Topic: Worst Batman Thread Ever (Read 50872 times)

Thad · « **Reply #480 on:** November 15, 2011, 09:10:48 AM »

First look at Aardman Batman. And some other stuff.

Envy · « **Reply #481 on:** November 18, 2011, 04:31:39 PM »

The final brave and the bold was pretty amazing.

Thad · « **Reply #482 on:** November 25, 2011, 04:17:26 PM »

I am not exaggerating when I say that Mitefall may be the best final episode of any show I have ever seen.

Thad · « **Reply #483 on:** December 19, 2011, 09:17:50 PM »

Meanwhile, Christian Bale roughed up trying to visit blind lawyer in Chinese prison.

This would make a great issue of Batman Inc if only DC and Marvel could bury the hatchet and do a crossover.

...

...seriously, though, China is fucked up.

Büge · « **Reply #484 on:** December 21, 2011, 01:02:45 PM »

Hypothesis: Ace is named after Ace.

Thad · « **Reply #485 on:** December 21, 2011, 01:29:26 PM »

Heh.

I remember being confused by some episode summaries as to which Ace they were talking about, since there were in fact two of them on Beyond.

Mothra · « **Reply #486 on:** December 23, 2011, 04:23:23 PM »

So uh, I found out about this the other day:

Gotham Girls: Trick or Trick? (S1E3)

I'm so sorry.

Niku · « **Reply #487 on:** December 23, 2011, 04:24:48 PM »

Oh, for the heady days of early flash animation and webtoons.

Now go find the animated series about sixteen year old Zatanna.

Mothra · « **Reply #488 on:** December 23, 2011, 04:31:23 PM »

Also: While I've been recovering I've been watching a shitload of Batman Beyond and TAS. I'd forgotten how excellent the intros for both of these were.

Caught "Over the Edge" the other day. THAT, is a great fucking episode.

Death of Batman and Gordon

Thad · « **Reply #489 on:** December 27, 2011, 07:48:29 AM »

One of the best.

It's worth checking out Hilary Bader's comic sequel to it -- it takes place in the Beyond timeline and reveals that Babs never really recovered from the fear gas and has a periodic relapse. It showed up in a 100-page Batman Beyond reprint special a few months back.

Anyhow, the ending of Over the Edge, in particular, is genius. I always loved Batman and Jim's relationship in those series, and the implication that Jim knew who he was but was maintaining plausible deniability. Over the Edge basically gives up the game.

(It IS a bit difficult to reconcile with an episode from around the same time where Gordon appears clueless -- makes some comment to Bruce about how Barbara's outgrown her youthful impulsiveness. You can chalk it up to him being coy, but it's absolutely not played that way; I think it's just a bit of a continuity gaffe.)

Mothra · « **Reply #490 on:** January 13, 2012, 01:20:19 PM »

Batman Interrogation (from Front Page Films)

Collegehumor has the best Retarded Batman.

Mothra · « **Reply #491 on:** February 29, 2012, 05:13:35 PM »

Dawwww

Thad · « **Reply #492 on:** March 05, 2012, 01:28:17 PM »

Mazzucchelli: Don't buy the new edition of Year One. If you have already bought it, demand a refund.

Thad · « **Reply #493 on:** April 03, 2012, 11:31:41 AM »

So, those Bat-Manga pages from that episode of TB&TB?

Not actually Bat-Manga pages; they had to be mocked up explicitly for that one scene transition.

Envy · « **Reply #494 on:** April 20, 2012, 09:41:32 PM »

Not digging the voice just yet, but I haven't heard many lines yet. So I'm going to withhold judgement on it for now.
Beware the Batman Trailer HD

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #495 on:** April 20, 2012, 09:59:42 PM »

... he sounds almost exactly like Kevin Conroy.

Also man, what is up with Cartoon Network and all of these CG-animated cartoons lately? I guess they're cheaper to make.

Thad · « **Reply #496 on:** June 14, 2012, 07:37:03 AM »

...so apparently this entire Court of Owls storyline has been building toward the reintroduction of an obscure Bob Haney character who appeared for two issues in 1974. (Link spoils who I am referring to, as you might expect.)

