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STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
15:14 / 01.09.06
It really is supercool that George is doing both Bats and Supes (hah! take that, Byrne!), not to mention doing them so very, very differently. In both cases I've been reminded why I used to love these characters so much as a kid.

But no, no explanations of Batman's excessive rockingness needed for me. "You must have crippled at least thirty of my allegedly elite Man-Bat commandos, beloved".

AT LEAST THIRTY. Dude's practically a honey badger.
 
 
Spaniel
18:18 / 01.09.06
C'mon, he's not that hard.
 
 
Spaniel
18:22 / 01.09.06
The thing that really struck me was how the book managed to be totally, unashamedly hilarious, without undermining the awesome bat-action.

I think the term joycore was invented for this comic.
 
 
Professor Silly
18:57 / 01.09.06
The thing I loved most about this issue, and which I'm surprised nobody else has mentioned, is the use of comic-pop art within the gallary as sound-effects, meta-commentary, and the like. In almost every panal, the artwork behind the fight adds a goofy feel to the fantastic action in the foreground. I found this to be a particularly ingenius method that literally had me giggling like a little boy.

In terms of the artwork of Kubert, I was especially impressed by the shot of Alfred seeing the Man-bats, complete with the reflections in his eyes. He really captured a feeling of terror in that panal.

May I be so bold as to suggest this may be the single best issue of all time? Perhaps I'm just a little too caught up in the moment...but I'm having a hard time thinking of any other single issue that filled me with such joy and excitement.
 
 
Sniv
19:03 / 01.09.06
Um, Prof, hate to say it, but one of the main things that everybody has commented on around t'internet. Not that it isn't cool, but it was hardly subtle, was it?

That said, it's great that I'm excited about the Batman books in a way that I haven't been since I was sixteen. Batmite, mothrafuckers!!1!
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
19:15 / 01.09.06
Y'know, every time Morrison takes on an established title, I always think "ahh, that's a shame, means he won't be doing any of his 'own' stuff for a while". Then the buggers come out, and I feel really stupid for having worried.

How anyone can even entertain the possibility that he doesn't love superheroes after reading this and ASS is beyond me.
 
 
The Natural Way
20:30 / 01.09.06
John, the fact that you endorse shit like the Mite (and, I'm sure, things like Zebra Batman [sorry can't provide a link, but I just know yr into that stuff already, so that doesn't matter]) means that, inspite of a slightly bumpy start on the lith as a whole, the barbecomics forum is obviously a bit of a spiritual home. Yr amongst friends here.

And, Silly, I mentioned the pop-art not five posts deep before yrs.
 
 
The Natural Way
20:33 / 01.09.06
In light of Bats taking out 30 ninja manbats, I'm not sure I'm feeling the titles Batman, The Dark Knight, The Caped Crusader or The Dark Detective anymore. What do people think of HARDCORE MAN?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
20:42 / 01.09.06
They should just call him TEH R0xx0R!!! and have done with it.
 
 
Mr Tricks
21:50 / 01.09.06
Yes it was overall very well choreographed. I expect Kubert to improve upon this as the series continues.

nice use of the inner monolog as well. "Leather bound bibles flapping in the wind" or something to that effect. love it.

And yes great use of the POP art back-grounds.
 
 
The Falcon
22:31 / 01.09.06
Yeah, I'd not say it was the best book ever (that's either Marvel Boy #3 or the McCarthy SOLO I got today) but I've had it sat by the comp for the last week or so, and looking at the cover alone has brought a kind of warm spiritual contentment. ('I know if I stare hard enough, there's a message.')

I'm even liking Kubert now, he pulled most of the gallery scrap off with aplomb I'd go so far as to say; think there's one of dad's Sgt. Rocks in the gallery, and what looks suspiciously like a Warholized Darwyn Cooke Wonder Woman. What's it they say - 'dinner'? Aye, dinner.
 
 
The Falcon
22:32 / 01.09.06
Dinnner-dinner dinner-dinner Batman(!), even.

Gosh, I am awful.
 
 
Triplets
11:15 / 02.09.06


DIN-NAH!
 
 
Billuccho!
16:26 / 03.09.06
It's not a Darwyn Cooke Wonder Woman so much as it is a lift from Sensation Comics #1.
 
 
The Falcon
23:40 / 03.09.06
You're quite right, Bill.



I'm sure Cooke draws her very similarly on the back on one of the New Frontier issues, but that's exactly it.
 
 
Professor Silly
18:51 / 04.09.06
So you did, Marriage. I'll blame the speed at which I was reading for missing that.
I don't read anything on the web about comics except what's here, so if it's being talked about elsewhere, I wouldn't see it. It's not that I thought it was missed by all--it is very blatant--I was just surprised that I didn't see anyone discussing it here...which again was due to my careless reading.
Still, I thought it was brilliant.
 
 
Jackie Susann
09:55 / 05.09.06
I love the way dozens of armed ninja Man-Bats attack, and Batman just goes, 'alarming twist', like he's making pasta sauce and he forgot the bay leaves or something.
 
 
yawn - thing's buddy
11:45 / 05.09.06
that panel with a naked batman save the mask . . . fuckin LOL!

what a great comic.
 
