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Re: Worst Batman Thread Ever
« Reply #400 on: November 08, 2010, 05:22:04 AM »

That's the Batman who fought Ra's Al Ghul living inside of Talia Al Ghul's body.  He has no leg to stand on against RIP.

Sure. "Fought."
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Re: Worst Batman Thread Ever
« Reply #401 on: November 10, 2010, 08:07:20 AM »

Yo, does anybody kinda hope that the Dark Knight Rises will end sorta like Morrison's last issue on Batman and Robin? Cuz I can see something like that happening. Heck, it'd be great if the whole movie was just Batman: R.I.P. shoved haphazardly into Nolan mythology. Like, the main villain is Batman's evil ancestor for some strange reason, and he dicks around with Batman's legacy. It won't be the R.I.P. adaption we need, but it'll be the one we deserve. Because hey, I'll take it.
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Re: Worst Batman Thread Ever
« Reply #402 on: November 12, 2010, 02:38:26 AM »

If you want a R.I.P. adaptation just wait for the DC Animated staff to get around to it. I'm sure it is on the list.
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Re: Worst Batman Thread Ever
« Reply #403 on: November 12, 2010, 03:46:01 PM »

Well, apparently Dick and Damian ARE popping up as Batman and Robin on TB&TB next week.
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Re: Worst Batman Thread Ever
« Reply #404 on: November 16, 2010, 09:49:31 AM »

Cool, I'll try to catch that this Friday then.
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Re: Worst Batman Thread Ever
« Reply #405 on: November 16, 2010, 10:22:54 AM »

Well, apparently Dick and Damian ARE popping up as BatTHERE'S A BRAND NEW FASHION SHOW ONLY ON BRAVO WHOA-OH-WHOA-OH-WHOA-OH
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Re: Worst Batman Thread Ever
« Reply #406 on: November 16, 2010, 10:35:06 AM »

Iman needs to do more cartoon voiceovers.
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Re: Worst Batman Thread Ever
« Reply #407 on: November 16, 2010, 02:32:52 PM »

???? :wat:

David Bowie's Wife?
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Re: Worst Batman Thread Ever
« Reply #408 on: November 24, 2010, 09:40:13 PM »

There are too damn many good Batman books.  It was so much easier in the 1990's when they were all terrible.
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Re: Worst Batman Thread Ever
« Reply #409 on: November 26, 2010, 07:46:27 PM »

So I watched Mystery of the Batwoman tonight. It wasn't bad. The animation was pretty choppy at times, and the [spoiler]climatic fight with Bane[/spoiler] bored me, but it was worth the five dollars I paid for it. Plus the included short was cute.
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Re: Worst Batman Thread Ever
« Reply #410 on: November 26, 2010, 08:20:27 PM »

Speaking of animated Batman shenanigans: I watched Behind the Red Hood. Batman wasn't really much of a character in this one, and Nightwing fluctuated between obnoxious and absent. The titular Red Hood was surprisingly fun, though, and DiMaggio's Joker was utterly fantastic.
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Re: Worst Batman Thread Ever
« Reply #411 on: November 27, 2010, 01:31:27 PM »

Batman Beyond #6: I think Beechen's finally clicked; this was a great damn ending.  Still no resolution on the Joker chronology, but we find out Dr. Reid's maiden name and suddenly her confirmation of Dick's story is no longer reliable.  (It's also occurred to me that Terry should have spotted the hole in Dick's story too -- given that he'd met Tim before, that places this story after Return of the Joker.  Still, it leaves me some hope that Beechen may have some bigger story in mind and he didn't just fuck up the chronology.)

Picked up for an ongoing and the cover of #1 shows the Justice League.  That should be good.
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Re: Worst Batman Thread Ever
« Reply #412 on: November 27, 2010, 10:26:25 PM »

Batman Beyond #6: I think Beechen's finally clicked; this was a great damn ending.  Still no resolution on the Joker chronology, but we find out Dr. Reid's maiden name and suddenly her confirmation of Dick's story is no longer reliable.  (It's also occurred to me that Terry should have spotted the hole in Dick's story too -- given that he'd met Tim before, that places this story after Return of the Joker.  Still, it leaves me some hope that Beechen may have some bigger story in mind and he didn't just fuck up the chronology.)

