Batman/Detective Comics Series Discussion *Spoilers*

i read Batman and son several years ago when it first came out in trade. I was pretty sure it was an elseworlds book
i'm excited to read it again knowing that i plays into a bigger story.
 
I haven't read Knightfall yet but I think Batman and Son as well as Black Glove will be most enjoyable for you.

(Sidenote) I got Batman and Robin Vol. 1 and 2 for Christmas and am extremely excited to see how this series folds out before Bruce retakes the mantle. I'll miss Dick though. He's one of my all-time favorite DC characters ever.

(Sidenote 2) Is Deathstroke in an issue of Batman and Robin?
 
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just finished Black Glove.

crazy stuff. It's so cool how Grant Morrison used old campy stories of Batman that are generally considered out of continuity and found an amazing way to fold them back into continuity.

I also really like the charity art deco gala when Batman was fighting the Ninja Man-Bats and the comic art in the background juxtaposed to what was going on.

And I didn't realize that Prof Pyg was in the future Batman story with Damian. Very cool.

The only thing i wasn't crazy about was the prose story. It wasn't bad, and it had some cool stuff in it (chalking up the different incarnations of the Joker over the years to multiple personality disorder, and I know the
red/black theme as well as Joker's tainted blood
come into play later), but i think if i was buying Batman monthly and picked up a prose story instead of a comic, i would have been kind of annoyed. I like reading, but when I buy a comic, I expect a comic.

But yeah, crazy stuff.
 
RIP blew my mind.

I'm not a big fan of really dark/twisted stuff, so the joker creeped me out a lot. And I'm not sure how
dark ranger came back from the dead
. And I don't think i fully understood the two-part story at the end where Batman has his mind invaded again by the Evil Empire and "the lump". I was clear up until they shoot the lump and then it seems to go to right before Final Crisis in the real world (aka not the lump causing him to hallucinate) and I'm not sure what that has to do with the rest of the story.

But Zurr-En-Arr and Might and the 5th dimension IS the imagination. Crazy, crazy stuff.

Final Crisis is next.
 
Yeah, those last two issues take place during Final Crisis so they make more sense after you've read that.

I also recommend Neil Gaiman's Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?
 
RIP blew my mind.

I'm not a big fan of really dark/twisted stuff, so the joker creeped me out a lot. And I'm not sure how
dark ranger came back from the dead
. And I don't think i fully understood the two-part story at the end where Batman has his mind invaded again by the Evil Empire and "the lump". I was clear up until they shoot the lump and then it seems to go to right before Final Crisis in the real world (aka not the lump causing him to hallucinate) and I'm not sure what that has to do with the rest of the story.

But Zurr-En-Arr and Might and the 5th dimension IS the imagination. Crazy, crazy stuff.

Final Crisis is next.

I felt the same way Those two issue threw me the hell off. Like Project said it takes place during Final crisis, it details what happens to batman in the middle of it all. Look up when to reread those issues while reading final crisis and it will make perfect sense
 
As much as I like Grant Morrison, and I think RIP had terrific atmosphere, and BATMAN & ROBIN had some really nice stories... his endings for those stories are a complete mess. Dr Hurt has gone from an easily understood villain into a complex of continuity nightmares where he's... well, I don't know who he is. Batman goes from being a pawn in a gambit designed to drive him to suicide into a time-travelling ghost. Or something. None of it makes any sense. It's just confusing nonsense. Which is maddening because I think the build-up and 2/3rds of the ending were terrific. I miss Morrison writing one title, self-contained, like his JLA, ANIMAL MAN, and DOOM PATROL runs. Here's the thing; his runs on ANIMAL MAN and DOOM PATROL were much crazier and weirder than the recent Batman stuff and made more sense. I actually know what happened in those stories. Same for THE INVISIBLES. As for RIP and the rest, I go, "Well, I remember how it started, but I don't get what happened at the end". And every time anyone seems to talk about his work, they have the same reaction. It's just bad writing, sadly.
 
