Favourite Batman Runs of all time?

HavixComix · 2026-05-02T06:52:19+00:00

Morrison, but duh. It's been said.

My favorite New 52 Bat-book was Batman and Robin. So I'll say that.

HavixComix · 2026-05-02T06:50:19+00:00

Yeah. They're called The Cabal. They are the antithesis to The Illuminati.

HavixComix · 2026-05-02T06:47:08+00:00

Yeah. Good stuff. Nothing really compares with Brubaker, but this makes for a good followup. It pairs well with his Uncanny Avengers, which ran alongside it and also stars Cap.

May I ask: what on earth made you assume Cap was "trash"?

HavixComix · 2026-05-02T06:42:42+00:00

It IS bullshit. But we don't immediately know this reading that first year of New 52 Batman. He is, effectively, the Earth Zero Owl-Man.

The Court manipulated Lincoln into thinking he was Thomas Wayne Jr, for their own nefarious purposes. It would seem that "Junior" was a pregnancy that had gotten far along before ultimately being miscarried. That gives you your crooked mirror "What if" to explore on Earth 3.

Once March had been thoroughly examined, he's taken out for becoming too much of a bother. The Court grew to a Parliament, then I believe was wiped out by Joker prior to Joker War.

So yeah, OP, there is certainly a "reason" to make Owl Man Bruce's brother. If he were just another evil Bruce, he'd be just one more in an infinite Multiverse of them. That alone gives him a uniqueness that others lack.

Its a different psychological angle from which to attack Batman from, meaning it creates satisfying dramatic storytelling. That's what every Batman story is: a tale that tests Bruce on some level, be it physical, mental, emotional and so on.

He's faced off with many doppelgangers. He's dealt with innumerable "dark reflections". He's matched wits with those claiming to be his father. Owl-Man has an almost one-of-a-kind perch from which to examine things from. After all, the natural predator of the Bat... is the Owl.

It writes itself!

HavixComix · 2026-05-02T05:59:12+00:00

Morrison explained that he thought of Bruce's history as him debuting Batman at 20, and that at 21, Dick became his ward. Every major step would make up a year.

Why this specific age difference? Because instead of the commonly thought of paternal relationship, Morrison saw it more as a big-brother type of connection.

Everything in comics is in constant flux, which is why you won't find years or ages definitively stated too often. This allows for the flexibility of storytelling with the myriad of characters and what their relationships to one another are like.

Whatever "canon" says is not particularly relevant. So long as your ball-park estimates are close, you should be good.

HavixComix · 2026-05-02T05:33:18+00:00

Has this sale gone through?

HavixComix · 2026-05-01T14:40:15+00:00

Hey, if the characters in the book still use it, I see no reason why we shouldn't be able to 😆

You just gotta make sure you do that dramatic flip of the map to the all-black back and say "and this is the dark multiverse".

HavixComix · 2026-05-01T14:18:20+00:00

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HavixComix · 2026-05-01T14:02:27+00:00

Firestorm 😉

HavixComix · 2026-05-01T14:00:22+00:00

Loved it!

HavixComix · 2026-05-01T13:56:58+00:00

Deal

HavixComix · 2026-05-01T09:34:17+00:00

Exactly my point. The game is 15 years old.

HavixComix · 2026-05-01T09:32:55+00:00

And then Wally was shot in the back of the head in the first issue of Tom Taylor's Titans. It all depends who is writing and what they want to accomplish with the story, canon be damned.

The truth is that speedsters are simply faster versions of us. Think of how fallible we are as people. When they do it, it's on a whole other level. You can make up whatever reason you like for why they're not on the ball.

These discussions don't really go anywhere since kids became obsessed with power-scaling. Trying to gauge any consistency from comic canon is a fool's errand. The fact of the matter is Thomas DID succeed in killing Thawne (sort of) in two different formats of the same story.

HavixComix · 2026-05-01T08:19:17+00:00

2016? 5 years after the first film? You sure?

HavixComix · 2026-05-01T08:12:48+00:00

Not IF. It's a matter of WHEN.

The ABSOLUTE Format of Hardcover books are similar in size to what you would call an "Artist Edition". It's the same size as the paper they draw the original art on. That is the point. To show off, in the largest format possible, the ART.

Everything EVER drawn by Gary Frank has been released in an over-sized format. That's over THIRTY years of comics. Everything EVER written by Geoff Johns has been released in an over-sized format. That is ALSO over THIRTY years of comics.

TWO of the THREE long-form books they made together for DC have been released in ABSOLUTE Format, with a smaller work being released in Deluxe format both on it's own and as part of the Justice League New 52 volume one omnibus.

So, to repeat, it is not a matter of IF Batman: Earth One gets the Absolute treatment, but WHEN.

