Same Bat-Time, Same Bat-Channel : The Batman Thread

Harrier

Faynor wrote: »

Prediction: Catwoman is going to fight Batwoman at some point during this event.

I hope she wins. Has Batwoman actually done anything other than... you know, be a lesbian?

Robos A Go Go

Harrier wrote: »

Faynor wrote: »

Prediction: Catwoman is going to fight Batwoman at some point during this event.

I hope she wins. Has Batwoman actually done anything other than... you know, be a lesbian?

That's a full-time job, buddy.

sportzboytjw

Harrier wrote: »

Faynor wrote: »

Prediction: Catwoman is going to fight Batwoman at some point during this event.

I hope she wins. Has Batwoman actually done anything other than... you know, be a lesbian?

Does she need to do more? Isn't that a heroic enough stand against the evil Right Wing?

Garlic Bread

Ted Grant trained Batman and Catwoman. Plus the JSA was based in Gotham for a while (they might still be?) so he's in the city a lot. It's not a stretch for him to be there.

I mean, he makes as much sense as Catwoman, Huntress, and Batwoman fighting for the mantle of "Batman"

Raynaga

Speaking as someone who loves Batman but hasn't been following RIP or its apparent resulting event at all, my god this looks terrible.

And Dick as Batman? Are they really going to retread that same path again? It has to be Tim. Any indications of it being Dick are the writers flailing about for red herrings.

Robos A Go Go

How much of a retread is it? Did Dick ever take the mantle up outside of Prodigal?

Has the character changed significantly since then?

Zeromus

Plus, Nightwing becoming Batman in Prodigal is very much a different story than Nightwing becoming Batman after R.I.P.

Bloods End

LIG seems to think that when Morrison comes back, Quietly will be his artist.

Oh sweet fancy moses yes, SHUT THE FUCK UP BALE

Harrier

My only problem with Dick becoming Batman is that it's so... humdrum. Oh yay, Dick's wearing the cape and cowl (again). Nightwing's m.o. is already half-Batman as it is, so if you've been reading Batman and you've been reading Nightwing you'll know exactly what to expect.

Maybe Dick's the only one who can do it. Maybe Dick's the only one who deserves it. I get that. But don't make a big fucking deal about it when nothing about it is going to surprise anyone.

jkylefulton

I still can't get over Tony Daniels writing this thing. I mean...really? Tony Daniels? That's who you tap for this?

Really?

Tony Daniels?

Really?

sportzboytjw

Zeromus wrote: »

Unco-ordinated wrote: »

Futt Bucker wrote: »

The only one in that group that I've got any confidence in is Fabian Nicieza and I really don't think he's going to be able to save this alone... Sure, I hope that Tony Daniel turns out to be an amazing writer but why throw him onto a pretty big project straight away?

Because truthfully, Battle for the Cowl isn't a big event. We probably should have known who the next Batman was going to be in R.I.P. or at least in something Morrison's going to be writing, but DC decided they wanted more money, so we're getting what will probably be a throwaway event to drag the whole process out longer and get more people to buy comic books.

jkylefulton

At DC comics, there's no such thing as a throw away event. AMAZONS ATTACK mattered, dammit! And so did COUNTDOWN, and DoNG, and all of the Brave New World relaunches, and OYL was a solidly executed idea, and who cares if the FLASH relaunch completely bombed, or that DC didn't publish WONDER WOMAN for like a year?

Balefuego

Bloods End wrote: »

LIG seems to think that when Morrison comes back, Quietly will be his artist.

Oh sweet fancy moses yes, SHUT THE FUCK UP BALE

I was gonna drop Batman anyway

DJ Eebs

Bloods End wrote: »

LIG seems to think that when Morrison comes back, Quietly will be his artist.

Oh sweet fancy moses yes, SHUT THE FUCK UP BALE

this is not a good idea at all if they ever want that book to ship on time

jkylefulton

Quietly putting out 6 consecutive issues of BATMAN is about as likely as JG Jones doing all of the art for FINAL CRISIS.

jkylefulton

http://occasionalsuperheroine.blogspot.com/2008/12/quotable-didio.html

For anyone that wants a good laugh.

Garlic Bread

Newsarama has a nice interview with Peter Tomasi up about The Outsiders post-Batman

I like what he's saying and I really like his work on Nightwing and GLC

nightmarenny

Question, this being the full Bat-thread, if I want to ask everybody's opinions on "The Joker" graphic Novel I just ask here? Well how is it?

