Really disappointed with want DC are doing with Batman

[Volvic]

Oh ok wicked, i'll check that out and try and pick it up! Is it in the collected TPB Detective?

Yep, it's in Death and the City , and it's very good.

Dini has really delivered. Detective is brilliant right now, although I wish I could say the same for Morrison's Batman which I'm finding a bit blah.

I liked some aspects of Confidential, I like the idea of Joker always being a criminal better than the failed comedian. The one bad day thing never really sat well with me.

I haven't read GU so I can't comment on it.

The less said about All Star the better.

Overall, I'd say when it comes to his own titles, Batman has had a pretty strong year. Although out of the big three Supes probably had the best year.

 

[Pumaman]

Ah, I'm glad that they don't release Batman comics in this part of the globe. Otherwise I would be Super-Confused.

I didn't even know about this son. I knew Todd came back to the world of living, but a son of the bat... *gah!*





(I'm glad, because now I don't need to spend my money on comics. I buy about 2-3 comics in a year as it is )

 

[2star]

Meh, recently I think the writing has been rather slack, no doubt the recent releases are good, but from what I hear Joker Origin is really dividing opinion.

I can't really judge, in the UK we're so out of wack with whats actually going on.

You can buy exactly the same comics in the UK as in the US

 

[Doctor Baywatch]

BATMAN Later in the year, Morrison puts his twist on 1963’s Batman issue #156. “It’s building off of that story ‘Robin Dies at Dawn,’” he reveals. “I thought there was basically a really cool story to be told about the fact that Batman underwent this [space isolation] experiment, which turned him insane for a couple of weeks and has been forgotten in history.”​

He cannot leave such things alone, can he???

It's a classic story. Please keep away from this stuff. Write your own original stories, Grant!

 

[RobC]

Yeah we can buy them, in major cities. My local comic book store is not in tune with customers... Trust me on this one, we're no-where near the US in terms of what we can get.

Thanks for the advice, i'll pick up the Detective TPB, Dinni is really good at the moment, hopefully DC will keep him on for a while longer or give him something big to go with.

Here's the ball man, now run.

 

[2star]

Yeah we can buy them, in major cities. My local comic book store is not in tune with customers... Trust me on this one, we're no-where near the US in terms of what we can get.

Thanks for the advice, i'll pick up the Detective TPB, Dinni is really good at the moment, hopefully DC will keep him on for a while longer or give him something big to go with.

Here's the ball man, now run.

The two comic shops near me have every US Marvel/DC release every week and you can order in basically anything.

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

The two comic shops near me have every US Marvel/DC release every week and you can order in basically anything.

Same!!!

I live in Ireland and never miss an american comic - its great.

If that doesn't work you can get the titan comics in places like easons which are only like 3/4 months behind america!

 

[RobC]

The two comic shops near me have every US Marvel/DC release every week and you can order in basically anything.

Then you are a very lucky man!

My shop gets them in, but the owner is a *****e and only puts out new issues when the old ones have sold out. Hence you have brand new All-Star next to year old Detective.

It sucks! Plus, he won't give me a job. If I worked there... That place would change!

They have an awsome selection of TPB's though. They get rare stuff in so they sort of make up for it that way...

 

[SpideyInATree]

Am I reading the same comics as everyone?

Despite the horrid Ra's Al Ghul crossover, which was the most unnecessary thing I ever read in my life, the Batman books have been consistently strong.

Morrison's run is pretty good. It's not what I expected but it's extremely intriguing with the different Batman's running amok. I dig the Damian stuff. That was the only saving grace of the Ra's Al Ghul story. The interactions between Damian and Tim Drake. That was the only interesting thing to come from it all.

Dini's Detective Comics is practically flawless. I wish they would keep Don Kramer as the regular artist on the title instead of having Kramer do an issue and then next issue it's some scrub artist and then Kramer is back the next. CONSISTENCY, DAMNIT!!! But despite that small complaint it's an awesome book.

And All Star Batman...whew...what can I say? It's the best Batman book out of them all. No, it's not the regular universe Batman and that's the FREAKIN' POINT! I love this Batman and I love where they are going with everything. And I can't WAIT to see more of All Star Joker.

Trust me...Batman is doing JUST FINE. They could do Batman One More Day and have him make a deal with the devil to nullify 20 years of history in one fail swoop. So be happy that Batman just has nit picky complaints and didn't erase continuity....much like over in Spider-Man.

 

[RobC]

Did they actually do that?

 

[Volvic]

Did they actually do that?

In Spiderman? Yes they did. So Spideyinatree is quite right in saying that we do have relatively minor complaints in comparison to what's going on at Marvel right now.

 

[RobC]

Oh my god. I'd flip out if Batman did that. Can someone explain in detail what actually happened?

 

[The Joker]

Head on over to the Spidey comics forum, Rob. Several threads on it. It ain't pretty.

 

[RobC]

Oh man, i'm going...

From all my fellow Batman fans...

I'm sorry they ruined your comics.

 

[Dirt Like Me]

Am I reading the same comics as everyone?

