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Post by DubipR on Jun 29, 2014 9:19:29 GMT -5
My favorite Batman one-shot....  Mignola with PCR.... -M The first official Elseworlds! I remember buying that in a B Dalton's bookstore when it came out. Probably in the Top 5 Batman Elseworlds stories
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Post by DubipR on Jun 29, 2014 9:23:08 GMT -5
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Post by DubipR on Jun 30, 2014 8:13:37 GMT -5
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Post by Jesse on Jul 2, 2014 15:51:03 GMT -5
The Complete Batman TV Series remastered in HD to be released in November!
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Post by Hoosier X on Jul 2, 2014 22:16:13 GMT -5
I got Frank Miller's "The Dark Knight Strikes Again" from the library and read most of Book One on the bus on the way home. It's a lot of fun! I've heard mixed things about it, but I'm really liking it so far.
It's been a long time since I read "The Dark Knight Returns." I read the original series as it came out. At a friend's house. I've never owned my own copy and I don't think I've ever read the whole thing since the 1980s, but I remember it very well. Great stuff. A little over-rated, not in my Top Ten Batman Stories list, but great writing, great art nonetheless.
I'd forgotten how much I liked Carrie Kelley. She's pretty cool as Catgirl. But there's so much to love about DKSR.
I'll be reading it over the next few days. I hope it's all as good as the first part.
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Post by Action Ace on Jul 2, 2014 22:44:57 GMT -5
The Complete Batman TV Series remastered in HD to be released in November! my DVD collection will be complete |
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Post by Action Ace on Jul 2, 2014 22:48:16 GMT -5
Best Batman one-shots anyone?  |
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Post by travishedgecoke on Jul 3, 2014 16:23:55 GMT -5
Does anyone know whose idea it was, originally, for Barbara Gordon to run for Congress? Several people handled the comics and it happens out of order and in a confused fashion (her dad was running according to dialogue, but her picture is on all the campaign posters with the "The Miss who Can't Miss!" slogan, among other things). Every so often, that just kinda bugs me like any other shared story that gets mixed up in the execution. I got Frank Miller's "The Dark Knight Strikes Again" from the library and read most of Book One on the bus on the way home. It's a lot of fun! I've heard mixed things about it, but I'm really liking it so far. It's been a long time since I read "The Dark Knight Returns." I read the original series as it came out. At a friend's house. I've never owned my own copy and I don't think I've ever read the whole thing since the 1980s, but I remember it very well. Great stuff. A little over-rated, not in my Top Ten Batman Stories list, but great writing, great art nonetheless. I'd forgotten how much I liked Carrie Kelley. She's pretty cool as Catgirl. But there's so much to love about DKSR. I'll be reading it over the next few days. I hope it's all as good as the first part. I get the impetus behind the hate for DKSA, but I'll never agree with it. It's just so ridiculously fun. And many of the superheroes get better showings, they're bigger, louder, stronger, braver, and more heroic, than almost any of their other appearances ten years before or after DKSA was released. Who thought Atom would look that badass or the very Objectivist Question could make a comeback alongside an aggressively liberal Green Arrow (who's making time with a much younger pop singer dressing like his old girlfriend) and it'd be boss? In an era of "Hal Jordan's a genocidal drunk!" and "Hal Jordan's not evil, he was just stupid!" Miller and Varley kinda come on with this very up front "Hal Jordan is the shit! Hal Jordan saves the Earth." |
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Post by Hoosier X on Jul 3, 2014 16:54:12 GMT -5
Does anyone know whose idea it was, originally, for Barbara Gordon to run for Congress? Several people handled the comics and it happens out of order and in a confused fashion (her dad was running according to dialogue, but her picture is on all the campaign posters with the "The Miss who Can't Miss!" slogan, among other things). Every so often, that just kinda bugs me like any other shared story that gets mixed up in the execution. I have the original issues of Detective where Babs is running for Congress and I'll take a look at them later tonight. I think there's a reason for Babs taking over her father's candidacy, but I can't remember what it is.
I got them about three years ago off eBay and I liked them a lot when I read them (Don Heck art!) but I haven't read them since. Will get back to you.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jul 3, 2014 23:17:16 GMT -5
I have Detective Comics #422, #423 and #424 and these are the last three issues for a while where Batgirl was the backup. I don't have the issues right before these (I have #418) so the storyline might have been going on for a few issues.
In #422, Babs is helping out her father, Commissioner Gordon, in his election for Congress. It seems that a party that Gordon calls "the Fusion Faction" nominated him and he felt like he should run even if he doesn't really want the job.
