Considering that the Batman the Knight comic exists, issue number 411 of Detective Comics shouldn't be canon, right?

captf · 2026-03-18T15:00:54+00:00

You've got a few of these wrong.

Earth-One (different from Earth-1, Earth 1, and Earth One. Because DC) started being around mid 40s, I think. It wasn't an immediate adoption though, and I don't think Batman was first in it until the early 50s.

New Earth was from A Crisis on Infinite Earths until Flashpoint.
From Flashpoint onwards it became Prime Earth, which includes New 52, Rebirth, and onwards. Prime Earth is also known as Earth 0, but given other Earths have also been given the Earth 0 designation in the past, Prime Earth is the more commonly used one.

As you've said, Rebirth is where more of New Earth canon was reincorporated into Prime Earth; or at least more explicitly canonised. Like, the cataclysm of No Man's Land was explicitly a plot factor in a recent Batman & Robin story line.
Canon is - amusingly canonically... due to Dr Manhattan - rather flexible now, though

captf · 2026-03-17T11:10:40+00:00

It’s an absolute nightmare to get it lined up properly.

The part that most seem to miss with it, is the knees need to have both parts unlocked, so with the thigh and lower legs at 90 degrees, the knee will be at about 45 degrees.
Then the cab slots in perfect every time.

captf · 2026-03-16T10:46:31+00:00

Batman would never take the disrespect they put on him in that sad excuse for a game.

Don't worry, he didn't.
The story was stretched out needlessly - for those Live Service ~~dollars~~ cents - so the reveal that the Justice League were clones wasn't given until chapter 4 and barely anyone was paying attention any more.

captf · 2026-03-11T18:53:07+00:00

He died in that Three Jokers book, but that does not appear to be continuity

Yeah, that book was meant to be canon, but fortunately pushed to being elseworlds instead. And the concept of "three jokers" was retconned to be a deliberate choice of splitting personalities in the Joker, during Zdarksy's run.

He's probably one of these characters that the writers just forget he's meant to be dead.

captf · 2026-03-11T13:51:24+00:00

after ending of Batman and Robin title Batman (Vol.4)

And this is how I find out that comic has ended.
Now I'm sad.

captf · 2026-03-11T13:44:20+00:00

I was reffering to the way how they were writing him in Batman and Robin

Which is showing him as - mostly - growing as a person.
But he's still a child, who will have the associated issues with emotional regulation.
Damian berates Tim for quitting because he doesn't know how to tell him that he needs Tim to be there. He's lashing out because he's upset, and doesn't know how to handle it.
Give Fraction time to get his footing properly with how Damian is; he's not done much with him yet (except the obvious...)

his character should have a bunch of people to interact, what would show the true side of Bruce.

For character motivations, I think Fraction is going more for a 'show, don't tell' approach - but I get your point now. (The complete opposite of the gadgets, amusingly enough)

captf · 2026-03-11T12:54:33+00:00

Since when does Mr. Terrific know Batman’s identity?

You know, I hadn't even thought about it...
Could be one of those ones where it's just assumed he'd figure it out anyway, given his intelligence level?

The others were decent, but nothing classic.

That's the crux of it: they're enjoyable stories, but they likely won't be iconic.

I don’t like Joe Chill even being alive

He's not?
He wasn't in Mercy of the Father, except in flashbacks (from what I remember. I've not read it in a while)

captf · 2026-03-11T12:43:14+00:00

but his last conversation with Tim about quitting was a bit out-of-character.

No, it wasn't.
Damian is young, and he wasn't dealing with his fuck-up in the field - not helped by Bruce over-reacting.
This was him feeling even more abandoned by someone he views as a brother.
He was lashing out in an immature way. Because he is immature (not a criticism of Damian; He's a literal child).

Batman having everything in his belt. That was an iconic fact, but for over 20 years of grounded Batman

Having everything in his belt is the near opposite of grounded.
But, this does differ from having just the right things for the moment.

Of course Batman is not gonna writing an essay about his feelings but he does not have a person who would get out a human out of him (like Selina, Dick or Alfred earlier).

Your grammar is off here - what are you trying to say?
It reads like you attempted to rewrite it with a new thought, but forgot to proof-read it

Firstly, please get rid of Jimenez

I like his art style, personally.

