Batman #75

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[jlbarnett]

the dialogue and the concept here is attrocious

[cygnia]

Is he talking to Luthor?

[aperturedreams]

Yes

[joetuss]

So at what point does Superman, or the Justice League decide to clean this whole thing up?

[caivu]

It's mentioned in this section on another page. Bane just says that he can keep them out by force and "mercy to innocents." No, it doesn't make a lick of sense.

[matrix_dragon]

Yeah, I call bullshit. Even with this nonsense about everyone somehow believing Batman went crazy over Bane and abandoned him? The moment you've got villains moving in and setting up shop openly like this, the response would be 'whelp, Bruce is gonna be rightfully smug. Especially since he had plans for something like this.'

And then Bane, embarrassment to mexican wrestling, finds himself five thousand feet in the air, being held up by an unimpressed Superman as the League and Batclan sweep the city and remind us that criminals are a superstitious and cowardly lot who do not do well in the open. Not to mention things like the Joker play poorly with others.

Also, good grief Bane, see a real Doctor about that throat infection!

[lego_joker]

You mean like they did during No Man's Land? Or Contagion/Legacy? Or Bane's big debut back in Knightfall?

LBR, if the Justice League gave half a damn about Gotham, it wouldn't even need a Batman.

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[dcbanacek]

Well said.

[nyadnar17]

I can't think of any words that beat this post.

[deh_tommy]

I normally like Bane being treated as more than just a big lunk, but not like this.

[janegray]

All I'm getting out of this is that Tom King watches Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Which, fair, it's a good show.

[shadowpsykie]

King is writing this and the Bat/Cat simultaneously?

also bet the batclan is gonna be all.. ok... you were right...

except for slapping red robin...

[mazway_75]

Say what else but the panel of the guy's expression when he realizes he's been pulled over by Killer Croc is priceless.

[starwolf_oakley]

Who is that with Firefly?

Bane can be hard to put into a story post-KNIGHTFALL. "No Man's Land" made the most sense, with Lex Luthor offering Bane the coutry Santa Presca.

[beyondthefringe]

The other Firefly. Or maybe it's Lady Firefly.
Or maybe it's Firebug?
All I know is there's like, two pyromaniac Batvillains.

[dr_archeville]

Joker & Riddler working together? Wasn't there a whole "War of Jokes & Riddles" thing where they were at each other's throat? Oh, right, they're being mind controlled.

That's Doctor Phosphorous in the car with Mad Hatter, yeah? Isn't Dr. P intensely radioactive?

[icon_uk]

I think his radioactivity is a controlled thing, and mostly came up in his Starman appearances.

[mizerous]

Bane: As you can see I've put a lot of thought into my re-enactment of the Dark Knight Rises.

[lbd_nytetrayn]

Kinda missing good-guy Bane right about now...

[thanekos]

If you like Batman as a set of character traits, and stories for what they are on their own, you might or might not like this run.

If you like Batman as an average of your preferred canon with plenty of fanon wedged in, and stories to explicitly answer every " But why? " question, you might but possibly won't like this run.

(In the latter case of the latter, you might find satisfaction in fandom spaces, reiterating informal proscriptions.)

[deh_tommy]

As a story on that's own, I think some of the arcs in this run can be okay.

Even then, though, they make constant references and winks/nods to past stories, so that's kind of hard to keep the story standalone when a lot of them rely on said past stories to exist and/or work. Say what you will about Brian Azzarello's Wonder Woman, but that had the excuse of being a continuity reboot and was almost completely self-contained. When you introduce outside elements into your story, like Booster Gold or the Justice League or whomever, you open a big can of worms that's tricky to close without feeling like a cop out.

And taking THAT away, I still feel like most of the run is a mediocre slog of purple prose, repetitive and stilted dialogue and drawn out filler (here's a drinking game: take a shot every time you see the words Bat, Cat, Broken, I Am or Diamond(s)).

[ap0cryphal]

Every time I see stories like this I wonder - what kind of people would willingly live in Gotham, the way it's presented? Every day/week/month is No Man's Land.

The city as analogous to e.g. Chicago, or Baltimore doesn't ever really work, because decaying institutions and infrastructure are survivable - not easily, but survivable.

But Gotham seems less a city and more a collection of crime alleys, what with mass-murderous supervillains running amok every week.

[scorntx]

Maybe the people of Gotham are just all ludicrously predisposed to stubbornness, not just the Batfamily.

[starwolf_oakley]

For most of the 1990s, it seemed Batman going out each and every night was the only thing preventing Gotham City from falling into criminal anarchy.

And then No Man's Land happened, and Gotham City fell into criminal anarchy.