[Stu]

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[bdbdbd]

My god.

[Byrntrigan]

My lord am I gonna have to pre-order these. Wow, just wow.

[Batman]

It's... the CATmobile!

Yay?

The talkbacks on this are just nauseating: "I don't normally read Batman, but I'll make an exception for this..." If you were a fifteen-year-old girl that would be acceptable, but your Jedi knight av makes me suspect probably not.

Still and all, I'll read it. I must admit, it's amazing how much better Kubert's kid is compared to when he started out clumsily aping Jim Lee's style in Uncanny X-Men almost 20 years ago.

[The Canadian Content]

Feb 4, 2009 1:36:54 GMT -5 Batman said:

The talkbacks on this are just nauseating: "I don't normally read Batman, but I'll make an exception for this..." If you were a fifteen-year-old girl that would be acceptable, but your Jedi knight av makes me suspect probably not.

I don't normally read Batman, but I'm totally picking this up. Seems to me that Gaiman + Batman = awesome.

Does that solidify my status as a 15-year-old girl?

[Stu]

Feb 4, 2009 1:36:54 GMT -5 Batman said:

It's... the CATmobile!

Yay?

The impression I get is that the story isn't "literally" happening, but it's more a mishmash of all the different aspects of Batman lore coming together in some meta celebration of all that timespan. I really hope I can get the Kubert covers for these, because I'm pretty tired of Alex Ross standard covers.

[Batman]

Psycho: Seriously? Yes. At any point while reading Death: the High Cost of Living or Stardust did you ever think to yourself, "am I really part of the target market for this?" I mean, don't get me wrong, I think it's great that there are comic books aimed at girls--the comics medium needs to broaden its audience. But still....

Stu: Yeah, I got that. (Joe Chill serving the drinks was a pretty broad hint.) Still, the Catmobile makes me chuckle.

[The Canadian Content]

Feb 4, 2009 16:48:37 GMT -5 Batman said:

Psycho: Seriously? Yes. At any point while reading Death: the High Cost of Living or Stardust did you ever think to yourself, "am I really part of the target market for this?" I mean, don't get me wrong, I think it's great that there are comic books aimed at girls--the comics medium needs to broaden its audience. But still....

I haven't read Death, but I enjoyed Stardust. I read it between Neverwhere and American Gods, and I thought it was a nice piece of fluff to cleanse the palate. I'd assume, though, that his Batman work will be more like Sandman, i.e., dark and mature, not fluff for 15-year-old girls.

[salmonjunkie]

Death was awesome, and the thought never crossed my mind about what the target market was.

[Batman]

Feb 5, 2009 16:06:23 GMT -5 The Canadian Content said:

I'd assume, though, that his Batman work will be more like Sandman, i.e., dark and mature, not fluff for 15-year-old girls.

You are thinking of an entirely different set of 15 yo girls than I am. "Dark" and "mature," rather than fluff is how you appeal to goth girls who read Vertigo.

Let me just allow that Gaiman's work has some level of universal appeal. I didn't really mean to say that his stuff is just for goth girls.

I was just ridiculing some of his fans for being so oblivious to fucking gay they sound. "I don't see or acknowledge the perfectly self-evident awesomeness of the awesome Batman, but I'll make an exception and read his book for the sake of a writer best known for chronicling the adventures of a goth king of dreamland, a goth teenage-girl avatar of death, and a beautiful fairy who is also a shooting star. But I'm totally straight."

Now I may be completely unfairly misquoting them, but I can't help it. They were making me freaking gag.

[The Canadian Content]

I'm a Batman fan, but for some reason, I've never been a regular reader. I think I developed a bias against DC at an early age that I never got over. I'm also a Gaiman fan. Sandman is some of the best comics stuff I've ever read, and I enjoyed his books. Put the two together, and I'm sold. It might even be enough to get me to continue buying Batman post-Gaiman. Depends on the level of awesome.

Also, you clearly give a lot more thought to 15-year-old girls than I do.

[bdbdbd]

That was nuts. Makes me wish Gaiman was doing an ongoing again and renews my want of the $100 Sandman absolutes.

[Stu]

Very cool. Liked all the little touches, like the references to various creators with brand names in it, and stuff like the Joker being drawn in the Bruce Timm style at one point. I'm fairly sure of what's going on, but I enjoy the ride anyway.