Meandering Bat-Rants
Mar. 25th, 2010 02:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thehefnerEvery so often, I feel like I need to do a list weighing the things I love and hate about modern superhero comics, to figure out if it's really worth the emotional and/or financial investment anymore. I'm still very much in the pro camp, but damn, it's like every week, something else comes out to anger the blood.
Tony Daniel has left me cold anyway, but the revelation of Selina's new "partner"...? Good lord, and I thought his Bat!Two-Face costume was the nadir of his costume design capabilities. Why the hell hasn't anyone at scans_daily posted this so that we may sufficiently groan and rant about Daniel's foolishness?
Speaking of the horrendous Bat!Two-Face costume (which looks like Harvey cosplaying as Harley... badly), I bought all the issues of the Winick/Bagley run of BATMAN, since it would be cheaper than shelling out for the ripoff hardcover collection. And y'know what? I don't think it's that bad. Actually, I kind of prefer it to Morrison's.
I mean, okay, I'm biased against Morrison, I admit that. But what I particularly dislike about Morrison is how he's all about action and ideas, whereas Winick's BATMAN actually dealt with more internal character struggles. I noticed that some critics felt this was more "same old, same old" in comparison to Morrison's BOLD NEW IDEAS OMG (or whatever his strengths are; outside of Damian, he just leaves me cold beyond anything other than a momentary "well, that was odd and fun"), but frankly, Winick's story felt more like actual "Batman" to me, y'know?
But then, Morrison continues to be a sticking point with me. It's kind of amazing how he never fails to invoke such bitter frustration whenever I see his BATMAN work on the shelves! Today, on scans_daily, I encountered an argument between Morrison and Loeb fans as to which was the superior story: BATMAN R.I.P. or HUSH. In such a battle, no one wins. Or maybe I just especially lose.
So if we're really at a point where the two camps of Bat-thought are between the likes of Loeb and Morrison, is there really a place for fans like me? Well, even if I feel like there isn't one now, I'm sure there will be eventually. That's the great thing about superhero comics: it all comes back 'round eventually. Just as long as one's patient enough to ride the cycles out.
Until then, thank god for outlets like scans_daily. Now seriously, someone post the Catgirl bullshit. I need to vent some fan-steam.
Tony Daniel has left me cold anyway, but the revelation of Selina's new "partner"...? Good lord, and I thought his Bat!Two-Face costume was the nadir of his costume design capabilities. Why the hell hasn't anyone at scans_daily posted this so that we may sufficiently groan and rant about Daniel's foolishness?
Speaking of the horrendous Bat!Two-Face costume (which looks like Harvey cosplaying as Harley... badly), I bought all the issues of the Winick/Bagley run of BATMAN, since it would be cheaper than shelling out for the ripoff hardcover collection. And y'know what? I don't think it's that bad. Actually, I kind of prefer it to Morrison's.
I mean, okay, I'm biased against Morrison, I admit that. But what I particularly dislike about Morrison is how he's all about action and ideas, whereas Winick's BATMAN actually dealt with more internal character struggles. I noticed that some critics felt this was more "same old, same old" in comparison to Morrison's BOLD NEW IDEAS OMG (or whatever his strengths are; outside of Damian, he just leaves me cold beyond anything other than a momentary "well, that was odd and fun"), but frankly, Winick's story felt more like actual "Batman" to me, y'know?
But then, Morrison continues to be a sticking point with me. It's kind of amazing how he never fails to invoke such bitter frustration whenever I see his BATMAN work on the shelves! Today, on scans_daily, I encountered an argument between Morrison and Loeb fans as to which was the superior story: BATMAN R.I.P. or HUSH. In such a battle, no one wins. Or maybe I just especially lose.
So if we're really at a point where the two camps of Bat-thought are between the likes of Loeb and Morrison, is there really a place for fans like me? Well, even if I feel like there isn't one now, I'm sure there will be eventually. That's the great thing about superhero comics: it all comes back 'round eventually. Just as long as one's patient enough to ride the cycles out.
Until then, thank god for outlets like scans_daily. Now seriously, someone post the Catgirl bullshit. I need to vent some fan-steam.
