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Grant Morrison's Batman

 
  

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Evil Scientist
08:31 / 13.02.06
I'm a little concerned that the Big Giant M-brane's quality might suffer from doing too much at once. He's currently wrapping up 7 Soldiers. Writing ASS. Co-writing (?) on WildC.A.T.S, and writing Authority. Now he's also writing the Bat too?

He's a mad, bad, little engine of creativity that's for sure. But can his dilithium chamber handle all of that and still write to a high quality?

For the sake of posthumanity, let's hope so.
 
 
Mario
11:37 / 13.02.06
The "hairy-chested love god" line is pure O'Neill/Adams. Read Batman #244.
 
 
Imaginary Mongoose Solutions
12:15 / 13.02.06
ASS is Bi Monthly, Authority is bi-monthly, WildCATS is bi-monthly, and Bats will be monthly. Doesn't sound too difficult... especailly if his current pace is 4-5 books a month as he's said.

Although the question must be asked:

Which Batman is he writing? Speculation abounds that the new Bats will be dick Greyson and not Bruce. Especially since they've already leaked that Dick won't be Nightwing OYL (Odds are on Jason Todd to be the new Nightwing).

And yeah, the "hairy chested love god" bit reminds me of one of the scenes from Son of the Demon a great deal... where he's running around in just the cowl and pants, his chest adorned with a resplednent forest of man-bush.
 
 
Evil Scientist
12:25 / 13.02.06
ASS is Bi Monthly, Authority is bi-monthly

Hope they're alternative months otherwise I'm going to have to work through dry spells with only the mildly alright Desolation Jones and assorted cracking Ultimate titles to read.

Still, I've got Marvel Zombies to keep me going.
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
12:41 / 13.02.06
Which Batman is he writing? Speculation abounds that the new Bats will be dick Greyson and not Bruce. Especially since they've already leaked that Dick won't be Nightwing OYL (Odds are on Jason Todd to be the new Nightwing).

Now, that's interesting.

What is OYL?
 
 
Evil Scientist
13:02 / 13.02.06
One year later. Refering to where DC continuity restarts after Infinite Crisis.
 
 
FinderWolf
13:46 / 13.02.06
Morrison said something in one of his many statements this past weekend at the big convention that now he feels he's able to comfortably write several (I guess meaning 3 or 4) books at once, where he used to feel he could only write 1 or 2 at a time.
 
 
FinderWolf
13:59 / 13.02.06
Several DC editors, including the one who is editing post-IC Batman, have said those rumors about someone else being under the Bat-cowl are *not* true and Bruce is Bats. Tim Drake is Robin. However, it looks likely that Jason Todd will indeed be Nightwing for a while (one solicit for an upcoming issue says there will be two people running around in Nightwing costumes; likely Dick Grayson AND Jason Todd, with Jason Todd doing mean evil nasty things to criminals while in said costume).
 
 
Triplets
13:59 / 13.02.06
Anyone else feel this is a way for DC to sneak in another All-Star Batman?
 
 
Bed Head
14:05 / 13.02.06
It sounds more like Half-a-star Batman, frankly. Art by a Kubert? Bleeeagh. One step above Howard Porter.
 
 
Bed Head
14:20 / 13.02.06
...Or, One-Star Batman, possibly. But that’s all. Because, surely, one kubert ≠ one ‘star’.

There must be better artists around who could do this whole 'hairy 70s love god' thing.
 
 
Triplets
14:57 / 13.02.06
Adam Kubert? He's not that baahahahahahahaahahad
 
 
FinderWolf
15:07 / 13.02.06
yeah, I'm not a big fan of the Kuberts - but DC did put a drawing of Batman done by one of the Kuberts (which was rumored to be a warm-up piece for this assignment) a few months ago that looked halfway decent. Maybe working with Morrison will entice him to step up his game (whichever Kubert is doing it).
 
 
The Falcon
15:48 / 13.02.06
It's unconfirmed; the rumour from some time ago was Andy, who I consider the lesser talent of the two. But fuck it, I don't think Porter even served as a particular detriment to JLA; his panels varied wildly from 'quite ace' to 'incompetent', and it's hard to imagine anyone else having done it, and the fill-ins - Oscar Jimenez excepted - were far worse.

So, surprising no-one, I'll say I'm down. Got sorta vague recollections of the 'Son of the Demon'(?) era from a pal's trades in my early teens, and they were pretty sexual. Batman needs the sexual.
 
 
Mario
15:49 / 13.02.06
You know what would _really_ freak out the fans?

If they got Neal Adams to do the art....
 
 
Optimistic
16:04 / 13.02.06
That would be cool. And I don't think it would be too unrealistic considering his next gig is All Star Batman "once the current run is over" (I'd put money on that being a long way away).

That said, I think DC will want to use the publicity from a Kubert brother's first exclusive work to promote the book.

Aaaaand, some of Adam Kubert's Ultimate Fantastic Four was okay...
 
 
Ganesh
16:07 / 13.02.06
One year later. Refering to where DC continuity restarts after Infinite Crisis.

