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Doctor Spaceman posted:Have you heard the stories of Miller's early experiences in New York? Wow, that explains a lot
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Someone elsewhere told me that if I thought TDKR's world was a hopeless madhouse that I should also read "A Serious House on Serious Earth." I've never heard of this story before. It's apparently well-received and is by Grant Morrison who is very famous and popular but I never knew it existed until now. It sound very trippy.
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May 12, 2017 00:07
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Yeah it's very good but it has basically nothing in common with DKR aside from it being a Batman story imo.
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May 12, 2017 00:09
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NikkolasKing posted:Grant Morrison who is very famous and popular but I never knew it existed until now. 
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May 12, 2017 00:15
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Meh. I wasn't a big fan of Arkham. It seemed like Grant was more interested in "ideas" then "story-line" or "characterization". Your mileage with the book might vary.
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May 12, 2017 00:22
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I remember finding Arkham Asylum to be very difficult to follow, and I was pretty put off by how it was laid out.
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I really love Arkham Asylum, it's moody and odd, even if some of the design choices, like Joker's text, is a little hard to follow. I highly recommend it, but then again I loving hate DKR and Arkham Asylum is pretty far from that one beyond "a dark Batman story."Roth posted:I remember finding Arkham Asylum to be very difficult to follow, and I was pretty put off by how it was laid out. It can be difficult to penetrate, I will definitely grant that.
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May 12, 2017 00:34
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For some reason I've read every GMo Batman comic except for Arkham.
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May 12, 2017 00:39
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Arkham Asylum is heavily influenced by Alice in Wonderland, so it has a dream like quality as Batman moves from scene to scene. It's an interesting character study of Batman, his villains, and the asylum itself. It's also where the Arkham Journals in the Arkham Asylum game is from.
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NikkolasKing posted:Someone elsewhere told me that if I thought TDKR's world was a hopeless madhouse that I should also read "A Serious House on Serious Earth." It's pretty much the only Morrison I enjoyed, when it comes to Batman.
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Everyone should buy the latest issue of Batman. It's a one shot with Swamp Thing, and it's one of my favorite single issues I've read in a while. I hope someone posts the page where they're in the Batmobile.
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This issue was so so good. I loved the ending most of all.
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May 18, 2017 19:16
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I love the ongoing thing King has with KITE MAN! HELL YEAH!
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The issue was... interesting. I don't know what to make of an obvious analog of Alan Moore, the creator and "father" of Swamp Man, being literally shot in the head in the first page -- in a story that immediately follows a story that's a prologue to Doomsday Clock, where they're divisively bringing the Watchmen into the DC Universe. Is it a statement? And if so, what's it saying? You could read it as critical of DC's decision to murder Moore's legacy, or an acknowledgement of killing the past.
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May 18, 2017 23:03
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He has another analogue as the Avatar of the Parliament of Stories (or some such) in the last volume of Swamp Thing. It'd be amazing if there's a montage of Doc Manhattan destruction and it cuts to the Story realm and he's screaming with his big beard of pages on fire.
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PoshAlligator posted:The issue was... interesting. Are you saying they literally kill Alan Moore in this book? That's pretty overtly a statement of some kind if true.
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X-O posted:Are you saying they literally kill Alan Moore in this book? That's pretty overtly a statement of some kind if true. It's Alec Holland's father, who lived in WeinWrightson Tower. And he does look a LOT like Moore. And he's killed for no other reason than being the father of a 'superhero'. There's something there, yeah. edit: The 84th floor of WeinWrightson Tower, aka 1984, the year Moore started writing Swamp Thing. purple death ray fucked around with this message at 23:58 on May 18, 2017 |
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May 18, 2017 23:51
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Honestly it preoccupied me the whole way through the book. I kind of liked the story, thought it was maybe trying to be quirky in a way that came off a little stiff in places. But I couldn't stop thinking about that first page, especially after reading this back to back with Flash 22. e: I'd post the page but I'm not at home at the minute, but look it up. I guess... I really don't know what the statement is.
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It's in the preview pages on Comixology.