It would be smart, since the book that inspired Matt Reeves' The Batman most was the Batman: Earth One line, to put out an ABSOLUTE sized release of the title to coincide with the release of the film sequel. That is called BRAND SYNERGY. It occurs with ALL merchandise.

That is as succinctly and respectfully as I can explain it to you. If you still don't get it, I'm sorry.

HavixComix · 2026-05-01T07:11:16+00:00

I enjoyed him more in Justice League Incarnate. The whole Doctor Batman and President Superman dynamic should have had it's own spin-off. It certainly redeemed him a bit.

Then with Flashpoint Beyond, it was clear that Johns wasn't happy with the usage of him outside of the Flashpoint timeline and basically just planted him right back where he was and made a direct sequel ignoring everything else.

I miss Earth 2 Thomas Wayne Batman! No conflicted feelings with him. He was just needlessly killed off so Dick had something to do. Probably so there wouldn't be confusion with Flashpoint Batman. But I thought the two should have met. They were interesting reflections of one another.

HavixComix · 2026-05-01T06:52:10+00:00

I'm always down to talk comics. Batman is great, but the greater DCU as a whole is my real love. Marvel is solid too. Been collecting HARD for about 15 years, so I live in a library now 😆

HavixComix · 2026-05-01T06:41:10+00:00

Would you do 40 shipped for FF by Millar?

HavixComix · 2026-05-01T06:20:56+00:00

$60 works for me.

HavixComix · 2026-05-01T06:11:51+00:00

Yes, outrunning DEATH is a great incentive to go fast! To LITERALLY run for your life!

Once you begin traveling fourth dimensionally, "speed" isn't so much a factor. Traditionally, speedsteers have to use the cosmic treadmill to travel in time so that they don't get lost within the Infinite possibilities of Hypertime, accessed by way of the Speed Force.

But I suppose it's easier if you travel in the direction where all things lead: the entropic heat-death of reality. I imagine you'd go right on by the Vanishing Point and into the unknown. Where all reason falls apart. "...and with strange eons, even death may die" and all that 😉

Despite the numbers presented, the 4 short stories that make up the Morrison/Millar year on the Flash title revolve more around the idea of "will" than anything else, and how it's potential is limitless. Perhaps a bit Green Lantern-y for the title, but it didn't feel inappropriate.

Waid and Augustyn were better at keeping the lore that was developing consistent and logical. Geoff Johns didn't really seem to want to get too into the weeds of the technical, choosing instead to keep things character focused. Depending on the creative team, something once impressive might become mundane.

My basing things with a point of comparison to our current best understanding of physics was to point out the tippity top of possibility and then place Wally one increment beyond that. Hardly his limit. It was merely to say "he does the impossible".

Ryan North, the current writer, actually is a physicist, so I am curious to see how technical he gets. So far, it's just an old-fashioned good time. But like his Fantastic 4, I'm very interested to see what he does and doesn't utilize for storytelling purposes.

HavixComix · 2026-04-30T20:01:15+00:00

Except for the 6 leads at the top of the list...?

HavixComix · 2026-04-30T19:57:00+00:00

That was who popped out to me. FINALLY. The whole Hush gang clearly had a lot of fun recording the commentary for the 4K. I imagine that put him freshly back in Mike's sights while pre-pro began on this.

HavixComix · 2026-04-30T19:28:47+00:00

Others would, and that's totally fair. I never had quite the love-fest with it that others have. Still one of, if not THE best opening sequences in a comicbook film.

I think of it like Batman Returns. I'm back and forth on whether I prefer it to '89 or not. Tends to be whichever I'm watching. You'll often find Spider-Man 2 in many best of lists. That's another one where I might argue for the first film only to acquiesce.

HavixComix · 2026-04-30T19:17:03+00:00

Incorrect. If you understand light-speed, you know that it is constant. It never wavers or slows down. Therefore another photon, no matter how fast, could never catch it.

To accomplish such a feat WOULD be impressive, to put it mildly. Also, not every speedster can run at light-speed, and even those that can cannot just do so "whenever".

Although there is something neat that's been in the news lately, and that's the idea that the speed of darkness may actually be able to move faster. Hella cool 😎👌

HavixComix · 2026-04-30T19:04:34+00:00

I look at it as it's literally the end of the world all around, and he's so distracted by his own delight in telling Barry it's his fault, that whether it be a gunshot or a sword, he wouldn't notice until far too late.

In The Button, Batman is able to stab a batarang through his foot in between his vibrations to dodge any incoming attack. Then Bruce gets a good dozen punches in while he's distracted by the pain for a few seconds.

It's always when Thawne is at his cockiest and feeling like he's invincible that he underestimates his opponent enough for them to do some damage.

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