About time! (for a full read-through) - ABSOLUTE BATMAN, INCORPORATED arrives!

[Johnny Thunders!]

I keep tring to find Morrisons version of Swamp Thing by Alan Moore, nevermind his Watchmen, just a huge character defining run. It has to be Batman? I am halfway through Inc. and the absolute is gorgeous. State of the art superhero comics, that's what I love about Morrison.

[Diggy]

Man I've been waiting forever for this to reread Morrison's full run, I just wanted it to come out as a deluxe vol 2 hard copy. Not sure if I should just bite the bullet and buy this absolute or wait for a deluxe vol. 2 that may never come out.

[t hedge coke]

I keep tring to find Morrisons version of Swamp Thing by Alan Moore, nevermind his Watchmen, just a huge character defining run. It has to be Batman? I am halfway through Inc. and the absolute is gorgeous. State of the art superhero comics, that's what I love about Morrison.

Morrison's Animal Man or Doom Patrol is probably closer to Moore's Swamp Thing run, in terms of redefining a character/book.

But, I'm glad, really, if Morrison doesn't have "a Watchmen." The Invisibles or Vimanarama beat the hell out of Watchmen.

[officersmile1466]

So is this edition worth the insane cost/size? I loved Grant Morrison's run and wouldn't normally buy an absolute edition but those redrawn pages (as well as amazing alterations like that flashback) really tempt me. For what's worth I generally really loved the Inc portion of Morrison's run, even if I felt it was unavoidably damaged by the reboot, hampered by mixed fill in art and kind of ended on a slightly miserable anticlimax.

Do we know if there are any cool extras in this? I think the pre-52 Batman Inc trade has commentary from Morrison, does this version have stuff like that?

[JBatmanFan05]

I don't normally buy Absolutes (too big for my tastes), but Absolute Inc is worth it IF you're impatient (like I was!). DC may Deluxe or otherwise put the Absolute version in a smaller trade, but we just don't know and none is solicited yet, so you have to choose: Not wait (Absolute) or wait. Can't recall the extras too well...nothing too special like commentary as far as I recall.

[Miraclo__Pill]

I keep tring to find Morrisons version of Swamp Thing by Alan Moore, nevermind his Watchmen, just a huge character defining run. It has to be Batman? I am halfway through Inc. and the absolute is gorgeous. State of the art superhero comics, that's what I love about Morrison.

I got the joke you just made and it take me back several years to another boards that were beyond crazies. I can't stop laughing about it. Good times!!!

[Master X]

Looks good, but aaaaah...I was hoping with the way things were initially phrased in that article that art/writing was edited so it was basically pre-Flashpoint, with panels added/altered to feature Steph/Cass/Selena and old costumes...oh well.

[Maxpower00044]

I really wanted to buy this at some point, but I'm gonna hold out hope that the just do a deluxe version of Inc, Volume 2 with all of Burnham's Art since I already own Deluxe Inc, Volume 1.

[Claude]

I really wanted to buy this at some point, but I'm gonna hold out hope that the just do a deluxe version of Inc, Volume 2 with all of Burnham's Art since I already own Deluxe Inc, Volume 1.

I just hope, like Final Crisis, they do a New Edition standard trade paperback at some point with the new pages! I'll happily rebuy, but going Deluxe or Absolute is a bit rich for my blood!

[Maxpower00044]

I just hope, like Final Crisis, they do a New Edition standard trade paperback at some point with the new pages! I'll happily rebuy, but going Deluxe or Absolute is a bit rich for my blood!

I'd be fine with this, too. I just want those damn pages! The fill in art from the run was putrid.

[johnsmith]

I hope they release either a complete Batman Inc. omnibus in softcover, or at least a one-volume of the New 52 issues with the redrawn/recolored pages.

[Johnny Thunders!]

I got the joke you just made and it take me back several years to another boards that were beyond crazies. I can't stop laughing about it. Good times!!!

Has Grant reinvented how we see Comics? That seems to be what Watchmen did. Anyways, I enjoy many of Morrison's books as much as Watchmen.

Animal man as Morrisons Swamp Thing? Maybe, this Batman run is really something though.

[t hedge coke]

Has Grant reinvented how we see Comics? That seems to be what Watchmen did.

I don't think Watchmen did that for everyone. I doubt too much of the non-English-reading world even cared so much when it came out.

It was a watershed moment in American comics, yes. An important event in American superhero comics. It wasn't that important. But, then, I don't think it's very appealing and it came out when I was like six and I first read it at like eight or nine, so, some of that's on me and my taste.

[AUScowboy]

I was going to make a redundant comment about how great Inc was etcetera, instead ill comment on Morrison /Moore. Regardless of "who's better?", Morrison is just so much more LIKABLE as a person. Alan Moore's shitty attitude has ruined my opinion of him, not his work. Still i find myself wishing i hadn't read a lot of his interviews, i feel the exact opposite about Morrison. The guy gives one a lust for life through his work AND personality.

[Maxpower00044]

Has Grant reinvented how we see Comics? That seems to be what Watchmen did. Anyways, I enjoy many of Morrison's books as much as Watchmen.

Animal man as Morrisons Swamp Thing? Maybe, this Batman run is really something though.

Morrison's equivalent to "Swamp Thing" is definitely "Animal Man". Morrison's Batman is amazing, but it didn't change the character the ways Morrison's Animal Man did.


As far as the debate goes; they're both amazing, but I've yet to read a Morrison work that I enjoy as much as Moore's Swamp Thing (my favorite non-batman run of all time) or Watchmen. The Invisibles is a great story, but for me, it doesn't even come close to the two I've mentioned (mostly because there's a lot of lackluster art in it).