Can someone tell Batman why not?!?

The fact that a recent Kevin Smith Batman story had the Caped Crusader admit to pissing himself would indicate Adams has a long way to go before anyone would try to reign him in. The obvious lack of simple copy-editing & continuity-minding speaks volumes too. But, please DC, give me more balls-out insanity of this variety than the mopey Rise of Arsenal stuff.

BATMAN: ODYSSEY: Not a dream! Not a hoax! Not an Imaginary Story (Cuz, Dude - Bane!)!

Never forget.

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well, that didn't work.

Here's a link. I'm headed off to lay my weary head and maybe never get up again.

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/03/08/batman-odyssey-neal-adams-insane/

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.comicsalliance.com/media/2011/03/odyssey-h20.jpg

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.comicsalliance.com/media/2011/03/batman-idiot.jpg

I will never pay $$$ for this series but the individual panels are A+++ lol

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.comicsalliance.com/media/2011/03/odyssey-suspicion.jpg

there are not enough Ws, Ts and Fs in the world for this comic

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.comicsalliance.com/media/2011/03/odyssey-freak.jpg

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.comicsalliance.com/media/2011/03/odyssey-gay.jpg

^kinda want this as my ILX avatar

Laura: The second Alfred/Bruce conversation is almost as nuts as the first, and includes a panel of Bruce Wayne laughing hysterically while saying, "Sworn to secrecy, ha ha! Such a thing! Such an octopus of a thing!"

Please let this panel be online somewhere!!!

it's on this thread! and i had it as my dn for awhile!
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y298/hukl/halfaworm.jpg

Beautiful!

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/11274697

http://www.bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads//2011/03/BMODY_9_CVR.jpg

^^^next level

That is breathtaking.

it's like he's being eaten by evil sea monkeys

Evil sea monkeys with hairsprayed dreadlocks.

what
the
fuck

i bet i just looked deeply insane sitting at my desk trying to not to burst into laughter while reading that

albino sea monkeys from jamaica

Showing off the sweet discounted utensils they picked up at the military surplus store.

o the lolz

I am so buying this trade

Now, is this better or worse than ALL-STAR BATMAN?

I think better. Maybe.

All-Star Batman was readable and had a story and was in English, so it seems not very crazy in comparison now.

yes but this is way BETTER

http://www.nealadamsentertainment.com/3dani.html

wow. no.

wow YESSSSSSSSSSS

It pleases me to think that we're not even half way through the series.

May your adventures be long and bounteous, naked Batman.

7 amd 8 have been resolicited and the rest have been cancelled tho

The news reports I've encountered say the orders have been cancelled - standard practice in ref. to whatever # of copies the shops have requested - not the series.

Though I'd love to see whatever resolution Adams would conjure up on the quick. Maybe it'll involve ghosts.

Or, rather, more ghosts.

shocked SHOCKED to discover ricardo montelban allergy bee is a Neal Adams project!

Jim Steinman's never produced Batman musical. The Best Thing Ever.
http://youtu.be/SD1OxBTwm8c

http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v2658/36/85/55919364143/n55919364143_1411791_6696134.jpg
Neal Adams, never change.

Aaaaarrgh!

In other news, most recent Batman Inc was super-fun

Subtext

We're never gonna find out whether Bruce was naked or not.

In other news, most recent Batman Inc was super-fun

Agreed! Also: wow, Grant reads Scalped.

http://twitpic.com/5k1mrw

Try again:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitpic/photos/large/335999372.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJF3XCCKACR3QDMOA&Expires=1309613086&Signature=AMndt%2FerxijLpFkByUeejNjaEAE%3D

Not me, by the way.

YES!

BATMAN: ODYSSEY VOL. 2 #1

Written by NEAL ADAMS
Art and cover by NEAL ADAMS
1:10 B&W variant cover by NEAL ADAMS
On sale OCTOBER 19 • 1 of 7, 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T
Retailers: This issue will ship with two covers. See the Previews order form for more information.
BATMAN: ODYSSEY is back in a new volume from legendary writer/artist Neal Adams!
It's finally happened: Batman must kill or be killed. The threat is real and can't be stopped by man or hero. To combat it, Batman must bring time itself to a standstill so that he can embark on an odyssey of self-discovery to a place unknown to mankind, where he can find himself. But is this a place where only failure awaits?

Yay! Maybe they'll collect the first chunk in a trade to coincide.

Maybe I should just hold out for the Absolute edition.

Reading the summary, it's Neal Adams' own BATMAN R.I.P.!

Plus: NOTED USE OF THE WORD "ODYSSEY". Look out!