It's Friday night. My coffee's cold. I've got no pizza.
Let's read some Batman.
Batman by Steve Englehart and Marshall Rogers
Blake Cooper
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Thomas Hughes
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Cooper Johnson
That is a sick cover.
Matthew Bailey
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Benjamin Jones
Great choice. This is ESSENTIAL Batman. One of the top three runs ever.
Jonathan Sullivan
Pretty fucking metal.
Julian Scott
Indeed, and I've never read it.
These ten or so issues make up one of the most influential eras of Batman's entire history, to the point that you'll see a lot of things that inspired or were adapted into the Animated Series years later.
Dylan Parker
Though this is Walt Simonson on art, Rogers comes in on issue #471.
Camden Lewis
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Grayson Gonzalez
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Logan Hernandez
i didn't realize this was the Englehart/Rogers run at first, excited to finally read it. Mad it's not collected
Alexander Reed
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Ethan Howard
Kek, that phone call is hilarious.
Aaron Hughes
It actually was collected in a book called "Strange Apparitions", which has become the informal title of this whole storyline involving Hugo Strange and Rupert Thorne.
The book is now out of print and hard to find though. And I know this because I spent the last hour trying to track down a copy until I decided to storytime it.
Benjamin Watson
meant to say out of print
Chase Russell
Also these first two issues and the last two I'll be doing later on are actually scans from that very book because the scans of the actual issues are a little ugly.
Xavier Butler
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Ayden Russell
Now this is some fuckin' 40's Detective Comics shit.
Eli Phillips
Actually there is. It's in Legends of the Dark Knight - Marshall Rogers, which is out of print. Maybe your LCS will have it in stock
Jeremiah Flores
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Joshua King
>Rape... the... *thud*
Zachary Cooper
>my lcs
>having anything other than things related to Marvel movies
LOL
But thanks, it'll make finding it easier.
Brody Gutierrez
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Cooper Ramirez
This Simonson art is a nice little treat for me, at least. Because Simonson's Thor was one of the things that first helped me get into comics, his art has always had a special appeal to me.
Especially the paneling, such as on this and the last page.
Liam Powell
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John Perez
Have you been reading Ragnarok?
Isaiah Hill
It looks like DC cancelled the second Norm Breyfogle volume, because why would something nice happen?
Logan Kelly
I dropped it when he killed off the qt drow
OK, just kidding, but I do think she was a more interesting protag than Thor /again/
Charles Wood
Sure, she was an interesting character - but it was always gonna be Thor.
Jaxson Evans
Is that the current storyline? Because I haven't read Thor since... Fraction.
Though the amount of sheer hatred for Aaron's run on Sup Forums has lead me to be interested in reading it.
Carson Cooper
This is the worst of all realities, sometimes.
Jeremiah Butler
No, it's a IDW series by Simonson.
Colton Foster
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Jonathan Phillips
Oh shit, I remember saying I was gonna read that when it started. And then never reading it.
Thank you for reminding me because that's going on my pull this instant.
Blake Cruz
It's the Thor thing Simonson is doing for IDW. No Marvel connection but some similarities, e.g. the mystic technology. Set after the Twilight of the Gods with an undead Thor.
It's pretty good. Thor is a little bit of a worse person than Marvel Thor, but interesting.
Thomas Wood
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Aiden Perez
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Angel Harris
>Batman
>paranoid
No way
Jose Russell
I wonder who this guy is supposed to be
Matthew Rodriguez
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Joseph Russell
>Sprang Memorial Arena
Based
Carson Martinez
Shouldn't a man made out of phosphorous standing in a pond be more exploding?
Ian Roberts
>Walt Simonson
Has he mastered onomatopoeia yet at this point? The Son of Simon is a God of Sound Effects.
Dominic Phillips
wat
I didn't know O'Hara was actually in the comics at any point
Camden Gomez
So is this guys where they got the inspiration for Blight?
Aaron Harris
>this entire scene
lol
Gabriel Turner
Huh, I never noticed the similarity before. It's certainly possible.
