ps. Wagner also wrote Trinity, a Superman-Batman-Wonder Woman teamup, with Rha’s Al Ghul (sp?) as the villain. Amazon customers give it mixed reviews…
pps. And, sorry: That Faces 2-Face story is an older one run from Legends of the Dark Knight that’s about to be re-issued:
ppps. Didn’t read this yet, but here’s some Batman reading about Morrison:
http://www.comixology.com/articles/58/That-Time-That-Guy-Wrote-That-Thing-That-Didn-t-Make-Sense
The cover looks interesting. If it’s a re-release, we should be able to find reviews somewhere.
Just finished Matt Wagner’s Mad Monk Batman. Like the other one, it isn’t super, but isn’t bad, either. THis one chronicles Batman’s first supernatural experience. Compiles a six-issue mini-series, and incorporates that classic pic of Batman’s image hovering over a gothic castle.
Oh, and both Wagner books take place eearly in his career, and they’re in the style of Year One – narrative from a handful of characters, same look, vibe, sensibility, etc. Bottom line: Thumbs up, buy now.
A picture from the upcoming animated direct-to-DVD movie Gotham Knight - looks good to me!
(courtesy of io9.com)
That looks cool. Wasn’t there an animated series that followed a future Batman that had Bruce Wayne as his mentor? I could have sworn I had seen it…there were mutants and what not…and honestly…it reminded me of the Dark Knight Returns in some ways……
I’ve never watched all the different animated Batman shows, just too much stuff that I don’t really have the time for right now. But I’m all hyped up about The Dark Knight.
Yes - my husband watches this. I’m not sure what the title is but it’s on the Cartoon channel in our hometown and it usually comes on about 8 or 9 at night.
It’s gonna be SWEET!
I’m flipping through it…nt bad so far…
but worse than breaking his back?? I dunno…The Bane thing was pretty hardcore
There’s rumors that they’re going to kill Batman off, hence the title “R.I.P.”
They said Batman, though, mind you, not Bruce Wayne
Batman fans, watch this, a new preview for Dark Knight
http://io9.com/5013782/the-dark-knight-harveys-shiny-new-coin?autoplay=true
Oh my gods, look what I found, a teaser for the upcoming LEGO Batman video game.
If this is gonna be as awesome as the Star Wars and Indiana Jones game they made, it’s a must for me!
http://www.jeuxvideo.tv/video/lego-batman-the-videogame.html#view:139764
Can’t do it; might get spoiled.
They don’t give much of the story away, it’s more like a behind-the-scenes-making-of thing.
Anyway, here’s the longer teaser for the Lego Batman game.
That’s … weird!
Take a look at the LEGO Batman video game, though, you’ve never seen a cuter Catwoman shaking her hips!
Just recently read Batman year 100(got it for free). I don’t get. Did anyone else? How the frack is Batman still alive?
I hadn’t heard of that one before, and I was surprised it missed it, Wiki says it won two (2!) Eisner awards. Did you like the story?
As for why Batman is still alive - that’s just something you got to live with as a comics fan. The rules of the genre allow way more “anything goes” than other media, like novels or TV.
You could also ask why there was a Batman story set in the 19th century (Gotham by Gaslight) or in the middle ages (Batman: Gothic) and on top of THAT, there’s all the “Elseworlds” stories that are like an alternate universe (DC calls it Elseworlds, I forgot what Marvel calls it).
What’s more, we’re gonna see Batman die (more or less?) pretty soon in the on-going storyline “Batman RIP” even though we KNOW that he’s going to be alive in the near and far future nonetheless.
So, the way I see it, look at it from a graphic perspective, not a textual one. Comics transcend the mere text, they’re not linear by definition. When you read a book, you read one word after another, but when you look at a page in a comic book, all the panels, all the images exist at the same time, that’s a basic trademark of the MEDIUM “comic book”, that all the images exist at the same time, whereas in a movie for example, you can only see one image after another.
And then when you take that insight and transfer it to the comic book character Batman, maybe you’ll see how he can exist at different places in time - he’s not linear, just like the comic book itself.
And THAT is why comic book characters are best appreciated within the framework of their original medium, the comic book, and not when they’re taken OUT of their medium and transposed into another medium, like movies. That’s one of the main reasons, in my opinion, that superhero movies so often fall short.
Does that make any sense?
That is frakkin’ awesome.
And, yeah, the Lego Catwoman has a certain quality to her.
I think Marvel called it “What if”. Most of those were not that great. I liked some of the Elseworlds ones. Red Rain was good, as was Speeding Bullets and Holy Terror