Worst Batman tpb?

[Antonello Blueberry]

What did you dislike about it?

The concept, some of the art, the villain...

 

[Yurka]

Wow, a bunch of you must not read a lot of TPB's if you're naming off Arkham Asylum and Dark Victory. There's stuff out there that's much worse, such as:

Batman: Year Two
The Dark Knight Strikes Again
War Games
Under the Hood
Hush Returns
City of Light

And I'll add All-Star Batman and Robin to that list when Lee and Miller finish their run.

Jim's art alone makes that series amazing.

 

[Hot Trash]

Batman: Fortunate Son. Batman meets Rock and Roll Highschool, well more like a Twisted Sister music video. The story is driven my a blonde Elvis hallucination (known as the "God" of Rock and Roll) guiding a tragic and troubled Rock Star who makes all the teenagers and burnouts in Gotham and later the rest of the country stand up and fight for their right to rock out. Think that sounds stupid? Well thats just the start. I felt ebarassed holding this book in my hand, reading some of the straight up ridiculous things that Batman (Who's drawn to look like a constipated Dobberman Pinscher) did in it in his quest to stop him. Lets see, the Dark Knight fights off a group of rioting teenagers in a mall record store, intervenes at a shootout at Graceland, operates almost entirely in broad daylight, gets beat up by a rock and roll manager who's a trained martial arts expert, yells at Robin for listening to music in the Batcave/Batplane (which makes him run away in the process chasing after his rock idol), hates and beats up punks after watching "Sid Vicious" kill his girlfriend, and takes Robin to Arkham to scare him straight, but instead gets him threatened with sexual assault by the Joker while Two Face and the Riddler name drop Black Sabbath and ? and the Mysterians. Oh, and to top it off the real bad guy of the story (an evil greedy manipulating talent manager- wow, nobody's ever thought of that before!) is protected by an army of gun wielding blonde Elvis impersonators.


I wish I had a fireplace so I could have thrown this piece of crap in it while I was reading it.

 

[CaptainClown]

Knightfall
One of the worst Batman stories ever.

Thank you.
I thinkt he concept is cool but the writing is horrid. Actually i think it is more in the overrated catagory.

The worest one I can think of is Last Laugh. It is just so bad I can't stand it. I hate the art, I hate the concept and jus yeh.

 

[Majic Walrus]

Secrets. Everything about it is just bad

Secrets was crap.

I thought Batman: Snow was pretty awful too.

 

[TruerToTheCore]

Thank you.
I thinkt he concept is cool but the writing is horrid. Actually i think it is more in the overrated catagory.

The worest one I can think of is Last Laugh. It is just so bad I can't stand it. I hate the art, I hate the concept and jus yeh.

The first part until his back is broken is great. Then it goes down.

 

[Jackasscoley15]

Jim's art alone makes that series amazing.

Oh, that's right. I'm sorry, I forgot, it's the art that makes good TPB's, not the story. I apologize, All-Star beats Watchmen for me, then.

 

[Majic Walrus]

Oh, that's right. I'm sorry, I forgot, it's the art that makes good TPB's, not the story. I apologize, All-Star beats Watchmen for me, then.

I assume you were being sarcastic, remember the art is very important as well. That's one of the reasons I hated Secrets so much.

 

[The-Dark-Knight]

off topic i know but has anyone read 'Going Straight' i noticed it the other day and wondered if it was any good.

 

[The-Dark-Knight]

I assume you were being sarcastic, remember the art is very important as well. That's one of the reasons I hated Secrets so much.

Very true the art is incredibly important, it is after all a Graphic Novel.

 

[Majic Walrus]

off topic i know but has anyone read 'Going Straight' i noticed it the other day and wondered if it was any good.

You mean "Going Sane"? I picked up the TPB yesterday but I haven't read it yet. It looked like a pretty good story and it's all from issues of Legends which I loved.

