Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Oh, so you said McCarthy. Eh. I get them confused. Is that bad??
Changing topic.. Um.
So, has anyone seen Frank Miller and Jim Lee's new Batman and Robin line? It's only got the first issue so far, but it's a retelling of Dick's early days as Robin. The first chapter was alright, though it implied that Dick's parents were shot in the head when I was under the impression they fell to their deaths because their trapeze ropes were cut...
And I'm starting to think that Frank Miller doesn't understand Batman anymore. He seems to think of Batman as a general type, which is not really how he's been depicted in any medium except Dark Knight Returns; even Year One, he wasn't that way.
But at the end of Batman and Robin #1 Batman says to the grieving Dick: "On your feet, soldier. You've just been drafted into a war!"
That. ISN'T. Batman! Ugh. Furthermore, that's the only dialogue he says to Grayson in the whole book, and it's the last panel. SO it left a rather bad taste in my mouth. Thoughts?
Oh, so you said McCarthy. Eh. I get them confused. Is that bad??
Changing topic.. Um.
So, has anyone seen Frank Miller and Jim Lee's new Batman and Robin line? It's only got the first issue so far, but it's a retelling of Dick's early days as Robin. The first chapter was alright, though it implied that Dick's parents were shot in the head when I was under the impression they fell to their deaths because their trapeze ropes were cut...
And I'm starting to think that Frank Miller doesn't understand Batman anymore. He seems to think of Batman as a general type, which is not really how he's been depicted in any medium except Dark Knight Returns; even Year One, he wasn't that way.
But at the end of Batman and Robin #1 Batman says to the grieving Dick: "On your feet, soldier. You've just been drafted into a war!"
That. ISN'T. Batman! Ugh. Furthermore, that's the only dialogue he says to Grayson in the whole book, and it's the last panel. SO it left a rather bad taste in my mouth. Thoughts?
I always thought Miller's strength was his ear for Batman's dialogue. For me, when Miller's Batman spoke in the past in Y1, DKR, and DKSA I could hear it and say "That's the way Batman would speak". I'm still undecided on All-Star so far. The line you're talking about, for some reason didn't really affect me the way it obviously affected you. For me, it seems like the entire Bats line is gone to hell in a hand-basket with the exception of Detective. Bats used to be all I read, now I'm diversifying.
Green Arrow and Ex Machina are my current favorites, along with anything by Straczynski.