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SnakeWesker
12-02-2006, 03:54 PM
Basically, what I am looking for is a Batman series like the Ultimate universe in Marvel. I need a series that is (at the most) only a few years old, so that I can start collecting the trades. I know there is All-Star Batman and Robin, but I was wondering if there was one that was only Batman, without Robin.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks a lot!
Mia
12-02-2006, 03:57 PM
Nothing that I know of. There's a Batman Confidential starting this month, but that's all that I can think of. There is no 'Ultimate-Batman' title.
Harding Prime
12-02-2006, 04:20 PM
Yea, Batman Confidential would be a good start. Most of Batman's running series are within continuity, just not always in the same timeline.
SnakeWesker
12-02-2006, 06:10 PM
Wait, have any of the writers said anything about a potential All-Star Batman and All-Star Superman crossover? Because I am going to get into All-Star Superman soon, and if All-Star Batman and Robin is going to crossover with it, I may as well just read ASBR too.
Harding Prime
12-02-2006, 08:10 PM
That's not going to happen. ASBR has become kinda a lost cause since only 4 have come out in 2 years. And the fact that the story, (so far) isn't anything very good but Batman satire by Frank Miller, it probably won't go past that. And Frank Miller and Grant Morrison working together, LOL.
Young Avenger
12-02-2006, 08:39 PM
That's not going to happen. ASBR has become kinda a lost cause since only 4 have come out in 2 years. And the fact that the story, (so far) isn't anything very good but Batman satire by Frank Miller, it probably won't go past that. And Frank Miller and Grant Morrison working together, LOL.

Imagine Miller's Superman. Damn will be Superman only word of dialogue, Lois will be a slutty reporter, Perry White will have major anger management problems, Jimmy will have crime connections.
SnakeWesker
12-03-2006, 03:38 AM
Alright, sounds good. Thanks for your help, everyone.
Fish Sauce
12-03-2006, 04:01 AM
Imagine Miller's Superman. Damn will be Superman only word of dialogue, Lois will be a slutty reporter, Perry White will have major anger management problems, Jimmy will have crime connections.


Alright, sounds good. Thanks for your help, everyone.

Wait, what?
Harding Prime
12-03-2006, 12:03 PM
Imagine Miller's Superman. Damn will be Superman only word of dialogue, Lois will be a slutty reporter, Perry White will have major anger management problems, Jimmy will have crime connections.


If Miller got a hold of Superman, every Human on earth would die, because he's the Good Damn Superman, Bitch!
Dr. Drake Ramoray
12-04-2006, 01:17 AM
Try Matt Wagner's Bat-Books, Trade one is out now, Batman and the Monster Men, and Dark Moon Rising: Batman and the Mad Monk is well along.;)
PretenderNX01
12-04-2006, 03:20 AM
Wait, what?

:p I think he was thanking the prior posters for helping him out.
Harding Prime
12-04-2006, 10:15 AM
Also, with the kind of soft re-boot after the Infinite Crisis, you could check out the One Year Later storyline which is in TPB called Face the Face. A good classic detective story about the re-origin of Two-Face. It's a good time to get into the continuity of the big DC characters.
Choppa
12-04-2006, 11:37 AM
Just so you know, neither Batman nor Detective run like the Ultimate books where you're reading one big long story. Instead there is a new team like every 6-8 issues so it's like having a reboot every several months
brundlefly
12-04-2006, 12:09 PM
Ditto on Face The Face and the Wagner Batman books; both would be good jump-on points for a new reader who didn't want to be lost by coming into a story midway-through. I assume Batman Confidential will be the same way, given that it's a new title and all.
Harding Prime
12-04-2006, 01:42 PM
Just so you know, neither Batman nor Detective run like the Ultimate books where you're reading one big long story. Instead there is a new team like every 6-8 issues so it's like having a reboot every several months

They are still suppose to run broadly in same storyline of continuity. That is kind of a cynical way of looking at it.
Choppa
12-04-2006, 02:38 PM
They are still suppose to run broadly in same storyline of continuity. That is kind of a cynical way of looking at it.

The key word being "supposed." I'm just telling it like it is.
Harding Prime
12-04-2006, 03:03 PM
The key word being "supposed." I'm just telling it like it is.

And yet I don't see it the same way and enjoy the continuity of the story. Like I said, just kinda cynical way that you can look at it.
Choppa
12-04-2006, 05:18 PM
And yet I don't see it the same way and enjoy the continuity of the story. Like I said, just kinda cynical way that you can look at it.

Are you serious? Let's take a look at some example of issues ignoring stuff that came right before it. HUSH has Batman making out with Catwoman with no thought of Vesper who just died like a day ago. Then comes Broken City, in which Croc has gone from being his normal self to a street pimp. Then we get a new retelling of the night that Bruce's parents died. Fast forward to the next arc, War Games, where Black Mask is now competent and has a black skull instead of a mask on his face (with no explanation of course) and takes over Gotham. Meanwhile, Jason Todd is living with Talia, who for some reason has forgotten that she is at odds with her father, and now wants to mess with Bruce. Oh and I forgot, she's had his son living with her for a bunch of years. Etc, etc, etc...

There's nothing cynical about acknowledging the fact that the books jump from one creative team to another with little thought as to what previously happened save for sweeping changes.