The Fate of Batman

[anarky]

Nope. There might be one or two reprinted stories, but at least two stories were new. I think all of them, but can't verify that.

[Rollo Tomassi]

He might be confusing Batman with Superman. I think Superman #1 was comprised entirely of reprinted material from eariler issues of Action.
Batman 1 definitely had original work in it because Jerry Robinson created the Joker for that issue, and Bill Finger wrote it. And then that assclown Bob Kane took credit for all of it.


Fuck Bob Kane.

[jjreason]

You might be right, I do not claim to be a loremaster of the Dumb Comics universe - but I think I read some misinformation somewhere about that book being all reprints, I don't make this shit up, yo! Ok really, I do.

[anarky]

DC can only be called "Dumb Comics" when it does not directly involve Batman, Superman, or the Green Lantern. Though shit like Damian Wayne, Chris Kent, and the never-ending multicolored ring garbage might qualify.

[Rollo Tomassi]

Hidden amongst all the other announcements this week, Grant Morrison's ongoing Batman Inc. saga is NOT part of the new launch. it looks as if they're maybe veering away from that, keeping parts but not others.
But Morrison DID announce that he and Chris Burnam would be doing a 12 issue Maxi series next year titles Batman:Leviathan which DOES wrap up the batman Inc stuff..

Now , what I'm wondering, is this 12 issue series that promises "to wrap up up Morrison's six year saga in the making" not part of the NuDCU streamlined continuity, its basically giving Morrison free reign to get as crazy with the story as he wants and maybe go even farther out than he had orginally planned, seeing as how orginally it WAS going to be part of continuity and in fact the new status quo going forward. But I guess somebody realized they could never get that genie back in the bottle at a later point if they needed to. So now will he keep it like he always planned it? Or are we gonna see some off the chain type shit like Batman becoming Dictator for life of planet Earth of some whacked out Morrison shit? I bet we do. I'll bet whatever was originally pitched seven years ago never comes to fruition as orginally planned.

[Rollo Tomassi]

Okay. So last year I got the first 4 issues of Batman:Widening Gyre and read them. And eventually I found issue 6. But I was missing issue 5 until a week ago, so I held off on reading 6 until I had 5. Anyway, I finally just sat down to read the both of them and....

WHAT. THE. FUCK. Kevin Smith, you dick. That's not how you end a fucking miniseries you twat.
And what makes it worse is that this lazy assclown takes a half a decade to write comics. Ugh. I'm glad I didn't pay full price for that shit.

[Diabolical]

I didn't mind the end of The Widening Gyre since it was meant to be a cliffhanger for the next mini-series...which was supposed to be out 6 months after TWG.

I can find no recent info on where the hell it is either. I know TWG had some delays, and for once it wasn't Smith's fault. The artist, Bryan Johnson, had some health issues, but he seems to be fine now, as he's doing his weekly podcast.

[Diabolical]

Turns out the poor man's facebook (Twitter) does have a usefulness.

Me to Kevin Smith: Seriously, where is The Widening Gyre sequel?
Kevin Smith to Me: Getting 'em all done before we solicit. Just started 3 issue of Volume 2.

Kevin Smith responding to Someone Else: "So Gyre won't be affected by the DC reboot" Nope. In fact, it allows GYRE to be one of the only in-old-continuity stories.

[anarky]

They really seem to be playing favorites just a bit, don't they? "Anything Geoff Johns did stays. Morrison's Batman stays, as does Kevin Smith's story. Jim Lee will be redesigning all other teams and characters and sticking Wildstorm characters in all over the place. Fuck everything else."

[Rollo Tomassi]

I didn't know WG was going to be a multi-parter.
The ending was actually an 'Oh Shit!' Moment for me. But then I realized it was the last page of the last issue.

Funnily enough, right after I finished that, I started the Englehart/Rogers miniseries DarkDetective from 2004. Which also happens to have Silver St Cloud as the female interest. Oh sweet Irony.

[Diabolical]

Since this seems to be the Batman catch all thread:

Norm Breyfogle is back on Batman...Beyond.

Not sure when issue #1 came out (February is all I know), but Norm is doing the art. It ain't regular Batman, but its close.
But I doubt I'll buy it though. Batman Beyond never did anything for me.

[anarky]

I guess this is as good a thread for this.

The upcoming "Night of Owls" crossover sounds even dumber than some of the craziness Morrison did. A secret society has been recruiting assassins from Haley's Circus for 400 years, then reanimating their dead corpses for some nefarious (yet indistinct) plan, and it all comes to a head in one night, when, coincidentally, every Bat-family book is in Gotham?

If they're that powerful, this seems like a bizarrely convoluted scheme.

And Dick Grayson was to be a "Talon," because they found out he'd had the secret compound put in his tooth. I cannot fucking believe that I wrote that last sentence about a comic book published after 1954.

[anarky]

It occurs to me that I may be a bit harsh on Batman writers. I like Grant Morrison on just about everything non-Batman he's done. The only other work by Scott Snyder I've read is amazing. But I hate the weird shit they do on Batman.

Why do I say I might be a bit harsh? Because even I would very quickly put Larry Hama among the ranks of the worst post-Crisis (meaning post-1986, not just the actual DCU period called Post-Crisis) Batman writers of all. The guy I otherwise consider to be one of the best damned comic book writers of all time. I would probably sacrifice goats to his GIJoe run if people wouldn't look at me funny for doing it.

Guys like Grant, O'Neil, Wolfman, Moore, and Dini, not to mention Miller before he went insane, just set the bar way the fuck too high.

[Diabolical]

Only semi-Batman related: Don't get too jealous, but Norm Breyfogle totally wished me a happy birthday on facebook.

This is as cool as the time the smokin' hot local reporter wished me a happy birthday and Adam got super jealous.

[anarky]

You said "smokin' hot" and "Norm Breyfogle" in the same sentence as "semi."

That means you got wood because you think Norm Breyfogle is an attractive man.


































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