Comments on: Batman Earth One: rebooting the bat

By: Dan Hibiki

Dan Hibiki — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 19:54:00 +0000

hmm… The Penguin as mayor, or Rob Ford… i’d vote for big nose.

By: Snig

Snig — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 01:50:00 +0000

I liked mac and cheese when I was a kid. I now also like sushi, fresh greens and nice reds, but they don’t interfere with my steady love of mac and cheese. This was a good book, I’d also recommend the Long Halloween.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 21:08:00 +0000

Lots. Many lawyers are financial failures.

By: Noah Kuttler

Noah Kuttler — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:56:00 +0000

BTW, outside of the main Batman title, I should also have put honorable mentions for Meltzer’s Identity Crisis. Morrison’s JLA and Waid’s JLA. But I figured I’d just stick to the Batman title.

By: Noah Kuttler

Noah Kuttler — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:06:00 +0000

Two things:

“…it offers a very good entry to the series for people who haven’t followed it closely until now.”

With respect, it’s actually a horrible entry point into the series. It’s a good story, but it’s a horrible entry point because it does not align with any of the current monthlies or any of the pre-52 continuity. If you liked this book and walked into a comic book store and wanted more of this Batman, you’re out of luck. Earth One books ship yearly. So you’d have to either purchase new 52 material (different Batman) or older continuity books (different Batman from that different Batman). Not to make this too confusing, but it kinda is.

“It’s got me excited about Batman comics for the first time in 20 years.”

Personally, I’ve found Scott Snyder’s Black Mirror and his current New 52 run quite compelling. And if we go back in time a bit, Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale’s Long Halloween, Batman: Under The Hood by Winick and the entire Grant Morrison run all had plenty of interesting things to say about the character. This is but one of many good bat stories. The great thing about comic books is the number of voices that participate in providing their perspective on the characters.

By: JIMG

JIMG — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:32:00 +0000

great idea!!!! i still have my Plastic Man collection, as well as The Metal Men..

By: JIMG

JIMG — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:26:00 +0000

i thought that Jack Napier killed his parents!!!!

By: JIMG

JIMG — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:19:00 +0000

you ever see a “poor” lawyer….

By: mccrum

mccrum — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 02:07:00 +0000

Actually, I think that last version is the one I like the most. I’m kind of getting tired of his parents biting it in the first five minutes of every movie. Seriously, in every movie.

By: tsol

tsol — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 02:24:00 +0000

Kyle Baker did a a few years ago. He’s no Jack Cole but he did a very creditable job with more humor (real humor) than anyone since Cole.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 21:52:00 +0000

Green Arrow is the very rich Oliver Queen.

By: TheMudshark

TheMudshark — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 17:28:00 +0000

This comic could seriously be freaking hilarious.

By: Charles Dayton

Charles Dayton — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 04:07:00 +0000

Cant we all just….. reboot Plastic Man! Now there was a comic book with a great sense of humor, and no one has touched it!

By: Halloween_Jack

Halloween_Jack — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 01:50:00 +0000

I totally agree with “reboot fatigue.” If the big twist in this version is that, as is implied by the first page above, young Bruce is somehow responsible for his parents’ murder by leaving out the back of the theater rather than the front, then I’ll pass.

By: Halloween_Jack

Halloween_Jack — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 01:43:00 +0000

I would read the shit out of that comic. I’d give it to everyone on my Xmas list.

By: Halloween_Jack

Halloween_Jack — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 01:42:00 +0000

Don’t forget the variations on the murder of Bruce’s parents where it’s not Joe Chill, but the future Joker (as in Tim Burton’s first movie); you could also make the killer Ra’s al Ghul, or a very young Harvey Dent, or maybe even an time-traveling ex-sidekick making sure that Batman exists. The gunshots, the bodies on the pavement, the grim young boy vowing revenge. Over and over and over again.

By: eldritch

eldritch — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 00:07:00 +0000

Why do comic books still exist in this day and age?

Seriously people, you’re all internet savvy. Go read webcomics.

