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Or Morrison. Or... um...
Morrison is pretty good!
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Yet somehow they both do suck!
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Bendis doesn't suck..his storytelling technique doesn't work for all stories though..I liked the first 50 issues of ultimate spidey...powers was good while i read it and new avengers is great...
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Whatever you say, Oakley.
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Just because judd winick is a fucking AIDS propogandist, doesn't mean that Bendis sucks also.
Actually Bendis does suck.
Pick a good example....Like say Brian K. Vaughn.
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I haven't read that many of his comics, but he is good.
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His matches malone story in batman was one of the best bat stories in ten years..
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Bendis doesn't suck..his storytelling technique doesn't work for all stories though..I liked the first 50 issues of ultimate spidey...powers was good while i read it and new avengers is great...
I actually really liked his Daredevil run, though it reads a lot better in TPB than individual issues. I also liked Torso. A lot of his other stuff, however, is too slow paced even for my tastes, and I usually prefer the slower paced stuff.
He and Millar are the two most overhyped and overrated writers out there, in my opinion.
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Bendis's Daredevil is probably one of the all time greatest runs in comics.
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ultimate sis good and a few of bendis'things are good..they aren't morrison or moore though..not even close..i think millar is still mad that his best loved stories were ghost written by morrison..hahahahahhah
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His matches malone story in batman was one of the best bat stories in ten years..
I agree with Pig Iron.
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I on the other hand can't agree with anything that anybody says. Especially when they agree with me!
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I got the comic (Batman 638) and read it today. Although I hate that DC continuously brings back the dead and I hate that they desecrated the sanctity of killing Jason Todd - the bigest thing to happen to Batman since his parents' deaths - I liked it. I like it for one reason and one reason only: Jason got to get revenge. He got to beat the fuck outta Joker with a goddamn crowbar. THAT's funny. That's what Babs never got to do. Just for that bit right there, I'm cool with it. That was damn fine.
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babs should get to rape the joker for revenge!
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That's a pretty fucked up and stupid reason, especially considering the way the book characterized Joker.
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That's a pretty fucked up and stupid reason, especially considering the way it characterized Joker.
Well, seeing as he's fucked off to a nunnary to brood over his loss of power in Gotham since he was kicked about by Hush and seems to be on the downswing of his semi-permenant Manic, I'd say they were trying to establish a new mental state for Joker. Like it or not, it's happening. They revealed his fucking origin, fer chrissakes. And after the awkward-ass way he was made to act in the storyarc Hush, this seems to be playing out somewhat logically, IMO.
Last Laugh he gets all riled up to take out the world 'cause he's gonna die. Then he gets killed (like that's never happened  ) by severe beating and rec... brought back alive. Then he gets in cahoots with Hush to try and make Batman kill him without doing anything wrong (at that point in time) = beat the fuck up. Then someone gives him his past in solid terms, there's a guy and he killed Joker's wife and kid = outlet for dealing with Joker's origional 'one bad day' and revenge for his former self's emotional distress. = no longer the prick we know and love, Joker just got to do something about life's ultimate joke. He got to turn it around and get a sort of justice out of it.
As much as I hate that story, it did a shitload to open up for character changes. It's like the controversy about Joe Cool and Batman. Joe Cool's death could have (if it weren't for the need to sell the comics) destroyed The Bat-Man. He could have found reason to give up vigilante justice and join the police force. He could have decided 'oh fuck, we are both killers' and quit alltogether for a life of brooding without the escapades on the rooftops. Lots could have happened and there's buckets of innane internet chatter to back that up (DCMB had a couple threads about it pre-MB-crisis).
Back on subject, now Joker is open to basically any kind of new mental or emotional state a writer could desire. He's an open book. Just like when Harley was first introduced, this is new territory for the Joker's character. Only, unlike with Harley, this new change is regarding the core of his dementia. So when Hush comes and challanges Joker and kicks him down, they decided to swing Joker from manic to depressive. He's not the same guy anymore - they made that blatent when he strips off his suit and wanders back to his past to live. Not a pretty sight and not at all what I would have wanted in a billion years, but it happened. And it's something I've decided to come to terms with in order to continue enjoying comics. So when Jason Todd returns and tracks Joker to his pity-party in the old amusement park and beats him up with a crowbar, kicking the man while he's down as justice for Jason's life-ending adventure with Uncle J, I find it almost poetic in hjow gleeful it is that finally someone gets one in on the impervious Joker.
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Whether or not it's correct to current continuity (which, inexplicably, is totally ignorant of the not retconned continuity that came before it--That, BTW, this current cont. still uses as its backdrop) is not the concern. Joker is a horrible stupid dumbass character now. A fucking joke. Exactly what he didn't want to be ever again. They killed a good thing--Leiberman killed a good thing, and Winnick decided to procrastinate. That's not something I can enjoy especially since his change was, actually, unabbreviated and unsubstantiated in the first place.
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Like I said, I've decided to come to terms with that since there's nothing I can do about it and like reading Batman comics. So that is not my issue. It's not like I don't still have all my good Joker comics. And they seem to want everything in the Bat comics to change (even quality!).
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And in that rite I think you've sold out. I don't change my tastes according to the writer's whim, I likes what I likes and I don't tolerate what I don't likes or else the writer will get the idea that he's shitting gold when really it's just regular ol' shit.
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babs should get to rape the joker for revenge!
With a crowbar!
No! No! With a wheelchair!
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Sellout schmellout. I quit reading Batman comics and realized, 'I miss reading Batman comics.' So I'm buying them again. I don't like what they do a lot of the time, but it's still, at the core, one of my favorite characters.