Robos A Go Go

nightmarenny wrote: »

Question, this being the full Bat-thread, if I want to ask everybody's opinions on "The Joker" graphic Novel I just ask here? Well how is it?

Good, but not as good as the Lex Luthor novel.

Zeromus

I really liked Joker

Mostly

It was kind of nice to have a good graphic novel in the spirit of The Dark Knight (even though Azzarello has apparently stated that it wasn't really influenced by TDK) that made use of the extended cast of rogues and such. Art was really nice.

Sars_Boy

I'd say Joker was my biggest disappointment of 08

wasn't bad, but I had really high hopes

Zeromus

I don't think I've read anything else by Azzarello, I take it I should at least check out Lex Luthor: Man of Steel? I've also been meaning to pick up 100 Bullets.

Sars_Boy

Lex Luthor is so great

I'm witholding judgement on 100 Bullets till it's over since i can't remember a damn thing about it and need to reread the whole thing

sportzboytjw

Zeromus wrote: »

I don't think I've read anything else by Azzarello, I take it I should at least check out Lex Luthor: Man of Steel? I've also been meaning to pick up 100 Bullets.

So this is just me: 100 Bullets started off alright, but wasn't AMAZING (to me) as it was to some. The middle chunk though... somewhere between 25 and 70... awesome. I haven't finished the last part, and it's almost over, so I'm waiting til then.

Tamin

Don't know how interesting this will be, but I recently saw a Bat-Manga on the shelves at my bookstore. Looked pretty neat.

The campy, Pop-art-infused Batman television series that débuted in 1966 was not just a hit in the U.S.; it also set off an international wave of Batmania. A Tokyo publisher licensed the comic-book rights and new weekly Batman adventures appeared for more than a year, drawn by Jiro Kuwata, a manga prodigy who co-created the popular cyborg superhero 8-Man. His work, never reprinted and previously untranslated, was so little known here that, until its rediscovery by Kidd and Ferris, even DC Comics, Batman's publisher, was unaware of its existence. Kuwata, an action virtuoso, employed hypnotic geometrical motifs within his panels, incorporating realistic Batman and Robin figures into an exaggeratedly cartoonish style. His Batman fights villains like the shape-shifting Clayface and Go-Go the Magician, as well as typically Japanese oversized robots, insects, and dinosaurs.

Anyone surprised?

Wildcat

The book was not universally praised.

Tamin

Depressing.

Robos A Go Go

It's more of an overview of Japanese Batman than a collection of stories or comprehensive history.

Zeromus

Psh Bat-Manga is awesome.

DouglasDanger

The "authors" thing on the cover is terrible though.

Sars_Boy

umm no from what I understand it makes sense

the people whining about it don't really understand that it's not a collection of stories, it's about Batman in Japan

besides it's not like they gave that mangaka the shaft or anything, he's accredited to the work he did in the book

Owenashi

So, saw some scans of Robin #181.

I dunno about you, but I actually smiled at the scan of the last page. If they plan to update the RR-suit that way, I don't mind at all. Here's a look at the suit in Countdown Vs Robin #181.

Faynor

Who is in that suit, there.

Owenashi

Faynor wrote: »

Who is in that suit, there.

In the Countdown page, it's Jason. In the Robin page, it's Tim.

Zeromus

Hm maybe I should've picked Robin up today after all.

Blankspace

Oh man Keith is going to be so mad

Robos A Go Go

It's better, but I don't like all black, featureless cowls.

Course, without that it's just the Robin suit.

Maybe it would've been better to go the other way by keeping the old Red Robin suit but simply removing the cowl.

Owenashi

Robos A Go Go wrote: »

It's better, but I don't like all black, featureless cowls.

Course, without that it's just the Robin suit.

Maybe it would've been better to go the other way by keeping the old Red Robin suit but simply removing the cowl.

Well there's a good reason why he put a cowl on.

Robos A Go Go

Owenashi wrote: »

Robos A Go Go wrote: »

It's better, but I don't like all black, featureless cowls.

Course, without that it's just the Robin suit.

Maybe it would've been better to go the other way by keeping the old Red Robin suit but simply removing the cowl.

Well there's a good reason why he put a cowl on.

What's the good reason?

Owenashi

Robos A Go Go wrote: »

Owenashi wrote: »

Robos A Go Go wrote: »

It's better, but I don't like all black, featureless cowls.

Course, without that it's just the Robin suit.

Maybe it would've been better to go the other way by keeping the old Red Robin suit but simply removing the cowl.

Well there's a good reason why he put a cowl on.

What's the good reason?

He was caught in an explosion at the end of the last issue.