Never mind.
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So this just felt like a rehashed Dark Knight Rises
Pull List:
DC: Batman, Nightwing, Red Hood: Outlaw, Detective Comics, Superman, Action Comics, Young Justice, Legion of Superheroes, John Constantine: Hellblazer, Batman Beyond, Dark Nights: Death Metal
MARVEL: Fantastic Four, Daredevil, The Immortal Hulk, Venom, Web of Venom, Dawn of X
BOOM STUDIOS: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Willow, Angel and Spike
DARK HORSE: Bill and Ted are doomed.
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Well, given the way he's sometimes treated them...no, not really. But he has certainly not typically prioritized his children in the post-Crisis era. I'm not saying never - he's had up and downs. But very often he has not. Their survival matters a great deal to him - their happiness and emotional health much less so. His mission very frequently seems higher priority to him than that.
Which was not a very good movie for the most part, IMO (and I didn't even mind the ending). Some basic premises about the set-up didn't make sense, and just thinking about some of the similarities reinforced how much No Man's Land as a premise doesn't work for me either.
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No Mans Land is a perfect example of the excesses of comic books in the 1990s. And for that reason I love it.
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Haven't read all your comments yet but I will point out that I have no idea what's going in this book. Usually that's not good but for this issue specifically, for some reason it was still an awesome read for me.
I'll go read your comments and come back to ask questions about the stuff I still don't understand.
“To the future or to the past. To a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone - to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: from the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink - greetings!" - Winston Smith
I loved the issue. The best part of course was the Gotham's upside down law enforcement world of detectives Joker & Riddler on cases for Commissioner Hugo Strange who summons evil Batman (who has Ventriloquist as his butler) to enforce Gotham's new law (that simply being the law that Bane reigns supreme).
King smartly played it all pretty straight and yet it came off as crazy (and humorous).
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Grant Morrison: “Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.”
Ok, so in Batman 74, Bruce slaps Thomas real good and climbs out of the cave where Thomas brought his wife's coffin to. Where is the story between 74 and 75? How did Thomas get back to the manor, have everything set up with Alfred as hostage, Ventriloquist as his butler, Gotham Girl as a sidekick? And then how does Bruce go from crawling out of hole in the desert to some sort of pilgrimage in the winter mountains. Where did Cat come from?
At what point does Bane take over the city? While Thomas and Wayne are in the desert?
I'm confuzzled to say the least.
Gotham Girl is awesome though.
“To the future or to the past. To a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone - to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: from the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink - greetings!" - Winston Smith
As someone who has only read about this issue, and isn't reading the title right now, why doesn't any police/military force attack? I understand Alfred is a hostage, but one life isn't worth a city taken over to any reasonable governmental body. Is there wide-scale mind-control involved - I know there are some power-player villains.I'm guessing Bane has had some hold on Gotham's villains for sometime but just made his big move.
It was 1999, yeah? So No Man's Land was not just a perfect example ... it was sort of the ultimate Season Finale of the 90s Excess. The culmination of years of crazy and constant crossovers.
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