Julian Martin
Ah, Silver St. Cloud! Who would, years later, be a major character in Kevin Smith's MASTERPIECE the Widening Gyre.
Aiden Wood
Oldfag here.
For 30 years I've wanted to know did they all die? Did any of them die? Was it just a panic & maybe people got trampled?
Gavin Garcia
I just realized they left that plot point hanging.
>And everyone died. Anyway, back at Bruce's cool elevator...
Matthew Davis
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James Gomez
Brayden Stewart
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Wyatt Collins
Yeah, what the fuck? They literally never mention the fact that like a couple hundred people got Fur Convention'd.
Caleb White
>Boss Rupert Thorne
Man, they ought to have dropped the "Boss" bit because the Party Machines were well and truly disassembled by the 70s, even if they do make great villains.
Matthew Brooks
I considered doing their final story arc last week, for the timing.
Carter Reyes
>Yes, Batman! I have constructed a face mask composed entirely of pizza!
Jackson Collins
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Nolan Smith
I suppose I actually could have just started here. But Simonson's art was so good!
Brody Sanchez
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Jaxson Morris
I know, right? Even by Gotham standards ya think 15,000+ 16-25 year olds choking to death on acid gas would be a big deal.
And Joker would be seriously pissed
Michael Taylor
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Kevin Allen
Landon Jones
Please stop posting images in the storytime, ya nimrod
Kayden Howard
>Alfred pushes through a fast recovery of his phosphorous poisoning because Butlers gonna Butle.
Truly a Gentleman's Gentleman's Gentleman.
Ethan Morgan
>Finger Alley
Right next to Kane Waste Processing
Elijah Cox
>Giant glowing laser skull
Man, the people at that concert to high to realize they're dying must be going out of their goddamn minds.
Charles Smith
wew
Daniel Murphy
Up yours, now I'm gonna fuck this up.
Because of you.
Adrian Young
More name droppin'
Levi Clark
It's not like there's really that much you can really do with "glowing skeleton man" outside of a particular range without losing that basic idea.
Hunter Garcia
Whatever, enjoy your ban.
Blake Wright
I think I have this album somewhere, man
Angel Lee
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Elijah Watson
Quit fucking up the storytime you idiot
James Mitchell
Calm down, folks
Wyatt Campbell
This looks like it was a black light poster in so many dorm rooms.
Brandon Price
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Michael Russell
Also, a giant laser skull gassed a rock concert to possibly fatal effect.
Adrian Rivera
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Henry Evans
Making Batwoman's dad, a Kane, into a villain that was basically trying to turn Batman into massive international thing for his own personal benefit is an underappreciated move by Tynion.
Jack Kelly
It's a Monster, Man!
Jeremiah Allen
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Ayden Ramirez
Wait, is that the Kane family mansion from Batman: Earth One? The one Birthday Boy hid out in?
Joshua Bailey
IIRC Strange is literally Batman's very first recurring villain.
Luke Roberts
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Jaxon Jackson
!!!
Bentley Thompson
OK, I can't take it anymore, I have to drive to get pizza.
But I'll be back in thirty minutes, sorry fellas.
I hate living so far from any delivery place.
Camden Flores
Was this the first time Hugo learned Batman's identity? I recall two other times.
Ryan Ross
>Long live the new Batman
>You could be in the Superman Movie
Well, that's an unconventional way to cast Batman in a Superman movie.
Andrew Lewis
The first storytime I ever did actually turned into a discussion about pizza somehow. I don't remember what it was I posted, but I remember that,
Parker Martinez
This was the first
Zachary Lee
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Josiah Jenkins
>Roxxon
Strange reads Marvel Comics
Jonathan Morales
DUDE WOMEN RIGHT LMAO
Thomas Adams
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Adrian Howard
D I C K
I
C
K
Carter Hill
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Jason Reed
>The Spirit
>Mister Miracle
Jeremiah Allen
What do Don Corleone, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Prince want with Batman's identity?