ALL Star Batman and the Boy wonder (#5 and beyond)

[CConn]

The funny thing is, even Frank Miller's Hal Jordan is boring.

 

[Mee]

Alfred is going to kill Hal.

With his bare hands.

Oh yeah.

 

[Fledermaus]

Hal didn't even get an introduction.

 

[Punch]

I'm willing to give Miller the benefit of the doubt now. I haven't even read issue 5 and from what I heard, I'm willing to bet that he just said "F**k it!" and decided to stop being serious and just go crazy with the damn book.

That's exactly what the book has been from the beginning.

 

[Mogwai]

did anyone notice that green lantern didn't get a little blurb like all the other JLA members got?

 

[GyLocke]

I can't remember the last time when I had this much fun with a book.
i also can't remember when a book was this quotable.
Good thing I'm not really attached to comic book characters anymore so I can just enjoy all the gritty insanity.

I need an "I love being the goddamn Batman" t-shirt like, yesterday.

 

[DSET]

I dont know what the hell it was but reading this comic book
reminded me of watching spider-man 3

The humor and cornyness was all over the place
and it seems like both were written just as half hazordly

Heres hoping jim lee gets the hell away from Frank on this series I think the movie isht is going to his head.

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

cept this this one issue was better then spidey3. i did'nt get catch any corniness.

 

[Fledermaus]

Hal didn't even get an introduction.

did anyone notice that green lantern didn't get a little blurb like all the other JLA members got?

I did.

 

[Aristotle]

I really don't think he was ever trying to be serious.

Not the impression I got from reading his script in the special edition. What was that, two ****ing years ago, by now? Christ, I think it was. Because All-Star came out right around when I really got back into comics, which happened because of Batman Begins and Countdown to IC.

In any case, as a parody, it's hilarious. And the plot finally seems to be progressing a bit.

Too damn late. Five ****in' issues, and what the hell's happened? I feel a bit like Leaguer, repeating what everyone in the WORLD has already said, but it has to be stated. Nothing happens in the Millerverse, apparently, unless it's a dark, gritty future.

 

[Aristotle]

Well, I thought this issue was a big turn around for this title. Actually felt like the plot is moving forward, and I love the new spin on the proto-JLA.

The reason you like this "new spin" on the JLA is because, as your username suggests, you are a Marvel fan. So you like heroes that aren't heroes and characters with too much moping and meaningful interaction to do, to ever get around to doing anything remotely interesting. This is NOT the ****ing Justice League, and those weren't Superman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern (although I must admit, he really nailed Plas in a way that literally nobody has since Jack Cole.) Superman acted like he was in The Authority. Wonder Woman acted like some surly herpetical ***** with a drinking problem. Green Lantern was just a little *****-slap-ee.

Plus that had to be Barbara Gordon who Batman rescued in that alley. Can totally see her becoming a groupie-like Batgirl.

Oh, let's just hope for that, shall we? People need to remember that this title could DEFINITELY get dumber.

 

[Aristotle]

It sucks that this features more Hal Jordan, emerald waiter, than Dick Grayson.

Dude, it IS called All-Star Batman and Green Lantern, the Boy-Girl.

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

The reason you like this "new spin" on the JLA is because, as your username suggests, you are a Marvel fan. So you like heroes that aren't heroes and characters with too much moping and meaningful interaction to do, to ever get around to doing anything remotely interesting. This is NOT the ****ing Justice League, and those weren't Superman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern (although I must admit, he really nailed Plas in a way that literally nobody has since Jack Cole.) Superman acted like he was in The Authority. Wonder Woman acted like some surly herpetical ***** with a drinking problem. Green Lantern was just a little *****-slap-ee.

Oh, let's just hope for that, shall we? People need to remember that this title could DEFINITELY get dumber.

or alot more hilarious. and that was superman, I've been waiting for along time to see a superman with balls and with miller i got it. and yes he nailed plas very well. hilarious stuff.

 

[CConn]

Not the impression I got from reading his script in the special edition. What was that, two ****ing years ago, by now? Christ, I think it was. Because All-Star came out right around when I really got back into comics, which happened because of Batman Begins and Countdown to IC.

Too damn late. Five ****in' issues, and what the hell's happened? I feel a bit like Leaguer, repeating what everyone in the WORLD has already said, but it has to be stated. Nothing happens in the Millerverse, apparently, unless it's a dark, gritty future.

Were you actually trying to make a point to me with that post? Cause you really didn't.

 

[Punch]

Not the impression I got from reading his script in the special edition. What was that, two ****ing years ago, by now? Christ, I think it was. Because All-Star came out right around when I really got back into comics, which happened because of Batman Begins and Countdown to IC.

I have that special edition with the script and it's not serious at all, it's all about having fun.