Babs meets an ex-con she knew in high school and he thanks her for helping him with his parole. (It seems she used to have a thing for him, but she's over that now. She still wants to help him go straight.) But he steals her security card for the library's special books section and he's in a gang that's going to steal Edgar Allan Poe's original manuscript for "The Gold Bug." She stops him as Batgirl, and angry Babs goes to Gordon and takes off her mask, revealing her identity to her father. Then she says:
I want to run for Congress in your place! You admitted you don't want the job! And it's the only way I can really fight crime -- prevent it -- through prison reform! Legislation -- law that creates order ... not disorder! Well, Dad -- What do you say? So it's a cliffhanger as the unmasked dominoed daredoll waits for Gordon's answer! Written by Frank Robbins. Art by Don Heck. |
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Post by travishedgecoke on Jul 3, 2014 23:36:58 GMT -5
I have Detective Comics #421, #423 and #424 and these are the last three issues for a while where Batgirl was the backup. I don't have the issues right before these (I have #418) so the storyline might have been going on for a few issues.
In #421, Babs is helping out her father, Commissioner Gordon, in his election for Congress. It seems that a party that Gordon calls "the Fusion Faction" nominated him and he felt like he should run even if he doesn't really want the job.
Babs meets an ex-con she knew in high school and he thanks her for helping him with his parole. (It seems she used to have a thing for him, but she's over that now. She still wants to help him go straight.) But he steals her security card for the library's special books section and he's in a gang that's going to steal Edgar Allan Poe's original manuscript for "The Gold Bug." She stops him as Batgirl, and angry Babs goes to Gordon and takes off her mask, revealing her identity to her father. Then she says:
I want to run for Congress in your place! You admitted you don't want the job! And it's the only way I can really fight crime -- prevent it -- through prison reform! Legislation -- law that creates order ... not disorder! Well, Dad -- What do you say? So it's a cliffhanger as the unmasked dominoed daredoll waits for Gordon's answer! Written by Frank Robbins. Art by Don Heck. I think that's after we've already seen her campaign in the main Detective (and/or Batman) stories, though. Then, when it's dealt with in the backups, it's Jim's first, then hers. That's where I'm confused. (I'm also confused why, in my head, one of the campaign posters has to do with Barbara "Boots" Gordon, for other reasons.) It's possible I'm just adamantly misremembering the order, too, of course, but it seems like someone else planted the seeds then Robbins did the story, or Robbins had the idea, others seeded it, then he did it. I dunno. Thanks, though. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Jul 4, 2014 0:03:10 GMT -5
I don't have any of the issues of Batman from this time period but the campaign storyline runs through the next two issues and Babs is elected in #424. Then she's not in Detective Comics for a while, she shows up here and there, she gets a regular feature in Batman Family and when that's canceled, she moves back into the back of Detective during the era of gigantic Dollar Comics as of Detective Comics #481. Early in that run (which is about 1978 or 1979), she loses her seat in Congress. (I don't have that issue, but I have an issue where she mentions losing her seat recently).
I can't find "The Miss Who Can't Miss" slogan in any of these issues of Detective, but there's a bunch of chanting and slogans about Babs "Boots" Gordon. (This kind of stuff is why I love Detective Comics above all other comics. 881 issues of awesome material!)
"Boot the rascals out-- Elect me!" says Babs.
"Give 'em the Boot! Give 'em the Boot!" the crowd chants.
Send the Boot to Congress!
Get out the vote -- to Boot 'em out!
Stuff like that.
(The Batman stories - also by Frank Robbins, with art by Bob Brown and Dick Giordano are very good! Nifty little done-in-one stories. There's also short 1950s non-super-hero reprints that are all pretty cool!)
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Post by Hoosier X on Jul 4, 2014 14:04:09 GMT -5
IFC is showing a special Fourth of July 1966 Batman TV series marathon right now!
It's going until 5 p.m. (Western time) so you got a few hours to go.
Aunt Harriet ROOLZ!
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Post by Action Ace on Jul 4, 2014 15:08:04 GMT -5
The weird thing about Batgirl for Congress is that the US Constitution states you must be 25 to be elected to the House. I never thought of her being that old.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jul 4, 2014 15:20:29 GMT -5
The weird thing about Batgirl for Congress is that the US Constitution states you must be 25 to be elected to the House. I never thought of her being that old. Boots Gordon has good genes.
And remember, she was a librarian. She had to go to college for a few years for that.
Admittedly, she was probably just barely old enough to be in Congress.
Send the Boot to Congress! And Boot 'em out!!
(I'm thinking of changing my sig line to something Boots Gordon-related.)
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