oh, really? One of my cousins kept saying it was one of the best comics he's ever read.
aight, ill pick that one up too
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COMICS! |OT| October 2014. Witches, wytches, and things that go GROOT in the night.
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oh, really? One of my cousins kept saying it was one of the best comics he's ever read.
aight, ill pick that one up too
It's great as a my first batman story as it has all the recognisable heroes and villians and it has pretty art. But I can agree with the guys. It's pretty basic and by the numbers. Yet I enjoy it.
whatsinaname
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Hush was one of the first Batman books I ever read. I liked it.
If you've never read a Batman comic ever in your life, it's ok I guess. It's basically my first Batman story, it has all the famous villains show up, flashy Jim Lee art, but really don't bother with it. You're wanting to read the best Batman comics, Hush is not on that list.
You dont disagree with that avatar.
ViewtifulJC
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DKR over Year One? GTFO
Gambit 1138
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Morrison is going to reference events and characters from Batman's entire 70 year history. This would also be required reading then:
Honestly those 3 are more important to Morrison's Batman than anything on your reading list outside of maybe Year One.
They changed their list. This was the original version:
25) Venom by Denny O'Neil (W), Trevor Von Eeden & Russel Braun (A)
24) Knightfall Part One Broken Bat by Chuck Dixon & Doug Moench (W), Jim Aparo, Norm Breyfogle, Graham Nolan & Jim Balent (A)
23) Nine Lives by Dean Motter (W), Michael Lark (A)
22) The Man Who Laughs by Ed Brubaker (W), Doug Mahnke (A)
21) Thrillkiller by Howard Chaykin (W), Dan Brereton (A)
20) JLA: Tower of Babel by Waid, Johnson, Priest, Ostrander (W), Porter, Scott, Pajarillo, Raimondi, Battle & Lashley (A)
19) Tales of the Demon by Denny O'Neil (W), Brown, Neal Adams, Norvick, Michael Golden & Newton (A)
18) A Lonely Place of Dying by Marv Wolfman (W), George Perez (A)
17) Strange Apparitions by Steve Englehart and Len Wein (W), Walt Simonson and Marshall Rogers (A)
16) Gothic by Grant Morrison (W), Klaus Janson (A)
15) A Death in the Family by Jim Starlin (W), Jim Aparo (A)
14) Black and White Vol. 1 by Various
13) Gotham By Gaslight by Brian Augustyn (W), Mike Mignola (A)
12) Batman Adventures: Mad Love by Paul Dini (W), Bruce Timm (A)
11) Blind Justice by Sam Hamm (W), Denys Cowan (A)
10) Hush by Jeph Loeb (W), Jim Lee (A)
9 ) Batman & Dracula: Red Rain by Doug Moench (W), Kelley Jones (A)
8 ) Dark Victory by Jeph Loeb (W), Tim Sale (A)
7 ) Son of the Demon by Mike Barr (W), Jerry Bingham (A)
6 ) The Cult by Jim Starlin (W), Bernie Wrightson (A)
5 ) The Long Halloween by Jeph Loeb (W), Tim Sale (A)
4 ) Arkham Asylum by Grant Morrison (W), Dave McKean (A)
3 ) The Killing Joke by Alan Moore (W), Brian Bolland (A)
2 ) The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller (W & A)
1 ) Year One by Frank Miller (W), Dave Mazzucchelli (A)
ViewtifulJC
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Son of the Batman is funny cuz it was out of continuity for a minute, then Morrison like misread it or some shit and kinda unofficially brought it back into continuity. Its a cool story though, very 80s action movie/James Bond thing. Quips, Henchman/right hand man, exotic locales, femme fatales, that sort of thing
Unfortunately, comixology has none of those
Gambit 1138
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Public Library. Use it
TheKaeptain
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Great analysis.
Freezasaurus
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Cheska gonna Cheska.
BuddyJoeHooker
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So should I even give Nu52 Deathstroke a try off the comixology sale?
I'm kind of predicting a Hellblazer/Constantine sale coming up and wondering if I should save my monies for that.
I'm kind of predicting a Hellblazer/Constantine sale coming up and wondering if I should save my monies for that.
They also don't have Thrillkiller Batman. So I might never get to read this wonder
Just look. I need to read this.
I've heard at least a couple times in here that this is good, but it's been prohibitively out of print for as long as I've been looking for it.
Anyway, finished up the rest of the Justice League cartoon. It was the Christmas episode (no Christmas for poor Wonder Woman!), that neat Joker/Royal Flush Gang 2-parter (though it was distracting that King was Robin from Teen Titans... and the wonders of imdb just taught me that he was also Ma-ti from Captain Planet, huh.) And then of course the finale, which was great. Now on to Unlimited!