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Yeah, those last two issues take place during Final Crisis so they make more sense after you've read that.

I also recommend Neil Gaiman's Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?

I felt the same way Those two issue threw me the hell off. Like Project said it takes place during Final crisis, it details what happens to batman in the middle of it all. Look up when to reread those issues while reading final crisis and it will make perfect sense
yeah, i started reading Final Crisis and Batman got kidnapped by Granny Goodness/Boodika so i realized what was going on with that.

As much as I like Grant Morrison, and I think RIP had terrific atmosphere, and BATMAN & ROBIN had some really nice stories... his endings for those stories are a complete mess. Dr Hurt has gone from an easily understood villain into a complex of continuity nightmares where he's... well, I don't know who he is. Batman goes from being a pawn in a gambit designed to drive him to suicide into a time-travelling ghost. Or something. None of it makes any sense. It's just confusing nonsense. Which is maddening because I think the build-up and 2/3rds of the ending were terrific. I miss Morrison writing one title, self-contained, like his JLA, ANIMAL MAN, and DOOM PATROL runs. Here's the thing; his runs on ANIMAL MAN and DOOM PATROL were much crazier and weirder than the recent Batman stuff and made more sense. I actually know what happened in those stories. Same for THE INVISIBLES. As for RIP and the rest, I go, "Well, I remember how it started, but I don't get what happened at the end". And every time anyone seems to talk about his work, they have the same reaction. It's just bad writing, sadly.

I think i do kind of agree. It seems to me, if Morrison wrote a story called Batman RIP, Batman should have died at the end, not in another story. He could have found some way to tie the two stories together (from what i hear Hurt has some sort of ties to Darkseid??) and do what Johns did with Teen Titans and Infinite Crisis (show the same thing from different perspectives in two different books). As it is the ending of RIP is completely confusing and a bit of a let down when you figure out what's going on.

In a side note, i shouldn't have read Hush right before this. I keep getting Hurt and Hush mixed up in my mind.
 
wow, Final Crisis was confusing. I don't even really understand what happened. But as far as Batman goes, he gets "killed" by the omega sanction and is living as a cave man.
 
i'm not sure about greatness. The story was incoherent. There was too much going on. And Superman fixed the world by cryogenically freezing all the survivors and making a miracle machine to wish the multiverse back into place/

and who was the dude with the rubix cube? (actually, that was kind of cool, but it would have made more sense if they explained who he was and why he was able to do that).
 
The dude with the Rubix cube was a Monitor, from another universe I believe (Earth-51, Kamadi's World). He was the one who was the boyfriend to the girl monitor who recuirted all the Superman to go find the Book of All knowledge on one page, and brought Superman to face the Evil Monitor, who wasn't mentioned till he needed to be, and the real bad guy, not Darkseid, who was a fake bad guy, and don't forget about the first boy Anthro, who never showed up again, or Kamadi, who was forgot about after the second issue.
 
The dude with the Rubix cube was a Monitor, from another universe I believe (Earth-51, Kamadi's World). He was the one who was the boyfriend to the girl monitor who recuirted all the Superman to go find the Book of All knowledge on one page, and brought Superman to face the Evil Monitor, who wasn't mentioned till he needed to be, and the real bad guy, not Darkseid, who was a fake bad guy, and don't forget about the first boy Anthro, who never showed up again, or Kamadi, who was forgot about after the second issue.

Anthro was the old man with Batman at the end.
 
Scott Snyder's three issue "Black Mirror" storyline ended today. I thought it was very well done and Jock knocked the art out of the park. Does anyone know if Snyder is staying on Detective, or was this it?
 
The dude with the Rubix cube was a Monitor, from another universe I believe (Earth-51, Kamadi's World).
I looked it up on wikipedia, and apparently the rubix cube guy was actually Metron (one of the new gods). The Monitor (Nix Uotan) was the kid from the fast food joint.

