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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 2, 2015 12:45:30 GMT -5
Well we did Supes in July. classiccomics.boards.net/thread/2278/who-supermanAnd I forgot August. But Shax's poll brought this to mind. Who is your Batman? Which incarnation works for you. The original pulp crime-fighter? The Dick Sprang nice guy fighting wonky aliens? Adam West's Caped Crusader. The Dark Knight Detective? Mr. Growly Voice from the Nolan films? Who is your Batman? And why? |
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Post by fanboystranger on Sept 2, 2015 12:54:30 GMT -5
Matt Wagner's Batman is my Batman. Very much still a grim warrior of the night, but also a competent detective with some semblance of a real life. Wagner pretty much developed an amalgamation of all the good elements of Batman over the years.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2015 13:20:47 GMT -5
Mine will always be Adam West's Batman - because I grew up watching that show when it's came on TV in 1966 - it's mod and campy feel makes me feel good and I still watch DVD of that show occasionally to relive my passion for that series back then. It was the only show that everyone in my family watched together enjoying our desserts that my Mom made for today.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Sept 2, 2015 13:22:15 GMT -5
I think my favorite is Paul Dini's Batman. Dark and gritty, but still human and capable of kindness and humor when the situation allows, and with lots of cool tech and gadgets, but not SILLY tech and gadgets.
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Sept 2, 2015 13:43:28 GMT -5
Neal Adams. It's the time period where I can actually enjoy Batman. I am not a campy fan. Corny, sure, but campy just annoys me. Adams made Batman a bit edgier, a bit darker and other artists/writers took it further from there.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Sept 2, 2015 13:47:44 GMT -5
Denny O'Neal/Neal Adams, when they turned the corner back to a more serious Batman, but before he became the "bat-god" of recent years.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 2, 2015 14:13:47 GMT -5
And I got busy and didn't answer my own question.
Batman is the reason that I'm here. Reruns of the Batman TV series are why I bought my first comic, which had Batman on it.
My Batman is the Bronze Age Batman. The Dark Knight Detective. The one who thought first instead of beating the hell out of everyone. The one who worked solo most of the time but was able to work with a team and was actually able to have friends and smile now and then. The one that was driven, but wasn't a stunted man-child that was bat-shit crazy.
He was drawn by Neal Adams and Jim Aparo and Marshall Rogers and Don Newton. He wasn't the best at everything, the Bat God who is prepared for every situation He analyzed and planned. He wasn't out buying ice cream cones in costume on a sunny day, but he clearly wasn't an urban legend. You might not have really wanted to be him...but unless you were a crook you had no reason to fear him.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2015 14:29:41 GMT -5
Whenever I read a Batman story, I "hear" Kevin Conroy's voice now. I think the Nolan films would be a thousand times better if they edited out Bale's dialogue (especially as Batman) and dubbed in a new recording of it with Kevin Conroy doing the voice acting. So I would have to say the Bruce Timm animated Batman is the Batman closest to my heart. In print, the early Batman I've read in the Batman Chronicles of Batman & Tec, the Miller/Mazzuchelli Batman of Year One, the Englehart/Rogers Batman of Tec, and the O'Neil/Adams Batman are my personal faves, but again I think the Animated Series Batman captures the essence of all those and synthesizes them into something new that is a coherent whole.
If you had asked me as a kid, it was Adam West, Super Friends and New Adventures of Batman cartoon Batman that defined Batman for me. But Batman: TAS changed all that for me.
-M
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Sept 2, 2015 15:08:25 GMT -5
Dick Sprang/Bill Finger arty surrealism. Maybe a little bit of Bob Haney and Frank Miller in there, too.
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Post by The Cheat on Sept 2, 2015 15:40:09 GMT -5
Animated series. So much so, if I had to choose between never reading another Batman comic, or never being able to watch the cartoon again, I'd pick the cartoon in a second.
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Post by Rob Allen on Sept 2, 2015 16:38:41 GMT -5
I'm with Slam - the Darknight Detective of the Bronze Age. In addition to Adams, Aparo, Rogers & Newton, my Batman was drawn by Irv Novick.
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Post by shaxper on Sept 2, 2015 19:13:44 GMT -5
Mike W. Barr understood the character best, from my vantage point. His Batman was dark enough to be the product of a violent crime that left him obsessed for vengeance, and yet he was able to largely keep it in check with a charming playfulness, especially in his repartee with the pre-Collins Jason Todd. Both characters had a serious darkness that would brim to the surface nearly once per issue, only to be buried in half-forced laughter after. Those stories could be laugh-out-loud funny or heart-wrenchingly dark. The full range of emotion was explored, and it always felt totally consistent with the character.
It was the perfect marriage of the pre-DKR and post-DKR Batman, really.
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Post by dupersuper on Sept 2, 2015 19:41:23 GMT -5
A mixture of Super Friends, Jim Aparo and Neal Adams, With Kevin Conroys voice.
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Post by Pharozonk on Sept 2, 2015 19:54:30 GMT -5
For me, it's the Batman of the 90's under writers like Dixon, Moench, and Grant.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2015 22:12:32 GMT -5
I'm with Slam - the Darknight Detective of the Bronze Age. Neal Adams and Rogers were my faves. There was a part of my life where I did like Adam West's Batman. I was about 4 feet tall back then. |
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