 
The Natural Way
12:51 / 19.09.06
POTENTIALLY DEPRESSING NEWS:

It seems, if you pop over to Newsarama and take a gander at their 'comics for December' section, that Grant's taking a hiatus from the book and John Ostrander's filling in FOR 4 ISSUES.

Great.
 
 
doyoufeelloved
13:45 / 19.09.06
Though those four issues are running biweekly, so it's only two months.
 
 
Sniv
13:49 / 19.09.06
Ick. Too much work! I knew it couldn't last. It's probably for the Wildstorm re-launch (which is a fucking joke, what with Jim "snail's pace" Lee and Gene "freaky detail" Ha drawing).

I honestly love the man's work, but no other writer disappoints me as consistently as Morrison does. 4 issues?Bah!
 
 
The Natural Way
14:21 / 19.09.06
...only 2 months....

I know, but I really don't want John Ostrander for Xmas, and Grant's only just got on the book.

RRGGGhgG!

Fucking Wildcats bollocks.
 
 
Spaniel
16:57 / 19.09.06
What, you're not excited by the prospect of GROTESK and his psychopathic obsession with scarification?

Could this shit be any less in keeping with Morrison's run?
 
 
andrewdrilon
17:48 / 19.09.06
Wizard Interview bits online HERE.
 
 
Spaniel
18:51 / 19.09.06
Gonna cut and paste the best bit.

We’ve got a three-part story with all the different international Batmen on an island. Batman gets invited to the last meeting of the Club of Heroes, which he used to belong to in the stories of the ’50s. It was populated by all the different Batmen—the Knight and the Squire [from England], the Gaucho from Argentina and the Legionary from Italy. Batman and Robin get an invitation to visit John Mayhew’s island, he’s the eccentric billionaire that put these guys together once. His face appears on a screen and says, “I’ve brought you here because I’ve been murdered and I need you guys to solve the mystery—but the murderer is still here among us.” They all start getting killed off, one by one, while Batman and Robin are trying to figure out who’s doing it. (Grant speaks in Wizard)

That, my friends, is the defintiion of joycore.
 
 
The Natural Way
07:17 / 20.09.06
But obviously we can't expect this arc until bloody january/February.....


Shiiiiiiiiit.
 
 
Eskay Uno
16:28 / 20.09.06
If they're taking a break to accommodate Kubert's pace, I can live with that. I prefer the (eventual) trade paperbacks to feature single artists rather than a mish mash of fill-ins. Though it would be cool to see Mandrake work with GM sometime...
 
 
H3ct0r L1m4
17:53 / 20.09.06
me too, and another artist for another arc's not an uncommon thing at all...

shit, a 4 issues hiatus would be a first for GM, right?
anyway, the Hero Club thing sounds very good and in the spirit of how this run is being set up.

hopefully Batmite is not too far ahead.
 
 
Essential Dazzler
19:30 / 20.09.06
Shit, a 4 issues hiatus would be a first for GM, right?

Nope I'm just reading through Grant's JLA trades, and I've come up against a four issue fill in by Mark Waid. It ain't pretty.
 
 
A
02:34 / 21.09.06
I liked Waid's fill-in on JLA, particularly the Adam Strange story. He's no Morrison, but he's a pretty solid superhero writer.
 
 
H3ct0r L1m4
10:25 / 21.09.06
you got it, FF. crushing times at the DCU.
 
 
Ben Danes
10:34 / 28.09.06
So anyone still thinking that Damian won't become Bat-Mite now? I was initally thinking along the lines of Bat-Boy or something, but it's really the only way GM could bring back the Bat-Mite without getting lynched by the Geoff Johns' fans.

Anyway, not as good as the last issue, but better than the first. I'm really liking Kubert's art on the whole, except little things like Robin's awkard arm positioning on the cover just seem sloppy. Pressed for time Andy?

"I've been in caves before." Definitely my favourite line of the issue, but nothing beats "alarming twist."
 
 
The Natural Way
11:11 / 28.09.06
The best lines?

Oh, come on, it's definitely 'Crime Lost!' (complete with decapitated head stuffed with hand-grenade) or '....Aaah memories...' 657 is Alfred and Bruce as Daddies and it's hilarious. Absolutley bloody brilliant. I love All Star Superman, but Batman's easily my favourite comic at the moment. Morrison doesn't give a shit about Johns. When Batmite returns, it'll be in all his 5th dimensional glory. I mean, let's face it, when did Grant Morrison ever turn down an opportunity to visit the land of the many angled ones?
 
 
Ben Danes
11:33 / 28.09.06
They're great lines, definitely, but I like the caves one more in that it adds character to Damo, in that "I've been hanging out and training with Osama and co, Dad" way.
 
 
The Natural Way
12:49 / 28.09.06
I just love the fact that Grant's Batman's being followed right now by a furrowed browed teen/bat-nerd, nodding along with the action. You can take it seriously if you like - it has conviction - but, at the same time, it's so completely absurd. 'Batman & Son', for fuck's sake!
 
  

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