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By: The Crazed Spruce

The Crazed Spruce — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:55:41 +0000

As I recall, Jeff, they said that the very act of observing the future changed the future. (That was especially true in the Flash annual, where in Wally's future he met a woman, fell in love with her, got married, gave up being a superhero, went into witness protection to hide from her ex (who was a mob boss with psychic powers), and had a kid with superspeed (but without Wally's protective aura, so just running across the room could kill him). But in the end, he wound up missing his meeting with her, because Waverider distracted him for about half a second.)

By: David Serchay

David Serchay — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:12:29 +0000

After he saw that Batman’s future and Superman’s future contradicted each other, he decided to try them again. Batman’s other one had Batman retiring due to injuries until Tim Drake, who took over, was killed. Superman had him become President, marry Maxima (after Lois dies in childbirth), and try to get rid of nukes

By: Jeff Ryan

Jeff Ryan — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:23:39 +0000

How’d they explain Waverider touching everyone, yet seeing different futures? Or are all of the “future” stories supposed to take place in a shared future? And how’d they do multiple Bats and Supes annuals? Did he touch Bats and Supes multiple times, or touch their supporting cast/villains?

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:01:59 +0000

Does Batman, pretty much via his whole existence, explicitly not believe in the rule of law that much?

Also, isn’t Gotham home to like four dozen convicted mass murderers? And the decide to execute the one guy that they think might be killing supervillians? Remember Bernie Goetz? Wouldn’t half the city be trying to throw him a parade?

By: David Hackett

David Hackett — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:53:04 +0000

The Detective Armageddon Annual was much better as I recall. Just don’t bring up the Hawk & Dove Annual as it directly contradicts the ending to the mini series.

By: FunkyGreenJerusalem

FunkyGreenJerusalem — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:40:33 +0000

Going by the Justice League Armageddon 2001 annual, in the year 2001, Guy Gardner is a religious leader.

By: The Crazed Spruce

The Crazed Spruce — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:17:39 +0000

I remember buying as many of the “Armageddon 2001″ annuals as I could find. Loved the Eclipso ones, too. The Bloodline ones, not so much, but at least they gave us Hitman, so that’s something, at least.

The problem is, I don’t have a comic shop in my town, so I had to rely on the newsstands, and for some bizarre reason they didn’t carry the Batman annuals (even though they carried the regular series).

Just wondering, did you get the one where Superman became President?

By: buttler

buttler — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:29:57 +0000

More like “Armageddon Outta Here.”

By: chad

chad — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:27:27 +0000

never cared for the amageddon crossover. not to menton tthe joker being considered sane in the story and batman willing to die because of his beliefs in the system as the joker whacks the other rogues. the story did not work for me

By: Chad Nevett

Chad Nevett — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:36:17 +0000

Anarky shows up in this one, providing Batman with a means of escape as they switch places.

By: Roman

Roman — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:32:51 +0000

Tom: that was Batman Special 1, by Mike W. Barr. It introduced the Wraith, who has been experiencing a resurgence lately.

By: Tom Fitzpatrick

Tom Fitzpatrick — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:39:25 +0000

I remember a Batman annual, I think it was a “Special”.
I can’t remember who wrote it, but Michael Golden drew it.

It was about Batman up against a mirror-counter-part who was every bit his equal in wits, and brawn.

I remember a scene where his counter-part knifes Batman in the side.

A good issue in all.

By: E.D.

E.D. — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:26:03 +0000

Is this the one that prominently featured Anarky, or am I thinking of one of the other Armageddon 2001 Batman annuals?

By: Chad Nevett

Chad Nevett — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:39:34 +0000

CW — That was my intention — glad to see it worked.

By: Gavin Bell

Gavin Bell — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:22:28 +0000

I’m really liking this feature as it covers my own adolescent comic-reading heyday.

I always hated Jim Fern’s art, and this wasn’t the best Alan Grant Batman story by about 38974785 miles… I remember the Detective annual from this year being pretty interesting however…

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:06:03 +0000

When I read this, I remember nothing really making it a “last” Batman story. There’s no resolution to Bruce’s life as Batman, and nothing to make us believe that he’d quit after the story ended.

By: CW

CW — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:01:18 +0000

Wow, that just sounds… terrible. Just terrible. I did enjoy the “nice/odd touches”, as in my head I kept hearing the Conan O’Brian year 2000 bit.