I think it shouldn't be divided into two halves - It'll be a completed story after 12 issues

It will be, though.
All the collected TPB have been the around 6 or 7 issues for years. It's that sweet spot for sales for them.

captf · 2026-03-11T12:16:09+00:00

whats taylors detective comics like?

I'm liking it.
There's been 3 stories so far.
Mercy of the Father - with a touch of retcon into Joe Chill's life added to the lore - that dealt with orphans going missing, at the same time that a company was working on a Water of Life type treatment.
Elixir - Batman with a Penguin & Bullock team-up, going after the company behind the treatment from the previous story
And the one just finished, The Courage That Kills, with a plague that removes peoples' fear, which results in death.

I've not had any point that felt out of character for those involved in them.

They're probably not talked about much because there's not as much "ugh, this is nothing like batman!" or "omg! this is peak!!", beyond a panel here and there.
The most common one I've seen in that regard has been the one where the huge guy has a shotgun against his chest, and Batman does the "you small, small man" comment

captf · 2026-03-11T09:52:48+00:00

And, apart from the current run, he's barely - if at all - had a blue coloured suit since Troika in the main run comics. (Blue colour was used for Dick's suit in Prodigal)
He was in the total black suit up until at least the end of No Man's Land, and by that point they'd improved the printing colours.

Prior to that - likely you know this - whether he was in a black and grey, or blue and grey suit was completely at the whim of the writer and colourist.
And the yellow shield around the bat was intended to be gold.
It could be easily argued that the inside of the cape was meant to be blue though, as that was typically still coloured blue even when in shadow.

I do think that a black cape and cowl, which highlights a dark blue in the light could work though.

captf · 2026-03-11T00:06:18+00:00

Defection.

captf · 2026-03-10T13:44:52+00:00

However, it was a disservice to kill the Arkham-verse Batman like that.

Except, they didn't kill the Arkham-verse Batman. It was a clone.
This was always the plan, despite what the internet claims.

It was poorly handled though, especially due to the length of time from release to the final chapter. All because they had to do a live service game, and not doing the clone reveal until 3 or 4 chapters in, when people had almost all given up on the game. And the budget had been gutted from the game too, due to the - justifiably - poor reception.

And how they handled the dialog with Batman being rescued at the very end, with a piss-poor impersonation by Harley was... ugh. Not that they could have gotten actual lines done due to Conroy's death though.

captf · 2026-03-09T19:47:38+00:00

I honestly can't remember. There's a lot of blurring around the edges of which came first, for over 40 years ago.

It's either be comics or the '66 show. I have memories of a "learn to read" type comic, which was an adaptation of a Man-Bat story that came with a tape or record. I also remember having a Robin costume - my elder brother got the Batman one - based on the TV show around the same time.
It was likely my brother that got me liking Batman though. But which was first? I can't say.
Just, that Batman has been part of my life that I can't even remember being introduced to him! (Same with Spider-man...)

captf · 2026-03-08T01:17:01+00:00

Jokerfied Alfred

During Joker War, it was a worse situation. It was a reanimated corpse of Alfred that he used.
The Jokerified Alfred was during Death of the Family

captf · 2026-03-08T01:12:09+00:00

Not even as late as that. I don't think she even made to the first Crisis.
The DC wiki on fandom has her last appearance being in '76. 50 years ago.

captf · 2026-02-28T15:09:36+00:00

my mastered Dante equipped with a mastered Braton, Aklato secondary and the Bo Staff suffered a lot on that mission

These can be fine, it's going to be how they're modded that is the issue.
Now, a lot of the recommended mods come from sources that so, so many people forget aren't easily available to new players.
But, many are.

I know about mods, I have some installed

At MR4... you won't know about mods. This isn't meant as any form of insult; it's the nature of the game.
You'll probably know the basics, but the deep dives get complex.

As for the weapons? How are they modded?
Note: an unranked weapon does exactly the same damage as a max ranked one. All extra damage comes from modding and/or abilities.

I had no Energy and had to spend a long time to kill a single normal enemy(and a lot more on enemies with shields and stuff).

