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Post by fanboystranger on Aug 25, 2014 18:21:12 GMT -5
I kinda like Haney's stories. Yeah, his dialogue could be embarassing, but there was definitely a fun spirit to be found.
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Post by Cei-U! on Aug 25, 2014 18:51:33 GMT -5
Yay, yay, a thousand times yay! The Haney/Aparo Brave & Bold is my favorite comics run ever (oddly enough, #124 is probably my least favorite issue), and I'm only marginally less fond of Haney/Cardy. It was always so refreshing after reading a stack of comics that were either mindless punch-em-ups or convoluted continuity wankery to settle into a Haney B&B, knowing the odds were good that I'd get an honest-to-god *plot* and interesting characterizations along with the super-heroics.
Cei-U!
I summon the personal favorite!
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Post by chadwilliam on Aug 25, 2014 18:57:13 GMT -5
I've never actually read any of his SuperSons stuff, but I've seen enough of his Brave and the Bold material to rate him as one of my ten favorite Batman writers out there (maybe even top five).
Batman selling his soul to Hitler? Batman dying and being given one last case to work on by having the Atom jump around inside his brain? I can't think of any other writer who could even envision such scenarios let alone use these predicaments are the mere starting point for his stories.
But it wasn't just zany ideas that Haney had - he could really tell a story as well. His "Death Has the Last Laugh" from Brave and the Bold 111 had the Joker convincing Batman that he had been framed for a murder committed by a copycat, only to reveal at the denouement that he intentionally botched his MO so as to play Batman the way he wanted. Haney had another tale (from Brave and the Bold 134) in which he had Batman maintain his sanity while deprived of all of his senses (as part of a terrorist organization's attempt to brainwash him) by repeating a two word mantra - Joe Chill. I don't think any writer prior to this really treated Chill as a recurring figure within Batman's psyche - as a symbol of everything he stands against - and it was Haney who nailed it.
So "YAY" from me - from the moment I first read "But Bork Can Hurt You!" about 25 years ago now.
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Post by Action Ace on Aug 25, 2014 19:15:44 GMT -5
YAY from me
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 25, 2014 23:10:10 GMT -5
Batman dying and being given one last case to work on by having the Atom jump around inside his brain? I saw Haney on a panel at the San Diego Comic-Con in the 1990s and somebody asked him what his favorite story was. He cited this Atom story from Brave and Bold #116! (I've always liked it too.) |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2014 9:17:07 GMT -5
The man wrote Teen Titans #14. That alone garners him a resounding "Yay!" from me.
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Post by Nowhere Man on Aug 26, 2014 9:29:53 GMT -5
Have any of you read his The Comics Journal interview? Apparently Haney was quite the man. He claims to have had exotic European mistresses and to have done extensive traveling. (If memory serves.)
I'm a big fan of Haney, for the record. I think his now legendary lack of regard for continuity overshadows the fact that he was a darn good adventure writer.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Aug 26, 2014 11:55:08 GMT -5
In small doses, yay. He's a great storyteller, and he has some amazing creativity... too much, though, and you start drooling a little and shaking your head alot.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2014 12:03:16 GMT -5
too much, though, and you start drooling a little and shaking your head alot. Of course, this also applies to any number of human activities. |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Aug 26, 2014 14:46:37 GMT -5
You've mentioned your loathing for the Lost TT Annual before, but I don't recall finding anything untoward about it. It must contain a drawing of a banana. I'll have to dig it out & reread it. No bananas: JFK gets kidnapped by aliens and replaced by an alien, the Teen Titans have an inter-stellar transporter the sends them to the alien's planet just by knowing the name of it, JFK solves all their problems and returns to Earth only to find out that the alien who replaced him was the one that got killed in Dallas instead of him. So he decides the country (and his wife, kids, family, etc) would be better off not knowing, so he goes off to have alien adventures, happily ever after. And the Teen Titans are left to keep the secret, because, you know it was Kennedy who told them to, so it was all ok. That was the "Haneyest" thing I ever read. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 26, 2014 15:30:30 GMT -5
You've mentioned your loathing for the Lost TT Annual before, but I don't recall finding anything untoward about it. It must contain a drawing of a banana. I'll have to dig it out & reread it. No bananas: JFK gets kidnapped by aliens and replaced by an alien, the Teen Titans have an inter-stellar transporter the sends them to the alien's planet just by knowing the name of it, JFK solves all their problems and returns to Earth only to find out that the alien who replaced him was the one that got killed in Dallas instead of him. So he decides the country (and his wife, kids, family, etc) would be better off not knowing, so he goes off to have alien adventures, happily ever after. And the Teen Titans are left to keep the secret, because, you know it was Kennedy who told them to, so it was all ok. That was the "Haneyest" thing I ever read. True fact: Bob Haney had a secretary named Kenny D. and Kennedy had an affair with a Russian spy named Boltinoff. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2014 15:46:05 GMT -5
That was the "Haneyest" thing I ever read. I'm not sure it's any further out than any number of assassination scenarios, the Warren Report's included. |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Aug 26, 2014 15:51:39 GMT -5
That was the "Haneyest" thing I ever read. I'm not sure it's any further out than any number of assassination scenarios, the Warren Report's included. Maybe so, but in this thread we were only talking about the fantasies written by Haney. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2014 16:34:16 GMT -5
Are we sure Haney didn't have a hand in the Warren Report, then?
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Post by hondobrode on Aug 26, 2014 16:41:03 GMT -5
You've mentioned your loathing for the Lost TT Annual before, but I don't recall finding anything untoward about it. It must contain a drawing of a banana. I'll have to dig it out & reread it. No bananas: JFK gets kidnapped by aliens and replaced by an alien, the Teen Titans have an inter-stellar transporter the sends them to the alien's planet just by knowing the name of it, JFK solves all their problems and returns to Earth only to find out that the alien who replaced him was the one that got killed in Dallas instead of him. So he decides the country (and his wife, kids, family, etc) would be better off not knowing, so he goes off to have alien adventures, happily ever after. And the Teen Titans are left to keep the secret, because, you know it was Kennedy who told them to, so it was all ok. That was the "Haneyest" thing I ever read. ONG ! I've got to get that ! Where was that story ? |
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