I checked "The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told" out of the library recently, and despite an inevitable emphasis on one-issue stories, it has a lot of great material in it.
I really dig Matt Wagner's three-parter "Faces" from Legends of the Dark Knight. I think it got reprinted as a tpb. There was another one "Blades" from around the same time with art by Tim Sale and written by James Robinson that was also high quality. Dunno if you can still find that one, though.
Also, the recent "Mad Moon Rising" or whatever it was called thing by Wagner retelling the early Hugo Strange and Mad Monk stories is a lot of fun. Fact is, though, I'm just a Wagner fanboy, so take that as you will.
― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh yeah! Also the first Grendel/Batman crossover, the one with Hunter Rose. The later one with Grendelprime kinda sucked.
― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link
Now that I think of it, when it comes to superheroes I've always preferred bright-coloured cosmic fables to dark and edgy vigilante stuff, so I guess I do hate Batman.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link
good now get out
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link
Bring it if you can, monster jessie.
xpost s1ocki otm.
― Leee, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link
slocki harsh but fair -- it's like Tuomas is wishing the sky wasn't blue.
― Rock Hardy, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link
tuomas would probably like the batman story in mike allred's solo tho.
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link
yay Matt Wagner
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link
If you can find them in the back issue bins, Pete Milligan's Batman one-issues are just as awesome as their titles suggest they might be ("The Executioner Wore Stiletto Heels" and "The Hungry Grass!"). Also, the Wagner/Grant run is bestest -- definitely more "funny dark" than "tortured dark."
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link
i dunno guys tuomas is saying it in a really annoying way as usual but i think hes right that this is some bullshit dark re-imagineered david fincher joker instead of classic funny-yet-crazy joker - do yall also like this? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/American_McGee_Alice_box.gif/256px-American_McGee_Alice_box.gif
― and what, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link
No one likes American McGee.
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link
Also sci-fi closet Morrison? There were really only a couple of good issues though.
I like Year 100 but Tuomas wouldn't.
― Jordan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link
I dunno, I thought the Nolan movie was quite light-hearted in places. It wasn't dark in a "grim 'n gritty" way.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link
classic funny-yet-crazy joker
"classic" is subject to debate, as this thread makes rather obvious. which interpretation a reader/viewer priveleges is entirely up to their own prejudices.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link
I dunno guys we have two photographs and a totally inconsistent narrative spanning nearly a century involving perhaps hundreds of authors, surely we can nail down the probable levels of genuine intent and fitting nuance mr ledger will bring to the role, and what the script will have in it.
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link
I predict Ledger dances a killer Batusi
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link
I hope Ledger's Joker tries to out-do Bale's Batman in a contest of BONERS
― elmo argonaut, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link
definitely psyched about the prince song.
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link
R. Kelly should do the soundtrack.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link
Perhaps snorggirl should play the Joker.
― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link
Snorggirl? Is that some superhero?
― Tuomas, Thursday, 24 May 2007 10:12 (seventeen years ago) link
better if it were Snoggirl
― Ste, Thursday, 24 May 2007 10:24 (seventeen years ago) link
genuine intent and fitting nuance mr ledger will bring to the role
Can y'all call him Heath otherwise I get a little taken aback whenever I open the thread.
― ledge, Thursday, 24 May 2007 10:26 (seventeen years ago) link
i just realized while watching it again this weekend that while its not my favorite batman movie i think mask of the phantasm has by far the best batman characterization of any of them
― and what, Thursday, 24 May 2007 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link
bruce wayne kneeling on his parents grave in the rain begging them to let him not be batman, and you know that hes going to have to anyway, is some tragic shit
― and what, Thursday, 24 May 2007 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link
http://rjr10036.typepad.com/proceed_at_your_own_risk/images/batman.jpg
― chaki, Sunday, 27 May 2007 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link
if i could count the times i begged my folks not to be batman...
― latebloomer, Sunday, 27 May 2007 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link
and yet they insisted on being batman
― s1ocki, Sunday, 27 May 2007 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link
family outings were no fun at all. mom and dad were always on the lookout for some evildoers to bust.
The big trip to Disney World was a fiasco.
"Dad, the mad hatter is PART OF THE RIDE ffs"
― latebloomer, Sunday, 27 May 2007 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link
Should I make my comic-lord brother get me copies of Arkham Asylum, Year One and the Alan Moore collection w/ The Killing Joke for a Batman introduction?
― milo z, Monday, 28 May 2007 00:10 (seventeen years ago) link
Yes.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 28 May 2007 00:14 (seventeen years ago) link
obviously
― Oilyrags, Monday, 28 May 2007 00:16 (seventeen years ago) link
btw dude, I woulda taken you up on that Drink offer if I'd caught it before I called it a night!
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 28 May 2007 00:19 (seventeen years ago) link
The world's gin supply is safe for the moment, so there will probably be more opportunities.
― Oilyrags, Monday, 28 May 2007 00:22 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2007-05-28-dark-knight-firstlook_N.htm
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.comingsoon.net/images/newbatmansuit.jpg
― latebloomer, Friday, 15 June 2007 06:46 (seventeen years ago) link
fuck that robocop shit
― chaki, Saturday, 16 June 2007 07:38 (seventeen years ago) link
best batman http://www.brokenfrontier.com/img/2005/mar/DC/BatmanLegendsOfDarkKnightCv.jpg
― chaki, Saturday, 16 June 2007 07:43 (seventeen years ago) link
...is that Moebius?
― Rock Hardy, Saturday, 16 June 2007 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link
the late Seth Fisher, from his and JH Williams' and D. Curtis Johnson's LOTDK.
― energy flash gordon, Sunday, 17 June 2007 03:33 (seventeen years ago) link
Well well:
http://www.latimes.com/media/alternatethumbnails/story/2007-06/30587677.jpg
Story.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 00:06 (seventeen years ago) link
whatever that is i love it
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 00:18 (seventeen years ago) link
ok so they went and decided to top the actual jumping batmobile? that's good news. fuck a CGI.
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 00:25 (seventeen years ago) link
Is that the Batvibrator?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 11:19 (seventeen years ago) link
No.
― HI DERE, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 13:09 (seventeen years ago) link
2nd best Batman
http://www.freegorifero.com/weblog/assets/060226.jpg
― Jordan, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 13:14 (seventeen years ago) link
Year 100! I loved that.
So, I finally got around to seeing Batman: Mask of the Phantasm last night. I'm not sure if it's as great as some have hyped it to me, but it's really more solid than a lot of the 90s Batman films and does some interesting rewriting of the Batman origin story including a romantic interest that's scripted more maturely than other film versions, and it's in a cartoon! The whole thing reminded me how great the Batman animated series was.
― mh, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 13:20 (seventeen years ago) link
http://video.whysoserious.com/TDK_Teaser_HD_Best_L98hufT.mov
― Gukbe, Friday, 27 July 2007 23:02 (sixteen years ago) link
ha, was just about to post that
― latebloomer, Saturday, 28 July 2007 00:32 (sixteen years ago) link
SO EXCITED.
― Dr. Superman, Saturday, 28 July 2007 04:58 (sixteen years ago) link