So, so good. I've been reading Grant Morrisons work on Batman over the last few years only sporadically, but I'm suddenly possessed with this desire to find and consume all of it all over again.
It's so good.
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Showing posts with label batman. Show all posts
Wednesday, 9 September 2009
Comics Stuff: Grant Morrison's Batman & Robin #3
So good.
So, so good. I've been reading Grant Morrisons work on Batman over the last few years only sporadically, but I'm suddenly possessed with this desire to find and consume all of it all over again.
It's so good.
So, so good. I've been reading Grant Morrisons work on Batman over the last few years only sporadically, but I'm suddenly possessed with this desire to find and consume all of it all over again.
It's so good.
Saturday, 11 July 2009
Alex Recommends Comics! Morrison & Quitely's Batman and Robin
Hey! Happy 400 posts everyone! Let's look at comics again!
That is a picture of Robin (as in Batman and Robin, yes) getting kicked into a wall by a siamese triplet martial artist. "SMASH". It's from the second issue of Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely's new Batman and Robin comic book. You can't buy it in actual, regular, non-niche bookshops at the moment, it's still being published as floppy issues and only two have come out so far, but I'd hazard a guess that once it's collected it'll be one of the finest Batman stories in a heavily oversaturated field.
I don't want to get geeky about this (n.b. this is a lie, I absolutely DO want to get geeky, but my self control is... just astonishing, I'm like fuckin' Ghandi or something) but this is a book in which Batman himself... doesn't actually appear. This is about someone else taking up the Batman name while Robin is the real Batman's psychotic son. And of course, normal service will eventually be resumed, but this book is so good at the moment that I'm not really looking forward to that. Reading this comic for me was sheer comic book joy - no scratch that, sheer joy. Everything is wonderful, the action and the pacing, the toying with the coventions of the medium, the characters and dialogue... Morrison and Quitely are so at the top of their game that they are the game. That barely even makes sense, and it sounds like something Fiddy Cent would come up with, but I don't care. This is amazing.
That is a picture of Robin (as in Batman and Robin, yes) getting kicked into a wall by a siamese triplet martial artist. "SMASH". It's from the second issue of Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely's new Batman and Robin comic book. You can't buy it in actual, regular, non-niche bookshops at the moment, it's still being published as floppy issues and only two have come out so far, but I'd hazard a guess that once it's collected it'll be one of the finest Batman stories in a heavily oversaturated field.
I don't want to get geeky about this (n.b. this is a lie, I absolutely DO want to get geeky, but my self control is... just astonishing, I'm like fuckin' Ghandi or something) but this is a book in which Batman himself... doesn't actually appear. This is about someone else taking up the Batman name while Robin is the real Batman's psychotic son. And of course, normal service will eventually be resumed, but this book is so good at the moment that I'm not really looking forward to that. Reading this comic for me was sheer comic book joy - no scratch that, sheer joy. Everything is wonderful, the action and the pacing, the toying with the coventions of the medium, the characters and dialogue... Morrison and Quitely are so at the top of their game that they are the game. That barely even makes sense, and it sounds like something Fiddy Cent would come up with, but I don't care. This is amazing.
Wednesday, 7 January 2009
What did you buy over the holidays Alex?
I bought:
A T-shirt that came in a miniature shoebox.
A Batman: The Dark Knight toothbrush with logo embossed cover.
A novelty webcam of Medama Oyaji from GeGeGe no Kitaro.
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