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The latest issue of Gotham Academy was pretty charming; I think it could work as well as a cartoon. Still, the little hints and mentions to the main character's past and her mom kind of annoy me. I just wish they would make the reveal and move on. ANy guesses on who is her mom? I can only think of a few female Batman villains and I doubt anyone would have a kid of that age
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Olive... O... O as in Ocean... My god, her mother is Orca the Whalewoman!
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Nov 7, 2014 14:23
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radlum posted:The latest issue of Gotham Academy was pretty charming; I think it could work as well as a cartoon. I think she's a new character. Probably staying in Arkham right now, considering Olive's own fears about being crazy. Edit:The artist posted this little thank you on his tumblr, it's pretty   
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Nov 7, 2014 14:47
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HitTheTargets posted:Olive... O... O as in Ocean... My god, her mother is Orca the Whalewoman! Gotham Academy '66 would be a wonderful book.
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Nov 7, 2014 15:11
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lotus circle posted:If you're not going to like it now, you should just drop it. The first quote-on-quote arc ends on issue 10 according to interviews, though it's less of an arc and more of a build-up of one and dones on top of each other. Multi-issue stories start after that though. Yep and she was telling Dick to keep on doing what he is doing. I am enjoying it for the stupid fun that it is. I also found the FE issue to be pretty good. It maybe the future, but it had hints of where they are going with the book so it was not worthless.
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Nov 7, 2014 16:05
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Mr. Maltose posted:Gotham Academy '66 would be a wonderful book. They've already had both Aunt Harriet and Bookworm show up.
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Nov 7, 2014 17:25
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I just finished reading Arkham Manor #1. I'm not up on the current events of Batman, I'm still reading Zero Year, so does anyone have a quick rundown of how Bruce lost the family fortune and why Gotham was able to take the house through eminent domain? Or is this series non-canonical?
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Nov 8, 2014 13:59
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I just finished reading Arkham Manor #1. I'm not up on the current events of Batman, I'm still reading Zero Year, so does anyone have a quick rundown of how Bruce lost the family fortune and why Gotham was able to take the house through eminent domain? Or is this series non-canonical? I don't think they've actually got to explain that part yet. Best guess is that Hush has something to do with it, since he's apparently the one behind Batman Eternal.
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Nov 8, 2014 14:07
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Yvonmukluk posted:I don't think they've actually got to explain that part yet. Best guess is that Hush has something to do with it, since he's apparently the one behind Batman Eternal. So Arkham Manor takes place some time in the future ahead of all the other Batman titles?
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Nov 8, 2014 14:08
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It's cannon. It has a box saying "takes place after Eternal #30" or something, and in the new post-Zero Year 'Batman' storyline, which skips forward in time post-Eternal, he isn't living in the manor. Eternal hasn't gotten to the point of Bruce moving into an apartment yet. Hes still sorting out the blown up Arkham. I don't recall him losing any money or giving the appearance that the place is vacated. Maybe Hush is about to drain his funds. e: Arkham Manor is only slightly ahead of the month's Eternal issues. By #2 it should be about in line (Except for the part where he might be full-time undercover in one book and not in the other.) Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 14:29 on Nov 8, 2014 |
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Nov 8, 2014 14:17
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Teenage Fansub posted:It's cannon. It has a box saying "takes place after Eternal #30" or something, and in the new post-Zero Year 'Batman' storyline, it skips forward in time and he isn't living in the manor. The only things I've read from the New 52 in the Bat Family are Batman and Batgirl through volume four of each of their trades. I'm up to date on Batman '66, Harley Quinn, Grayson and Gotham Academy, but those really don't count. So yeah, that's why I seem so clueless. And I must have missed that little box.
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Nov 8, 2014 14:25
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I just finished reading Arkham Manor #1. I'm not up on the current events of Batman, I'm still reading Zero Year, so does anyone have a quick rundown of how Bruce lost the family fortune and why Gotham was able to take the house through eminent domain? Or is this series non-canonical? Everything is real bad and it's all because of Hush, at least until issue #40 or whenever when they reveal the mastermind behind the mastermind behind the mastermind: Talia seducing a Bat-Mite mind-controlled by Hugo Strange's ghost: IN THE ANTI-MONITOR'S CORPSE.
