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Stupid Comics Questions

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20:31 / 26.06.09

I've just been reading Scott Pilgrim for the first time, and it's just about perfect - has superheroish elements without being a hero comic.

01:27 / 27.06.09

I've just started book one also - reading that along with Bone (which is a beauty) and Walking Dead, which has started okay.

Scott Pilgrim is great fun!

12:06 / 17.09.09

I have a stupid comics question:

It's been a while since I last picked up a comic book. My memories of comic book Batman only go up to maybe early 90's stuff, tops. But recently I kinda of got an idea that I'm sketching for a Batman script (just something to distract me on the way to the grave), and I wanted to know what's going on with the pointy-eared one these days. So I got myself the Batman R.I.P. storyline, where I got wind that the character was bound to be reformulated like Superman got in the 80's. Excuse the fuck? Talk about baad timing...

So my Stupid Question is this, considering that I really have no idea what's going on in the trenches these days (I had no idea there was even a Blüdhaven (God, what a shitty name, btw): Is there any indication of what this new version will be like? Or we only have speculations so far? (For all that I know, said reformulation might have happened already, excuse an old man who's afraid of new things).

As a bonus stupid question: It can be argued that Superman's revamp was for the best, given that they tossed aside many silly concepts that were aggregated to the character over the decades; do you think, internet, that Batman's revamp was equally needed?

Thanks.

13:41 / 17.09.09

Stupid only in so much that we’re 4 issues into the new Batman status quo. Basically, go and buy the comics (Batman and Robin 1-4 written by Grant Morrison and drawn by Frank Quitely (1-3) and Phillip Tan (4)) – they’re very, very good - and don’t spoil the surprise for yourself!

13:47 / 17.09.09

Also, revamp shmevamp. I don’t know if Batman and Robin was needed, and I’m pretty Morrison’s new status quo won’t mean much over the longer term (as with his X-Men revamp), but is sure as shit is excellent Superhero comics, which as far as I’m concerned is the bottom line.

14:09 / 17.09.09

Mm, interesting. Thanks, will make sure I get them books.

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00:36 / 18.09.09

As an added bonus, if you like stories in which some form of headgear makes people slaves... well, let's just say you won't be disappointed!

(Is Dick Grayson being Batman a reboot, exactly? Or are we talking about the triumphant return of Bruce Wayne?)

08:28 / 18.09.09

Given Deja's lack of knowledge, I don't think we're talking about that.

As an added bonus, if you like stories in which some form of headgear makes people slaves... well, let's just say you won't be disappointed!

Lulz. Is truth.

15:57 / 19.09.09

Re: enslaving headgear - yeah, I see what you mean. At this point, Morrison is more about characterization and outrageous concepts than spotless plot devices, I guess. Wasn't you who said something about how these dudes are doing little more than tilling the fertile plots that Moore left?

What really floored me, though, was Quitely's art. I already knew his work, but not really, if you know what I mean. These last issues of B & R gave me the chance to give it a good look, and I'm very impressed. The tenderness with which he draws Alfred is astonishing:

I feel like I should use bad language. Rembrandt is alive, drawing the Batman and Robin funny book.

18:00 / 19.09.09

Out of interest, have you read All Star Superman? If you haven't you should.

21:11 / 19.09.09

No, I hsven't. Same team, eh. I'll make sure to check it out, thanks.

(Previous comment re: Quitely might seem a little on the hyperbolic side, but if you check Rembrandt's etchings, you'll see what I mean).

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21:42 / 19.09.09

Re: enslaving headgear - yeah, I see what you mean. At this point, Morrison is more about characterization and outrageous concepts than spotless plot devices, I guess. Wasn't you who said something about how these dudes are doing little more than tilling the fertile plots that Moore left?

I don't think that was me, no... I mean, I can see why one might say that, and I think Alan Moore just sort of did, although he was talking about GEOFF! JOHNS! building crossovers out of what were throwaway ideas from his Green Lantern stories (and I can sympathise, in the sense that the apocalyptic demise of the Green Lanterns feels more dramatic if it doesn't happen and then stop happening, with all the Green Lanterns still there - that is, if it remains a _thing that happens at a conclusion that is never reached_), but that wasn't me. At least, I don't think so. I might be wrong!

Seconded on All-Star Superman - it really is the bollocks.

16:16 / 20.09.09

Yes, that was the bit. Sorry, I skimmed it over and missed Moore's name. Should have said "to the effect of", maybe.

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16:29 / 20.09.09

I'm not Alan Moore, though! Honest! He said it in this interview.

Incidentally, on a tangent, but speaking of Damian Wayne and the reboot, there's a piece on io9 about comc books' rohypnol tendency (they omit the near-identical Starman/Mist conception) here.

10:50 / 11.12.09

Can anyone identify this UFO comic from around 1965...?

I remember it as a larger size format, like a narrower Marvel Treasury Edition type. It was about "real" UFO incidents. This is not the later Gold Key comic.

Had scenarios on the inside and back covers, possibly illustrating the stories inside. In one panel, a motorist comes across an egg-shaped alien space ship.

Have a very fond memory of it as a child, but haven't found it anywhere. Circa 1965 to '70. Thanks! ^_^

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