Not terribly Infinite, then, that there Crisis.
 
 
Spaniel
16:25 / 13.02.06
Well not to be a pedant, but you could have a crisis on an infinite number of Earths, say, without that crisis going forward for an infinite amount of time, or, indeed, without it effecting another infinity of Earths.

That's the thing about infinities, theoretically there's an infinite number of 'em.
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
16:26 / 13.02.06
Perhaps it is infinite but bounded, like Space.
 
 
Simplist
16:53 / 13.02.06
I do think it'll be a bit weird if Mozza's Batman is radically different from how he is now, but I guess it's OYL, so I can forgive. I just hope the 'brightening' is done gradually, or with some reason, not simply becuase there's a new writer and they want to do a character this way. The tonal shift is always a bit unsettling as a reader, and shows a fair bit of arrogance on the side of writers.

I get the impression from various comments by miscellaneous DC writers & staffers that this particular tonal shift will result from the resolution of IC, ie. some sort of reality-shifting reboot that sidesteps the need for gradual development.

BUT, even if that weren't the case I'd prefer Morrison approach the book as if it were, rather than spending a year getting Batman to where he wants him psychologically before telling the stories he really wants to tell. Approaching it this way will also allow the overall story to stand on its own relatively timelessly once the run's over, rather than being too locked into some particular developmental phase of the character.
 
 
Ganesh
17:12 / 13.02.06
Perhaps it is infinite but bounded, like Space.

Doesn't "infinite" mean "without boundaries"?
 
 
The Falcon
17:20 / 13.02.06
Well, couldn't you - theoretically - get an infinitely divisible mass from, say, a marble or seven comics? Or anything, really.

All numbers are teh same!11!1 and so on.
 
 
Triplets
17:21 / 13.02.06
Well it's an "infinite crisis", Boboss, not a "crisis on infinite earths". It's a singular crisis (on, one presumes, a singular Earth) which is infinite.

But not terribly so, it seems.
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
17:23 / 13.02.06
Not necessarily, Ganesh. Concepts like "infinity" and "eternity" and "perpetuity" have shades of meaning. To pair the term "crisis" with the term "infinite", in the sense you are using it, seems to be an oxymoron, since a crisis is, by definition, a finite event. How else might we interpret a paradox like this?

We could assume that the staff of DC doesn't understand, or perhaps care about, the difference between an "infinite" crisis and, say, a "perpetual" one--or even a "perennial" one, which is more literally accurate from our point of view as readers... but not, perhaps, to Batman himself.

According to many astrophysicists, the universe, like the surface of a balloon, appears to be infinite in the sense that you can travel forever without ever reaching the end of it, but bounded in the sense that it occupies a finite space.

I'm sure I have no opinion either way. I haven't been reading any of it.
 
 
Optimistic
17:41 / 13.02.06
It would be cool if there was a crisis on a parallel earth which lasted forever, a place the characters could return to...


...though I think I've convinced myself that's a crap idea in time it took to write it down.
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
18:04 / 13.02.06
You mean, like Thanagar?
 
 
H3ct0r L1m4
18:20 / 13.02.06
this WonderCon infor confirms my suspitions... Mozz's Batman so far looks a lot like Filmation's 1977



with the red sky etc and mad stuff going on. which is why I guess it'd sit much better in ALL-STAR BATMAN [with another artist onboard].

but it seems ALL-DAMN BATMAN will go on for bit more...
 
 
Sean the frumious Bandersnatch
18:27 / 13.02.06
You can have multipile infinities, like an infinite amount of whole numbers and infinite amount of fractions between 1 and 2. So you can have an infinite amount of...fuck it. The point is, Infinite Crisis makes a better-selling title than "Finite Problem".
 
 
This Sunday
18:31 / 13.02.06
'Finite Problem' would be an excellent title for the last issue of InfiniCrisis, though. A sort of wake-up call where they all realize it's just the same old shit and move on. Cue Morrison-writ DCU. With new and improved self-awareness.
 
 
Triplets
11:58 / 14.02.06
Excellent. I want him to fight crime in space, solve the murder of the Bottled Man of Kandor and exorcise the vengeful ghost of Grandfather Wayne. All of that, as long as, at least once, Bruce puts on the Genie Batman costume I know he's got lying about...
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
12:10 / 14.02.06
Specific Tiff
 
 
Triplets
12:44 / 14.02.06
Precise Dispute #7!
 
 
Mario
12:54 / 14.02.06
Giant-Size Minor Disagreement #1.
 
 
FinderWolf
13:58 / 14.02.06
>> And yeah, the "hairy chested love god" bit reminds me of one of the scenes from Son of the Demon a great deal... where he's running around in just the cowl and pants, his chest adorned with a resplednent forest of man-bush.

Or as Kyle Baker put it in his recent PLASTIC MAN series, 'the legendary SHIRTLESS FIGHTING! scenes' with Ra's al Ghul.
 
 
FinderWolf
14:08 / 14.02.06
I like the idea of just plain ol' "Giant-Size Disagreement #1" (without the 'minor') to describe the archetypal superhero comic.
 
  

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