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Emery Calame
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I wonder if the Joker will get hopped up on drugs, blow up Genosha, and it'll turn out that Prometheus was the Joker all along or something.
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Victor Rodgers
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Morrison's work is very frustrating. Because unlike some guys like Ellis or Millar, Morrison's stuff is almost great.But then he gives into whatever crazy urges he has and ruins it.
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Andrew W. Farago
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I like Batman's response: "They don't usually get
the chance."
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Think that thru, Matt. With that response, Batman is
admitting that he looks "ridiculous" in the "getup".
The rest of the page puts it all into context, though.
He's humoring an old friend who's recovering from a
near-fatal attack by the Joker, and isn't quite back to
his normal self yet. That shows a level of
non-jerkiness that we haven't seen in Batman for
quite some time, and it's going a long way toward
making him a likeable character again.
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Greg Waller
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I couldn't resist...
-Greg
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Clay Adams
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Others have pointed out that Gordon is under the influence of Joker's poison... so he finds everything funny. This is no comparison to the X-Men panel.
Love his writing or hate it, but All Star Superman and Batman are unabashedly superhero comics.
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John Byrne
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Others have pointed out that Gordon is under the influence of Joker's poison... so he finds everything funny. This is no comparison to the X-Men panel.**** That would work if it was a different writer on both scenes. But it isn't. It's a writer who seems to have a compulsion about working in a snarky remark about the idioms whenever he can. How he wraps it makes no difference -- the self-loathing fanboys still chortle as Morrison whips out another zinger.
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Jason Uresti
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That line about looking ridiculous dissapoints, not because I think Morrison is using it as an attack superheroes, but because its such a tired, much too often used line. Whats next, Batman dives into a group of thugs, yelling at Robin to "Hit them hard and fast!"
That said, We3 is the only work of Morrison's I have read, which I enjoyed, so I am qualified to make a judgement on his respect or lack of for superheroes.
The guy has written alot though, so it will take more than two panels to convince me.
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Al Flores
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"That shows a level of
non-jerkiness that we haven't seen in Batman for
quite some time, and it's going a long way toward
making him a likeable character again."
Maybe so but it was the writer's that put him in that light
not the character itself.
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Arvid Spejare
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If I didn't have cookie-related problems on my computer at work preventing me from log in, I would told Matt Linton on the first page: "Hey, it's not nice to link to a interview with Morrison talking warmly about Batman. Now how is Jason Fulton supposed to take shots at him (no matter if it has anything to do with the topic at hand or not)?" But apparently I was wrong.
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John Byrne
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Fascinating. People take a couple of out-of-context comments spread over a thirty year career and brand me a racist. Morrison has taken potshots at the most basic conventions of the genre in virtually everything he's written for about 20 years, and people insist he "loves" superheroes.I would love to get the phone number of whichever devil he's sold his soul to.
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Stephen Bergstrom
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Don't worry JB. One day, as in "The Emperor's New Clothes" some small child will pick up one of his books and utter "Wow. This Morrison guy can't write very well, can he?" And it will be as a ripple across the water...
Same with Mark Millar. How that man continues to get superhero assignments is quite beyond me.
Edited by Stephen Bergstrom on 24 August 2006 at 5:59pm
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Jason Fulton
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Luckily, I don't have to take shots at Morrison when he demonstrates his contempt in the actual work. Y'know, sort of how he talks about how much he 'loves superheroes', but can't resist taking shots at them whenever he can. Kudos on keeping those blinders on though!
Plus, how does posting a page from his Batman run not have anything to do with "Morrison on Batman"? Is this some Sweden->English thing I don't know about?
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