On the one hand, I'm fairly ambivalent on the Court of Owls story.

On the other, I DO love people suddenly digging up crazy, largely-ignored old stories and going balls-out with them (assuming that's what's actually happening here and they don't pull a "Just kidding" twist next month) -- after all, that's pretty much what Grant Morrison's entire run has been, starting with "Remember that story about Bruce and Talia having a kid that everybody agreed never happened?"

In fact, a lot of fans figured This Particular Character would be who Dr. Hurt turned out to be in RIP. It IS a very Morrison-y thing to do, to the point I can't help wonder if this is a castoff Morrison idea, like "Oh hey, I wanted to use him but couldn't find a good place to fit him in; Scott, you want this one?"

Then again, given that Snyder already did a [spoiler]villain-turns-out-to-be-related-to-hero[/spoiler] reveal in his previous arc, it'd be entirely in-character for him to come up with this one on his own.

Still deciding how I feel about this one.

But I am not still deciding how I feel about Bob Haney.

Bob Haney is awesome.

This has been my opinion ever since I first aw a guy in furry boots and a medieval helmet riding a giant snowcat.

Thad · « **Reply #497 on:** July 05, 2012, 08:03:11 PM »

So John Layman is going to start writing Detective Comics.

Which is great, because he's already writing the best damn detective comic on the stands as it is.

Have I mentioned lately how much I love Chew? It's a lot.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #498 on:** July 05, 2012, 08:12:28 PM »

Yeah, Chew is fantastic and I think Layman will do great on Detective Comics. Especially if he can inject humor and energy into Batman comics. But really, the greatest part of his being picked is how totally out of left-field it is. In terms of big-two superhero stuff, Layman's name is on very little, and what he does have is paltry. A run on Gambit? A House of M tie in? Some Army of Darkness crossovers? Not exactly a big name superhero writer tackling the material. In fact, it's so unexpected that it's kind of what DC was talking about when they first announced the New 52 reboot. If they can throw some other curveball on a big title like that, then they may finally be walking-the-walk.

Thad · « **Reply #499 on:** July 05, 2012, 08:26:11 PM »

Well, I mean, "Put unknown creators on your well-known titles and vice-versa" is a pretty friggin' obvious thing to do. People aren't going to stop buying Batman no matter who's writing or drawing it, whereas people might pick up some C-list title because a rockstar's on it.

But that's just not how DC and Marvel work.

I've been saying that for over a decade now and if you really want to get good and frustrated you can go through Christopher Priest's blog archives and see someone (now formerly) inside the industry repeat over and over that the reason his books never sell is because they keep giving him books that already don't sell. (And let me tell you something, that dude's fanbase may be small but it's surprisingly loyal and vocal. Any time you see somebody do an article I'm amazed by the number of people cropping up to say how much they loved his Deadpool/Black Panther/Quantum and Woody/PowerFist/whatever. Imagine how many fans he'd have if they'd given him Spider-Man.)

In their defense, DC and Marvel HAVE done a pretty great job of picking talent out of the indie pool for the past decade plus. Mike Allred is my favorite example from the turn of the century; more recently it's been guys like Lemire and Snyder.

On the other side, there are the cases where they pluck successful writers out of other media. Cornell is a big recent example, and I'm loving China Mieville on Dial H.

Anyhow. Seems like there was another announcement of a new left-field creative team that had me pretty excited but I can't think what it is now; maybe this WAS it. (It wasn't Nocenti on Catwoman, though I think that's a big step in the right direction.)

...Back to Chew: I could write a whole essay on how fucking masterful the sequence with the baseball a couple of months ago played out. I'm not sure what percent of that was Layman and what was Guillory, but it was really some INCREDIBLE fucking sequential storytelling.

Chew is like Venture Brothers in that it makes me laugh like a motherfucker but also realize that these guys could totally kill if they decided they wanted to play the whole thing straight instead.

...so really, while I'm with you on hoping he makes Batman funny, I think he could do a pretty good grim version too.

(Grant's certainly keeping Batman funny.

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