@DeepFriar: Okay, I know Morrison referenced this particular Batman panel once already during his Invisibles letter column days, but somebody *somewhere* has got to have this issue and be able to provide us with a decent quality scan.
If this ever surfaces, I forsee a new internet meme on par with "The Goddamn Batman."
Is it weird that I just kept on reading my usual DC series (GL, GL Corps, WW, JLA) and honestly had no idea that Final Crisis was going on? I guess it's partly because the issues sold out quickly, so they weren't lying around when I wandered into the local comic shop and they weren't on my pull list. And partly because I just could not force myself to feel excited about Yet Another Massive Comic Event.
(but man oh man am I fired up for Blackest Night!)
The pacing of Final Crisis reminded me a lot of The Wire, and since I'm one of those people when it comes to The Wire, I'm rather fond of it, but it is obtuse as fuck and nowhere near as mind blowing as Seven Soldiers. This is another case of reprinting the material in a different order than was published; I'm most pleased to have the single issues of all of 7S so I can read it in mini-series order, which helps things out tremendously in making sense of it all.
A note on the collection and pricing: I'm no fan of this pandering to the big boys' publishing industry with putting out the pricy hardcover edition first, but at least there's some value here: Forty dollars worth of comics at cover price plus extras for 29.99 isn't bad, as these collections have become.
@Alasdair5000: I love the Legion so anything Legion related I will always recommend. I'm a big fan of Vril Dox the leader of the Rebels. He's the son of Brainiac and just a bad ass.
Is it the past or is it the future? Will Bruce make himself a God among cave men and cause a paradox that ripples to the future. Or will he just kick Tigerman ass next to Kamandi the Last Boy (wonder.)
@Paul_Is_Drunk: What about Matter Eater Lad or whatever his name was? Sounds like everytime you see him pop up in a new iteration of LoS you know exactly what story is coming next, and exactly how it will turn out for him. Also, Bruce's parents. I'd say Grayson's family as well, but sometimes they skip over him completely and go straight to Tim Drake for Robin.
Gah, even in prehistoric times he's still obsessed with bats. Let it go already, Bruce. Jeez.
Next thing you know, he'll have to fight a cheiftan of a neighboring tribe, the chieftan will get hot lava splashed on one side of his face, and/or, he'll have to fight a trickster from a neighboring tribe who will get attacked by a raptor, which slices his face into a permanent smile.
@Smeagol92055: God, yeah. Bats like, totally probably didn't evolve yet. He's gonna have to be Pterodactylman, which isn't quite so catchy or easy to spell.
@Smeagol92055: Well, it's Grant Morrisson, so it'll revolve around prehistoric batman attuning himself to the ancient bat-spirit that crawls and squirms at the heart of the earth, and yearns for justice. And that bat-spirit will be the sworn enemy of the interdimensional creature Jo'Kar, who years to flood chaos into our realm, and twist the living rocks and stones of our world into the alien maggots of chaos!
@Smeagol92055: Y'know, now that I think about it, this would be a great opportunity for Batman to really mess with continuity. I mean, he's there at the beginning.
He could go dig up Doomsday and find a way to launch him into space, thus screwing up the timelines around Superman.
@Smeagol92055: Ehhhhhh, Batman is actually his own great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather. There we go. Ouroboros.
@crashedpc: No, that's just Grant Morrisson. He likes to write about other dimensional things because it lets him cram lots of pretty adjectives together and paint word pictures.
First, that is not Superman. That is Bruce Wayne. Catching on now? That's Bruce Wayne disguised as Superman holding Batman.
But that isn't Batman that Superman (Batman) is holding. That is hyper-foam extruded instant skeleton matrix that Batman created so he could appear to be holding his own corpse.
My name is Bruce Wayne. I was shot by an Omega Beam and woke up in 1973. Am I mad, in a coma, or back in time? Whatever's happened, it's like I've landed on a different planet. Now, maybe if I can work out the reason, I can get home...
I'd love to see a story arch where gruff and modern 'super-criminologist' Batman suddenly finds himself fighting crime in 1970's Gotham alongside the goofier 'let's check out the museum of giant novelty instruments' Batman.
07/01/09
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07/01/09
I can't keep up with this stuff.
07/01/09
Eh. My cult leader told me the sun sucks. So yeah, fuck the sun.
07/01/09
If this ever surfaces, I forsee a new internet meme on par with "The Goddamn Batman."
06/10/09
(but man oh man am I fired up for Blackest Night!)
06/10/09
A note on the collection and pricing: I'm no fan of this pandering to the big boys' publishing industry with putting out the pricy hardcover edition first, but at least there's some value here: Forty dollars worth of comics at cover price plus extras for 29.99 isn't bad, as these collections have become.
06/10/09
I guess I'm one of the few that thought SS just fizzled out as the story came to a close- and DAMN was Klarion an annoying character.
02/10/09
Dammit, you guys where is the Heroes review? I want to bitch and moan.
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02/05/09
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02/05/09
No one stays dead in comics, except Uncle Ben. (Coming next week, Uncle Ben!)
02/05/09
What about Matter Eater Lad or whatever his name was? Sounds like everytime you see him pop up in a new iteration of LoS you know exactly what story is coming next, and exactly how it will turn out for him. Also, Bruce's parents. I'd say Grayson's family as well, but sometimes they skip over him completely and go straight to Tim Drake for Robin.
02/05/09
Next thing you know, he'll have to fight a cheiftan of a neighboring tribe, the chieftan will get hot lava splashed on one side of his face, and/or, he'll have to fight a trickster from a neighboring tribe who will get attacked by a raptor, which slices his face into a permanent smile.
QUOTE ME ON THIS, PEOPLE.
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He could go dig up Doomsday and find a way to launch him into space, thus screwing up the timelines around Superman.
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BATMAN IS A CAVEMAN. BATS LIVE IN CAVES. THAT WHY HE IS CAVEBATMAN.
There, now go ink that for me, thanks.
01/16/09
01/15/09
First, that is not Superman. That is Bruce Wayne. Catching on now? That's Bruce Wayne disguised as Superman holding Batman.
But that isn't Batman that Superman (Batman) is holding. That is hyper-foam extruded instant skeleton matrix that Batman created so he could appear to be holding his own corpse.
Anyway, I hope this helps.
01/16/09
01/15/09
1) He did die but is revived via Lazarus Pit, which makes him unstable and unwilling to trust himself to put the cape and cowl back on.
2) Final Crisis jumps to the new parallel universe where a Bruce Wayne exists, but he never became Batman.
We shall see. He may be dead, but he's not gone.
01/15/09
I'd love to see a story arch where gruff and modern 'super-criminologist' Batman suddenly finds himself fighting crime in 1970's Gotham alongside the goofier 'let's check out the museum of giant novelty instruments' Batman.