View Poll Results: Best decade for Batman?
40's (including 1939 debut)
1
3.03%
50's
1
3.03%
60's
1
3.03%
70's
11
33.33%
80's
14
42.42%
90's
5
15.15%
2000-Current
0
0%
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Best decade for BATMAN?
11-06-07, 07:56 AM
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Best decade for BATMAN?
What would you consider to be the best decade for Batman? You can base your decision on a wide variety of factors, from the comics, tv shows, movies, toys, etc.
I'll let you decide for yourself if you want to define "BEST" as your own personal favorite decade, or overall quality of Batman related product being issued to the public.
I'll let you decide for yourself if you want to define "BEST" as your own personal favorite decade, or overall quality of Batman related product being issued to the public.
11-06-07, 10:10 AM
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I think you have to go with the 80's. No real competition there.
You have Dark Knight Returns and Year One. Death in the Family. The Killing Joke. Son of the Demon. Tons of other good to great Batman Stories.
Plus, Jim Aparro being the main artist guy.
You might can argue late 70 for Neal Adams and Denny O'Neil alone and what they did for the character, but 80's takes it over all.
You have Dark Knight Returns and Year One. Death in the Family. The Killing Joke. Son of the Demon. Tons of other good to great Batman Stories.
Plus, Jim Aparro being the main artist guy.
You might can argue late 70 for Neal Adams and Denny O'Neil alone and what they did for the character, but 80's takes it over all.
11-06-07, 10:25 AM
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Grrr I really cant pick, because I like something from nearly each decade.
60's for the great Batgirl backups
70's for continued great Batgirl backups, Ra's, Man-Bat, Huntress, etc
80's for everything Boredsilly mentioned
90's for Knightfall, Don't trust anyone Bats
00's for More DTA Bats, Hush, Omac, and current Dini run.
60's for the great Batgirl backups
70's for continued great Batgirl backups, Ra's, Man-Bat, Huntress, etc
80's for everything Boredsilly mentioned
90's for Knightfall, Don't trust anyone Bats
00's for More DTA Bats, Hush, Omac, and current Dini run.
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11-06-07, 10:42 AM
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I have honestly never read enough of the Batman comics to make my decision on those alone... so by default, I award my vote to the 1990s, thanks to Batman: The Animated Series. Of course, the 90's also had the Batman & Robin movie, so that kind of brings it down a notch.
11-06-07, 01:59 PM
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Originally Posted by boredsilly
I think you have to go with the 80's. No real competition there.
You have Dark Knight Returns and Year One. Death in the Family. The Killing Joke. Son of the Demon. Tons of other good to great Batman Stories.
Plus, Jim Aparro being the main artist guy.
You might can argue late 70 for Neal Adams and Denny O'Neil alone and what they did for the character, but 80's takes it over all.
You have Dark Knight Returns and Year One. Death in the Family. The Killing Joke. Son of the Demon. Tons of other good to great Batman Stories.
Plus, Jim Aparro being the main artist guy.
You might can argue late 70 for Neal Adams and Denny O'Neil alone and what they did for the character, but 80's takes it over all.
11-06-07, 02:13 PM
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Originally Posted by dadaluholla
I have honestly never read enough of the Batman comics to make my decision on those alone... so by default, I award my vote to the 1990s, thanks to Batman: The Animated Series. Of course, the 90's also had the Batman & Robin movie, so that kind of brings it down a notch.
I still think the BTAS version is the best interpretation of Batman and his universe.
11-06-07, 02:36 PM
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Even considering BTAS, I will still stick with the 80's. Because it did have the first Batman movie (which really captured the imagination of an 9 year old me) and Year One. Two things that have direct ties to BTAS and Batman Begins, two things I love.
11-06-07, 05:05 PM
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Superman, I can't really comment on since I've never really followed him in the books. So it could easily be:
-the 70's for the movies
-the 90's for STAS (which was also awesome) and Lois and Clark + the actual comics Kingdom Come and Superman For All Seasons
-the 2000's just because Ed McGuinness did a lot of art for Superman in the last 6 years and the awesome elseworldsy type Superman stuff that has come out in the last few years like Red Son and Secret Identiy. Oh, and the in-fucking-credible novel It's Superman which just knocked my socks off.
Probably the 2000's just because I'm ignorant to Superman in general.
-the 70's for the movies
-the 90's for STAS (which was also awesome) and Lois and Clark + the actual comics Kingdom Come and Superman For All Seasons
-the 2000's just because Ed McGuinness did a lot of art for Superman in the last 6 years and the awesome elseworldsy type Superman stuff that has come out in the last few years like Red Son and Secret Identiy. Oh, and the in-fucking-credible novel It's Superman which just knocked my socks off.
Probably the 2000's just because I'm ignorant to Superman in general.
11-06-07, 05:19 PM
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Originally Posted by fumanstan
90's. Dark Knight Returns is overrated and i love the Loeb/Sale stuff like Long Halloween.
