Marvel V DC action movies. (screen, best, characters, book)
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I didn't see that coming. I thought you hated anything/everything Frank Miller did for Batman.
Not at all! B:Y1 may be the best comic book of all time. The Dark Knight Returns is great, too, albeit in a sort of "alternative universe" fashion. All of Miller's Batman work after that ... ? Yeah, I pretty much hated all of that.
Stranger things have happened. But I don't see any of their second tier characters (Doctor Strange, Ant Man, Black Panther) filling the shoes of Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk.
The Disney machine will push them. Remember when they used Stitch for a lot merchandise because that Disney Animated film was the most successful since I think Hercules/Mulan and was the most merchandise-able since i think Lion King.
They will. But no matter how much you polish a lump of coal, it ain't gonna be a diamond. I was pretty underwhelmed by DOCTOR STRANGE. ANT MAN was fun, but I don't see him being a leading character for a film franchise. Jury is still out on BLACK PANTHER.
Not at all! B:Y1 may be the best comic book of all time. The Dark Knight Returns is great, too, albeit in a sort of "alternative universe" fashion. All of Miller's Batman work after that ... ? Yeah, I pretty much hated all of that.
The Dark Knight Strikes Again (2001) was awful. Too out there, and the art was too experimental.
However, the new one, The Dark Knight III: The Master Race (2015-2017) is very good.
As much as I love Year One, calling it "the best comic book of all time" is kind of nuts. There are too many awesome stories on that level (and greater) to assign that kind of acclaim to any single storyline. I wouldn't even call it the greatest reboot of all time. The biggest candidate (in my book) is Alan Moore's take on Swamp Thing. That was simply incredible.
The Dark Knight Strikes Again (2001) was awful. Too out there, and the art was too experimental.
Agreed.
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However, the new one, The Dark Knight III: The Master Race (2015-2017) is very good.
Haven't read it.
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As much as I love Year One, calling it "the best comic book of all time" is kind of nuts.
I speak only for myself. No one else. In that arena, B:Y1 is the greatest comic of all time.
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The biggest candidate (in my book) is Alan Moore's take on Swamp Thing. That was simply incredible.
Haven't read it. I have read enough of Alan Moore's other stuff that I did not like that I have kind of avoided that. I liked V for Vendetta. Hated WATCHMEN. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was okay. Kinda pretentious and boring at times, but not horrible. Batman: The Killing Joke was good, if over-rated.
People keep telling me that Alan Moore is the greatest comic book writer of all time. But these tend to be the same people that think Pink Floyd is the greatest band of all time. Drugs will do that kind of stuff to your brain after a while.
I speak only for myself. No one else. In that arena, B:Y1 is the greatest comic of all time.
Did you ever read Frank Miller's Ronin, the six-issue miniseries, printed on that new pretty paper they were using at the time for their limited series, he did after he left Marvel and before he created TDKR? That's my single favorite concept of his. Entirely original, not based on existing characters. His best art, too, by far.
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Haven't read it. I have read enough of Alan Moore's other stuff that I did not like that I have kind of avoided that. I liked V for Vendetta. Hated WATCHMEN. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was okay. Kinda pretentious and boring at times, but not horrible. Batman: The Killing Joke was good, if over-rated.
I love Watchmen and TKJ. Don't care for TLoEG. Way pretentious (better enjoyed if you're British, I guess). I never read V for Vendetta, but the movie didn't make me want to go looking for back issues or collections.
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People keep telling me that Alan Moore is the greatest comic book writer of all time. But these tend to be the same people that think Pink Floyd is the greatest band of all time. Drugs will do that kind of stuff to your brain after a while.
Again, there are too many writers that have made such a mark on a certain character, that if you lined them up, I wouldn't be able to single out a favorite. Miller rescued Daredevil from mediocrity. Simonson did the same with Thor. Moore infused new life into Swamp Thing and made his book one of DC's hottest at the time. O'Neil resuscitated the Question.
Batman has had too many great writers, from Barr to Englehart to Miller to Dixon to Morrison to Snyder, and so on, that it's way too tough to take one and leave out the rest.
Pink Floyd...lol. The greatest thing about PF isn't Waters, it's Gilmour. And one of Floyd's best songs ("Comfortably Numb") was originally meant for Gilmour's first solo album. Now put that into its proper context! I like his first solo album better than any PF record. And I own nothing by Floyd.
Did you ever read Frank Miller's Ronin, the six-issue miniseries, printed on that new pretty paper they were using at the time for their limited series, he did after he left Marvel and before he created TDKR? That's my single favorite concept of his. Entirely original, not based on existing characters. His best art, too, by far.
I read it ages ago. I liked it. Wouldn't say I loved it. Miller's intense, unrelenting grimness gets a bit tiring after a while.
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Batman has had too many great writers, from Barr to Englehart to Miller to Dixon to Morrison to Snyder, and so on, that it's way too tough to take one and leave out the rest.
Morrison was the reason I stopped reading Batman. I cannot stand his stuff, be it Batman or X-Men or Superman or whatever. Absolutely hate it.
Snyder was the reason I started reading Batman again.
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Pink Floyd...lol. The greatest thing about PF isn't Waters, it's Gilmour. And one of Floyd's best songs ("Comfortably Numb") was originally meant for Gilmour's first solo album. Now put that into its proper context! I like his first solo album better than any PF record. And I own nothing by Floyd.
I agree with every word there --- and you know how crazy that makes me.
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