 

[Dark Spidey]

The reason you like this "new spin" on the JLA is because, as your username suggests, you are a Marvel fan. So you like heroes that aren't heroes and characters with too much moping and meaningful interaction to do, to ever get around to doing anything remotely interesting. This is NOT the ****ing Justice League, and those weren't Superman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern (although I must admit, he really nailed Plas in a way that literally nobody has since Jack Cole.) Superman acted like he was in The Authority. Wonder Woman acted like some surly herpetical ***** with a drinking problem. Green Lantern was just a little *****-slap-ee.

Oh, let's just hope for that, shall we? People need to remember that this title could DEFINITELY get dumber.

No. Jumping on board with Infinite Crisis, I picked up every issue of 52 as well as the relaunches of JLA and JSA.

I've also been following Alex Ross' Justice maxi-series for two years now. As well as reading All Star Superman. Batman. Action Comics (when Johns and Donner's issues ship) and The Spirit.

Oh, and I own the Absolute Editions of both Crisis On Infinite Earths and Kingdom Come!

So I like to think of myself as both a Marvel and DC fan.

I simply liked seeing an alternative version of what I know as the Justice League.

 

[Eros]

This Issue was great fun!

 

[BubbaGump]

It seems that people are actually beginning to like this...

...which is not what Miller intended.

 

[CConn]

It seems that people are actually beginning to like this...

...which is not what Miller intended.

Miller intended it to be a parody.

We're enjoying it as a parody.

 

[BubbaGump]

Miller intended it to be a parody.

We're enjoying it as a parody.

But he doesn't want you to.

 

[CConn]

Yes, he does.

Leaguer is the only one Frank's intentionally trying to piss off.

 

[Harlekin]

I think this stuff is hilarious. I don't actually spend money on it though.

 

[SpideyInATree]

This was definitely good. And it also negates that notion that people thought the big delay was because DC made him change the story. No, Miller did not change anything. It's still funny, brutal, and awesome all at the same time.

"I love being the Goddamn Batman"

And, you know what? I LOVE that he loves being the Goddamn Batman because it's the most entertaining Batman book I've read in years.

I like that this Batman is crazy. Well, I wouldn't say that he's crazy. I'd say that he's overly motivated and really, REALLY enjoys what he's doing. I liked the scene where he beat the crap out of the muggers and then the lady he saved booted the guy in the nuts. Now THAT'S entertainment.

And since when did Joker copyright laughing? What, Batman isn't allowed to creepily laugh to scare the crap out of people? Sheesh. People and their freakin' high standards. "Dude, Batman isn't allowed to laugh. The JOKER laughs! DUH!" Haha. It sounds so juvenile.

 

[BrianWilly]

My review, copied and pasted.

All-Star Goddamn Wonder Woman and Robin the Sperm Bank #5
Well at least now we know where the Amazons from Amazons Attacks come from; they were mistakenly transplanted from Earth-45, the AS universe! That's my personal canon and I'ma stickin' to it. This issue is to the JLA what "Ultimates" is to the Avengers, except multiplied by like a billion. I should hate this. There's nothing that I should like about this. The writing is horrible, inexcusably so even for a humor series; "I hate your guts. I hate your guts. You make me sick. You make me sick." is an actual, unaltered line of dialogue that someone utters. I should look at this and think WTF from now 'till the end of time.

But it's hilarious. It is uproariously hilarious. The previous issues were and generally juvenile, but this? There's no way you can be reading this without a monstrous sht-eating grin on your face, even though it might be obscured by that incredulous expression of "WTF?" that you'll also have. You have Alfred punching a bag in his gym shorts all the while waxing poetic about his dark-eyed angel grown into manhood, and Supes and Wondy's GOD I HATE YOU *makes out* moments of cracktastitude in the backdrop of thinly-veiled sexual references to Poseidon, and then Batman himself being batsht crazy beyond the measure of words to describe. It's funny. I still don't think this is meant as a parody, not in the way that everyone is thinking. In fact, I think Miller is trying to write what he thinks is a coherent story arc, but interspersed with him obviously having the time of his life and doing everything in his power to make people stare and go WTF. He's doing what both sides of the fence are accusing him of; he's writing an actual story that you're supposed to take seriously, but making darn sure the get his rocks off in the meantime.

I think part of why people keep insisting that it's a parody. aside from its mind-boggling writing. is the art; Jim Lee's obviously-sexiful art here is so contradictory to the tone and the dialogue -- which feels like it should be done by webcomics or something -- that everything feels all the more silly. But if it were, say, Frank Miller himself doing the art for this series, I don't think the "parody" assumptions would be as assumed because the tone would synch a lot better. I think Jim Lee's art ends up hurting the series, then, no matter how you look at it.

Men. We can't do anything right.

(3.7 out of 10 in real logic 'verse)
(10 out of 10 in Bizarro 'Verse!)

 

[Fledermaus]

And since when did Joker copyright laughing? What, Batman isn't allowed to creepily laugh to scare the crap out of people? Sheesh. People and their freakin' high standards. "Dude, Batman isn't allowed to laugh. The JOKER laughs! DUH!" Haha. It sounds so juvenile.

At this point in his career, I doubt Bats has even met the Joker yet. And if I recall FM used the 'bat-s#it crazy' laugh in DKR.