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ROBIN: YEAR ONE:
Still gearing up to read Batman and Robin: Year One, I read 2000's Robin: Year One (of course, I don't see how "Robin: Year One" can be all that different from "Batman and Robin: Year One"). I will say this, though: it goes a long way toward addressing the "child endangerment" issue. I won't go into plot specifics, though, because I have learned that whereas there are many on this board who can speak authoritatively about comics from 50 years ago, there are very few left who are familiar with those of the last 25. Even I myself, who bought this four-issue mini-series new a quarter of a century ago had never read it... until today. Rather than being embarrassed about that fact, I am actually quite pleased with myself that I got around to reading it "someday." It was at this point I planned to move on to Batman and Robin: Year One, but I think I have one more to squeeze in first.
ROBIN: 80th ANNIVERARY:
This is the one I thought I might read before delving into Batman & Robin: Year One. I almost never do this anymore, but I bought this one new without reading it at the time. (Has it really been five years? "The Sensational Character Find of 1940"... Yeah, that tracks.) And, yes, this is the alternate cover (of eleven) that I bought. After fliping through it, however, I decided it would "read" better after B&R:Y1.
BATMAN & ROBIN: YEAR ONE #1-12:
I just finished reading this entire series for the first time. I read #1-10 as they were coming out, then I set aside #11-12 to read them all together. The villains of this series are Two Face, Clayface and a gangster named Grimaldi. It is not compatible with Robin: Year One, but it is complementary. I would hesitate to name one as being "better" than the other; they both have their good points. Rather, I would say they are alternate versions of the same legend. In the days to come I plan to move on to...
BATMAN CHRONICLES: THE GAUNTLET (1997):
Still on my "Robin" kick, I decided I wanted to read "The Gauntlet" yesterday. However, I wasn't in the mood to read it in 1997 (plus I was probably in the middle of a "cutback phase), so I didn't buy it. What I should have done, and under normal (i.e., non-"cutback") circumstances would have done, was simply buy it and wait until I was in the mood to read it. Granted, that took 28 years, but it would have cost me five bucks then in comparison to what it cost me yesterday (and it's a good thing my LCS had it in stock because it has some heat on the backissue market and can be difficult to find at a reasonable price), which leads me to one of my comic book collecting precepts: "Buy it when you have the chance." Don't take the chance that a single issue will be available years down the road, or still in print if it's a hardcover, or reasonably priced in either case. The Gauntlet isn't compatible with either Robin: Year One or with Batman & Robin: Year One, but it's well worth reading. It tells the story of Robin's "graduation" into becoming Batman's fully fledged partner. Robin must evade Batman overnight until sunrise, but they are also both working the same case.
BATMAN #655-658:
Captain Comics posted something the other day that confounded me, so today I went all the way back to the "beginning" (i.e., Batman #655) to see if I could figure it out for myself.
I just read Batman 655-658 on DC Infinite Ultra.
And...?
On the weekends I try to read something a bit more "in-depth" than my weekday fare, so today I started...
BATMAN #686 / DETECTIVE COMICS #853 - "Whatever Happened tp the Caped Crusader?"
This two-parter is Neil Gaiman's "answer" to Alan Moore's "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?" In it, Batman seems to be attending his own funeral. Each of his friends and enemies steps up to say a few words, and each relates the story of a different life, and a different death. Eventually it becomes clear that Batman is dying, and the entire story is an hallucination playing out in his mind. What I want to know is this: Why did no one on this board bring this story to my attention back in 2009?
Batman/Deadpool #1
Capes #1
The Ultimates #18
My favorite of the three is Capes.
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