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Batman & Robin competition time: Call in the Lads
An interesting aspect in the reading and long-term appreciation of superhero-comics, one of few nearly unique to the genre-medium, is the impact that a single image of a single character can have. Few...
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Batman & Robin #7: the annocommentations
Bob: This is not only the best issue of B&R yet, but the best single issue of Morrison’s batman run by some margin, and as dense and full a piece as he’s written since Seven Soldiers #1, with which...
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So that’s who Dr. Hurt is. Oh. Cool.
Barbatos for those of you who haven’t wikied or summoned him already is a demonic badass, commanding legions of lesser fiends, a la the assassins in this issue. I like the bit about commanding animals...
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Return of Bruce Wayne #2, the amycommentations
PAGES 1, 2 & 3 One of the reasons Morrison loves working on Batman, even if he doesn’t know it himself, is because the character’s rapid response time, both intellectually and physically, suits...
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Criminology
It’s probably an unbelievably bad idea to take DC marketing dept. at their word, but anyway. They have a difficult job, I guess. Und so! Vorwaerts! The initial idea for this was a liveblog, but that...
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Batman 700: Zom’s thoughts
A quick preambulatory moan: Oh the art, the art was as ever a big problem. I’ll let the lovely chaps over at Comics Alliance fill you in on the specifics, all you really need to know is that the...
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Batman says “yes” to POPCRIME
In Batman 700 Morrison threw out a particularly juicy idea, that the bat-foes of 50s and 60s were pop-criminals. Morrison being Morrison he didn’t explain the concept any further so here’s a few of my...
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Some jottings about Batman, Inc.
Originally I thought the better batmobile Grant’s been building was a metaphor for a new Bruce Wayne, which it is, but I didn’t give any thought to what that would mean… Probably some sort of fusion...
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Return of Bruce Wayne PLUS: Barbatos!
Right, so, Barbatos, the demon that’s been haunting the fringes of the batbooks since Hurt’s first appearance, the ultimate source of bat-evil and by inference the cause of everything bad that’s ever...
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Caped Crusader vs Dark Knight
‘thing is, i know we at mindless ones don’t really feel the need to justify these things or to bother kicking the argument about the way they might at, say, funnybook babylon, but i think the answer...
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Batman and Robin #16 (quick annocommentations)
PAGES 2 & 3 Despite it’s apparent literalism – a giant bat – Barbatos’s manifestation is suitably odd and morrisonesque (I wonder how he was described in the panel notes). The fractal fuzziness...
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If you flinch. If you shudder. You will not survive: Return of Bruce Wayne 6...
Zom: From a cave in Nanda Parbat to an old haunted house on the road out of town, and onwards to a better Batmobile. Let’s go! Amy: Some quick preamble before we get into this. I admit to being as...
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Batman the Return + Batman Inc = Alpha Adapter
In which I throw up some random, barely organised/edited thoughts about a couple of comics TO BEGIN WITH: So Grant Morrison has found a way to facilitate one of those scene shifts that’ve been such a...
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Batman Incorporated #3: Annocomments (pp1-3)
bobsy: My own and only objection to how Batman Incorporated is proceeding, amidst so far a hat-trick of rapid high impact 21st century superhero comics, is the slight familiarity of the beats as the...
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Batman Incorporated #4 annocommentations
Before we get into this. Zom constantly upbraids me for caring about such things, but I’m just too irritated by the internet’s monthly refrain of ‘it was too all over the place’, often followed by...
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Batman sixty-seven
A bit battered, spine ripped right off, but still – 44 years of existence, mine for a mere seventy-five pee. Batman Annual 1967. It’s all reprint, but the cover looks like original art commissioned in...
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Batman Incorporated: Leviathan Strikes! annocommentations part 1
For some reason, probably because I found the Chief Man of Bats issue so meh and the following one bloody awful, and because I was in the Isle of Man, I didn’t pick up this, ahem, *special* (way to...
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Batman Incorporated: Leviathan Strikes! annocommentations part 2
Um…. For some reason, probably because I found the Chief Man of Bats issue so meh and the following one bloody awful, and because I was in the Isle of Man, I didn’t pick up this, ahem, *special* (way...
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Indigo Batman: Leviathan Prime
1. Endtroducing Flashback to 2011 and the world is ending. Again. The signs are easy to interpret now, when they require any interpreting at all: a news anchor blathers away on TV, building up so much...
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Batman Incorporated Volume 2 #6
Script by Grant Morrison. Art by Chris Burnham and Nathan Fairbairn. DC Comics. NO JOKER. [The term 'Batman' here simultaneously refers both to both the well known character/intellectual property...
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