haytil
Super Freak
^Yup, I intend to make reading that and watching "Christmas with the Joker" my Holiday tradition.
Why not top it off with "Batman Returns," the Batman Christmastime movie?
^Yup, I intend to make reading that and watching "Christmas with the Joker" my Holiday tradition.
I just read TDKR, I thought it was good. I'm gonna have to read it again, because I think it deserves it.
Batman R.I.P. I thought was Ok, at best. It started off pretty good and went down from there. Nothing great.
Just picked up The Long Halloween, that'll be next after I read The Crow, and book one from Alan Moore's run on Swamp Thing.
The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, & Lynn Varley. If not for that graphic novel series, Batman wouldn't be what he is today.
Guys I need some help. I bought an amazing comic book a few years back on the airport. I was blown away by the story and its graphics. Unfortunatly I forgot to take it with me out of the airplane and it got lost. The most exciting part about this comic book was that Batman and Joker were talking to each other in the off analyzing their relation. It was just their heads and a dark backround. Batman would have always nearly the same expression, Joker would be as crazy as ever. This was so exciting I was reading it twice in the airplane. Unfortunatly I dont remember the name of the story. I am pretty sure it was a reissue, so no specific release date... Any help would be appreciated.
For christmas my Girlfriend bought me the first 50 issues of Legends of the dark knight, and my dad bought the second 50 issues (only got 114 issues to get).
Basically, upto yet, the arcs have been absolutly fantastic;
next 5 issues are Prey, heavily lauded book and hard to get, but the individual issues are 90p each on ebay.
i disagree that batman wouldnt be what he is today without it, I hated The Dark Knight Returns. Didnt like the art or the story...My favourites like I said in my above post, are from the Legends of the dark knight, in which the 1989 film inspired BTAS, which to me, made batman as I grew up with it.
Also hated Dark Knight strikes again. just hated the whole story and the art again.
The Long Halloween is superb. I actually envy you for being able to read it for the first time. Its quite possibly my favourite Batman book.
Ok, got done reading The Long Halloween, it's probably my favorite Batman story. I read it straight through. It was truly excellent.
Obviously it was a big influence on Nolan's The Dark Knight.
The ending was terrific.
I think next, after I read the Moore Swamp Thing collection, will be Frank Miller's, Batman: Year One.
I also saw Haunted Knight by Loeb and Sale, how's that?
Most people tend to think it falls far short of Long Halloween and Dark Victory.
It's not an epic like the other two are - it's a collection of 3 one-shot specials that were published as Halloween events, I think. I don't remember it being anything amazing, ground-breaking, or landmark. If you really dig Sale's artwork specifically, it's probably worth a look (since that'll be more of the same), but otherwise I'd say there are far more important and enjoyable Batman graphic novels that are worth your time.
i disagree that batman wouldnt be what he is today without it, I hated The Dark Knight Returns. Didnt like the art or the story. Also hated Dark Knight strikes again. just hated the whole story and the art again.
My favourites like I said in my above post, are from the Legends of the dark knight, in which the 1989 film inspired BTAS, which to me, made batman as I grew up with it.
So tim sale, Bruce Timm, paul dini and Jeph Loeb to me made batman; BTAS, the 3 halloween specials (collected in haunted Knight), Long halloween and Dark Victory, along with the stories i put above to me, are batmans pinnicle and defined the character to this very day.
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