11-07-07, 01:57 AM
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The 60s were a great era for Batman, as it brought the character into mainstream pop culture.
The 80s were less about the importance of Batman comics than the impact that these comics had.
The 90s were a bad time honestly. That's when Batman's popularity peaked and then quickly declined. It was really too hit and miss for me. BTAS was a great series but the Batman comics themselves were unreadable.
I have to go with the 70s though for the best era. That's when Batman was in his most pure form, a detective.
The 80s were less about the importance of Batman comics than the impact that these comics had.
The 90s were a bad time honestly. That's when Batman's popularity peaked and then quickly declined. It was really too hit and miss for me. BTAS was a great series but the Batman comics themselves were unreadable.
I have to go with the 70s though for the best era. That's when Batman was in his most pure form, a detective.
11-07-07, 10:01 PM
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I wouldn't say best, but my favorite was the 1990s. I especially liked some of the key artists at the time like Kelley Jones, Norm Breyfogle, and Graham Nolan.
11-11-07, 08:26 AM
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80s was the best decade for comics period in my opinion.
I honestly cannot stand pre-Crisis (1986) DC. For me, Batman: Year One and John Byrne's Man of Steel miniseries are the starting points for my DC collection.
I honestly cannot stand pre-Crisis (1986) DC. For me, Batman: Year One and John Byrne's Man of Steel miniseries are the starting points for my DC collection.
12-13-07, 07:34 PM
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You might can argue late 70 for Neal Adams and Denny O'Neil alone and what they did for the character, but 80's takes it over all.
Anyone know when the Miller/Adams Batman book is coming out?
12-16-07, 06:07 AM
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The seventies, overall, had a lot of great Batman to offer. The early seventies had the O'Neal/Adams run, the later seventies had the great Englehart/Rogers run on Detective. He was a detective, he was driven, but he wasn't a jerk or borderline psycho.
12-16-07, 06:34 AM
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I can't tolerate the 80s, 90s, or anything written recently. Save for a few stories such as Year One, DKR, etc etc, too much of Batman's world has been filled with unbelievably bad writing. The suspension of belief required of readers to think that super-criminals that have killed hundreds haven't been executed (regardless of their mental condition) is simply too improbable.
12-17-07, 09:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Superboy
The suspension of belief required of readers to think that super-criminals that have killed hundreds haven't been executed (regardless of their mental condition) is simply too improbable.
Yeah sure a person like Joker would have been executed long ago, but that particular element isn't any more unbelievable than anything else in comics... like the completely goofy ass stories from the 50s and 60s (I remember one story where Batman was talking to a flower with a human head
) or the completely unbelievable backstories of most supervillains (Mister Freeze can only survive in subzero temperatures, Ras Al Ghul is over half a century old, the latter Clayfaces actually being made of clay, etc). If you truly want realism, you shouldn't be reading comics in the first place.
12-17-07, 09:54 AM
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Yeah sure a person like Joker would have been executed long ago, but that particular element isn't any more unbelievable than anything else in comics... like the completely goofy ass stories from the 50s and 60s (I remember one story where Batman was talking to a flower with a human head ) or the completely unbelievable backstories of most supervillains (Mister Freeze can only survive in subzero temperatures, Ras Al Ghul is over half a century old, the latter Clayfaces actually being made of clay, etc). If you truly want realism, you shouldn't be reading comics in the first place.
) or the completely unbelievable backstories of most supervillains (Mister Freeze can only survive in subzero temperatures, Ras Al Ghul is over half a century old, the latter Clayfaces actually being made of clay, etc). If you truly want realism, you shouldn't be reading comics in the first place.
12-17-07, 12:35 PM
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Originally Posted by spainlinx0
Sorry, I only know Batman from the animated series and movies. I haven't really read comics. What's the big deal that Ras Al Ghul is over 50 years old? Was century the wrong word?
I had a brain fart and got my units of time mixed up. I meant that Ras Al Ghul is over half a millennium old. He is 500+ years old. In the comic books, there is this thing called the Lazarus Pit which Ras uses. It completely heals any injury, rejuvenates him keeping him somewhat youthful, and can even bring him back from the dead.
12-17-07, 06:44 PM
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Originally Posted by taffer
Yeah sure a person like Joker would have been executed long ago, but that particular element isn't any more unbelievable than anything else in comics... like the completely goofy ass stories from the 50s and 60s (I remember one story where Batman was talking to a flower with a human head ) or the completely unbelievable backstories of most supervillains (Mister Freeze can only survive in subzero temperatures, Ras Al Ghul is over half a century old, the latter Clayfaces actually being made of clay, etc). If you truly want realism, you shouldn't be reading comics in the first place.
) or the completely unbelievable backstories of most supervillains (Mister Freeze can only survive in subzero temperatures, Ras Al Ghul is over half a century old, the latter Clayfaces actually being made of clay, etc). If you truly want realism, you shouldn't be reading comics in the first place.