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I was thinking that could just be a coincidence but then I noticed he's still using the nine panel framing you guys were talking about for the Watchmen crossover issues so maybe not. I have no idea what kind of message that's trying to send, if it's even trying at all.
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That's just a King/Gerards thing. Sheriff of Babylon is mostly grids, and Mister Miracle will be too. edit: I mean, obviously the grid is an influence from Watchmen, but it's in their totally unrelated work. ee: Omega Men even had quotations in the final panel of every issue. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 02:37 on May 19, 2017 |
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May 19, 2017 02:10
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Yeah Tom King loves the 9-panel grid. It's pretty much one of his style markers.
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"If you don't buy this magazine we'll kill Alan Moore."
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Teenage Fansub posted:That's just a King/Gerards thing. Sheriff of Babylon is mostly grids, and Mister Miracle will be too. Mister Miracle being mostly grids only works if it leads to big splashy layouts once Scott's doing stuff, because it's basically the panel equivalent of prison bars which... like, his whole thing is escaping and being free.
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That is exactly what Tom King said they represent. We're probably going to get some wild page layouts eventually.
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His work on Grayson though let Janin go crazy with panel structures and layouts, so I think he probably does layout ideas that suit the strength of the artist he is working with.
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I really enjoyed this last issue of Batman. Great filler issue. The Batmobile scene was hilarious.
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Madkal posted:His work on Grayson though let Janin go crazy with panel structures and layouts, so I think he probably does layout ideas that suit the strength of the artist he is working with.
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purple death ray posted:It's Alec Holland's father, who lived in WeinWrightson Tower. And he does look a LOT like Moore. And he's killed for no other reason than being the father of a 'superhero'. There's something there, yeah. He's killed because someone was under the impression he knew all about the secrets of life and death. Which, considering the kind of work Alan Moore did, you can kinda see where it tracks.
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This issue of Det is pretty skippable if you haven't bought it yet. Not looking forward to the character revealed at the end. Maybe JT4 can make me care.
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I'm not really into this new direction for Steph, especially since she comes across as maybe the biggest hypocrite ever. It really blows my mind that in the Rebirth world, I think Cass and Clayface have a stronger friendship than Cass and Steph.
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It's pretty understandable. She's a teenager, and she is grieving the death (as far as she knows) of a loved one. She's not exactly acting rationally and I'm sure she'll come around eventually. But yeah her plan is essentially to stop the Batfam from fighting crime by fighting it herself first. She's fighting vigilantism with slightly faster vigilantism. It really doesn't make the most sense.
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I figured her reasoning was to do the fighting away from the cameras and such. Granted the first villain she faced was there to prove her point. He wanted to be in front of the cameras and be an "a lister" and her narration kept mentioning how Batman's methods attract these evil people who need to up the body count and be as bombastic as ever to get Bat's attention. She wants to fight that by rather fighting them away from all the attention. Honestly it isn't a bad idea, at least the way I read it.
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I just thought it was a boring issue. We already basically know her deal going out of that Victim Squad arc, and we could have just met up with her again when she comes back at the team with the guy at the end.
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Teenage Fansub posted:I just thought it was a boring issue. We already basically know her deal going out of that Victim Squad arc, and we could have just met up with her again when she comes back at the team with the guy at the end. The whole thing was a fill-in, so that's where you're getting those vibes. The real hot ticket this week is Batman/The Shadow #2 which I sure hope all of yall are reading.
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So, Batman. I'd die laughing if the first regular issue back after Battle of Jokes and Riddles, however many months away that will be, just starts with the word "No." (e: as a double page spread. Just the two letters.) Clay Mann's pages were crazy good looking. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 08:47 on Jun 7, 2017 |
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This will either end in a refusal, getting murdered, or it happens and then a divorce. Or Selina being brainwashed by Talia to forget. Comedy option of Batman going to DC's version of The Devil and bargaining to save Alfred by sacrificing his marriage to be a SWINGIN BACHELOR again! Cause he was always more interesting that way!
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Oh my god. That last issue of Batman was fantastic!!
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pubic works project posted:Oh my god. That last issue of Batman was fantastic!! Well why don't you marry it!
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