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Bat-Thread: Bruce Wayne, International Hairy Chested Love God of Mystery

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  • Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Yeah, Ross is the only person who depicts Superman as a burly 40-year old.

    I prefer the more slender and handsome look of Christopher Reeve, which was reflected in Gary Frank's rendition of the character. I don't think there is a definitive look for Superman, though.

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  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Gary Franks Superman was great, as was his Lois Lane.

    Hel,, everything he drew in Secret Origins was really top flight stuff.

    Solar on
  • Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Actually, Curt Swan's Superman would be a definitive Superman, right?

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  • MunchMunch Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I actually really like Stuart Immonen's Superman. He just looks so clean and friendly. Leinil Yu's is really good too, though the way he draws eyes detracted somewhat.

    Frank Quitely does one of the best Clark Kent/Superman contrasts though.

    Munch on
  • TexiKenTexiKen Dammit! That fish really got me!Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I've always liked Mahnke's Superman/Clark Kent.

    Superman parts his hair on the side, nice clean spit curl even when fighting things that are made to destroy the universe.

    Clark Kent parts his hair in the middle, and has glasses with frames that make him look like a he's either a country boy trying to make it in the big city wearing the styles of 10 years ago, or a yuppie beta male. It works.

    I think Yu did the same thing with the hair styles in Birthright,, except Clark was more ruffled hair, which was the style at the time.


    Bruce Wayne/Batman though, don't really know what would be definitive. I actually like McDaniel's take on Bruce, how when he talks to crowds and people not in the league he's nice, but the next panel he's all grimacy grim (what comes to mind is the Green Arrow OYL where Bruce shows up to announce Wayne Industries helping to rebuild Star City, nice to the crowd frowny face to Ollie). And McDaniel's Matches Malone is the best, total sleeze.

    Jim Aparo has the Batman aspect down pat, but Bruce Wayne? Not really.

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  • TexiKenTexiKen Dammit! That fish really got me!Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Nice news, Ardian Syaf is new Birds of Prey artist with BoP #7.

    His art is looking good in those preview pages, really has a Patrick Zircher thing going. I like his art, kind of wish he was still on GLC than Tyler Kirkham's flat style, since that would give him more exposure than BoP would.

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  • MastaPMastaP Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I would say that Batman TAS defined the Bruce/Batman dynamic for me, but I think over the last five years, it's been Matt Wagner's Batman that has taken precedent in how I define my "baseline" Batman look.

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  • wirehead26wirehead26 Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    The first two issues of Morrison's recent Batman run are up on the digital comic services. I was considering getting the trades but now I'll just have them on my PSP.

    I'll probably get RIP in trade format though since it's pretty cheap.

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  • LuxLux Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
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    That would be an excellent arc.

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  • TexiKenTexiKen Dammit! That fish really got me!Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Why doesn't Bruce just buy crime alley (the buildings around it) and put up something nice there like affordable housing or somesuch? Just leaving it as it was so you can lay some roses and the crime scene every year, that's not seeing the big picture.

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  • CorporateLogoCorporateLogo The toilet knows how I feelRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    He needs a dark alley to brood in while he lays some roses down each year

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    Do not have a cow, mortal.

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  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    He needs a dark alley to brood in while he lays some roses down each year

    I always loved in the Justice League series when Wonder Woman says that there can be no dating for the Batman, as it cuts in on his brooding time. I love jokes at Batman's expense.

    Solar on
  • TairuTairu Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    TexiKen wrote: »
    Why doesn't Bruce just buy crime alley (the buildings around it) and put up something nice there like affordable housing or somesuch? Just leaving it as it was so you can lay some roses and the crime scene every year, that's not seeing the big picture.

    Crime Alley is a historical landmark.

    "THE PLACE WHERE BATMAN'S PARENTS WERE SHOT"

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  • Linespider5Linespider5 ALL HAIL KING KILLMONGER Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Tairu wrote: »
    TexiKen wrote: »
    Why doesn't Bruce just buy crime alley (the buildings around it) and put up something nice there like affordable housing or somesuch? Just leaving it as it was so you can lay some roses and the crime scene every year, that's not seeing the big picture.

    Crime Alley is a historical landmark.

    "THE PLACE WHERE BATMAN'S PARENTS WERE SHOT"

    This really sounds like something Batman Inc. might touch on. To me, at least.

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  • The LuggageThe Luggage Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    TexiKen wrote: »
    Why doesn't Bruce just buy crime alley (the buildings around it) and put up something nice there like affordable housing or somesuch?

    Wasn't there a B:TAS episode where the villain's plan was exactly that?

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  • Linespider5Linespider5 ALL HAIL KING KILLMONGER Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Hell, Hush should've done it during his big philanthropy kick in Streets of Gotham, when he was trying to bankrupt the Wayne Fortune.

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  • TexiKenTexiKen Dammit! That fish really got me!Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Batman Beyond ongoing launches in January

    Same creative team as the mini, so that's got to bum people out.

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  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited October 2010
    i don't know why they don't put Dustin Nguyen on it

    he loves the character, and as much as I love Batgirl i'd rather see him on Beyond

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  • TexiKenTexiKen Dammit! That fish really got me!Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Would you be willing to let him write it too?

