tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3651058317830668643.post1122099477825686353..comments2024-03-26T19:52:25.909-04:00Comments on PT Dilloway: Don't Miss Thursday Review: Batman: KnightsquestPT Dillowayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09394481476862013009noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3651058317830668643.post-2215580212108374542013-04-04T17:58:00.808-04:002013-04-04T17:58:00.808-04:00I'm going to miss Ebert's reviews a lot. I...I'm going to miss Ebert's reviews a lot. I felt like a truly wonderful man had left us today when I heard the news. It's just awful.Michael Offutt, Phantom Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10557969104886174930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3651058317830668643.post-38777806971612618982013-04-04T17:56:45.183-04:002013-04-04T17:56:45.183-04:00I've tried it and I don't like comics on t...I've tried it and I don't like comics on the tablet. I don't know why but it's just not the same experience as reading a book.<br /><br />Plus to tell you the truth, the art in most comic books has really gone down hill. It used to be that you'd have tons of panels (like 8) per page and a lot of content.<br /><br />Now comic books don't have as many pages and they'll have maybe two panels per page or mostly just one.<br /><br />I don't like it. I feel like I'm getting gypped out of a story by having them string it along to sell more issues. It's part of the reason I abandoned comics. I think it's hard to get your money's worth anymore.Michael Offutt, Phantom Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10557969104886174930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3651058317830668643.post-38390231468356057192013-04-04T17:49:11.574-04:002013-04-04T17:49:11.574-04:00Holy neutronium, I think its time for the utility ...Holy neutronium, I think its time for the utility belt!SpacerGuyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05575342869714342370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3651058317830668643.post-81907024757449570622013-04-04T16:30:39.210-04:002013-04-04T16:30:39.210-04:00Yeah, I agree with your points about how Azrael wa...Yeah, I agree with your points about how Azrael was designed to fail. I read somewhere he was meant to parody the gritty unstable anti-hero that was popular in the nineties, a way of saying how horrible these anti-heroes are and how great Bruce Wayne is in contrast. But those razor-bats Azrael used were pretty sweet. Shing! Shing!Nigel G Mitchellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01587936933402372050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3651058317830668643.post-36003961167644610602013-04-04T16:26:54.363-04:002013-04-04T16:26:54.363-04:00Incidentally it's sadly ironic now that in thi...Incidentally it's sadly ironic now that in this review I mention how the Joker kills Siskel and Ebert in one issue and it turns out to post on the exact day Roger Ebert dies. Funny how life works out. (I had actually written the review a week or so ago so maybe I had a premonition...probably not.)PT Dillowayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09394481476862013009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3651058317830668643.post-90604267863152247992013-04-04T16:24:32.441-04:002013-04-04T16:24:32.441-04:00Really, you can read comics on that newfangled tab...Really, you can read comics on that newfangled tablet of yours so you don't even have to go to the comic book store to buy them.PT Dillowayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09394481476862013009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3651058317830668643.post-83946898302824216602013-04-04T16:10:43.542-04:002013-04-04T16:10:43.542-04:00Well written review. I don't much read comics ...Well written review. I don't much read comics anymore but you make we want to change my mind. I prefer just watching animated series.Michael Offutt, Phantom Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10557969104886174930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3651058317830668643.post-33639006597218852262013-04-04T15:43:56.342-04:002013-04-04T15:43:56.342-04:00Maybe judge Dredd could team up with Batman and ex...Maybe judge Dredd could team up with Batman and excise judgement on these criminal types after they're caught. <br /><br />And if you google something then you've already lost the battle for knowledge. At this point I'm not sure how that's possible, but I'm apparently the guy who believes that now so... Rusty Carlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09887821877521181811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3651058317830668643.post-18110754997565398622013-04-04T14:47:41.592-04:002013-04-04T14:47:41.592-04:00Jean-Paul Valley was designed to be the opposite o...Jean-Paul Valley was designed to be the opposite of Bruce Wayne, so that you appreciated Bruce Wayne that much more, someone who had seen crazy s...tuff and not turned out crazy himself.