Here's the preview and a place to discuss the issue tomorrow: http://comicsalliance.com/tom-king-m...usive-preview/
Here's the preview and a place to discuss the issue tomorrow: http://comicsalliance.com/tom-king-m...usive-preview/
"The more 'realistic' superheroes become the less believable they are." - David Mazzucchelli
I liked it. Just to see some romantic lighter melodrama like this is fresh. Definitely this sort of issue (at least from this preview) has a Bronze Age vibe to me because you had these lovey dovey interlude chapters in between action arcs. Nocturna, Selina, Vicki, etc.
Last edited by JBatmanFan05; 01-03-2017 at 01:00 PM.
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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.”
I'm still disappointed at no Stephanie Hans .
King certainly has...his own way of handling the Bat/Cat dynamic and the sexual tension between them. I think other writers have had a far more natural handling of it, but I guess this fits with King's style of writing relationships.
I will never get used to the "Bat" and "Cat" thing. Just call her Selina, Bruce, seriously.
Are we going to resolve the whole "237 terrorist" thing now? Like, is Catwoman going to Blackgate for something she actually did?
I'm guessing this "night" is going to end with Bruce resolving not to bring Catwoman in, given she probably can't have "co-lead" status if she's serving a life sentence in prison, plus she was on a cover for the Bane arc.
Last edited by JBatmanFan05; 01-03-2017 at 01:59 PM.
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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.”
Last edited by JBatmanFan05; 01-03-2017 at 02:12 PM.
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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.”
I personally think it's fine to use real names if you're telling a Tynion-style bombastic, fun story. If you're trying for more realistic, then codenames make more sense, even in private moments, since they are fully suited up. The former emphasizes the characters and their relationships, the latter emphasizes the world the characters live in. This is a spectrum, of course.
I have to admit, I don't particularly hate what King's doing, but neither am I really drawn to it.
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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.”
I'm a big Bruce/Selina fan, so I love it whenever they cozy up to each other. This issue looks amazing.
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I'm wondering if King does actually any research on the villains he is putting in there. Some like Zebraman, Gorilla Boss and Amygdalla are way to powerfull that Batman could go into hand-to-hand combat with them. And some like iirc Red Monk and Gorilla Boss didn't survive their first appearance.
Last edited by Aahz; 01-04-2017 at 02:12 AM.
Remember this is the Rebirth 'verse. Those stories may not have gone down as we read them.
As for the issue i gotta say i love the team up of both tom and mitch, as well as bat and cat. Roll on next issue. I have to say Mitch Gerads art really suits batman, hopefully this will be a test bed and we get him full time.
Plus the running kite man joke was a jem.
Kite Man. Hell yeah.
(Good issue. Nice call back to Catwoman #1 lel.)
Last edited by Kurisu; 01-04-2017 at 03:40 AM.