Can someone tell Batman why not?!?

Yeah, the Morrison Bat-Opus is maybe my favorite mainstream comics thing from the past five years or so.

People seem to be pretty keen on Synder's run but I haven't read any of it. That might be a place to start.

Snyder, rather.

i remember "Joker" being okay

I have no idea what the actual sequence of events are in 52-Bats

lol yeah wasn't GMoz just given carte blanche to continue doing his thing totally independent of the rest of the DC Universe?

he must have because if that shit is canon, canon ate itself

Yeah I've been reading Snyder's run which is great (the colorist is fantastic) but this Year Zero thing totally confused me as to what exactly the Bat history is now. I don't have the fortitude to actually find out, I'm just along for the ride

lol yeah wasn't GMoz just given carte blanche to continue doing his thing totally independent of the rest of the DC Universe?

If I remember right he had just gotten going on Bats Inc when the 52 rug was pulled out and there was no way Inc could have existed in continuity, so he just said 'look at least let me finish this damn book' so Inc kept right on going

I'm not absolutely sure about that, so please correct me. One of the hangovers from this reboot is Memento-esque brain damage

IIRC, Batman Inc and Johns's GL were the only New 52 books generally unaffected by the reboot.

they should just abandon continuity altogether imo

I think you could make a solid argument that they already have, however unintentionally.

i believe that's known as "the liefeld effect"

I loved it in the recent Inkstuds pod where Matt Fraction compared the new 52 to putting your dick on a table and handing somebody a ruler to hit you with

Intrigued by this one, which came out a year ago but which I only just found out about -- Batman vs architecture

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/B009MD2N5Q.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

two years ago!

I love the 70s

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WStGdxfxH0o/VElwkqCBvMI/AAAAAAABEe8/RnnUC4Ryv5c/s1600/3978.jpg

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theledger/obituary.aspx?n=stephen-merrill&pid=174158574

WINTER HAVEN - Stephen Merrill, 31, passes away February 12, 2015, due to a uppercut from Batman.
He was born January 28, 1984, the son of Larry Ronald Merrill and Bridgett I. Dotson Merrill. He was in retail sales at The Big Shop in Legoland, Florida.
In addition to his parents, Stephen is survived by his fiancée, Stephanie Vella; son, Noah; and sister, Kimberly.
Visitation is Tuesday, February 17, 2015, from 12-1PM with a celebration of life at 1PM, both at Ott-Laughlin Funeral Home, Winter Haven. - See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theledger/obituary.aspx?n=stephen-merrill&pid=174158574#sthash.qRsMf30j.dpuf

http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/winter-haven-mans-obituary-lists-cause-of-death-uppercut-from-batman

http://i.imgur.com/EV4wiZA.jpg

This is the best batman story I've read in tears

I mean years, but tears too

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