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Nov 8, 2014 15:16
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Edge & Christian posted:In Batman Eternal (which Arkham Manor spins out of) Commissioner Gordon is in jail, framed for murder by Hush. The police chief (and mayor I think) are both corrupt people working for Hush. Hush hired some people to like, sabotage or blow up some of Waynecorp's building projects with the assistance of the corrupt police chief and other corrupt cops. Corrupt people took over Arkham Asylum and killed all of the 'real' staff (or turned them into like sewer demons) for Hush, and there was a thing where I guess a series of magical bad guys revealed themselves to be the secret masterminds to try to open a portal to hell or something in Gotham. They were stopped but it blew up Arkham Asylum in Batman Eternal #30 and caused the whole building to like explode, fly up in the air, and then fall down into a sinkhole hundreds and hundreds of feet deep. Everyone's pretty much okay now though. Alfred broke his arm. Alfred was locked up in Arkham. Because of Hush. And this is why I'm very particular about which Bat books I read. I'm sorry, but that sounds way too loving ridiculous for me to every attempt to read. That being said, thanks for the explanation, I appreciate it.
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Nov 8, 2014 15:27
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I loving hate Hush so much.
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Nov 8, 2014 15:37
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Travis343 posted:I loving hate Hush so much. I cannot claim to be a great Hush scholar, but how long has he been doing that? Like, literally hushing people before he kills them? I only remember it popping up in Batman Eternal, and it's pretty hilarious.
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Nov 8, 2014 16:09
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Pope Corky the IX posted:And this is why I'm very particular about which Bat books I read. I'm sorry, but that sounds way too loving ridiculous for me to every attempt to read. That being said, thanks for the explanation, I appreciate it. We should mention Alfred's daughter Julia turns up and becomes their new Oracle type girl at the bat-puter, because she's there in the new Batman story when you get to it. Also, in case you bump into it, Harper is growing into a hero persona, Bluebird and Selina Kyle found out she's the daughter of an infamous mob boss and becomes a boss herself to stabilize the criminal community which was having a war up till then (This is the theme of "Catwoman"s new run which seems pretty good after one issue.) I think Eternal is pretty entertaining, on the whole. It has a rotating group of writers and artists, so there are patches I enjoy a lot more than others. Not a fan of Ray Fawkes' Arkham horror stuff, but the issue with Batgirl chasing someone through a Mexican TV studio (#11) is gonna be one of my issues of the year. As far as ridiculous, you should see what Batman and Robin's been up to. I love that comic. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 21:17 on Nov 8, 2014 |
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Nov 8, 2014 20:56
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Honestly Hush has only ever been good when written by Paul Dini. Heart of Hush and Streets of Gotham are where he's at his best, especially in the House of Hush storyarc that concludes Streets of Gotham. That said people were speculating for a long while that Hush was going to make his comeback into New 52 with Eternal, so I'm glad Snyder just got it out of the way once we hit the half-way point in terms of issue count. It would have been obnoxious to leave it out to the end.
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Teenage Fansub posted:I think Eternal is pretty entertaining, on the whole. It has a rotating group of writers and artists, so there are patches I enjoy a lot more than others. Not a fan of Ray Fawkes' Arkham horror stuff, but the issue with Batgirl chasing someone through a Mexican TV studio (#11) is gonna be one of my issues of the year. It was a Brazilian studio.
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Edge & Christian posted:In Batman Eternal (which Arkham Manor spins out of) Commissioner Gordon is in jail, framed for murder by Hush. The police chief (and mayor I think) are both corrupt people working for Hush. Hush hired some people to like, sabotage or blow up some of Waynecorp's building projects with the assistance of the corrupt police chief and other corrupt cops. Corrupt people took over Arkham Asylum and killed all of the 'real' staff (or turned them into like sewer demons) for Hush, and there was a thing where I guess a series of magical bad guys revealed themselves to be the secret masterminds to try to open a portal to hell or something in Gotham. They were stopped but it blew up Arkham Asylum in Batman Eternal #30 and caused the whole building to like explode, fly up in the air, and then fall down into a sinkhole hundreds and hundreds of feet deep. Everyone's pretty much okay now though. Alfred broke his arm. Alfred was locked up in Arkham. Because of Hush. Ad then it'll turn out it all to be really the work of GRANNY GOODNESS!
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Nov 8, 2014 23:44
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lotus circle posted:Honestly Hush has only ever been good when written by Paul Dini. Heart of Hush and Streets of Gotham are where he's at his best, especially in the House of Hush storyarc that concludes Streets of Gotham. I want to like that arc, but Hush is still Hush in it. He's an evil version of Bruce Wayne, not Batman. That's a good hook, but I sure hope it gets buried in some dumb garbage to make it needlessly complex.
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Nov 9, 2014 00:10
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People say Return of Hush was good but all I remember was it ruining Prometheus.
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Nov 9, 2014 14:06
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hup posted:People say Return of Hush was good but all I remember was it ruining Prometheus.