During the Hush run I wanted nothing but to read a Batman comic I liked. So, for a long-ass time, I've been working on just that. Two thirds of it are posted on my website, the rest will be there sooner or later. I learned a couple things during this time. I suck at writing, that's the first thing. The other thing - continuity is boring. I mean the nit-picky bits. I don't want to research through my comic collection to decide what kinda underwear to make Green Lantern wear. Major continuity is valuable, but if I didn't read or like the story I didn't use it. Three, static characters are good for starting out because you know who they are and they fit and you can be lazy while writing them. It would take a good writer to make a progression in the character - even if it makes a lot of us mad because it's a fucking stupid progression. Sometimes it works. I like how they made Penguin be just Oswald Cobblepot. I like that Catwoman doesn't wear an ugly purple unitard and I like that she finally got a damn haircut. I hate that they've neutered Joker's character but thems the apples.
It's just one world in the comics I love. This is just Batman. I have a bunch of series of comics that are pristine and beautiful in their stability of character. Those series stopped at the right time. Batman never stopped. Although it would be nice and would feel wonderful to always pick up a Batman comic and have everything the same as always, there would be no writers willing to work like that. It's stupid. I still wish they'd put in more one-shots because those are better than any story arc I have ever read, but maybe someone will do those again in the future. They didn't stop the Batman franchise so it has to move onward. We have the ability now to buy and save our favorite comics. They will always exist. That doesn't mean we should always have the same thing. If Kelly Jones and whoever the fuck wrote for him were on Batman forever I would shoot myself. Things happen and I'm sure Batman will turn once more towards my tastes sometime in the next ten years or so. In the meantime I'll just enjoy what I can out of what they are producing and find my comic thrills and amazement in the other books in other 'universes.'
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I'm not nitpicking shit Uschi. These comic characters are no longer the ones that I fell in love with. I'm not saying change is bad, but if you're gonna do it, make sure you be smart about it and make sure you're not changing the wrong things--Not to mention support your changes with the previous character. There's nothing about them that I like or are similar to what I liked, which is why I started reading them. And as far as I can see, that's pretty much the case with you and you're putting up with it just to see a guy in a Bat-suit. You're not even using Mxy's backdrop here (story).
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I'm not nitpicking shit Uschi.
Oh, don't get me wrong, I wasn't implying anything about your comments with that. I was mostly thinking DCMB and myself.
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Me either. It really crushed me when they destroyed Joker. It was the last straw and my enjoyment of Batman comics will mever again reach such levels as it has for the previous whole of my life.
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I'm not saying change is bad, but if you're gonna do it, make sure you be smart about it and make sure you're not changing the wrong things--Not to mention support your changes with the previous character. There's nothing about them that I like or are similar to what I liked, which is why I started reading them. And as far as I can see, that's pretty much the case with you and you're putting up with it just to see a guy in a Bat-suit.
Yeah. I know. But that is the way it is and, like I mentioned, there isn't a fucking thing I can do about it. And there's no reason for me to give up because of a storybook. The Batman comics used to be my life. Now they're just an entertaining distraction. I can't afford to put any stock in a bulk-rate comic so I won't anymore.
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Ummmmmmmmmm you lost me here.
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Just clarification. These changes aren't microscopic like GL's underwear. They're HUGE changes based on blatant mistakes. Even so, the psychology within the Bat books should not be passed over like so much worthless jargin. It's important enough to the whole purpose of the characters to go over with a fine tooth comb.
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Ummmmmmmmmm you lost me here.
Eh. Inside joke. He'll know what I mean. It's irrelevent.
Anyway.....Fine. But you're bein' all dumb n' stuff.
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Just clarification. These changes aren't microscopic like GL's underwear.
I know that. It was just something I realized while attempting my own full-legnth comic. Again, I was refering to the DCMB and myself in that.
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Anyway.....Fine. But you're bein' all dumb n' stuff.
Yeah? Well you're a stupid fat-head.
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*obligatory "get a room" post*
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Kay fine. I'm gonna go eat breakfast. So fuck off.
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I'm starting to believe what someone once said in a letters column, that the only comic book characters that stay dead are Bruce Wayne's parents.
At least I knew how to kill Batfreak repeatedly with a more sadistic style, and even though Stupidman ended my reign, he absorbed Batfreak's bitter aftertaste and therefore had to get a therapist.
Never send a comic hack to do a psychopath's job.
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Ladies and gentlemen, hobos and tramps! Cross-eyed mosquitoes, and bow-legged ants! I come before you to stand behind you. To tell you a story I know nothing about.
One bright morning, in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back, they faced each other, drew their swords, and shot each other. If you do not belive this lie, it's true! Ask the blind lady on the corner! She saw it, too!
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They killed Barry Allen. They villified and killed Hal Jordon. They killed Maxie Zeus. They forgot Garfield Lynns. They destroyed Joker. They've retardified Scarecrow. Some of them have even defamed Batman's character. DC is nothing but an entertaining distraction, any merit I found inherent in the books I first read and enjoyed has been raped of it's beauty. It's a collection of storybooks starring my favorite pajama guy. Why make it into anything more? Why expect anything more? It's just comics. Not art, not literature, just comics.
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Holy crap on a cracker ... Rex and I FINALLY AGREE ON SOMETHING!!! THE WORLD'S COMING TO A FUCKING END!!!!
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What do we agree on? Seriously, I don't know what post your commenting on.
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Because he's a goddamn villain. He killed those guys.
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