    He's one of their best talents at DC, and if Tony Daniel can write Batman surely Nguyen could get a shot on a lower tier book.

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  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited October 2010
    sure if he wanted to

    also Red Hood: The Lost Days continues to be awesome but it makes Jason's age even more confusing

    He was early teens when he died/got resurrected, and he looks like late teens in this series but then he looks like he's in his mid-to-late twenties in his current appearances

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  • TairuTairu Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    TexiKen wrote: »
    Batman Beyond ongoing launches in January

    Same creative team as the mini, so that's got to bum people out.

    I was in literally in class (before we had to work) and checked this out, and then I made an audible sigh

    Tairu on
  • TexiKenTexiKen Dammit! That fish really got me!Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Dark Knight and Batman Inc. #1 first looks

    Damn Finch, just place "x"s where you want the inker to make it all black, no wonder you're so slow.

    Paquette's artwork looks really good in B&W.

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  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited October 2010
    I actually like Finch's pencils there

    I'm probably not going to like the inked/colored version, though

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  • Sars_BoySars_Boy Rest, You Are The Lightning. Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Keith wrote: »
    sure if he wanted to

    also Red Hood: The Lost Days continues to be awesome

    wait

    what

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  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited October 2010
    Sars_Boy wrote: »
    Keith wrote: »
    sure if he wanted to

    also Red Hood: The Lost Days continues to be awesome

    wait

    what

    yeah it's great

    it's just jason todd being a dick/badass

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  • Caveman PawsCaveman Paws Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Keith wrote: »
    I actually like Finch's pencils there

    I'm probably not going to like the inked/colored version, though

    I'd love the whole book to be simply in pencil.

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  • ZeromusZeromus Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Keith wrote: »
    Sars_Boy wrote: »
    Keith wrote: »
    sure if he wanted to

    also Red Hood: The Lost Days continues to be awesome

    wait

    what

    yeah it's great

    it's just jason todd being a dick/badass

    Is it really? I picked up the first issue hoping for just that and wound up disappointed. If it picked up, I'm open to back issues.

    Zeromus on
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  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited October 2010
    Zeromus wrote: »
    Keith wrote: »
    Sars_Boy wrote: »
    Keith wrote: »
    sure if he wanted to

    also Red Hood: The Lost Days continues to be awesome

    wait

    what

    yeah it's great

    it's just jason todd being a dick/badass

    Is it really? I picked up the first issue hoping for just that and wound up disappointed. If it picked up, I'm open to back issues.

    yeah it picked up a lot but i liked the first issues

    Garlic Bread on
  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    So the next Return of Bruce Wayne book has the possibility that it will be Night Watch, but with Batman.

    Fencingsax on
  • TexiKenTexiKen Dammit! That fish really got me!Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Is anyone planning on getting all 4 Road Home one-shots that come out tomorrow? Or just the Batman and Robin one, then the others the following week if buzz is good?

    I'm also wondering if this will spoil not only B&R but Return of Bruce Wayne as well.

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  • TairuTairu Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Getting the B&R and Red Robin issues. Probably none of the others.

    Tairu on
  • MastaPMastaP Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    TexiKen wrote: »
    Is anyone planning on getting all 4 Road Home one-shots that come out tomorrow? Or just the Batman and Robin one, then the others the following week if buzz is good?

    I'm also wondering if this will spoil not only B&R but Return of Bruce Wayne as well.

    I'm not picking up any until B&R 16 comes out. Though none really seems to grab me.

    MastaP on
  • Magna InfernoMagna Inferno Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Wonder if all these "tech powers" of Bruce's Insider suit will be incorporated into his new batsuit.

    Magna Inferno on
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  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited October 2010
    i doubt it (and hope not)

    he's got the JLA's powers in the suit

    Garlic Bread on
  • Just_Bri_ThanksJust_Bri_Thanks Seething with rage from a handbasket.Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited October 2010
    I read a few of the Road Home books that came out. I like them a lot.

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    ...and when you are done with that; take a folding
    chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
  • HadjiQuestHadjiQuest Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I'm surprised no one here has talked about RoBW5 yet. I won't get my copy till Saturday or Monday in the mail, but I really briefly glanced at the annotations just to give myself a very vague idea of what goes on (I really only glanced at a couple sentences; I still am almost totally in the dark about it).

    Edit: Also, I hope they do some significant touch-ups on RoBW 4 in the collected edition.

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  • Linespider5Linespider5 ALL HAIL KING KILLMONGER Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Is RoBW5 out? I didn't see it at my shop this week.

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  • MastaPMastaP Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Is RoBW5 out? I didn't see it at my shop this week.

    Yeah, it's out

    MastaP on
  • Just_Bri_ThanksJust_Bri_Thanks Seething with rage from a handbasket.Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited October 2010
    "Uh-May-Zoe!"

    "Nope."

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    ...and when you are done with that; take a folding
    chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
  • DelduwathDelduwath Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I'd like to talk about RoBW5, but I feel like I need to wait for all of RoBW to come out, and then take a weekend to do nothing but read all of Morrison's Batman back to back, and only then will I get all of RoBW. I don't remember what happened towards the beginning of the run - hell, I don't remember all the retails of R.I.P. - and I feel like I am missing subtle plot points.

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