BTW, since the question was kind of raised by watching that stuff: just how indestructible is a Green Lantern ring? And they can detach their constructs from themselves? It doesn't always have to be coming out of the ring? (Admittedly this one just happened with Green Lantern making a snowman, so nothing super serious, but I've never really thought about it before).
Have you read God of Thunder yet Cheska?
Freezasaurus
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I laughed heartily.
So you'd recommend picking up the recently solicited Dark Knight, Dark City TPB?
Would I genuinely enjoy this if I got it, or would it be more of a novelty sort of thing? I want to want it, but I have a feeling the stories would just feel really dated and I'd struggle to get through it.
Pretty awesome right?
echoshifting
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Hush is a Jim Lee pin-up book, no more, no less. It never aspires to anything more, and it never disappoints if you approach it in this way.
My wife rarely reads comics, and she LOVED Hush, it's not really "for" us I don't think. It's for people that might only ever read half a dozen major Batman arcs.
My wife rarely reads comics, and she LOVED Hush, it's not really "for" us I don't think. It's for people that might only ever read half a dozen major Batman arcs.
krypt0nian
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Coincidently it's the same people that hate Damian. Terrible people.
Freezasaurus
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It's pretty much a goofy, omgwtf-is-happening kind of book.
Pretty much, yeah.
I personally didn't really get that from it. I took it more as a satire sort of comedy rather than a lolrandom sort of comedy.
Freezasaurus
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It was less random than Batwoman ending up in outer space, certainly.
I end up in space on a regular basis. Not that unusual.
I hate when that happens. Get to see Kipp when it does though.
Cap #25: At first i thought this was going to be $4.99 donated to the Remender Image Charity Fund, everything involving Jet was pure bullshit, embarrassingly so. Remender should have had Jet fly off into space looking for her true creators. But Remender pulled the book around a bit, the
but still....that Jet stuff. Wow. Random 1/10 and then 9/10 and then 7/10.
banter with the Avengers in the mansion was endearing and then we got the super secret Hydra shenanigans.
echoshifting
Banned
Does J-Son of Spartax *ever* put in an appearance without referring to Earth as "backwater?" Is this a particularly cutting insult on Spartax or is that just all he has in the tank?
Gambit 1138
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What happens when Guardians 2 reveals who Star Lord's father is...are they going to change his origin in the comic as well? Wouldn't make sense to leave J-son when everything else about the characters has been changed. Maybe the upcoming Secret Wars/rumored reboot will help with that
karasu
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It's not very good. Save your money for Hellblazer.
Gambit 1138
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So apperantly all DC creators were told to wrap up their stories in the next 6 months: http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/10...their-stories-to-a-close-before-the-band-aid/
This jives with what I heard from a guy claiming to be an insider who said that Justice League's "Darkseid War" and Batman's "endgame" would conclude those respective runs. What do you guys think? Another reboot on the way or possible return to Post-Crisis universe?
This jives with what I heard from a guy claiming to be an insider who said that Justice League's "Darkseid War" and Batman's "endgame" would conclude those respective runs. What do you guys think? Another reboot on the way or possible return to Post-Crisis universe?
Snyder and Capullo are off the book after Endgame? Fuck that, lame DC really lame.
Serpentine
Banned
I feel bad for only now getting into Snyder's Batman, just as it's apparently ending.
this is your fault man... if only you had bought the singles as they came out, they wouldn't have to wrap it up now. What could have been...
So did I but who knows.
Blame Zero Year!
Does these arcs end around the time the next Crisis is rumored to start?
Gambit 1138
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yea around April. The "Band aid" thing is supposedly a filler 2 month crossover event while DC moves their offices from New York to Hollywood.
I just picked up a iPad Air yesterday and I'm exited to finally begin reading comics!
It's a bit overwhelming though, since I want to get into so much. House Of M, Messiah Complex, Dark Reign, Civil War, Injsutice and many Marvel NOW! runs.
For now I've settled on Uncanny Avengers to get started. Cool stuff so far.
It's a bit overwhelming though, since I want to get into so much. House Of M, Messiah Complex, Dark Reign, Civil War, Injsutice and many Marvel NOW! runs.
For now I've settled on Uncanny Avengers to get started. Cool stuff so far.
Gambit 1138
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Uncanny is good. I really recommend you check out Jonathan Hickman's Avengers and New Avengers its a great exploration of the Marvel Universe and a good sci-fi story in its own right
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