Batman Rebirth Crossover: Night of The Monster Men | Comics Explained 

You're videos are basically very well summarised audio books of some of the best comic storylines ever written. This guy knows his shit.

I'm a relatively new subscriber but I am really impressed with both the quality and frequency of your video uploads. Great work dude.

DC has done so well with Rebirth so far. I haven't been this excited for comics in a few years. I feel like a kid again.

I came home from work all stressed out and tense. Your smooth, milky baritone voice just brings me back to chill mode. Thank you for that.

Actualy Hugo Strange did take over the mantle of Batman back in the 1970's.

DC's Retcon Storytelling Method: "It didn't happen until we say it did". My interpretation: "It didn't happen until we've written ourselves into yet another corner and need a way out".

Monster doesn't have to be supernatural. Think of all the batman "monster villains" that are the product of science. Like clayface and manbat

YESSS. ME AND MY SON JUST WATCHED ALL OF THE STAR WARS MOVIES TO DAY.

"Now, if I were Batman, I would've punched him as hard as could in the face. I would've killed Hugo Strange, no questions asked." Preach

You do a great job explaining comics. Why isn't Martian Manhunter in the Darkside Wars and new 52?

Batman goes out at night beating up criminals dressed as a bat. We also see many examples of symptoms of PTSD littered throughout batman comics over the years. If batman isn't insane, he is most definitely mentally unstable.

Rob, I've been following you for a long time now and I'd like to say that I really admire your content. Marvel Movies may have gotten me interested in comics, but you got me into the characters. Thank you for all the hard work.

Thanks Rob, really enjoying your content!

Love your videos. Definitely helps keep me up to date with the comics right now.

Damn Rob nicely done. Watched most of your videos so far. But im loving it more and more. Keep up the great work man!

U R doing way more to sell me on DC Rebirth than DC ever did.

"I would've punched him as hard as I could in the face." favorite part

You're missing out on a lot of great content, the supernatural side of DC is incredible.

this story arc was my favorite by far. You left out why Strange did what he did and that Grayson solved his riddle. The Monsters were a statement to Batman. Strange made them to represent Batman. The four people/monsters were chosen because they struggled with fear and anger. They struggled to define their egos and that struggle was what the toxins fed on to turn them into monsters. Grayson told Batman that they represented the Batmen and the struggle of Bruce from the beginning. It makes the whole story make so much sense. Gotham and Gotham girl became a terror to the city because of fear and anger. That anger was something that even overcame the Justice League. That anger had to be put down, which is what is supposed to happen to Batman, supposedly. Strange is giving us a different perspective of Batman and u don't necessarily see him as the villain here. I think the writers might be telling us something about Batman's struggle with fear and anger. But idk.

I absolutely love the fact that clay face is part of the team

I feel like Gotham is overcrowded they really need to divide the bat family up and give them different districts of Gotham like marvels street levelers. where's red hood these days? and come to think of it where's batwing?

Well narrated, Rob. Thank you

like always, you did a great job on this story telling.

I love DC rebirth. Especially the superman stories. They're so light hearted but still impact full. Superman for president 2016!

I just want to thank you for your videos they have helped me better understand the content I've been reading and know about other material im not thank you

So... This ISN'T the best thing coming out of DC Rebirth right now!!!???

23:38 batman doesnt dress in a bat suite cause he wants justice .. he dress in a bat suite because he is a control freak .. the suite give batman power a sense of control

What shampoo/conditioner is Batwoman using to make her hair flow so majestically during a HURRICANE? Because I want it, and I want it now.

I'm drunk...took a shot every time Rob said the phrase "multitude of..."

Love you channel man

Rob you're amazing keep up the great work :)

this is one my favorite channels!

Take a drink every time he says "because of the fact that"

I love this channel more videos I listen to them everyday

DC REBIRTH IS AWESOME 🇬🇧🙏🏽🙏🏽 thank you so much.

I'm not a Batman fan, but I do love the Bat-Fam. Thanks for this vid! :)

you spoiled us rob, now all i want is dc rebirth videos, but i am getting excited for the star wars videos too

Good ol doctor todhunter 😂. I wonder why he called himself that. Out here hunting Todd's 😂

Rob, your I Am Gotham finale video is missing in the "The Watchmen vs The Justice League" Playlist. Thought you'd want to get it in. Great work on all of your videos BTW! Keep on!