1) There are many thousands of them available in most major languages.
2) They don’t suffer the artistic limitations and constrictions inherent to actual print comics.
3) They’re not reboots of reboots of reboots of cliche characters that are three quarters of a century old to begin with.

…and 4) They don’t cost you a cent!

By: breadteam

breadteam — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:52:00 +0000

What is the percentage of comic book readers over 13 that like this terrible style of coloring? This style of coloring where everything is reflective is just awful. I cannot read any comics that look like this because they are visually repulsive.

Is it really just me who feels this way?

By: technogeekagain

technogeekagain — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:04:00 +0000

If you have to show the gore… (A) it ain’t good writing, and (B) it ain’t Batman.

(Not that I disliked the Dark Knight concept — but that wasn’t Batman either, and I was really annoyed that they didn’t have the courtesy to change the name when they changed the character.)

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 19:59:00 +0000

The Watchmen actually represented a pretty wide spectrum, income-wise. Ozymandias: Pretty much the richest guy on the planet. Night-Owl II: Bruce Wayne on a somewhat tighter budget. Night-Owl (original): Working class retired beat cop/car mechanic. Rorschach: Penniless slum-dweller raised by a single mother who worked as a prostitute. Dr. Manhattan: Gods don't use money.

By: dolbonner

dolbonner — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 19:19:00 +0000

What I enjoyed most about this was the reboot of the origin of Harvey Bullock (even though it was suspiciously close to a character from one of my favorite movies, but it was an awesome character so I didn’t care).

By: Luke Temple Walsh

Luke Temple Walsh — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 19:06:00 +0000

Yes! And the Joker could be his nemesis in really trivial ways, like he parks his car close to the pick up’s bumper blocking it in in a way that stops Batman’s pick up from getting out easily. This is going to be big, I know it.

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 18:59:00 +0000

I like the lost kitten storyline. That’s a good way to work in Selina Kyle’s character.

By: Luke Temple Walsh

Luke Temple Walsh — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 18:56:00 +0000

Yes. I like the idea. I sort of see Batman still in costume, but like soft material like in the very old black and white serials, and he just walks or drives a black pick up truck, slowly, safely, and he has an office where people come to ask for his help finding their lost kittens, or to work out why the milk didn’t get delivered today. It should be paced like The Straight Story.

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 18:40:00 +0000

Maybe someone could do a reboot where Gotham is a small, picturesque midwestern town full of sunshine and rainbows. The Joker regularly performs at birthday parties and Bar Mitzvahs, and Mr. Freeze is just the guy who drives the ice cream truck.

By: Luke Temple Walsh

Luke Temple Walsh — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 18:30:00 +0000

“presents us with a Gotham that is out of control, corrupt, dark and glorious.”
Right. So it’s a totally new wrinkle then. I would be more interested in seeing a Batman comic strip that shows the scene where (is it?) Joe Chill kills Bruce’s parents, over and over again for 500 pages, but each one in a different drawing style. Talking of style, I don’t like the style of of the book’s drawing shown here at all. Insipid.

By: flosofl

flosofl — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 18:15:00 +0000

Daredevil?

Isn’t his whole origin story about a kid in hell’s kitchen that gets horribly blinded by a toxic spill? His father a run down boxer that throws fights for a living? The same kid that then grows up and runs a law firm that caters to his old neighborhood and is constantly on verge of bankruptcy? That Daredevil?

Yeah, that just SCREAMS 1%.

(unless Marvel’s fucked with his character in recent years, which is possible I suppose)

By: Brian Huntington

Brian Huntington — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:34:00 +0000

In the best Daredevil stories (early to mid-80s), he’s pretty broke. Is he rich now?

By: William Joseph Dunn

William Joseph Dunn — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:31:00 +0000

So far Scott Snyder’s run has been fantastic. I think Snyder is writing some of the best monthly Batman stories since Denny O’ Neil was writing Bats.

By: Conan Librarian

Conan Librarian — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:19:00 +0000

I never liked DC or Marvel. I prefer the smaller more imaginative shops.