Official Batman Titles thread 2.0 - Part 9

[Mystirious]

My shop was all sold out of Batman: The Dark Knight this week out of interest did anyone read it and was Bane written well in this issue?

And was it any good overall

 

[RoughNTumble]

I...actually kind of liked this one

not as in 'this is an amazing piece of art,' but maybe I'm just finally accepting the book for what it is

anyways it'll stop sucking in a few months

 

[Mystirious]

Can I have spoilers?

 

[RoughNTumble]

sure, just a sec though, I've started an argument with ethan van sciver on another board

(I like to say his name ethan von shiver)




(that's not what the argument is about)

 

[RoughNTumble]

okay so basically superman helps batman up

and uh, he tells superman something about the the toxin in flash's system and that flash can't stop running or he'll die, and he needs to work off the toxin through expending energy

and then uh, batman chases the white rabbit through the trees in her sexay thong (I wouldn't mind reading issue after issue of this forever)

then for some reason scarecrow appeared and starts talking about fear

and then batman is blind sided by arkham city bane and gets punched a whole lot while appearing to be under the influence of poison ivy

if that's a sucky summary then I apologize because I wasn't paying a whole lot of attention to all the words

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Ugh, Bane as Poison Ivy's lackey? Someone's actually making intentional Batman & Robin references in the comics now?

 

[Roose Bolton]

I agree that this Bane was definitely the Arkham city version in comic form. Personality and appearance wise. Personally I prefer Bane to look like his original/Secret Six depiction; a huge tanked man whose body actually looks half way anatomically correct, not the Hulk version that gets thrown around a lot. Supposedly his new Venom batch can increase his intelligence as well as strength, so yeah...theres that. Frankly I thought it was an average comic..Not great but maybe slightly ahead of Daniels Tec series.
Looking forward to Gregg Hurwitz arrival, I have no doubt we'll get something to rival Snyder's Batman

 

[Mystirious]

Wait so Poison Ivy is a villain again now? So does this take place after events in Birds of Prey

I am confuzzled

Ugh, Bane as Poison Ivy's lackey? Someone's actually making intentional Batman & Robin references in the comics now?

If Mr Freeze starts making ice puns when he appears I am going to be full of rage

Brooklyn Rage

 

[Mystirious]

I agree that this Bane was definitely the Arkham city version in comic form. Personality and appearance wise. Personally I prefer Bane to look like his original/Secret Six depiction; a huge tanked man whose body actually looks half way anatomically correct, not the Hulk version that gets thrown around a lot. Supposedly his new Venom batch can increase his intelligence as well as strength, so yeah...theres that. Frankly I thought it was an average comic..Not great but maybe slightly ahead of Daniels Tec series.
Looking forward to Gregg Hurwitz arrival, I have no doubt we'll get something to rival Snyder's Batman

Yep this series is still better than Detective Comics at least

 

[Motown Marvel]

just read the most recent issue of snyder's batman, and i gotta say it was a real weak issue in an otherwise solid story arc.

talon has bested batman at every point in this story, then he's beating batman to the verge of death, batman is totally broken and all but given up, when he's suddenly and inexplicably empowered and able to defeat talon completely? i get batman was inspired by a photo of his relative, but thats a poor cheap excuse to suddenly make him capable of what he did given the circumstances that was built around the situation.

 

[CConn]

I took it as being one of those moments where Batman WAS so close to be totally beaten that he summoned up every once of strength he had left to beat Talon.

It would be akin to the death throws of that alligator being eaten by that giant snake, or those mythical moms who lift cars off of toddlers.

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

My only problem with the last two issues (mainly issue 6) is the clear resemblance to the ordeal Snyder put Dick through in his Detective run.

The group of depraved people fronted by an old haggard person...

The old women reminded me of 'The Dealer' from that run.

 

[Mystirious]

I was okay with Bruce beating the Talon. It was still a tough fight that he barely won and it clearly took everything out of him to win it

I think that they just pushed him so hard that instead of giving up he just lost it with rage which gave him the advantage as Talon expected him to just lay down and die not fight back

 

[RoughNTumble]

it doesn't matter anyway, bruce drowned

the court won

 

[Saint]

Ugh, Bane as Poison Ivy's lackey? Someone's actually making intentional Batman & Robin references in the comics now?

Actually, the way I understood it--which could be the wrong way--was that Bane was holding Ivy somewhere and using her to make his toxin against her will.

 

[Mystirious]

That makes more sense

I hope Ivy is going to be okay

 

[TheCorpulent1]

All right, I can dig that. Although the fact that he's back to being a drugged-out Hulk wannabe is a little sad.

 

[Mystirious]

Yep i think its a shame he's gone back to being a steroid addicted mad man after all the character development he got over the years

He's right back where he started during Knightfall

Even his plan is basically his plan from Knightfall. But with more steroids and hawt bunny girls

 

[Roose Bolton]

You'd think with Nolan's movie coming out that they'd try and play up the more refined genius aspect of the character. But no, we get this.

 

[DeGenerate10]

Yep i think its a shame he's gone back to being a steroid addicted mad man after all the character development he got over the years

He's right back where he started during Knightfall

Even his plan is basically his plan from Knightfall. But with more steroids and hawt bunny girls

I'm really glad I dropped that book after #2

 

[Cain]

I'm really glad I dropped that book after #2

I'm just glad I never gave that book a chance t:

Didn't help that Finch's covers always look tacky as hell to me which doesn't help in selling me on the book. That and the superfluousness of the series itself was enough to go "**** another Batman book".

 

[Motown Marvel]

I took it as being one of those moments where Batman WAS so close to be totally beaten that he summoned up every once of strength he had left to beat Talon.

It would be akin to the death throws of that alligator being eaten by that giant snake, or those mythical moms who lift cars off of toddlers.

yeah but i thought it was pretty clear that he had no strength left to summon. and given everything that had transpired, certainly not enough to suddenly beat down a dude that has outright bested him every other moment of their quarrel.

snyder just took it too far for me to believe that batman could come back in the way he did.

 

[CConn]

But at the same time, if he didn't push Batman that far, it wouldn't have been nearly as dramatic.

 

[Motown Marvel]

you could have reached the same level of drama, it would just have to be handled differently than how snyder chose to.

 

[Lord]

All right, I can dig that. Although the fact that he's back to being a drugged-out Hulk wannabe is a little sad.

Well, he's still smart from what it seems, he had a plan that could have defeated Flash and Batman, if not for Superman's help