wednesday, 13 April 2022 04:39 (two years ago) link
it's decent pulp - Rucka and Brubaker writing different shifts of weary regular cops but! in a supervillain world
― beepy fridges (sic), Wednesday, 13 April 2022 05:23 (two years ago) link
very fond memories of it
― Nhex, Wednesday, 13 April 2022 06:08 (two years ago) link
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
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 13 April 2022 12:17 (two years ago) link
*Once not One
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 13 April 2022 12:18 (two years ago) link
Really nice Michael Lark art on the early issues.
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 13 April 2022 12:25 (two years ago) link
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
― Nhex, Wednesday, 13 April 2022 15:47 (two years ago) link