Can someone tell Batman why not?!?

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.

should I buy this just for the mindspasm?

wait, when did Aquaman get his hand back

also when did he start killing people

doesn't he get a new hand every three years or so?

also I don't know but I would assume he was killing dudes when he had a HARPOON for a hand

like, presumably he wasn't killing fish with it

but

ut ut ut ut take it to "Can someone tell Aquaman why not?!?""

as someone who doesn't know much about comics i have to ask, did aquaman always have a mullet?

not until the 90s

(maybe 80s? that Craig Hamilton mini with the blue costume?)

I've only ever seen this ad, dunno if that's mullet or bubbles

http://namtab.com/aquablog/aquaman1986ad.gif

In my memory that's a mix between a classic mullet and a Lief Garrett 70s winged monstrosity. By the way, that's his uniform in the mini - he looks like a figure skater covered in kelp.

Despite all that, I remember liking the story. I was young and dumb, I'm sure.

http://www.poeghostal.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/aquaman.jpg

Didn't Aquaman have a semi-long hair in the 90s, not a mullet? It was Supes who had the horrible mullet.

I thought Aquaman was now back to his "classic" (pre-90s) look, but apparently not, at least not in this comic.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_h9LIEjK3ohY/RsjlsfowRZI/AAAAAAAAAzw/VQaR_dHuud4/s400/aquaman-harpoon.jpg http://www.comics101.com/comics101//images/view.php?src=../news/Comics%20101/224/Aquaman2.jpg http://namtab.com/aquablog/hawkman15pg24.gif

Clearly the 90s Aquaman was inspired by Kurt Cobain, not Don Johnson.

Interestingly, Neal Adams has no use for continuity. I think it's supposed to be an early adventure, but it's so clearly just Neal Adams doing things the way they should be. As we shall next issue when Batman meets the current president, Ultimate Warrior.

yeah, the Hamilton mini was 1986 [xp to tuomas]

Aquaman was iirc given his hand back by The Lady Of The Lake in return for defeating The Thirst, although this was a water filled glove kind of affair. I think his proper hand came back after he used the bones of it to pull Sub Diego back onto dry land while he was the Dweller In The Depths and was properly fixed while he was a Black Lantern.

I should get out more.

Fucking DC. Return of Bruce Wayne is running so late that he's already back in these bloody 'Road Home' things. Why don't they delay THEm so it all makes sense. And why is Return running late anyway? Each issue has a different artist and they still can't get it right. Fucksake!

Morrison's at fault there, as evidence by artists dropping out when the scripts don't arrive and rush-jobs by hacks going to print late instead.

kinda goes with morrison, but can't believe they don't make him turn in the whole fucking series in advance at this point.

DC have still blown their own scheduling on it though, dropping FOUR of the side-mini-series issues in ONE WEEK and getting the "now read X next!" blurbs wrong in at least one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT0U8-JZyLg

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Date: 2010-11-08, 3:44PM EST
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b-man, u are trying to build your life, and I will never, ever come between you and any of that.....I know things are the way they are, and I have agreed to accept it.... but like right now.... when I feel broken.... i think of you and i feel the connection again.... it doesn't matter who i am with.....you know i am always with you -J

http://www.fantagraphics.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=What-the-Hell-is-Going-On-Here.html&Itemid=113

Neal Adams: Too lazy to draw a banana.

Batman to Aquaman: "You know...sometimes...not always, but sometimes, you are a scary-looking dude, my friend."

JACKSON H. MONKEYSPIT!

Y're having a laugh, Neal.

the first page of the newest issue!
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y298/hukl/BatmanOdyssey06002.jpg

if this thing was on matte paper I would buy it for the awesome wtfness

"even now, HERE, I can feel my frustration, THEN"
i'm totally buying this in trade

I have no idea what is going on in this comic, but Mr. Adams has kindly put together a recap page like this. Now, having read it, I really have no idea what is going on.

In factttt

it swirled around me... and ra's al ghul... and somehow... oil

professional climbing axe is a rich man's toy

Neal Adams making Frank Miller look completely sensical

honestly, that's too good

okay that is REALLY making me want to buy a Batman comic

there's a very real possibility that this will make even less sense in trade
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y298/hukl/godrobindick.jpg

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