Can someone tell Batman why not?!?

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

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!