Can someone tell Batman why not?!?

this seems as likely a place as any other to post my fave line about Assbats, from CBR: Perhaps this is a book that most people won't look kindly upon because it needs to be viewed in a context they're not aware of yet.

:)

It would be great if someone photoshopped Batman and Batgirl into the "So not gonna happen" picture.

I can't tell if Batman is crying or if it's just the greasepaint under his mask: http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/06/18/batman-fan-film-city-of-scars/

I saw that a couple of days ago. Pretty good for fan-fiction, it has to be made by industry ringers, as it is pretty slick. The take on Wesker & Scarface was pretty cool.

It's better than the 20 minutes of Smallville I watched a long time back.

Whoo-AH, Mister Wayne! This is just straight up BAD.
http://dcu.blog.dccomics.com/2010/07/07/get-a-first-look-at-batman-odyssey/
Like joyless bad, not like Frank Miller Combination Pizza Hut & Batman Bell crazy bad but also self-consciously hilarious.

Adams has always been a TERRIBLE writer, and his artwork has totally gone downhill in the last twenty years or so too (my suspicion is that there are lots of assistants doing most of the actual drawing/finishing). RIP Dick Giordano.

The 60s/70s Adams-Batmans really were something to look at tho', back in the day

"He's targetting our - EYYOW! guns."

why does Batman have a gun...?

So that he can learn a very important lesson about the Second Amendment.
NB: there's a Kevin Nowlan-inked pinup at the back of this that does justice to Yr memories of Adams.

skimmed thru this in the comic bk shop yesterday, even more of a trainwreck than i feared, weirdly a cpl of pages are inked by michael golden. can't believe there's meant to be twelve issues of this shit - has adams ever drawn twelve issues of anything, all in a row?

With a decent artist or two, this could be promising. Am I ready to read two ongoing comic books again? http://dcu.blog.dccomics.com/2010/07/14/meet-your-new-detective-comics-writer-scott-snyder/

why did i read that? now i want to start buying comics again.

I don't quite get the venom being cut loose on the Adams' Batman. The thing is pretty much a straight up bronze age style comic, which should make sense considering who is making the thing. Clean up a bit of the language from Robin and you could drop this thing straight into a 100 Page Detective Batman Family Giant from 78. Maybe I have a heart or a soft head for such comics, I didn't think it was that bad. I just think fans now over think stuff to an extent.

Maybe they should have put on the yellow circle around the bat to make it obvious, I don't know.

As for the artwork, the guy really hasn't lost much at all, some of the pages are almost 3D. The inking style is more Klaus Janson than say Dick Giordano on a lot of the book, which is some of the difference.

http://i.newsarama.com/images/bmody_cv4_02.jpg

wtf is happening there

like, is Batman tripping and someone locked him in a hairdresser's basement or something

lol at the dialogue in that excerpt

TRIPPING BALLS.

tripping hairs

bump

This Neal Adams Batman is so crazy it makes the All Star Frank Miller Batman look like Papa Spank!

wait, wait, wait, Neal! You drew the bullet coming out her back! You can't take that back! But you did, so OKAY.

"What's worse than finding a worm in an apple. Answer... Finding half a worm." NOT THE RIDDLER WHO SAID THAT EITHER.

and that's before Man-Bat calls Batman a eunuch!

and then Aquaman shows up fresh from the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics!

scans, please?

NOTE: This is not the actual Riddler, but salsa singer, former Panamanian Minister of Tourism Ruben Blades, really.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y298/hukl/tastethatreuben.jpg

lulz at gordon

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y298/hukl/halfaworm.jpg

whoa

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y298/hukl/kirk.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y298/hukl/calgary1988.jpg

I like the idea that Batman names each fist a different sandwich, "Taste that reuben!" POW "Have a bite of this Monte Cristo!" BIF!

I hope this comic sells so strongly that its tone gets adopted by all Batman comics so that Neal Adams can hold the distinction of being the guy who took the camp out of Batman and then 40 years later put it back.

thanks you for posting those.

wow, i may buy that

Yeah, I'm making my first comic store trip for two months today. Will definitely have to get this.

Oh my god, this comic.

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

that's TV iirc

Technically it's youtube

guessing this isn't technically radio tbf

batman-begins-david-s-goyer-podcast-spotify-1234786099/

Update on the storage locker guy: https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/batman-comics-auction-stolen-randy-lawrence

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

Heard a lot of good things about this! Also about gentrification supposedly?

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

It's fun. Really love his artwork

(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)

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

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

This does look cool, thx for the rec

Yeah 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.

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?

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

wow!

Strongly dislike Riseman, but good clip!

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

His Stan Lee biography is really good (if, like me, you're firmly in the Stan = old fraud camp)

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

Is the new movie any good? y/n

(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

morrisp, there’s a thread Robert Pattinson IS The Batman

I would say it’s fine, Adam West reading the script might be better

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!

it's decent pulp - Rucka and Brubaker writing different shifts of weary regular cops but! in a supervillain world

very fond memories of it

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

*Once not One

Really nice Michael Lark art on the early issues.

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