scans_daily: Batman: The Odyssey, Vol. 2 #3

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@ 2011-12-26 12:36 am UTC

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Batman: The Odyssey, Vol. 2 #3

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	no subject captainbellman 2011-12-26 10:53 am UTC (link)
	...Is it wrong that reading the detached madness of Neal Adams' hollow earth gibberings applied to Batman is actually much more entertaining to me than reading all that dull stuff about the Court of Owls or the ridiculous Talia vs. Batman Inc. storyline? (Reply to this)

	no subject fifthie 2011-12-26 11:33 am UTC (link)
	That the recap page manages to capture everything that's so fantastic about Odyssey in just a single page of Bruce Wayne wearing a Green Lantern t-shirt is only further proof of Adams' genius. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 4 comments) (Show 4 comments)

	no subject rainspirit 2011-12-26 04:16 pm UTC (link)
	All I was thinking was, "Oh good, Bruce Wayne finally put on a goddamn shirt." (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 3 comments) (Show 3 comments)

	I laughed out loud. sleepymax 2011-12-26 06:41 pm UTC (link)
	Haha, totally this. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject fifthie 2011-12-27 12:58 am UTC (link)
	Damn I guess you're right it's not ENTIRELY perfect. Maybe if he had the shirt only partway pulled on with the rest of his hirsute magnificence bared for all to see, crowned by the glory of a single one of his brash, yet playful man-nipples. Okay yeah that would be basically ideal. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject jlroberson 2011-12-28 12:01 pm UTC (link)
	I think Adams just got tired of drawing the hair. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject zapbiffpow 2011-12-26 11:35 am UTC (link)
	Whoa. That was...something. Something that was probably made on, well, something. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject nezchan 2011-12-26 07:57 pm UTC (link)
	It was made under the influence of being Neal Adams. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject kurenai-tenka.livejournal.com 2011-12-26 12:58 pm UTC (link)
	...they've gotta be joking with this, right? I mean surely. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 5 comments) (Show 5 comments)

	no subject turtlefu 2011-12-26 04:06 pm UTC (link)
	Nope. I believe Dan Didio's reply was that Adams had done so much for Batman they are basically letting him do whatever he wants. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 4 comments) (Show 4 comments)

	no subject kurenai-tenka.livejournal.com 2011-12-26 08:05 pm UTC (link)
	I don't suppose 'whatever he wants' is 'wildly take the piss' then? Damn. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject fifthie 2011-12-27 01:02 am UTC (link)
	"WHEN ARTISTS WRITE: THE ADVENTURE SAGA" (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 2 comments) (Show 2 comments)

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jlroberson
2011-12-28 12:03 pm UTC (link)

Oh, it goes back. There's the Continuity stuff of course, which you know from 25 cent bins and compost piles everywhere, but then there was the last DEADMAN story from the first series, which makes you beg for Bob Haney, that's how much he sucks at writing.

And he also wrote the MUHAMMAD ALI thing, but I am told the final product--which doesn't suck--was heavily edited.

This was not.

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	PS jlroberson 2011-12-28 12:04 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, and SKATEMAN. How could I forget SKATEMAN. No matter how many drugs I tried to with. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject crinos 2011-12-26 05:52 pm UTC (link)
	Ahem WHAT IS THIS I DON'T EVEN? Damn, I mean this stuff makes any given episode of Brave and the Bold look subdued and mundane by comparison. (Reply to this)

	no subject moetushie 2011-12-26 08:02 pm UTC (link)
	I keep coming back to Bruce's incredibly hairy forearms. Wow! (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject kenwyn89 2011-12-28 11:02 am UTC (link)
	Me too... you're never the only one. The man's grown a forest! (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject icon_uk 2011-12-27 12:45 am UTC (link)
	And this doesn't even include the scene of the gremlin-y things tasting Robin! (Reply to this)

	no subject beoweasel 2011-12-27 05:03 pm UTC (link)
	The artwork....the dialogue.... MY HEAD IS FULL OF FUCK. (Reply to this)

	no subject tpsreports 2011-12-27 06:12 pm UTC (link)
	Ha! Once you've read it, you can't unread it. (Reply to this)

	no subject jlroberson 2011-12-27 11:47 pm UTC (link)
	I am now convinced that Adams is fully aware how this seems and is in FACT fucking with us. (Reply to this)

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jlroberson
2011-12-28 12:13 am UTC (link)

There's someone who sometimes takes current comics and puts different, and hilarious, words in the balloons that deconstruct the comic as it goes. Is that MightyGodKing? I remember enjoying his takedown of ULTIMATUM.

He should have a go at this, whoever it is. I KNOW one of you knows who it is because I found his previous work via here.

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captainbellman
2011-12-28 10:51 am UTC (link)

That was originally him with Civil War - and he's done one-shot projects like "Countdown: Arena #1" and "Jim Starlin Presents Hawkman In Everything You Knew Was Wrong", but the Jeph Loeb parodies have mostly been the efforts of Gavok and ManiacClown on 4thletter.net.

But I really don't think they could improve this. It's self-parody to the extent that the parody emerges simply from reading the pages more than once.

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jlroberson
2011-12-28 12:07 pm UTC (link)

I'm not even sure if "parody" is the word. More like "Self-revelation." Neal Adams has never, ever been a good writer. Ever.

My favorite is how he brings people in who he acts like you're supposed to recognize because they're so familiar to HIM in his brain. Like Rueben Irons, the man who looks just like the Riddler under his...Riddler mask...who Batman calls "Rueben Blades" as well.

I bring this up because who the hell is this Sylvester person?

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	no subject superfangirl1 2011-12-28 10:23 pm UTC (link)
	I have no idea what going on? Is this suppose to be the norm for Batman: The Odyssey? :) (Reply to this)

	no subject halloweenjack 2011-12-29 01:51 am UTC (link)
	The last issue of this will reveal Bruce's conversation companion to be an old (but healthy and fit) Jim Morrison; the two of them will toast each other with wheatgrass smoothies, prior to hammering tenpenny nails with their penises while a chorus line of nude gender-switched Joker clones do a can-can in the background. After that, comics will be over. (Reply to this)

	no subject v_various 2011-12-30 09:14 pm UTC (link)
	Batman was written like Axe-Cop before it was cool. (Reply to this)

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