Of course, if Miller is doing a post-Code take on the Dynamic Duo years with ASBAR, well… internal consistency is really, really not what Sprang-era Batman comics were about.

It’s not what most silver age comics were about, but don’t tell that to the continuity geeks who seem to ignore that everything from the era considered ‘in-continuity’ was cherry-picked at a later date.

(Not an interpretation I’d considered before now, but one I’ll have to think on– it puts a lot of things into a certain logical context.)

In-continuity Batman is so completely a character that makes no sense, I think most of us are just kind of inured to it. I suspect most people by now read the guy squatting on rooftops in Gotham and the guy hanging out with the Justice League as two ‘different’ characters, even if they don’t consciously realize they’re doing this. If Miller’s Batman isn’t getting the same courtesy… well, I wonder if people end up bringing higher expectations to out-of-continuity projects, at least in terms of expecting a lot of internal consistency.

Of course, if Miller is doing a post-Code take on the Dynamic Duo years with ASBAR, well… internal consistency is really, really not what Sprang-era Batman comics were about.

(Even if Miller intended it to be as such – a continuing/set-up that tied into his other works – I’m not sure he’d say that’s what he’s doing with it now, anyway.)

Whilst it isn’t as ‘serious’ as Year One or Dark Knight Returns, I’d say it fits in well enough.

(Especially if you consider that in-continuity Batman goes to Space quite regularly, saves the world quite often with his flying friends, and yet still sits around on rooftops in Gotham every night).
(I mean Year One and Dark Knight don’t necessarily fit that well together at all)

(Even if Miller intended it to be as such – a continuing/set-up that tied into his other works – I’m not sure he’d say that’s what he’s doing with it now, anyway.)

I’ll certainly stipulate ‘over-the-top’, Mr. Jerusalem, but it wasn’t much ‘fun’ for GL, now was it?

He’s fictional… I didn’t really pay attention to whether or not he was having fun… it wasn’t part of the story.

The last Batcomic I bought was Barr/Davis/McFarlane’s ‘Year Two’ in, what, 1987? Wonder whether that’s still in ‘continuity’.

Probably.
ASBAR never has been, and was advertised as not being in continuity.

Oh, I forgot I also bought ‘The Killing Joke’.

That was written out of continuity as well, but then worked into it.

And I should clarify that Hal Jordan isn’t my favorite GL. He could have been left corrupted and dead for all I care. Guy Gardner is my GL.

Cool.

So I’m saying maybe, MAYBE a mugger wearing yellow gloves can snatch a GL’s power ring off his digit if the wearer doesn’t realize that overcoming great fear neutralizes the yellow impurity and enables the ring to work against yellow, but the ring’s AI would alert the wearer that the autochthon was trying to take it.

The whole fear thing is a recent development, and wasn’t around when the story is set (even if the story wasn’t set in it’s own continuity), and so yellow stopped it from working.

Or is that simply demanding too much intellectual rigor of the scribe of the Goddamn Batman?

I think he’s just trying to tell a fun over the top story, and stuff like that really does get in the way.

Honestly though, it may sound silly out of context, all of ASBAR does, but the scene just works.

Rene-you’re oversimplifying the characterizations to make a point. You say that Superman and GL are portrayed as wimpy and naive. Superman isn’t wimpy in DKR and DKSA, or ASBAR for that matter. Unless you think Superman as a character is wimpy. He hasn’t been in ASBAR enough at this point to do much but so far he’s been someone who is extremely careful because he’s extremely powerful.

WW hates men. Well Ok she’s an Amazon, that’s a perfectly valid characterization.

In ASBAR GL is a goofball but in DKSA he’s basically a god. This is because early on he doesn’t know the type of power he has. Somewhere down the line he “gets it”.

Not to mention the fact that what the JLA say about Batman is right. Superman wants to bring Batman in because he seemingly kidnapped a kid, and GL is the one who says “maybe he’s was helping the kid”. In the Yellow Issue everything GL is correct. He just doesn’t have the inside knowledge that we do, that Batman can break the rules and do the right thing all at the same time and make it work.

Miller set Batman,who is someone who will whatever it takes(break someone’s legs, paint himself and everything else yellow) against the JLA, who have boundaries. Throughout DKR, DKSA and now ASBAR, Batman’s methods are questioned.