If you read all the new batman books yesterday...

[zombemybabynow]

...which was your favourite?

mine was Batman #704

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=6987&disp=table

[Dandontdare]

Whu? 

"all the new batman books yesterday" --- I have no idea what you are asking!

[Roger Godpleton]

My Grandma bought all of them for me. THANKS FOR THE TREATS, GRANDMAW. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYS-YMTOj-Y&feature=related

[Professor Bear]

Batman Inc was a hoot.  The return was okay.  The rest a bit meh.

[I, Cosh]

There were too many so I didn't buy any. See how it backfires DC?

[das]

the neil adams batman book is a strange flashback to his deadman era.

[Tiplodocus]

If you read all the new Batman books yesterday...

You'd probably still be reading (even in this decompressed day and age)

[das]

Adams: And Batman's with Joker in the car, and Joker's all tied up. Of course, within moments, he'll get away. But Deadman enters him and starts talking to Batman in his own way, you know? Like he's Deadman. You can imagine Batman being in the car, and he's driving along with the Joker, who's saying all this crazy stuff to him, and suddenly, Joker turns to him and says something dead serious to him, like "did you ever notice that you're constantly dealing with clowns? Do they have clowns in Metropolis?"

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/neal-adams-batman-odyssey-100409.html

[das]

more..


Adams has described the book as his opportunity to put his own spin on the character of Batman, and DC has released four pages of art from the first issue that hits stands tomorrow. Highlights include:

-Batman wielding a gun
-Batman shooting a gun
-Batman getting shot through the wrist while shooting a gun
-Batman quoting his own thoughts in narrative panels and then thinking them in thought bubbles
-Batman berating himself for being "stupid" and "acting the buffoon"
-Batman referring to thousand dollar quantities of money as "G's"

[Colin YNWA]

Well I caught up with my Bat books this week having got four in my pull list on Saturday and I have to say I was mighty impressed and the whole line, or at least those that I'm reading are on very good form. Got two Morrison's (The Return and Inc. no.1) and both were as fantastic as you'd expect. Batman Inc. being particularly good. Paul Cornell's first issue of 'Batman and Robin' was a fun read even if the art wasn't really to my tastes.

Even amongst the work of two of my favourite writers the stand out however was Scott Snyder, Jock and Francesco Francavilla's Detective 871. What a brilliant bit of comics that was. Don't know Scott Snyder's work except that it has a very good reputation but he writes a wonderful Dick Grayson Batman.

If the Bat franchise continues like this they can bring out as many as they like its blooming good comics. 

[TordelBack]

Over in Batman Inc. Grant Morrison continues to demonstrate that he can write a great Batman, and as predicted Paquette draws an outstanding Catwoman.  I'll just pause for a bit and reminisce.  Mmmmm, nice.  

While pondering why I enjoyed this issue so much, something occurred to me:  it's just Zenith.  Batman (stoic, terse, serious, has a Cunning Plan) is Peter St. John,  Catwoman (sarcastic, distracted, just along for the ride) is Zenith himself  - maybe skim over the suggestive bits in the hotel if that makes you uncomfortable.  Hardly any of the dialogue, or indeed plot, would be out of place in Zenith circa Phase II - 'Peter' is [spoiler]searching for a Japanese superhuman to enlist him in some clever scheme, and takes 'Robert' along to assist in breaking into a vault, who's more interested in the tentacleporn Manga he encounters on the way.[/spoiler]

[O Lucky Stevie!]

Over in Batman Inc. Grant Morrison continues to demonstrate that he can write a great Batman, and as predicted Paquette draws an outstanding Catwoman.  I'll just pause for a bit and reminisce.  Mmmmm, nice.  

While pondering why I enjoyed this issue so much, something occurred to me:  it's just Zenith.  Batman (stoic, terse, serious, has a Cunning Plan) is Peter St. John,  Catwoman (sarcastic, distracted, just along for the ride) is Zenith himself  - maybe skim over the suggestive bits in the hotel if that makes you uncomfortable.  Hardly any of the dialogue, or indeed plot, would be out of place in Zenith circa Phase II - 'Peter' is [spoiler]searching for a Japanese superhuman to enlist him in some clever scheme, and takes 'Robert' along to assist in breaking into a vault, who's more interested in the tentacleporn Manga he encounters on the way.[/spoiler]

Stevie's copy is perched on top of the geological stata of his To Read pile.

Oddly enough this is due to his abandoning Final Crisis after 3 issues as it felt like nothing so much as a Burroughsian cut up of Zenith with less interesting characters.

Am planning of reading Morrison's Batman run in correct order before the Sun exits the main sequence.