I bought the new , anniversary issue , 'TEC #27 (96 pages , 88 of them comics) yesterday .
I liked it !!!!!!!!!
Ur , SPOILERS .
Of course , pizza and Coke (" Mexican sugar " and Zero , both) , and a bit of chocolate and 90s commercial rock/rap that I didn't ultra-like then but - playing in the background of the now-bright renovates Pizza My Heart Pacific Avenue , SC , restaurant may have helped my mood but - I had also , at the 2nd store in Santa Cruz that was not my LCS there (That is to say , the 2nd or two , which was not my LCS .) decided to buy a months-old standard issued of 'TEC that had showed up in the rack beyond the giant-sized issue...I had bought the first couple issues of Detective in the New 52 regime , I think the only Batman title I did , but my money was low and , though I wasn't disgusted by the goriness of the " Joker cuts off his face " concept as I recall another Round Tabler was ~ it certainly was farfetched (sorta interesting) !...People dis the Jack Schiff era of Batsy for the giant robots and the temporary powers Batman would acquire from big machines , but ever since that late 80s story I remember about a mute?? autistic?? lad creating thousands of buzzing energy-composed attacking bats around Gotham City under the Penguin's influence or something like that I take the " gritty realism in the modern age " claims of the Bat-Team w/a grain o' NA(c)L...........
Who was that indie-ish creator during the Bush years who did a twelve-ish , one story-arc , run on 'TEC ????????? When was the period when the title was 40 pages , w/an 8-page back-up set in Batman's Gotham , and a character called " The Barker (or similar ~ an actual circus/sideshow barker) was used ???
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I appreciate a mega-sized anniversary issue, but I couldn't get past that $7.99 price tag.
...Doesn't that work out to considerably less than 88 - even 80 - pages of story purchased via the 32-pager (or 36- . 40-) page package , Clark ???????
The 12 issue series you are thinking of was probably Hush, with Jim Lee on art and I think Jeph Loeb on scripts. I read the first half but never got around to reading the rest, or any Hush stories, subsequently. In there somewhere, Jeph Loeb went from being a writer I really rated to one I didn't at all!
Otherwise you might be thinking of The Long Halloween which was pre-Bush era but also fits the bill, but wasn't published in 'TEC. Also by Jeph "only when he's with Tim Sale" Loeb.
...Thank you , but it wasn't the Hush series , and didn't involve Hush ~ or any costumed/code-named villain ~ at all , I think .
It was more in the (attempted) " gritty " vein , and I recall one scene where Batsy ,having tracked down someone who had sold/supplied a Paris Hilton-style lil' darlin' the H (or whatever) she had ODd on , smashed into him and said , having kicked him in the face with his big boots , " LISTEN ~ Before you go to spend the rest of your life in a cell with a fat man bending over you , TELL ME !!!!!!!!!!! " , etcetera .
Comics . They're not just for kids anymore !!!!!!!!!!!
David Hine's "City of Crime" run?
Sounds like Brian Azarello's Broken City run? That was really out of continuity even though it was published in the regular Batman series. (But only 6 issues long.)
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...With Hine-sight I am inclined to think " City Of Crime " sounds right , perhaps I can check Comics.org when I can...Thank you both , especially John !!!:-)
ClarkKent_DC said:
Emerkeith Davyjack said:
No matter. I have a mental block against paying more than $7 for a single comic.
...I just , to-day , re-read it...and it's still pretty good !!!!!!!!!
Really , if Batman at all interests you ~ I'd recommend buying it .
Clar ~ It IS 4.40 times the standard contemporary DC , for about 30% than the price of 3 . As I say below ~ consider it a book .
Actually , considering that the page rates , for all these " special " creators , and the time for DC's staff putting it together , must come to more than , even , 5 times the money & time spent upon a typical issue , I'd think DC could make some extra money out of it by , more or less instantly , repackaging it as lower-end priced TPB , add perhaps just the original " Case Of The Chemical Syndicate " and 2-page origin as " bonus tracks " and this would make a pretty good " Batman Anniversary " book !:-)!!!!!!!! More aimed at " normal "/the general market than the fan/comics shop market , but them also...I'm rather thinkingo f another aspect of Warner Brothers , the umpteen " maxi-magazine/mini-book " specials of TIME/LIFE/PEOPLE (Remembering The 90s/The Land Where Jesus Lived/Remembering dead beloved movie & pop stars) that fill the racks at my local CVS and I believe WB then repackages with a little more stuff , as " real " books for the bookstore trade...I think even the presence of one non-complete story , the " Gothtopia " chapter could even be understood by " normal " as a " Batman goes ever onward !!!!! " symbol...