The official SUPERMAN/BATMAN discussion thread

[TheCorpulent1]

Loeb's run went from great (Public Enemies) to entertaining-as-long-as-you-don't-stop-to-think-about-it (Supergirl) to terrible (Absolute Power) to pretty good (Vengeance). Since then, it went from boring (Verheiden's first story) to weak (current story).

Even Public Enemies gets docked some points for that ****ty Batman/Shiva fight.

 

[Spidey Rules 2]

The last arc I collected was the one right before "The Metal Men". I don't know too much about them (other than what I read in 52), but I thought that it was good time to stop. So in it's place I picked up "The Brave and the Bold". So far that's okay, but one bad arc and I'm gone (I won't wait like I did for Superman/Batman).

 

[Arkady Rossovich]

the book sucks terribly now.

i remember at comic con last year, the editor of the book was saying how they want to focus on and do "wonky" stories. which is like, WTF? here you have two of the best, most iconic, and most popular comic characters of all time...and you want to do "wonky" stories? thats bull s#!t. Batman/Superman should have the biggest and baddest most epic blockbuster stories.

instead, we're being fed s#!t. i would like DC to show more respect for these characters.

I agree,i thought Loeb`s run was good..but it could have been far better.I dont hear much from it now.As far as i know,the only decent run of his was the new Supergirl arc..and i dont remember anything else.

 

[Sawyer]

It sucks now. Maybe loeb should come back to it. I'd take my chances. Also am I the only one that is sick of the metal men?

It's a shame that Marvel has him for now, althought it should prove interesting to see what he does with The Ultimates. Hope he doesnt f*** it up...

 

[Assassin]

I've bought every issue, but I havent read them since the batzaro arc, I tried, but i couldnt. I just dropped it last week when I saw Pat Lee's art.

 

[yenaled]

This topic suggests Loeb's run was good and that I cannot agree on.

 

[Mee]

Public Enemies was good. The rest was anywhere from "meh" to "this guy wrote The Long Halloween? "

 

[Prognosticator]

I agree,i thought Loeb`s run was good..but it could have been far better.I dont hear much from it now.As far as i know,the only decent run of his was the new Supergirl arc..and i dont remember anything else.

Uh, you may have gotten that backwards since the SG arc is arguably the weakest (at least the last half of it). But Loeb's overall run is good when considered as a whole and not by individual arcs.

It sucks now. Maybe loeb should come back to it. I'd take my chances. Also am I the only one that is sick of the metal men?

Maybe it's too late since he signed exclusively with Marvel....plus, he got ran out of ideas with his favorite DC characters.

And judging by Onslaught Reborn, he's just running out of good ideas.

 

[The Batman]

the book essentially peaked by the first arc...after that, it was forgettable for the most part

 

[Spike_x1]

the book essentially peaked by the first arc...after that, it was forgettable for the most part

Batman punching Darkseid and then Darkseid sullying his hands by personally coming down to earth to duke it out with Superman on the Kent farm are things that I wish I could forget.

 

[storyteller]

I dont even understand the series anymore. Is it even in continuity? Batman and superman like they have first met certain characters for the first time or Batman has returned to his uber suspicious brother eye creating self.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

No one knows what's in continuity anymore.

 

[Steelsheen]

I dont even understand the series anymore. Is it even in continuity? Batman and superman like they have first met certain characters for the first time or Batman has returned to his uber suspicious brother eye creating self.

it follows continuity as much as it could. althought expectedly there are times where its inconsistent with how a character behaves or how/when events took place.

 

[Delete]

Superman/Batman #40 looks pretty good. Seems Bruce is going to start having sex with Gods.

 

[Spider-Bat]

I just picked up the hard cover collection of Enemies among us, it's really good so far. I only got up tio the fight with Kilowog. I love the first artist, his Superman and, Batman is Superb. I lovehow he draws Batman's cape, all leathery and it has that bat wing look to it.

I don't like the artist that takes over the next part, crappy, but that last artist looks alright. I forgot the first artist's name but too bad he did not do the whole story.

 

[Spider-Bat]

This topic suggests Loeb's run was good and that I cannot agree on.

Loeb's first 2 stories were okay, I love the first one, but that fourth one got really weird.

 

[CBG]

IMO, Superman/Batman wasn't that great throughout its entire run.

 

[yahman]

I wish the book was written out of continuity, in one of the other 'universes' or an elseworld, becasue although its fun its very hard to take seriously.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I don't understand why, though. The book should've been like a scaled down Justice League with the two biggest heroes in the universe taking on major threats.

 

[fifthfiend]

But you know what I liked about the first arcs of S/B? Was how they were both sort of pretty much totally gay for each other the entire time.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Maybe that's why the series hasn't worked. Too many homoerotic undertones.

 

[Darthphere]

This upcoming arc looks tight as hell.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

They still publish this? I thought it was getting canceled soon for some reason.

 

[Darthphere]

No, there's a new arc coming up by Alan Burnett and Dustin Nguyen.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Oh yeah, I was excited about that when I saw the solicitation. Amazing what I forget in a few months' time. I'll start picking it up again with that arc. I'm still annoyed that Manifest Eternity just up and vanished with no explanation. Nguyen was doing some really interesting work on that.