tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post4126086427189541116..comments2024-03-29T02:32:15.437-04:00Comments on Remarkable: Comics Out February 27, 2008Geoff Klockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09080580776997273785noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-36058469886739713862008-03-02T22:17:00.000-05:002008-03-02T22:17:00.000-05:00I loved that Batman and ASB&RTBW came out the same...I loved that Batman and ASB&RTBW came out the same week again. It further ferments my idea that both Miller and Morrison are playing with the same concept: The historical inconsistency of Batman. While Miller makes it sing, Morrison throws a whole crap-load of stuff at the wall and very little sticks. It's almost as if Morrison thinks that the act of throwing it all up there makes it worthwhile, it doesn't.<BR/><BR/>In All-Star we get the classic: Introduction of Robin cover and the issue manages to live up to it with the 'show of emotion' at the end. It is here where Batman moves past his ultra-violent noir birth-cry and moves into modernity. In realizing that he has created a soulless killing machine in Robin he takes a step back (not unlike Miller himself following Dark Knight Returns.) The fact that Miller puts all of the fanboy doubts about his whole All-Star run into Batman's mouth is pure genius. <BR/><BR/>The Morrison issue was strange. Having a ton of great ideas end with a whimper is nothing new for the Mad Scottsman (see: JLA: Rock of Ages; Invisibles V3, New X-Men, The Filth and probably more) but here he ends an epic time-traveling/demention-spanning mind-bending epic as a cheap Manchurian Candidate meets the X-files hokum.Ping33https://www.blogger.com/profile/09631445208675326795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-49712988327038975352008-02-29T21:24:00.000-05:002008-02-29T21:24:00.000-05:00Oh, THAT. OK, got me there. I thought that's what ...Oh, THAT. OK, got me there. I thought that's what you meant, actually.Marc Caputohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03293532769174212726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-23952632743792780672008-02-29T21:13:00.000-05:002008-02-29T21:13:00.000-05:00James -- GOOD! Another part of the Morrison-Miller...James -- GOOD! Another part of the Morrison-Miller rivalry! Thanks!<BR/><BR/>Marc -- the video game stills on the prose issue were easily some of the worst comic book "art" I have ever seen. <BR/><BR/>Jason -- fair enoughGeoff Klockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09080580776997273785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-36542252962310598972008-02-29T18:01:00.000-05:002008-02-29T18:01:00.000-05:00For what it's worth, Geoff ... I was indeed "turne...For what it's worth, Geoff ... I was indeed "turned around" by your Batman essay when I saw it here on the blog.<BR/><BR/>Not enough to actually buy the comic, mind you (I'm really trying to stop spending so much money one comic books), but I was convinced that All Star Batman is something I eventually need to own. Somewhere down the line I'll ask for the Asolute edition as a birthday present or something. (Happy belated 29th, by the way. Rock on, fellow Pisces and -- hey -- cry me a river re: turning 29. I turn 30 in seven days.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-88309483839244496032008-02-29T17:06:00.000-05:002008-02-29T17:06:00.000-05:00Whoa, whoa, whoa ,whoa...where was the bad art on ...Whoa, whoa, whoa ,whoa...where was the bad art on Batman?Marc Caputohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03293532769174212726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-71245234306894888662008-02-29T17:00:00.000-05:002008-02-29T17:00:00.000-05:00If I could plug Batman Unauthorized as well but fo...If I could plug Batman Unauthorized as well but for a different essay: In "Holy Signifier, Batman" the author maintains that the TV show (the 60s one) is actually the most enduring depiction of the character because it is out and out Batman-as-product which, at the end of the day, is what Batman really is; he's a trademark. <BR/><BR/>On the other hand, we have Miller's earlier Batman work (TDKR, Year One) which is widely considered the pinacle of Batman-as-art.<BR/><BR/>So, as Geoff just pointed out, with the easy visual sell of the series what we have with All Star B & R might, in fact, be the culmination of these two seemingly disparate elements of the character.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-61540130814868690192008-02-29T15:56:00.000-05:002008-02-29T15:56:00.000-05:00Kick Ass: I liked this a lot more than I expected ...<B>Kick Ass:</B> I liked this a lot more than I expected to, though again, I'd read a lot about an unlikable lead and the whole thing being overly nasty, which isn't really what we got. Plus, you can never really go wrong with John Romita Jr.<BR/><BR/>[b]All-Star Batman:[/b] This Miller/Morrison thing is getting nuts. In that Newsarama interview, Grant Morrison says he's treating his run as if every Batman comic has happened to the same guy, including goofy silver-age stuff like <A HREF="http://www.superdickery.com/seduction/17.html" REL="nofollow">the Rainbow Batman</A>. Not a week later, there's a Frank Miller comic where Batman spends the majority of the issue slathered head-to-toe in Process Yellow paint. Insane.<BR/><BR/>Somehow, even though it's been shunted all over the place and officially comes out next week (I believe), my store got copies of Casanova #12. SPOILER: It's awesome.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14740669500899738381noreply@blogger.com