Picked up for an ongoing and the cover of #1 shows the Justice League.  That should be good.
Could you spoil Dr. Reid's maiden name for me? I am genuinely curious.
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Re: Worst Batman Thread Ever
« Reply #413 on: November 27, 2010, 11:53:29 PM »

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Could you spoil Dr. Reid's maiden name for me? I am genuinely curious.
[spoiler]Nora Elliot, Tommy Elliot's granddaughter.[/spoiler]
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Re: Worst Batman Thread Ever
« Reply #414 on: November 28, 2010, 09:53:23 PM »

And while we're on the subject...where do you suppose she got her FIRST name?
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Re: Worst Batman Thread Ever
« Reply #415 on: December 04, 2010, 01:43:51 AM »

That latest Brave and the Bold does not sit well. Billed as "Starting the JLI" I got excited. But since [spoiler] the Question's apparent suicide[/spoiler] last episode, starting off with [spoiler]"Well, I haven't seen the Question in a week. I'm sure something'll happen to help him."[/spoiler] seemed kind of cold. And Martian Manhunter was... just terrible. I like Martian Manhunter but this one... Ugh.

And the end? [spoiler] The Question saves the day, saves all of earth from Darksied himself and gets rid of the entire army single handedly[/spoiler] and Batman basically says "Oh. So that's where you were. Neato." [spoiler] AND THE DIDN'T EVEN INVITE HIM TO THE PARTY IN SPACE.[/spoiler]

Pretty much only the big fight scene was worth watching.  And that wasn't as much exciting as it was kind of neat to watch.
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Re: Worst Batman Thread Ever
« Reply #416 on: December 04, 2010, 06:06:54 AM »

I enjoyed the episode more than you, but agree that it wasn't as coherent as all of its elements would suggest. There were some fun bits (Aquaman has yet to grow stale), but they felt strung together on a storyboard rather than naturally growing from the situation and its conflicts.

It would've worked much better as a two-parter. Then there'd be room for some connective tissue between the fan service [spoiler]like Green Lantern taking Guy's room[/spoiler] and [spoiler]the JLI combo attack.[/spoiler] A good alien invasion takes more than a few crumbling landmarks and hovertanks zipping across the sky. There has to be a certain mood. Even the Starro episodes did this better with the slow accumulation of clues during the pre-credits bits.

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Re: Worst Batman Thread Ever
« Reply #417 on: December 19, 2010, 06:19:53 PM »

The Batman Beyond reprinty thing averaged out to be pretty okay.  I missed these comics in their original run, so they were all new to me.  All three stories were written by Hilary J Bader, who was also a writer on the show.

The first story is far and away the highlight; it really hits it out of the park.  It focuses on Barbara Gordon of the Future, who Bader herself introduced us to in Touch of Curare.  And remember when Babs got dosed with fear gas in Over the Edge?  Of course you do.  Well, it turns out she never really recovered; every few years she starts having flashbacks and now she's trying to fight them while racing the clock to save a kidnapped child.

It's fantastic stuff, and while I'm warming up to Beechen, this makes his mini look like amateur hour.  Where he bent over backwards trying to make his story dark and invoke past continuity, here Bader does it better and makes it seem effortless.

Pity the other two stories aren't quite as good.

Bader loves her some team-ups (she wrote the Steel, Dr. Fate, Aquaman, and Green Lantern episodes of Superman).  The second story is a teamup with the Demon (and, from the dialogue, I infer it's not the first one in the comic).  It's well done and gives us the type of magical story we seldom saw on Batman Beyond.

And the last story is a two-part JLU teamup that doesn't really need to be two parts and just kind of drags.  Most of the JLU never really develop personalities, particularly GL, who unfortunately is the main character in the story.  Warhawk and Barda are kinda fun but one-dimensional; the plot doesn't seem to go anywhere and the ending is too cute.  Disappointing, particularly the pacing -- the Barbara story proves Bader capable of excellent, compressed storytelling; this two-parter proves she didn't always use it.

And the art: well, it's serviceable.  I'm a little turned-off by the "make it look like the cartoon" edicts of series like this, but on the other hand, there are worse things than competent artists aping Bruce Timm.

All in all, $8 is a little steep, but it IS 100 pages, the first story is fantastic, and the other two aren't bad.  Lord knows I've been known to spend $8 on 44 pages' worth of worse comics than these.
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Re: Worst Batman Thread Ever
« Reply #418 on: December 25, 2010, 10:01:33 AM »

I can't remember if this has been posted or not before, but if not, Merry Christmas!  The Writer's Guide for Batman the Animated Series
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Re: Worst Batman Thread Ever
« Reply #419 on: March 25, 2011, 09:51:56 PM »

Brave and the Bold: still completely incredible.
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