I guess all this would have made more sense if i had read countdown to final crisis and more of the fourth world stuff.

This is my last final crisis question before going back to talking about Batman: How long have the new gods been on earth? Was the Darkseid club kidnapping superheroes and brainwashing them to make them fight to the death at one point? I seem to remember that.
 
The dude with the Rubix cube was a Monitor, from another universe I believe (Earth-51, Kamadi's World). He was the one who was the boyfriend to the girl monitor who recuirted all the Superman to go find the Book of All knowledge on one page, and brought Superman to face the Evil Monitor, who wasn't mentioned till he needed to be, and the real bad guy, not Darkseid, who was a fake bad guy, and don't forget about the first boy Anthro, who never showed up again, or Kamadi, who was forgot about after the second issue.

Yes, Every Earth was having it's own crisis, Darkseid was the main Earth's (whatever number it is) crisis. The Evil Moniter was causing it.
 
i'm not sure about greatness. The story was incoherent.

I cohered it just fine.

Captain Canuck said:
There was too much going on.

It was an event! But there were really just two strands, an event level crisis framed by a metatextual narrative. In the interior story, the Fourth World space gods had fought a war. The good guy gods won and the god of evil was left dying, forced to possess human shells. He knows he's dying and he wants to take the universe with him, and he seems to win. Until the good guys beat him just as nearly everything seems lost. The framing story is about the Monitors who watch the multiverse and how the singularity of Darkseid's will is causing the multiverse to collapse into itself. The two merge together with the rise of the Fifth World. Batman is sent back in time, carrying with him the symbols of Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman, and in doing so, he mythologizes them and embeds the symbols of the superheroic age as the new world mythology in the collective pre-human subconscious. Honestly, I had little trouble following it and I don't think it's because I'm more well versed in the universe than you. It just requires accepting that some of the details are intended to be ambiguous and up to interpretation.

Captain Canuck said:
And Superman fixed the world by cryogenically freezing all the survivors and making a miracle machine to wish the multiverse back into place/

You say that like it's not awesome!

Captain Canuck said:
and who was the dude with the rubix cube? (actually, that was kind of cool, but it would have made more sense if they explained who he was and why he was able to do that).

He's Metron, the True Neutral god. He planted the idea of superhumanity into prehistory with Anthro and the Rubick's Cube scene was this culmination of humanity achieving their potential. At least, that's how I interpreted it.

Captain Canuck said:
I guess all this would have made more sense if i had read countdown to final crisis and more of the fourth world stuff.

Nah. Countdown is the antithesis of Final Crisis. Everything in it contradicts the event and will only confuse you more. In addition, it's one of the worst things ever written. As far as the Fourth World stuff, I haven't read any of Kirby's Fourth World (though I've meant to), and from what I understand, it isn't all that crucial to understanding Morrison's book. If you know that there are space gods and they fought a war, and now they're in human bodies, that's all the primer that's applicable. If anything, the two books that provide lead-in are 52 and Seven Soldiers. 52 features the birth of the multiverse and Seven Soldiers features the Dark Side Club, although it's a relatively minor role.

Captain Canuck said:
This is my last final crisis question before going back to talking about Batman: How long have the new gods been on earth? Was the Darkseid club kidnapping superheroes and brainwashing them to make them fight to the death at one point? I seem to remember that.

a while. They showed up roughly analagous to, or right after, Infinite Crisis. So, in vague comic book time, a couple years or so. They appeared in various other books around the time of Countdown, but nothing that really had an impact whatsoever on FC. They seemed to be thrown into books to hype up a sales boost from being an "event tie-in".

Iceshadow said:
Scott Snyder's three issue "Black Mirror" storyline ended today. I thought it was very well done and Jock knocked the art out of the park. Does anyone know if Snyder is staying on Detective, or was this it?

He was announced as being on the book indefinitely, and I haven't heard anything to suggest DC has changed their mind. In all his interviews, he's discussed it as if he has a long term plan in mind.
 
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