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Jul 3, 2015 - 8:53 AM
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Jim Phelps
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The more I watch this wonderful series the more I feel the DID do the right thing with the West show. Apart from the total nostalgia emersion I have when watching an episode (just finished first disc of Season 2), I love the fact that they're not taking themselves too seriously. I've had to get to my 50s to feel this way. Once upon a time I was wishing a 'serious' version of my fave comic character would come along.
Now that they are getting ever more depressing it's nice to watch a Batman when fun was not a dirty word.
That said, the cowl looks ok on the new film, and they seem to be giving us the comic book coloured Batman with the grey body/blue-ish black cowl and cape. Don't mind the silly robo-suit if it's a 'special mission' outfit. But I hate the fatbat! Why do they have to redesign the insignia EVERY TIME? Ok, I know. They each have to make their mark on the franchise somehow.
Disco Stu, iirc you are quite the Batman comic fan, particularly of the '70s Batman. I would guess that after having read the likes of the Denny O'Neil-Neal Adams Batman run, the Englehart-Rogers on Detective Comics, and other memorable comics from Jim Aparo, Dick Giordano, and Don Newton--dark stories most, if not all, that you would appreciate a dark take on the character--the very same character whose parents were murdered before his eyes, not some paunchy guy with drawn-on Batbrows.
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Jul 6, 2015 - 2:36 PM
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Gary S.
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The more I watch this wonderful series the more I feel the DID do the right thing with the West show. Apart from the total nostalgia emersion I have when watching an episode (just finished first disc of Season 2), I love the fact that they're not taking themselves too seriously. I've had to get to my 50s to feel this way. Once upon a time I was wishing a 'serious' version of my fave comic character would come along.
Now that they are getting ever more depressing it's nice to watch a Batman when fun was not a dirty word.
That said, the cowl looks ok on the new film, and they seem to be giving us the comic book coloured Batman with the grey body/blue-ish black cowl and cape. Don't mind the silly robo-suit if it's a 'special mission' outfit. But I hate the fatbat! Why do they have to redesign the insignia EVERY TIME? Ok, I know. They each have to make their mark on the franchise somehow.
Disco Stu, iirc you are quite the Batman comic fan, particularly of the '70s Batman. I would guess that after having read the likes of the Denny O'Neil-Neal Adams Batman run, the Englehart-Rogers on Detective Comics, and other memorable comics from Jim Aparo, Dick Giordano, and Don Newton--dark stories most, if not all, that you would appreciate a dark take on the character--the very same character whose parents were murdered before his eyes, not some paunchy guy with drawn-on Batbrows.
I don't want the contributions of the late Irv Novick and the late Bob Brown to be overlooked as they contributed to the decamping of Batman as much as did Neal Adams and Jim Aparo.
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