Quick R.I.P. question

[Punisher RULES]

I'm interested in jumping back onto Batman and since the R.I.P HC just came out, I was wondering if I could read this without having read The Black Glove and previous storylines? (I did read Batman & Son).

Or should I just avoid it altogether?

 

[MasterOgami]

IMO its best to have read Morrison's entire run beforehand. Otherwise it'd kinda be like watching a season premiere, skipping the rest of the season, but coming back for the season finale; you'd be able to fill in some gaps on your own, but other bits might be a bit too "Huh? Who?"

 

[Punisher RULES]

Ah, I see. Thanks!

 

[boywondernerdDC]

what exactly would someone need to read if they've read Batman & Son and want to read Batman RIP?

 

[Motown Marvel]

i think the only other thing you'd really need to read is the black glove story arc.

 

[Punisher RULES]

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[BatmansWood]

i have a question too. Ok i saw Batman R.I.P all combined in one book like what they did with Hush, im just wondering should i just pick it up? Is it important to get the other stories prior to R.I.P to fully understand it or what??

 

[BatmansWood]

Oh just to let u people know that im new at comic books and i just get graphic novels mostly but when they release it in one volume type thing i'll get it like Hush. I have the Long Halloween, Hush 1 and 2, The Killing Joke, Joker Graphic Novel and thats it. I have read The Dark Knight returns. But i do no quite abit about Batman and his past like jason todd and all that crap lol, so im not completely lost.

 

[margon]

^ both the preceding trades are fundamental to RIP, Batman & Son and the Black Glove. need to read them both. and yes you can skip Resurrection of Ra's Al Ghul and the Detective Comics story arcs, unless you actually want to read them. the Dini stories are a good contrast.

after the Morrison run you really need to get DKR before anything else. after that get Year One. then report back.

Punisher, do NOT avoid the rest of the run, despite what you might have read on this board. it's the best Batman of the decade maybe even more and it's set-up the comics for at least another year or two. alot of people here just don't know what they're talking about and you don't want to be like them. at least make up your own mind.

 

[The Sage]

I agree with Margon. Resurrection of Ra's Al Ghul is definitely skippable.

Bought the R.I.P. Hardcover and read it through. Good read, and I enjoyed Tony Daniels' art. Morrison really sices Batman and his team.

 

[BatmansWood]

Is batman and son, and Black Glove exspensive? Thanks for the help

 

[Punisher RULES]

Go to instocktrades.com for INSANE deals on any HC's and TPB's.

 

[BatmansWood]

^ im canadian, would they change the prices or anything?

 

[Motown Marvel]

resurrection of ra's al ghul read like an editorial mandate, which im pretty sure it was. all you need to know about that is that ra's was resurrected. and that doesnt play into RIP.

 

[Batman1018]

Punisher, do NOT avoid the rest of the run, despite what you might have read on this board. it's the best Batman of the decade maybe even more and it's set-up the comics for at least another year or two. alot of people here just don't know what they're talking about and you don't want to be like them. at least make up your own mind.

You think Morrison's run has been the best in the past decade? I'll agree that Confidential and ASB&R are mostly crap. But I think any issue Dini has written since he started on Detective comics are the best in the past decade. Until R.I.P. he wrote these smaller stories that anyone could pick up and jump right in, and even though I think he was pushed into R.I.P. by Morrison's run, he still nailed it and I would recommend that over R.I.P. any day. Working at a comic shop has taught me this: Everything going on between both Marvel and DC right now sucks. Hear me out. Almost every title is written for these big crossover event stories and we the fans cannot enjoy a simple Batman story without reading something like FC, which we couldn't understand unless we read every mini FC book.
The fact that you had to tell this person he will not understand completely what happened in RIP is ridiculous. The fact that when someone walks into my shop who is trying to get back into or start reading comics and says "Where is the latest issue of Batman?" and I have to give them a briefing of what is going on is ridiculous. This goes down the line with Batman, Spider-Man, Superman and so on. Why can't we just read singular story arcs taking place in a few issues and not need to read things we don't want to? I never wanted to read FC, but was forced to in order to find out what happened to the only character I care about. Even better, after NYCC I find out that my dream of this happening isn't coming true at least in 2009. Thoughts??

 

[BatmansWood]

^ suks for new comers i guess. Thats why i mostly stick with Graphic novels because they are usually stand alone books with some refrences but i have enough knowledge to cath them and if some escape me, i havnt really lost anything.

 

[Figs]

Figure this would be the best place to ask this.

Like BatmansWood I mainly get the graphic novels. I will occasionally get single issues if it has something interesting enough and was in between a couple of GN's I have.

After R.I.P.,does anyone know what major story arc would be coming out in GN format in the near future?

I'm really looking forward to any work that Dini might have coming out for Detective Comics. I already have Detective and Death in the City.

 

[MasterOgami]

Figure this would be the best place to ask this.

Like BatmansWood I mainly get the graphic novels. I will occasionally get single issues if it has something interesting enough and was in between a couple of GN's I have.

After R.I.P.,does anyone know what major story arc would be coming out in GN format in the near future?

I'm really looking forward to any work that Dini might have coming out for Detective Comics. I already have Detective and Death in the City.

Gaiman's "Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?" is going to be collected in a hardback later this year (as I recall), but honestly it'd be cheaper and simpler to just pick up the current issue of Batman and next month's Detective.

 

[Figs]

Gaiman's "Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?" is going to be collected in a hardback later this year (as I recall), but honestly it'd be cheaper and simpler to just pick up the current issue of Batman and next month's Detective.

Already had that one preordered.

So basically, it looks like I'm current with my tpbs and graphic novels then.

 

[Spider-Zero]

It would work better to read the rest of Morrison's run before R.I.P. I've heard alot of people complain that they couldn't follow RIP because they only read that story and none of the build-up.