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Return of Hush was a pretty great example of mid-2000s DC at its finest. Since all of the big 'comics media' organs of the time haven't bothered to properly archive their interviews and features this is all going on memory, but the basic timeline was kind of: "Hey, want to do a follow-up on Hush?" "Heyyyyyy, you know, actually uh, you can use Hush since you've already started THE RETURN OF HUSH but could you not really follow through with your developments, we're kind of saving the character for Jeph Loeb. Also we notice you're hinting that Tommy Elliott isn't REALLY Hush, which we totally approve of." "Hey! We noticed you're planning to use Onomatopoeia, but Kevin Smith has dibs on him, please use someone else for the henchman." "Whoops! When we said someone else, we didn't mean [guy I forget], someone else has dibs on him too." "Here, look at this list of characters no one is using or has dibs on, just use whomever, but quick, we need to get this book finished!" "Okay, cool, whatever. No one cares about Prometheus. Don't bother doing too much research on him, just get the book out!" "Hey, AJ! How's that Return of Hush story going? Yeah, turns out we need you do a tie-in with Villains United and we need to take a few characters from you for that. It's cool, right? Sure, we'll definitely end the trade collection of your story with this Villains United interlude. The rest of your story? Heh, well we'll see if that gets collected." "Anyway, we really like the story you're doing but turns out you need to reverse everything and make sure it's clear Tommy Elliott really is the one true Hush. Also we gave you the go-ahead to use Joker even though this is going to conflict with what Judd Winick is doing in Batman and people are going to get upset about that, but it's not like we told you about what Winick was doing, can't have spoilers on the net!" "PS your book is ending in two months hope you weren't planning on REALLY wrapping things up. ONE YEAR GREATER! Don't call us, we'll call you." I remember liking (and some people loving) the first half or so of AJ Lieberman's story, but once it became deeply enmeshed in mind control and hallucinations and Clayfaces and mind controlled Clayfaces it largely fell apart, though I'm not really prepared to blame Lieberman for all of it. Especially not the Prometheus thing.
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Here's the cover to #36
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Nov 12, 2014 04:44
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Dacap posted:Here's the cover to #36
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Nov 12, 2014 04:46
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Dacap posted:Here's the cover to #36 Superman has the same haircut. Who loves this haircut over there?
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Nov 12, 2014 04:54
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catlord posted:Superman has the same haircut. Who loves this haircut over there? Mostly Superman.
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Nov 12, 2014 05:25
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Bruce also had that haircut during Zero Year, probably is Capullo and not Snyder though.
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Nov 12, 2014 05:39
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DC editorial LOVES Macklemore
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Nov 12, 2014 05:51
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:probably is Capullo and not Snyder though. Snyder keeps his sides buzzed.
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Nov 12, 2014 05:52
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Dacap posted:Here's the cover to #36 That outfit looks like something Alfred would wear. I wonder if Snyder is killing him off for real this time.
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goldenoreos posted:That outfit looks like something Alfred would wear. I wonder if Snyder is killing him off for real this time. Would not be shocking as they already set up his replacement. She just needs a reason to stay.
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That IS Clark.
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Nov 12, 2014 07:56
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bobkatt013 posted:She just needs a reason to stay. Someone not named Barbara's gotta be Oracle.
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Nov 12, 2014 08:40
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Question: If I really didn't care for last month's Batman, is this week's any better? I've been toying around with the idea of dropping the book since about halfway through Zero Year and I think this might be it for me.
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Was Taters posted:That IS Clark. It's just Joker who was pretending to be one of the new Arkham doctors in Batman Annual #2
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Dacap posted:Here's the cover to #36 Welp, Joker's eyes seem to have gone white. Confirmed demon status then? Or they've finally rolled all the way back from him laughing too hard.
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Bedtime Stories posted:Question: If I really didn't care for last month's Batman, is this week's any better? Try it. Only half of it is the big ridiculous robot suit fight. If you liked DOTF, the other half is a conversation with the Joker. e: Here are the spots they've been seeding the certain Arkham orderly. http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/11/12/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-batmans-eric-border-before-you-read-batman-36/ Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Nov 12, 2014 |
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Endgame is a good story, but I can't really enjoy the angle of the Joker being that big of a threat or his new relationship with Bruce. Somehow it feel like is wrong. Eternal was good on its first half and then went to poo poo with the reveal on the second half. It would be nice to read a story where the heroes win without someone pulling another plan out of their asses. Batgirl is a thing that exists I guess. Is really weird how Barbara is written closer to pre N52 Steph than any other Barbara iteration I've seen, good art though.
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Like I've said before the most solid and consistent Bat Book since the farting out of Nu 52 has been Batman and Robin/???????. The art has always been just amazing you get some new-ish over the top villains for them to take down, or redrawn Joker that is miles better than Capulo's take, and fleshed out Damian to a degree where when he finally died it felt like it meant something. Oh and bitchin Bat Armors and Apokolips adventures. And some really good grieving issues after Damian died.
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