 

[The-Dark-Knight]

You mean "Going Sane"? I picked up the TPB yesterday but I haven't read it yet. It looked like a pretty good story and it's all from issues of Legends which I loved.

thats the one.

 

[BubbaGump]

Oh, that's right. I'm sorry, I forgot, it's the art that makes good TPB's, not the story. I apologize, All-Star beats Watchmen for me, then.

Art AND story make great comics and TPBs. That's why Gotham Central owns. It's just perfect comic book harmony.

 

[Yurka]

Oh, that's right. I'm sorry, I forgot, it's the art that makes good TPB's, not the story. I apologize, All-Star beats Watchmen for me, then.

Despite your sarcasm, that point can be argued. Not that All-Star will beat Watchmen, but that art can make a tpb "good". It wouldn't be the first time great art makes an otherwise mediocre book, "good".


Also, I read Going Sane last week and it really suprised me. It was a very interesting story. I would recommend it for anyone interested

 

[Hellstormer]

W
City of Light

I love City of Light, its my favorite story behind As the Crow Flies.

 

[Dark Victory]

You mean "Going Sane"? I picked up the TPB yesterday but I haven't read it yet. It looked like a pretty good story and it's all from issues of Legends which I loved.

Going Sane is a huge letdown. The story is great, but the art made me want to put it down.

 

[Jackasscoley15]

Despite your sarcasm, that point can be argued. Not that All-Star will beat Watchmen, but that art can make a tpb "good". It wouldn't be the first time great art makes an otherwise mediocre book, "good".

Point taken, for the only reason I got past the first issue of All-Star was the fact that Lee's artwork makes the "story" easier to swallow. But great artwork doesn't exactly push a TPB to "amazing" status for me. I think it has to be the right mixture of good artwork and great storytelling.

 

[Majic Walrus]

I'll admit that All-Star wasn't that good. Although Lee's art was amazing by itself.

I think the art is integral to the overall flow of the comic. The art in Going Sane (from the little I saw when I flipped through) wasn't as good as what I'm used to reading. I hope it doesn't keep me from reading it.

 

[Nepenthes]

There's a whole chunk of recent Detective Comics I can't read because of the art. That whole two-colour cartoony experiment. It's ghastly and impenetrable and fortunately the stories look mediocre as well, so I'm happy to never go there again.


I forgot I also own Castle of the Bat; this has to replace Dark Victory as my object of shame. This was a killer book when I was 12. Now it lives in the attic. It really is one of the worst comics I've ever read, anywhere. Shame that art is very nice though.

 

[Majic Walrus]

There's a whole chunk of recent Detective Comics I can't read because of the art. That whole two-colour cartoony experiment. It's ghastly and impenetrable and fortunately the stories look mediocre as well, so I'm happy to never go there again.


I forgot I also own Castle of the Bat; this has to replace Dark Victory as my object of shame. This was a killer book when I was 12. Now it lives in the attic. It really is one of the worst comics I've ever read, anywhere. Shame that art is very nice though.

Recent detective comics haven't been that bad I didn't think. There was a decent 1-Shot with Riddler that was cool. Dini's work was awesome. Maybe the other stories were just mediocre enough that I've forgotten about them...

 

[Nepenthes]

Sorry I guess I meant 'recent' as in like, eight years ago, ha ha. my bad. The most recent Detective Comics have been awesome yeah, best in a long while.

This is what I'm talking about. For a while Tec comics only came in two colour cartoons and unfortunately the writing didn't make up for it, generally speaking

 

[The Dark Guybrush]

Batman: Year Two.

AVOID at all costs!!

 

[BubbaGump]

I love City of Light, its my favorite story behind As the Crow Flies.

You have weird taste/rankings, but As the Crow Flies rules!

 

[Dark Victory]

You have weird taste/rankings, but As the Crow Flies rules!

Agreed!

 

[Nepenthes]

what's so good about it? i couldn't even finish it when i borrowed it from the library. maybe I'll try again