Or is this just something misguided fans have called it?

I'm thinking of the swarms of fans who show up any time someone dares to suggest the book is crap to yell about how it's a SATIRE and we just don't GET IT. In fairness, Funky, you haven't done that, but none of your defenses of it boil down to anything other than, "I know what it is, but I like it that way." That doesn't negate any of the bad things I or anyone else have said about it. It just means you don't care about them.

Look, it's one thing to enjoy a crappy piece of work just for fun. It's quite another to look at it critically and suggest that it's really a clever, satirical view of crap, which is the defense fans constantly trot out for All-Star Batman. It would be as if I came out and called Black Belt Jones a subtle, subversive parody of then-current blaxploitation trends. That would be ridiculous. Viewed with a critical eye, it's just dumb. The same goes for All-Star Batman. It's not "adult" or "mature" and no amount of bleating from fans about its satirical outlook will make it so. It's still a dumb comic with an arrested-adolescent sensibility.

And as I've said, several times, if that's your thing, fine. But it's not mine and I think I've explained why. I think we'll just have to agree to disagree, because it seems even more absurd go over it all one more time in a hijacked thread when it was done to death last week.

All the solicits and ads for the book have played it entirely straight.

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The difference is that I don’t try and sell the idea that it’s done that way on purpose as some sort of brilliant parody. Sometimes bad is just, well, bad.

Have DC?

Or is this just something misguided fans have called it?

Replace ’so bad’ with ’so over the top’ and you could be describing the joys of All Star Bat Man and Robin.

The difference is that I don't try and sell the idea that it's done that way on purpose as some sort of brilliant parody. Sometimes bad is just, well, bad.

Speaking of martial arts and exploitation films, here’s a bit from one of my very favorite ones of the 1970’s– the so-bad-it’s-genius Jim Kelly epic, Black Belt Jones.

Replace 'so bad' with 'so over the top' and you could be describing the joys of All Star Bat Man and Robin.

Is anyone else sensing a possible super-hero origin?

Are the other fights in the movie that good, or is that the cream of the crop?

Oh, that one's definitely the cream of the crop. But they're all good. The fights are SHORT, really, from a modern perspective. That's the main difference.

Thanks for the kind wishes... sadly, my mouth is such a trainwreck that this is going to be going on for a while. Dr. Irene says it's time to refer me to a specialist, which is depressing. Long journey, tiny steps.

And now I'm going to bed.

I didn't even know there was a Batman/Green Hornet crossover. I want to see the cubist Batman and Robin portrait. Dig that crazy show.

Good luck in the chair.