Despite the horrid Ra's Al Ghul crossover, which was the most unnecessary thing I ever read in my life, the Batman books have been consistently strong.

Morrison's run is pretty good. It's not what I expected but it's extremely intriguing with the different Batman's running amok. I dig the Damian stuff. That was the only saving grace of the Ra's Al Ghul story. The interactions between Damian and Tim Drake. That was the only interesting thing to come from it all.

Dini's Detective Comics is practically flawless. I wish they would keep Don Kramer as the regular artist on the title instead of having Kramer do an issue and then next issue it's some scrub artist and then Kramer is back the next. CONSISTENCY, DAMNIT!!! But despite that small complaint it's an awesome book.

And All Star Batman...whew...what can I say? It's the best Batman book out of them all. No, it's not the regular universe Batman and that's the FREAKIN' POINT! I love this Batman and I love where they are going with everything. And I can't WAIT to see more of All Star Joker.

Trust me...Batman is doing JUST FINE. They could do Batman One More Day and have him make a deal with the devil to nullify 20 years of history in one fail swoop. So be happy that Batman just has nit picky complaints and didn't erase continuity....much like over in Spider-Man.

Well, I think that one's opinion on Morrison's run might turn on one's feelings about Damian. I'm not such a fan, and it is a little frustrating that he left so many loose ends out there during the Batmen of All Nations and Resurrection storylines. (But it looks like it's all going to get resolved, based on the latest issue).

Detective, I agree, has been good. I think Kramer is out as artist, though. (Dustin Nguyen in?)

Goddamn Batman is goddamn awesome. People either get it or they don't. I do, and I freaking love it.

I'd also add that Batman Confidential's Joker origin has been fun, and so far Gotham Underground has been pretty cool, too. (Even though have no idea how any of the Bat-books fit together with this, continuity-wise, right now).

And I only read DC, but as a guy who reads comics in general I find that "One More Day"/"Brand New Day" thing pretty insulting. That's a slap in the face of Spidey diehards...

 

[fcrowelle06]

You guys need to read Batman: Black and White

 

[Spider-Bat]

Batman hasn't been right since the early 90's. After KnightFall they had some good stuff, Prodigal was good, and when Bruce finally returned, but then they pulled that Earth quake crap. I stopped reading when No man's land started, it was so lame. Reminded me of a 70's disaster movie plot. Just cheap.
I was heart broken, the movies turned to crap, then the comics.
I have loved Batman my whole life, some of my first memories are of watching the 60's tv reruns on Fox and wearing my Batman footie pajamas.
It killed me to walk away for awhile. Then I heard there was going to be a new movie, and it peaked my interest again.
Loved the new movie, Batman Begins, I tried reading the comics again but they just weren't right. I read Hush, it was okay. Then I heard what they did to Jason Todd, that was wrong, and to me it hasn't happened, just like with what they did to Dr. Thompkins, to me that did not happen either.
I really started again when I heard one of my fave artists, Andy Kubert was going to draw Batman, I liked what I saw, and the stories weren't bad, and they brought Batman back to how he was before, they were making an effort to have him as the dashing playboy Bruce Wayne again, and the Dark Knight Detective at night, not just butt hole all the time, that these idiots turned him into.

There is some style to Batman, a certain romance. But man they really have screwed things up the last like 12 years.

I think they should revamp him a bit. Come out with some mini series like how Man of steel was for Superman, and just make some things right, fix it a bit.

Jason's dead, Bruce is the playboy by day, Dark Knight at night, like I said above, and Leslie Thompkins is not a killer.

The one thing I did not like with Kubert's work was that stupid last story set in the future, how lame. I'm sure eventually they'll reveal Damian's not Bruce's Son. That name too is so pathetic, Damian. How unoriginal and generic for a "brat" type character, somewhat evil kid.

I like some of what is going on now in Batman. Detective is good when Dini writes it.

Another thing they screwed up was Two-Face, yeah he came back, but man, that was lame.

I've taken to reading back issues lately. Those and reprints. Catching up on stuff like the Tim Sale/Jeph Loeb trilogy as I call it, Haunted Knight, The Long Halloween and, Dark Victory. Good stuff there. I'm not like some who think Sale's the best thing ever, he's not, but he is cool. And those three books are very good.

 

[RobC]

I agree, with most of that, No Man's Land was cool, I liked it, but they totally screwed up Two-Face's return. He came back amazingly in Hush, then bang, straight back to Two-Face after the Crisis. Give the man a break already...

 

[DeathRaven]

Thats one thing I didnt understand, they bring back Harvey and then quickly throw him back into Two face. If they kept Harvey around longer they could of really changed Batmans status que instead of bringing in Damien.

I really think having Harvey back on his side would of been a great change and made for some very different styled stories that could of brought Batman back to a sensitive area where he's always blaming himself for harveys trip into insanity and trying to protect him.

 

[Mee]

No, not really.

Uh...yes it is?


The relationships between Bruce/Tim and Bruce/Dick aren't anything like the one with Damien.