Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle reunited

[The Joker]

That looks amazing. Ah feels like old times.

 

[GothamAlleys]

Damn! That looks effin great, this is THE classic Grant/Breyfogle, this is MY era that I got into Batman in. The looming image of Batman above the landscape in the title page, the shot of the Wayne Manor, the supernaturality - it screams classic 80s Grant/Breyfogle. That preview is really something.

See, this is the type of Batman stories I fell in love with. Dark, supernatural and with mystery and plenty of detective work, but a simple mystery story that gets solved at the end of the issue, and then on to the next great one in another. I hate this melodrama, LifeTime TV stuff like Bruce becomes sick, Dick becomes Batman, Jason comes back from grave and becomes Red Hood, Anarky possible Joker's son etc. Thats why I dropped comics books. It became a personal melodrama rather than great detective stories

Im also excited about the new villain. I loved all those villains Grant and Breyfogle created. In fact, two of their villains are in my top 5, and theyre Anarky and C'th

Looks like Im gonna buy a Batman comic for the first time since 1999

 

[Cobblepot]

This looks great! Can't wait to get it!

 

[Cain]

I wonder what the reprint is?

I just hope it's not something from BATMAN or 'tec that I still own.

 

[Cain]

. I hate this melodrama, LifeTime TV stuff like Dick becomes Batman, Jason comes back from grave and becomes Red Hood

Your loss pal; and Bruce never became sick.

 

[Cobblepot]

I wonder what the reprint is?

I just hope it's not something from BATMAN or 'tec that I still own.

My guess is that it's the story where a kid gets crushed in a dumpster.

 

[SpideyInATree]

As soon as I heard about these Retroactive things I preordered this bad boy the second I had the chance. Grant/Breyfogle run was when I started collecting comics hardcore and holds a special place in my comic collector heart.

 

[Cain]

My guess is that it's the story where a kid gets crushed in a dumpster.

Oh Trashed?

That was a good one. One of the first times I ever saw that Batman can't win them all. That ending still packs a hell of a punch. A shame that I still own that one I was hoping it'd be one of the ones I sold back in the late 90's. Still a nice way to show a more vulnerable Batman to newer fans though and a new Scarface story by Grant/Breyfogle is better than no new story by those guys.

 

[TruerToTheCore]

Grant and Breyfogle is more 80s in my mind than 90s, although of course they also worked in the 90s. But the memorable stuff comes from the 80s on 'Tec.

But then, the Batman of the 80s is overloaded with good writers. Gerry Conway, Doug Moench, Marv Wolfman, Mike W. Barr, Alan Grant also Jim Starlin.

 

[Cain]

Grant and Breyfogle is more 80s in my mind than 90s, although of course they also worked in the 90s. But the memorable stuff comes from the 80s on 'Tec.

But then, the Batman of the 80s is overloaded with good writers. Gerry Conway, Doug Moench, Marv Wolfman, Mike W. Barr, Alan Grant also Jim Starlin.

True indeed. However since it was really the last 3 years of the 80's and they lasted longer on the books during the 90's I could see why DC gave the 80's one to Mike W. Barr and the 90's one to Alan Grant.

 

[Cobblepot]

I wonder if this is DC's way to find out if these guys still sell books and are thinking of new collections.

 

[The Joker]

Has anyone gotten the Batman one yet? My store didn't have any. I'm assuming they were sold out!

 

[SpideyInATree]

I got my copy and the story was pretty cool. It wasn't super amazing it was just pretty much a basic Grant/Breyfogle story as if they had never stopped their run. So, definitely worth the price of admission plus you get an old reprinted book and thankfully it's one that I don't already have and that story was freakin' depressing.

 

[The Joker]

I finally picked up a copy today. I have to say I was a little disappointed. The story was underwhelming. The Ventriloquist and Scarface didn't kill anyone or have any kind of real scheme, and they had very little interaction with Batman.

Breyfogle's art was fine and gave the story an old school 90's feel, but Grant's story was not up to his usual standard IMO.

 

[PB210]

There were plenty of other authors who wrote Batman material Post-Crisis that weren't copyists of Frank Miller's Batman material. Alan Moore, Jim Starlin, Alan Grant, Grant Morrison, Denny O'Neil, Doug Moench were not copying Frank Miller's Batman material.

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2011/10/30/scary-afternoons/
In an interview in Amazing Heroes#119, he said that, in reference to a Frank Miller written story which had Catwoman as former prostitute, he found that inappropriate, the equivalent of doing Peter Pan and having them face historically accurate pirates.


Later, Collins said “Early on, I asked, Do you want me to do mock-Miller [imitation of Frank Miller] , and I was told not to do that-to do traditional Batman”.