<br /><br />As for killing someone like The Joker, yes in an ideal world he would have been executed (even if you don't think execution fits in an ideal world), but he's also clearly insane. How much is he really responsible for his actions, even when he seems rational and calculated when he commits them? The ultimate Joker story would finally explain the character, but then you'd have readers who wouldn't understand how he could still be entertaining as a villain after that. By the way, someone described as a genius like Doctor Doom is exactly the same way. He's insane. It's maybe time Marvel, I don't know, admitted that?Tony Laplumehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07854455859399339169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3651058317830668643.post-15304606905549663302013-04-04T12:19:24.335-04:002013-04-04T12:19:24.335-04:00I hate to side with Frank Miller, but that part of...I hate to side with Frank Miller, but that part of "The Dark Knight Returns" where Batman finally kills the Joker (rather gruesomely) actually made sense. I mean you've been fighting that guy for 30 years and he's killed how many people? Thousands? At that point it's just common sense that if you hand the Joker to the cops he's just going to break out again and wreak more havoc.<br /><br />And (spoiler alert!) when Jean-Paul "kills" Abbatoir it's actually the same philosophy Christopher Nolan used in "Batman Begins" where he didn't directly throw Abbatoir to his death, but he didn't try to save him either.<br /><br />When the Scarlet Knight gets pissed off enough at criminals she never actually kills them; she just breaks a few bones to put them into the hospital for a few months. Then they might have second thoughts before returning to crime.PT Dillowayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09394481476862013009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3651058317830668643.post-82242305694094583282013-04-04T12:07:13.281-04:002013-04-04T12:07:13.281-04:00A while back I had a debate with The Boy about whe...A while back I had a debate with The Boy about whether Batman and Iron Man were basically the same superhero. What separated them was that Iron Man was all gadget. You never got the idea that Tony Stark was worth anything on his own. He probably couldn't punch his way out of a wet paperbag (a/k/a Gwyneth Paltrow's personality.)<br /><br />(Ba dum bum!)<br /><br />So now Batman has rocket launchers and flamethrowers and isn't so much the Ninja-ish assassin-turned-good envisioned in the first of the Christopher Nolan movies, or the detective-with-gadgets that Batman was for so long, but is simply a darker, more depressed, but less alcoholic Iron Man. <br /><br />I mean, that's fine if that's what you want for a superhero, but I thought the appeal of Batman was that he was a detective, and a great fighter, and that he hung in with Superman and Wonder Woman et al not by virtue of having Space Bat Armor but by virtue of being so freaking smart and physically disciplined.<br /><br />Of course, that's the take that Christopher Nolan showed, too, maybe without meaning to do so: from the first movie (whose name I can't remember and per Offutt/Rusty I'm not supposed to Google stuff or I'm admitting defeat or something) where Bruce Wayne learned how to fight for real, without gadgets, to the last, where Bruce Wayne basically helicoptered the bejeezus out of everything. That was true for "The Dark Knight Returns," too, but at least there it made sense: Batman made the supersuit specifically to fight Superman. He didn't use it to beat that weird kid in the dump.<br /><br />So I think something is lost when Batman just flamethrowers people. It's like when Coke decided to chase Pepsi. <br /><br />As for the rest of your review: seriously? Just kill people? The problem is not Batman not killing people without due process -- you realize you're suggesting letting a deranged unstable assassin decide to execute criminals, rather than trying the criminal -- the problem is that the society Batman lives in in the comics is so incapable of taking care of its prisoners that they keep escaping. So I take with a grain of salt your suggestion that superheroes just kill people, assuming it's not meant for real-world situations, but even in comic world situations, superheroes are a response to supervillains, an escalation of the justice system from regular cons vs. regular cops to supercons vs supercops -- but to suggest that different rules should apply to the supers vis a vis justice and due process would seriously distort the world they are presenting.<br /><br />Which, as I think of it, would be fascinating. OKAY, let Batman kill anyone he wants. Has there ever been a storyline where some superhero did that and the others had to try to bring THAT superhero to justice?<br /><br />If there hasn't, then maybe the Scarlet Knight ought to come out of retirement!Brianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01616494058636881575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3651058317830668643.post-24873072920969337442013-04-04T11:56:56.904-04:002013-04-04T11:56:56.904-04:00I've never read the Azrael run, but I've n...I've never read the Azrael run, but I've never heard of anyone rooting for him. Way to root for the underdog Pat.Maurice Mitchellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15338165486757095191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3651058317830668643.post-49099841077176168262013-04-04T11:25:44.219-04:002013-04-04T11:25:44.219-04:00You're admitting to us that you've lied on...You're admitting to us that you've lied on your blog? How interesting!stephen Hayeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17659054447637207734noreply@blogger.com