Batman #204
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Batman 204-205, 206, 207
Tonight we've got an army of blind men, a thieving hippie-American Indian stereotype jazz trio, a bomb in a bouncy ball, a litany of luscious alliteration, barrels of pun, and Batman getting the death penalty! SOUND LIKE FUN!? LET'S GO!
Batman #204
Batman #204
Monday, June 21, 2010
Apology, Spider-Man vs. Batman, Batman 86, 112, 113, and 156 and why I'm skipping up to #204
Hey, I kinda fell off with this huh. It's because those old issues of Batman are tough to read man! But! They taught me a lesson about comics by being so.
If I had started a project to read every issue Amazing Spider-Man, I'd probably never have missed a day, and the reason why is that the Merry Marvel Method of storytelling was a MASSIVE game changer! The difference between Marvel Comics (especially Spider-Man) and everything else at the time was that ol' Stan knew how to develop a supporting cast! Spider-Man almost out of the gate has Aunt May, Flash Thompson, J. Jonah Jameson, Betty Brant, Harry Osborn, and the whole Fantastic Four as associates and they all have their own stories that happen along with Spidey's adventures. Batman on the other hand is almost completely static because he doesn't really have a personal life or a continuous narrative until DC takes notice of how well the Marvel formula works (and a certain giant of comic bookery named Denny O'Neil takes the bat-reigns.)
Now, with all that, I'm going to straight up skip ahead to Batman #204, the first issue where Batman left the nutso sci-fi stories of the 50s and early to mid 60s behind. But before I do that, I'll give you sort of a greatest hits of said stories, and these are mostly ones that Grant Morrison brought back during Batman RIP.
If I had started a project to read every issue Amazing Spider-Man, I'd probably never have missed a day, and the reason why is that the Merry Marvel Method of storytelling was a MASSIVE game changer! The difference between Marvel Comics (especially Spider-Man) and everything else at the time was that ol' Stan knew how to develop a supporting cast! Spider-Man almost out of the gate has Aunt May, Flash Thompson, J. Jonah Jameson, Betty Brant, Harry Osborn, and the whole Fantastic Four as associates and they all have their own stories that happen along with Spidey's adventures. Batman on the other hand is almost completely static because he doesn't really have a personal life or a continuous narrative until DC takes notice of how well the Marvel formula works (and a certain giant of comic bookery named Denny O'Neil takes the bat-reigns.)
Now, with all that, I'm going to straight up skip ahead to Batman #204, the first issue where Batman left the nutso sci-fi stories of the 50s and early to mid 60s behind. But before I do that, I'll give you sort of a greatest hits of said stories, and these are mostly ones that Grant Morrison brought back during Batman RIP.
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