Comments on: Batman Begins http://www.girldetective.net/?p=218 Reading, Writing, Movies and Mothering in Minneapolis, Mostly Mon, 11 May 2026 22:58:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Mickey http://www.girldetective.net/?p=218&cpage=1#comment-2867 Mickey Fri, 29 Jul 2005 06:29:28 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=218#comment-2867 I re-read Year One after seeing Batman Begins and to my mind Year One has aged better than Dark Knight Returns. Although Year One doesn't pack the same punch that a righteous Batman-kicking-Superman's-ass sequence does, as a Batman story Year One just works better. BTW, have read most of the books on the top-25 list. Gotta say I wasn't too crazy about Arkham Asylum and The Cult. Loved Hush and Gotham by Gaslight. Having re-read The Long Haloween and Dark Victory, thought they owed more to The Godfather movies than to Batman. Killing Joke was one of the first Batman stories I read after rediscovering comic books so despite its flaws, it's still one of my favorites. As for Blind Justice, the story is interesting, but the atrocious art just makes it difficult to read. I re-read Year One after seeing Batman Begins and to my mind Year One has aged better than Dark Knight Returns. Although Year One doesn’t pack the same punch that a righteous Batman-kicking-Superman’s-ass sequence does, as a Batman story Year One just works better.

BTW, have read most of the books on the top-25 list. Gotta say I wasn’t too crazy about Arkham Asylum and The Cult. Loved Hush and Gotham by Gaslight. Having re-read The Long Haloween and Dark Victory, thought they owed more to The Godfather movies than to Batman. Killing Joke was one of the first Batman stories I read after rediscovering comic books so despite its flaws, it’s still one of my favorites. As for Blind Justice, the story is interesting, but the atrocious art just makes it difficult to read.

]]> By: G. Grod http://www.girldetective.net/?p=218&cpage=1#comment-2808 G. Grod Wed, 22 Jun 2005 02:15:33 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=218#comment-2808 Here's a list of the 25 best Batman graphic novels. http://comics.ign.com/articles/624/624619p1.html? I haven't read all of them, but to tell you the truth I don't think The Cult or The Killing Joke were that great. Oddly, I didn't realize Killing Joke was Moore. Loved Arkham Asylum, though. Didn't realize that it was Morrison. Maybe I should have started paying attention to the authors earlier in my comic book career. Anyway, you aren't as heretical as you think. Here’s a list of the 25 best Batman graphic novels.
http://comics.ign.com/articles/624/624619p1.html?
I haven’t read all of them, but to tell you the truth I don’t think The Cult or The Killing Joke were that great.
Oddly, I didn’t realize Killing Joke was Moore.
Loved Arkham Asylum, though. Didn’t realize that it was Morrison.
Maybe I should have started paying attention to the authors earlier in my comic book career.

Anyway, you aren’t as heretical as you think.

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