Official Batman Titles thread 2.0 - - - Part 12

[Roose Bolton]

I'm waiting to be blown.

 

[CConn]

Boom.

 

[Roose Bolton]

And that's why Conan is the best book on the stands

 

[Swordmaster]

Belit :heart:

I'm looking forward to them adapting the end of Queen of the Black Coast. Those'll be some damn fine issues.

 

[Roose Bolton]

I can just imagine that final scene with the ship. Best Conan story ever.

 

[Swordmaster]

I wrote a treatment for a Conan movie that was pretty much based on that...with Tower of the Elephant thrown in and played around with for good measure.

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

Batman & Robin 0 issue was good. Funny when Damien put the cowl on.

 

[Mystirious]

Boom.

I need to be buying this

Belit sounds like my kind of lady

And the artwork in this book be fabulous. Becky Cloonan needs to get to do the art for more books from DC

I want her to do the new Amethyst book thats coming out in october

It's extremely creepy, which is awesome.

Batman dyed Jason's hair each night while he slept

 

[cryptic name]

I'm really surprised to see so many people dismissive of the Batman title. I think Snyder and Capullo are the best team on any Bat-book since the days of Grant and Breyfogle, and Court of the Owls is easily one of the best Batman stories I've ever read. It got me to buy a Batman comic regularly for the first time in years. Different strokes, I guess.

 

[CConn]

Synder and Capullo aren't even the best team on the current Batbooks.

 

[cryptic name]

Synder and Capullo aren't even the best team on the current Batbooks.

I disagree.

 

[Llama_Shepherd]

I agree with CConn, Snyder lost me at about #6. I'd rather see Snyder on Nightwing, see what he can do with Dick after his superb Black Mirror arc.

 

[RoughNTumble]

you know, I was expecting dark knight returns part 1 to kinda suck

but it didn't

it was amazing

one of DC's best animated movies for sure

 

[CConn]

If I were to rank them...

1. Morrison and Burnham
2. Hurwitz and Finch
3. Tomasi and Gleason
4. Snyder and Capullo

It's also highly possible than Layman and Fabok will surpass Snyder as well.

 

[El Bastardo]

Hahaha.

Oh wait, you're serious, aren't you?

 

[cryptic name]

If I were to rank them...

1. Morrison and Burnham
2. Hurwitz and Finch
3. Tomasi and Gleason
4. Snyder and Capullo

It's also highly possible than Layman and Fabok will surpass Snyder as well.

Like I said, different strokes. Morrison is really hit or miss for me when he writes for Batman. He's by all means a spectacular writer, but for me he's never done as wonderful a take on Batman as he did for Superman with All Star.

All I can say, because there's no point in arguing taste, is that for the first time in a very long time, I find myself anticipating issues of a book as excitedly as I would a movie I really want to see, and that's because of Snyder and Capullo.

 

[Roose Bolton]

Morrison's run on Batman has been my favorite take on the character. I see a great love for every single aspect of Bruce's long history, and his ongoing mystery has been the most interactive comic experience I've ever had, he actually makes me feel as if I'm there putting the clues together right alongside the Bat-family.

 

[Maximus One]

I had a file started for me at my local comic store today and the only Bat titles I put in there to have ordered for me every month are The Dark Knight and Batman and Robin. They're really the only titles I've checked out enough of so far. Detective Comics has been ok and I have the last few issues and the annual but it hasn't been much of anything special. Are Batman or Batman Inc pretty good books so far? And how is Nightwing? Last time I read any Nightwing books was during RIP like 4-5 years ago

 

[Llama_Shepherd]

Morrison's run on Batman has been my favorite take on the character. I see a great love for every single aspect of Bruce's long history, and his ongoing mystery has been the most interactive comic experience I've ever had, he actually makes me feel as if I'm there putting the clues together right alongside the Bat-family.

This. So much this. Each of the three chapters has been amazing with the twists and turns, and the payoff is always great. It's the batbook I always look forward to.

I had a file started for me at my local comic store today and the only Bat titles I put in there to have ordered for me every month are The Dark Knight and Batman and Robin. They're really the only titles I've checked out enough of so far. Detective Comics has been ok and I have the last few issues and the annual but it hasn't been much of anything special. Are Batman or Batman Inc pretty good books so far? And how is Nightwing? Last time I read any Nightwing books was during RIP like 4-5 years ago

Morrison's Batman, as per, is stellar. Batman started off strong, but deteriorated quickly. But I'm going to start picking it up again now that we're in a new arc. Nightwing has been consistently average and frankly I find it depressing. After Inc, TDK and B&R I would actually say Red Hood is the best book of the bat family.

 

[Cain]

Nightwing has been consistently average and frankly I find it depressing. After Inc I would actually say Red Hood is the best book of the bat family.

Fixed.

 

[CConn]

Nah, TDK and B&R are better than Red Hood.

Lobdell's done one great things with the team chemistry in that book, but his plotting has been pretty mediocre.

 

[El Bastardo]

I had a file started for me at my local comic store today and the only Bat titles I put in there to have ordered for me every month are The Dark Knight and Batman and Robin. They're really the only titles I've checked out enough of so far. Detective Comics has been ok and I have the last few issues and the annual but it hasn't been much of anything special. Are Batman or Batman Inc pretty good books so far? And how is Nightwing? Last time I read any Nightwing books was during RIP like 4-5 years ago

Batman is very, very good. Regardless of what's been being written here, Snyder's the best comics scribe among the have-been-ongoing Batbooks (so as to disclude Morrison here, since he was MIA for a good portion of the New 52, though Leviathan Strikes! was easily the best Bat-book of last year). This then goes without saying that, yes, Batman Inc, yes.

The only issue of Detective Comics I own is #9, the Owls tie-in, and it was pretty bad. I wouldn't recommend going back to pick up the previous issues, but I didn't read them, either. And I don't intend to. I might pick up the zero issue, if what someone posted about the majority of Batman zero issues tying together is true.

As was posted above, Nightwing is average at best and generally pretty bad. If I didn't love the character immensely I'd drop the book. We have a guest writer for #0, #13, and #14 coming up, and I swear, if he does write a better book than the series-regular, I might drop it after that. Higgins is terrible, somehow manages to write a worse book at times than his pretty-bad Deathstroke run before Liefeld took it up. I wish Tomasi would leave his spinning-wheels on Batman & Robin to rework his original magic on Nightwing.

Red Hood is fun, and if you buy it, understand you're buying it for the art. Kenneth Rocafort is amazing and should be doing more books, and it's nice to see him doing something that isn't Top Cow. Scott Lobdell's writing varies about as much as Higgins's does, above, but just seems to have more fun doing it, which does carry through, and does put it a small step above. That said, the first story is really quite terrible, though it's the little things in the issues that make up for it.

 

[Mystirious]

Detective Comics is getting a new writer soon so it should hopefully improve

Harper is fab and adds much needed fun

I think she'd make a neat Robin

I agree, although I already sort of like her just because Becky Cloonan drew her. I find practically anything Cloonan draws somehow more endearing.

Becky Cloonan's artwork makes everything better

Am I the only one who really doesn't care about Harper Row?
Seems like a cheap Lisbeth Salander knock-off.

I think she was inspired by her but I loves Lisbeth so Harper gets a from me

 

[Roose Bolton]

And what? Is Bruce going to be her Mikael Blomkvist?

Can you honestly say that you'd like the character if her brother wasn't gay?

 

[HighFivingMF]

I thought she was interesting enough. But I agree I'd like to see her show up more if she were to take up the mantle for anything.