I used to collect comics back in the 80s and I read a comic book written before the dark knight returns where hugo Strange was trying to replace Batman, In the issue he even built an exact replica of wayne manor. Don't worry, I do not know much about comic books, but I do remember reading that very old issue, I got the issue while I was on vacation in Lake Tahoe and found the issue in a very old comic book bin.

I think this arc used Hugo Strange really well....And different. I, like you, have never seen him want to be Batman before. But that's a cool idea. As to the arc in general, great storytelling. I'm still loving the Rebirth titles!

Can you do a video on the 5th dimensional imps? Like mr. mxyzptlk and batmite?

great job bro

Looking forward to your Star Wars content

Someday, i really hope you do an episode on "Doom Came to Gotham"

Can you do Red Hood and the Outlaws Rebirth? It's been really good. A lot of people are surprise with the quality.

Hey what channel should I get into if I'm looking into the john Constantine story arcs from the beginning? Btw your channel is the best been watching your videos for years now it's all I watch to catch up on all things comics keep up the awesome work!

When you talk about acknowledging human nature and its effect as a driving element - I remember a really cool conversation I had with my dad when I was 12 or 13. He said the episodes of Twilight Zone that got to him were the ones like the bomb shelter episode, where there wasn't anything supernatural going on, it was just a reminder about the nasty side of humanity. And it's BELIEVABLE, too, because at our core we are panicky beasts. Then we talked about how the best episodes weren't about the WEIRD THING that was going on, but almost entirely about the humans dealing with it. "There's a man on the wing of this plane" isn't about the gremlin, it's about not being believed - even being punished - because the truth that we want to share is too fantastic. And while we might never see a gremlin and react in a Shatneresque fashion, we've all been disbelieved when we were telling the truth and it's horrible. And my final $0.02: I've been a sci-fi fan since I was 10 and read Starship Troopers, and if there's one litmus test for a good story it's this: can you transplant the story to a different time? Superman's origin is basically Gulliver's Travels. Kingdom Come is basically the same story as Walking Tall. You could pick up Starship Troopers and plop it down in WWII and the story wouldn't suffer for it at all. I guess I'm bringing that up because comics are chock full of widgets - Clayface mimicking police and the like - but that particular widget is just a mechanism for introducing the "former malevolent character voluntarily suffers as pennance for his misdeeds and earns the respect of those to who he is repenting" story (seen everywhere from flagellant monks to Professor Snape.) You could turn the monsters into poison gas and Clayface into a former mobster, and as long as he refused to leave a block before everyone was evacuated - boom, same solid story, difference setting, litmus test passed. idk. Widget-centric "stories" bother me, in a very "Avatar sucked, but it made me want to watch Dances with Wolves again" way.

That thing about human nature. Well put Sir Robert. Cool bro 👍

Hype for the Starwars explained crossover

First comment! Good work Rob, We appreciate your videos!

Clayface helping Batman.....jesus the time I see the day.Yeah....keep this DC.....keep this.

I would love to see you dedicate like one day a week or even a month for indie comics and comics like S.C.U.D the disposal assassin, Johnny the homicidal Maniac,Preacher, Gregory and so on.

Aw man, you’ve gotta check out Alan Moore’s swamp thing!! It’s one of the greatest series I’ve ever read!

Freaking love this series.

great series ... i finally caught up after 10 years lol

23:40 "cro-magnum" ? come on, DC, it's cro magnon.

I truly enjoyed this one, the slight mention of Hugo Strange and Venom excited me even more; in addition, I have zero knowledge on Batwoman, have you covered her individually yet?

Hey Rob, love your videos and how detailed they are. I was also a huge fan when you had your old intro to your videos. Is there any chance of bringing back or remaking that intro with the one tone track?

Really enjoyed the story

A nice simple story and sometimes that is okay.

Gonna watch this later on though

I thought this arc was really awesome in my opinion

Don’t mind me just rewatching

DC done it :) Batman is hero who adapts to his oponent, by using technology. With Cleyface and shape shifting abilty batmans speed of acomadation is much higher allmost instant. Briliant ! :)

So... basically Clayface is a living Hulkbuster armor for Batman.

Hey Rob! I really enjoyed the crossover. I'm a little surprised you didn't go into Strange using the psychology of Batman in his strategy (e.g. what each monster represents). I really liked the idea of a Psychological Thriller Batman story. P.S. I would love to hear your thoughts on Marv Wolfman's Raven mini series.