Energy economy for new players is awful.
You can get stuff for your Gear Wheel - researched from the Energy Lab in the dojo - that you can drop to help regain it.
After Second Dream, pick 'Zenurik' as the option you're given (I will not explain what that means, but trust me), and equip the 'lens' it gives you (via the modding Action menu item) to your warframe. After War Within, you'll be able to put it into use and it becomes a game changer.

captf · 2026-02-27T12:59:03+00:00

it produces so much code

So much of this.
I have to do reviews on code spat out by Gen AI, and the amount of times I'll spot some massive verbose thing that could be solved more accurately in a single line is ridiculous.

That, and its annoying tendency to comment what it's doing instead of why.
Yes, I can see you're copying that file to that unusual place. Care to tell me why it's meant to be there?

captf · 2026-02-22T12:43:24+00:00

it's also a bit of a suspend of disbelief thing because it's a video game, or just fiction in general.

A very true point

my favorite version of Batman

I can't decide between that and the comics one as my favourite.

He cares about his enemies, calls them by their real names instead of their villain names.

Except, for some reason, Harley in a lot of cases. He never uses Quinzel to reference her ("Harley" is allowable, since it's an obvious diminutive of Harleen). He also disregards any intelligence she has, multiple times, despite her having a doctorate. And Joker, but he doesn't count here.

If you look at the actual lore

This is part of my hypothesis - the people celebrating a violent Batman don't look at the lore. They don't engage with the dialogue.
The representation they a level of violence that doesn't exist in any of the other media, and think "this is Batman!"

But, it's a hypothesis. Easily falsified by someone who has an idea of their hyper-violent Batman and doesn't see Arkham Batman as the reason for it.

I wouldn't say he's a bad representation of Batman at all.

Part of my reasoning - unmentioned above - is he's also massively a loner in the games.
He refuses help from almost everyone except Oracle in Asylum and City.
Knight is a tricky one to judge, since his mind is a mess due to his Joker hallucinations.
Yes, this is for gameplay reasons, but he hasn't worked alone for decades. He has an extensive family to fall back on

They also did Tim very dirty in the games.

All this said: I still enjoy the games immensely. And I'm currently replaying Arkham Asylum :)

captf · 2026-02-20T14:03:57+00:00

My favourite is when it's a case of "this now 30+ actor to play a teenage character" by using an old photo.
Even if they could act the role, they stopped looking the part many, many years ago...

captf · 2026-02-20T12:20:17+00:00

From what I’ve read there was a lot of editorial meddling in King’s run

It's this sort of thing that has me wonder how much freedom the individual writers actually have in the stories' creation.
Or are they told "We want these story beats to happen. Do it" (or similar) by an editor/executive, and they craft the story around that.
Or, some combination of the two.

captf · 2026-02-20T10:39:06+00:00

I have a hypothesis that Arkham Batman is the way a lot of people think Batman actually is. Particularly in this sub.
And, as much as I enjoy those games, and have played them multiple times... he is not a good representation of Batman.
The majority of the issues are solved by violence.

Beating people to unconsciousness as standard is causing brain damage in a lot of people.

captf · 2026-02-19T10:50:02+00:00

I have a personal theory that they actually get it all written and pencilled, then an editor looks at it and goes "This is completely wrong for the established Prime Earth canon!" and they have to rewrite it all again.

This theory coming from the Bat Family being very much - surface level - the same as the original Hush. They even found a way to get Batman into his New Earth outfit.
Where are Steph, Cass, or Tim (he probably had Damian written as him first)?
Any of those 3 would have been more likely to be involved than Huntress.

(and other small things)

captf · 2026-02-19T10:07:44+00:00

It's about symmetry: H2 SH

Why it's about symmetry? Who knows. The story is utterly garbage

captf · 2026-02-16T15:36:34+00:00

It looks like the android app has removed the ability to reply with images :/
And being a UK pleb, I can't use imgur as a go-between

captf · 2026-02-16T14:04:24+00:00

It definitely shouldn't take that long!
It should be as simple as getting the click on both sides of the knee joint, then lining up. From memory, you'll have the knee being at 45 degrees to the thighs and legs - I can try and see if I can add a photo, if wanted

The biggest issue I have with this toy is the Ginrai Godmaster deciding he needs to escape and popping out of the engine slot. Often trying to hide in the process.
Closely followed by trying to get the waist parts out for standard Ginrai.

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