You don’t seem to like Neil Gaiman comics.

Sonambulo’s your hook-up.
Seriously.

Except for the “Clown at Midnight” (the prose issue), Morrison’s Batman seems to be less the tormented urban predator, and more like some sort of studly international man of mystery, or something. You know, not as many rainy Gotham nights, and more stuff in the Alps with sexy supermodels and ninja man-bats. I didn’t think it was bad, but it was sort of a… disconnect.

But yeah, there are nine issues I didn’t read yet.

Morrison’s BATMAN has been crazy, but not really non-dark. It’s more of a lurid pulp tone, as though Batman had been invented for sleazy dime novels instead of comic books.

Well, he is based on characters from sleazy dime novels…

It’s one of the bleakest comics being produced today.

And I like Arkham Asylum, but Morrison’s recent run on Batman has been hit-or-miss with me too. I dunno… it’s too… not-dark, you know? Bright and crazy. I’m just too used to a dark and moody Batman, I suppose. Bright and crazy has worked well for Morrison on Superman and Invisibles and JLA, but not so much on Batman.

I never watched a episode of Buffy or Angel. Yeah, unbelievable, right? One day I will.

I don’t understand the fascination Americans have for pro-wrestling. And this one, I never will.

1. Me, I’ve never given a scat about Joss Whedon’s TV or movie writing. Buffy and Serenity (or whatever it’s called) fly so far outside of my interest range as to rarely get a blip on the radar. Paired with John Cassaday on Astonishing X-Men, though? Sheer awesomeness. I’m a big X-nerd from back in the day, but I haven’t read an X-book consistently in almost a decade. The X-Men corner of the Marvel Universe usually sucks and most of the characters have been removed so far from their original/classic portrayals that I don’t even see them as being the same characters. Grant Morrison’s run and Whedon’s run are the only two exceptions that I stuck with. Whedon was a worthy successor to Morrison (Austen not so much).

2. I will agree with you that Grant Morrison’s Batman hasn’t been all it could be. The Black Glove storyline with the Club of Heroes is pure gold, though. I love the hell out of that story.

3. For me the opposite is true: I don’t like Neil Gaiman’s comics (most of the time), so maybe I’ll like his novels … ? Check. Gaiman’s prose is marvelous. It’s Bradbury-esque, which is a very, very good thing.

4. I don’t care.

You know, it’s actually quite enjoyable to just say whatever fool thing pops into my head. You’re onto something …