This story is so out there for me at the moment. Doesn't really feel like Batman to be honest. I'll watch this vid after I read Detective Comics 942.

Prey and Strange apparitions are some of the stories that played with the idea of Hugo Strange replacing Batman and Bruce Wayne. Be well.

interesting plot actually. I will look after it

good stuff

I think that one of the first appearances of Hugo Strange had him trying to become Batman. I may be wrong but I heard of a similar story happening in the 1940s or some time like that. If that's true, that's a nice callback

This arc was decent and all, but I especially look forward to what DC's hinting at as far as Psycho Pirate's role in all this. If you read Grant Morrison's Animal Man (which you definitely should if you haven't), we know that the Pirate has gone mad by his awareness of the various crises and reboots that DC's undergone over the years. Although he hasn't had much influence in the continuity until lately, the Pirate's knowledge could definitely prove useful to Ozymandias/Dr. Manhattan if they plan to spark a new crisis in order to remake the universe in their image. I'm thinking that Bane is going to be the final link to the Watchmen mystery as he currently has the Pirate in his possession.

nice vid

Batman + Clayface = BATFACE xD

this video is very very interesting

This story seemed more to be an homage to the 1940 Batman #1 Hugo Strange and the Mutant Monsters where Hugo Strange uses a serum on prisoners he escaped with to accelerate their growth to towering, giant, monsters. Batman attempts to stop him, only to be captured himself, injected with the same serum and has to create an antidote, stop the monsters, only to find that Hugo Strange has mysteriously vanished. A lot that happened in this mini story line echos from the original story in 1940, minus the part where Hugo wanted to take over the mantle of the Bat, believing Batman inadequate, which was again taken from another moment in Batman history in where the two fought each other in a replica of the Batcave, both in Batman uniforms, in 1983. The Monster Men was just fleshed out in part differently and as an homage for Rebirth.

There you go Rob you should do a History on Hugo Strange. This way you'll do some research on the character and find out about all the times he's dawned the cape and cowl

To me Batman is insane but he's the kind of insane you want on your side.

Batman Prey in the Legends of the Dark Knight 11-15. Hugo Strange wanting to be Batman.

I really like nightwing in this story

I would be very interested in seeing videos about the watchmen universe. I didn't even know that it connected with dc! I read the original watchmen story arc of course... it's classic.

Dont forget Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy was also a rise to fame

thanks rob from a proud member of the rob core

showing up every Tuesday and Sunday

Monster men is Hugo Strange dawg. Not supernatural, but i love dc's supernatural stuff. Love Zatanna, love Klarion, Etrigan, Constantine, Swamp Thing, Sandman, etc...:)

I would like to see something on Swampthing I understand it's not your cup of tea but he is really slept on.

Rob...simply put it your the fucking man! I only wish nightwing would have the same intricate stories but everybody knows nightwing will never have his name spelled as knightwing cause he would have to be as brilliant as batman with the detection, science, and technology. He will always be a beloved batman family member with a degree in sidekick Studies, and Weak Enemies Criticism. What to do with him? The Batman Family is in fact Batman. I hope they build some other story with Clay face and Grundy the Grey, it would be super interesting too. Great job homey love the insight...Peaacee!!

Do you have any plans to take a look at anything from Dark Horse or Imagine Comics?

what ever you do I'm sure it's going to be great.

I live the first two issues of theirs other was ok last one power rangers thing we're in it and it went crazy there

Hugo Strange has partially cancer replacing Batman is considered being the new Savior and that whole since they was in this story but not as a Batman

liked a lot.

Every superhero operates outside the law. All of them. Having powers doesn't change vigilantism. Superman fights criminals and he's not a cop or a soldier.

I seriously want to read a lot of these Dc Rebirth stories because I like Dc and Marvel, but Dc Rebirth is really cool. All New All Different Marvel is also cool though and has some good stories.

Can you do a series on Batman: Plague/Cataclysm/No Man's Land? It really was such a great series.

I thought this arc was "meh" to be honest, i can see the appeal but it's not my type of story. Would've been much better if they gave Dr Hugo Strange more emphasys.

hey are you going to do the History of Dc Universe🙍🙍

Rob you haven't done Green Arrow's first story arc.

Hugo thought he was batman for a bit