Comments on: A Year of Cool Comic Book Moments - Day 8

By: Silver

Silver — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:17:57 +0000

Yeah this is the Batman that I loved reading, starting reading in the mid 60's, was ok but this was mind blowing compared to what I read previously

By: Boatman

Boatman — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 04:10:36 +0000

I agree. this is my Batman. Too bad he doesn't exist anymore.

By: GlennBo8

GlennBo8 — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:42:51 +0000

i think there is a vein tapped here about overall tone versus dialog. if you compare even the best writers of this era, even the later silver/early modern age, the writing uniformly sounds stilted. almost anything today reads more natural. the beauty of these older stories is the overall vision and ideas and plotlines and moments, the never-done-before feel, as opposed to the dialog, which doesn't stand up all that often. you have to find the groundbreaking nature of what Lee and Thomas and O'Neill and the rest were doing, rather than the words, to get why they are important. A good example is Miller, reading his early Daredevil, which i love, is not too different an experience than reading this..compare it to your fav writer of today, be it Bendis or whoever, and it is like night and day

By: said

said — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:28:28 +0000

maybe without the exclamation marks (!!) it would have sounded a little less soppy

By: Paul1963

Paul1963 — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:53:21 +0000

Yeah, "I MUST! I am sorry" is kinda lame, but overall it's a fantastic story, well worth revisiting.
Especially by the writers who keep coming up with stories of a younger Batman creating the Matches Malone identity out of whole cloth...

By: Janus

Janus — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:16:10 +0000

I have to agree with stealthwise, for better or worse, that is pretty standard comic book dialogue for it's time.

By: stealthwise

stealthwise — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:10:56 +0000

That's pretty indicative of O'Neil's dialogue around that time. His GL/GA run had tons of preachy moments and lame expletives from characters. It's pretty much how everyone wrote back then (for superhero books).

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:32:38 +0000

Ya, I usually love O'Neil's dialog, but that was just terrible.

By: Apodaca

Apodaca — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:24:25 +0000

"I must! I am sorry!"

Man, that's an awful line of dialogue. It reads like a comic ten years older than the one it's in.

By: Vincent Paul Bartilucci

Vincent Paul Bartilucci — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:56:32 +0000

Talia makes so much more sense to me as a love interest for Bats than Catwoman ever did.

By: Jordan

Jordan — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:46:48 +0000

This was the first Batman story I ever read. I found it while helping my dad clean out our garage. Needless to say, I didn't leave the garage for a week after finding his huge stash of comics from this era. This should be the story you use to introduce someone to Batman...

By: Bernard the Poet

Bernard the Poet — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:30:21 +0000

This is my Batman. A little melancholic maybe, but not the ill mannered revenge-obsessed psycho, he is so often portrayed as these days.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:55:57 +0000

Bats did have a lot in common with Bond back then. Less so now.

By: Ethan Shuster

Ethan Shuster — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:24:20 +0000

Man, that is such a James Bond moment...

By: Carl

Carl — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:19:41 +0000

I find it interesting how people say they like the O'Neil/Adams version, but seem to forget that they didn't portray him as the completely repressed, obsessive ass that they want him to be.