The concepts of personae and who wears what mask with Batman is fascinating, and I will always welcome more introspection on the matter! I however was anticipating the Zur En Arrh Batman figure to attack Neil again the entire video. Despite that rematch not occurring, I greatly enjoyed this!
Thanks LoneHero- I appreciate the appreciation. :) As someone who grew up watching Siskel and Ebert- I imagine only about 2% of our audience would get any of these references... but I had to do it.
@@ImperiusRex I love going back to watch their old reviews, especially for films that are now regarded as classics. They were both kinda meh over both Toy Story and Jurassic Park. I wonder if sometimes it's just the kind of day they were having that weighed more heavily on them than the film.
100%. Art is so subjective. There's plenty of great stuff that will just go unappreciated if you see it in a bad mood or something. I've always kept that in mind- if you're depressed or really feeling shitty- don't watch or read something you're looking forward to.
Just before Chip Zdarsky started this he did a 10 issue series called Batman the Knight and it was about Bruce traveling the world to meet all the people who would teach him to be Batman, apart from that he wrote some really good batman and Red Hood in the first few issue sof Batman Urban Legends but I think that's all the Batman he has wrote.
@@ImperiusRex I enjoyed it and with Zdarsky being on the main title now I think he's going to reference it a bit, I think it finished just before he started the main title.
Awesome episode! Definitely gonna be checking out the current Batman run now. Also, I could tell what book Dave was pointing at. Is that the next book club?!
Chip def comes out swinging. Curious to see where he takes it from here. As far as the next book club--- if you know what I was pointing at... you know.
Personally I find Zdarsky's run has been lukewarm so far but it's early days. I was wowed by Zdarsky's run on Daredevil right of the gate so that might've skewed my expectations. Like Newburn by Zdarsky as well. Ram V on Tec has been okay as well but I enjoyed it a bit more than the main Bat book. I do wish however, that it wasn't telling this big grandeur type story and focus on the more street level detective stuff. Not that I want Tec writers to be less ambitious with their writing but I miss the days of having the big zany adventure is on the main Bat book and Tec is an opposite alternative as a counter balance. The last time I felt truly that way was when Francis Manapul and Buccellato was on Tec and Snyder on the main Bat book. Now both are taking elements and plot threads from Morrison's run for this big nebulous story. Just my 2 cents though. I do like these two writers and the art on both of them are just gorgeous. Glad to have Rafael Albuquerque back on something ever since American Vampire ended.
Can't argue that. Always felt Detective should be street-level, but I'm always onboard for whatever Ram V cooks up, so I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt... And as for the main Bat title, I don't think you can go more bombastic than this arc, so I feel like the next couple might be dialed back a bit... Spoilers (?) I wonder if Failsafe's compassionate method of "killing Batman" might be some sort of memory wipe - teleporting Bruce to an alley with no recollection of his alter ego. Then what follows would be his journey to build himself back up from nothing. I like the idea, but it certainly feels nearly identical to Morrison and Snyder's runs. That said- this is just speculation, so it could be completely different- just my guess.
@@ImperiusRex Oh yeah, I'm on board with Ram V all the way. That does sound like a rethread of Morrisons/Synder so I hope it's different enough if they are going there. Zdarsky never disappoints me in the past so I'm hanging on. Tom King's run got a lot of flack but that was the last time I enjoyed the main Bat book.
Those clips are from an old movie-review show called Siskel & Ebert. 2 critics would debate recent movie releases and bicker with each other every week. I remember my parents had it on all the time when I was younger and it's always stuck with me.
You know what...Ebert is right, Crash is brilliant in how it depicts pornography through non-sex based things. But also Siskel is right that the sex scene are just softcore porn. My gaahd Cronenberg, Canadian genius. You know who else is a Canadian? ...Chip Zdarsky. And he's pretty great too.
Let me know if it's any good. I'm never sure on the Joker runs. Unless its a mini by a writer I follow I usually skip it. Although I've been somewhat intrigued by Tynion's.... is that worth checking out? I heard it was almost more of a Gordon book.
Im creatively frustrated with dc's current publishing. I prefer my own batman stories event ideas, gotham being turned into metropolis east for economical reasons. I have a villain idea who is the ceo of batburger and bigbellyburger: the big belly baron aka fraser mcfadess. He would plan to build a batburger at oracle's clocktower
I have actually- thanks for noticing. Earlier this year Neil and I were hitting it hard, claiming that we were going to get into the best shape of our lives over Batyear. Then I got sick, followed by Covid, followed by a 3-month show hiatus, which pretty much stopped that declaration in it's tracks. Got back at it about a month ago though- and let me tell ya- it feels good.
