Batman #19: I Am Bane, I Am Sane, I Am In Sane, I Am Insane

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Well, he warned you.

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I wonder if he's still mad about what happened in ASB.

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Yup. He's still Mad. In both senses of the word.

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Aw, dang it.

I should have titled this: I Am Bane, I Am Sane, I Am In, I Am Insane

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Page of the Year Contender.

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Neo-Bendis Powers Activate!

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Guess who

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Time's up!

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Crane Style!

Thanks for the storytime!!!

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Sorry, Scareclods. No Arkham Knight contrivances today!

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And a MASSIVE apology to all you Dick fans, Jason fans, and Damian fans!

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>>90733949
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79DijItQXMM

>>90733957
Given his current shtick, Crane would probably be grateful if Bane actually causes him to feel fear.

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I really think you could make a good Flamingo one-shot story that stresses his "Evil Zorro" aspect with Bruce brooding over how even that childhood icon of his isn't immune from villainy and perversion.

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>>90733843
Why is a zombie an Asylum patients?

>>90734058
Batman just call superman you pussy.

>>90734059
It's Gotham, man. They let them go every week anyway.

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>>90734019
King doesn't give a damn about the other Bat Books. Let him quote William James in peace! Just like that fan comic where Batman and Joker fell out of that blimp did!

>>90733991
Why must King insist on starting internet flame wars?

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As a former shota prison bitch, Bane is an expert on Low Blows.

>>90734087
Defeated by Calendar Man. Of all fucking people. Without throwing so much as a punch.

>>90733827
Pain rhymes with Bane.

>>90734112
Was Riddler always this attractive???

>>90734124
Yes. He's just such a giant fucking nerd he can't help but fuck himself over.

>>90734102
Not untrue

>>90733768
Oh, that was Maxie! I was already wondering wtf was an ordely doing spitting out poetry.

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>>90734070
Why would he when he has Riddler as his bestest best buddy?

>>90734118
If the Calendar Man is gonna beat bane, it better be without throwing a punch

>>90733991
When did Bane defeat the Justice League and kill Gotham?

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>>90734111
Why must King waste page space on underwhelming spreads?

>>90734011
>>90734052
>>90734111
The fuck about that page got you mad?

>>90734160
>war of jokes and riddles
2nd time thats been brought up

>>90734160
"War of Jokes and Riddles" is the name of the fourth Batman Rebirth trade, right after "I AM Bane".

Guess that will be the next arc.

>>90734160
i wonder what the motivation is in amplifying the capabilities of all these characters so exponentially is. It doesn't ensure the stakes are raised it just desensitizes the reader to this kinda shit. Like c'mon with this shit

>>90733752
>Entire issue is the reversal of Knightfall

Pottery!

>>90734087
Calendar Man is becoming very 4th wall aware.

>>90734245
Did you not get the riddle there? He didn't have to bypass the new genesis tech because there was a flaw in the tech it was hooked up to he could exploit instead. How do people need EVERYTHING spelled out for them on this level? I get the point of Silver Age exposition sometimes after reading storytimes.

>>90734225
Bane beat Dick, Jason, and Damain, with little-to-no effort, off-panel so that King could make a shock book ending where Bane had them all hanging from nooses in the Batcave.

People didn't want to accept that it was the real Robins, just some random dudes Bane dress up like them. But Bruce on that page just confirmed it was the real Robins.

>>90734194
i dunno gotta rely on your artist i guess. Tom has made himself out to be a man of few words with this run, so i've come to expect this kind of thing. And repetition.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpwFim_oVsc

>>90734011
>now

>>90734052
>>90734102
>>90734145
I think being given a "sure thing" title like Batman has maimed his creativity and competence.

>>90734186
King Bruce is even dumber than Snyder Bruce.

>>90734178
>>90734118
Not quite Scarface Hand-tier, but it's up there.

>>90734159
Yeah, I didn't know who that was until I read the placard either.

>>90734124
Since New52, I think. Made him younger anyway.

>>90734122
Storytime of BANE.

>>90734111
>>90734225
Because the Fire RISES! He loves his crappy TDKR memes.


>>90734059
>>90734076
True enough.

>>90734231
It probably wasn't that great.

>>90734243
It probably won't be that great.

>>90734245
Gotta legitimize their A-List popularity with normiess.

>>90734290
Most people want the answer handed to them. Probably why the Riddler isn't one of the more popular rogues.

>>90734292
That was confirmed a couple issues ago.

>>90734305
DUDE King does this prose quoting shit like every single issue two or three times

>>90734194
So, Batman's set things up to BREAK YOU! Bane?

>>90734305
why are you quoting a dozen+ posts?

You idiots do get how Riddler hacked the door right?

>>90734395
I think storytiming OPs should be afforded these priveleges in their threads

please, do share

>>90734440
>>90734290
read the damn story idiot

>>90734440
he hacked the other side of the rope, he didn't have to break through new genesis tech

>>90734459
Of course, honestly I would have never understood without you, then now, why Bruce left open that door??? anyway thanks anon and thanks OP for the storytiming.

>>90734451
>>90734459
I had figured it was a closed system, that's actually a pretty glaring flaw. You're right though my bad. I guess my first reaction compounded with the Bane wanking to make me leap to the conclusion Riddler was being wanked in this book too.

>>90733991

those anons insisting those weren't actually the Robins hung in the cave are feeling pretty damn stupid right now...

>>90734686
fuck off damianfag

>>90734735

...the fuck?

>>90734194

Finch's art never has, and never will be worth a splash page. I'm no Kingfag but his Batman run deserves better than Finch.

>>90734834
Finch is a good artist.
Get over it.

>>90734006
>Not impossible
>Bane

Must resist the urge to do a CIA joke.

>>90735027
Finch is good at drawing monsters and uber muscular dudes. With the right inker, he shines even more. That worked for moon knight and is working for this, i think, but that doesn't make him a good artist, far from it.
His action is stiff, his characters lack expressivemess and suffer from massive same face, all his women look like inflated plastic dolls.

Batman will be saved by Gotham Girl, screencap this.
Also, I like King and all, but why does he hate Batman so much?

>>90734160

So what awful thing did Batman do THIS time? It'd be nice for Batman to be superhero that spends his nights protecting the innocents again instead of either indirectly causing all of Gotham's problems or being a useless shit head that lets his city fall to ruin every other weekend and needs others to bail his ass out.

>>90734112
I like how bane pretends he was ever going to go get the fucking puzzler.

As if that douchebag is going to do better.

>>90733864
I CAN'T STANDS NO MORE

>>90734058
this reminds me of a similar thing in Secret Six now that I see Hatter there. He used to hypnotize himself to make himself happy and fulfilled.

>>90733768
>Maxie Zeus
Is this his first appearance in the New 52/Rebirth continuity?

>>90733864
How strong are Solomon Grundy and Amygdala supposed to be?

>>90734058
How did he beat Dr.Phosphorus if dr doesn't feel pain?

>>90733991
Pretty lame excuse for not calling the JL

>>90734006
>BECAUSE I'M BATMA-I MEAN BANE!

>>90734058
Wait, if Hush is already in Arkham, how did Alfred pretend to bring Hush into Arkham?
And what's stopping Hush from telling everyone that Bruce Wayne is Batman anyway?

>>90734058
>Batman let Zsasz out
Fuck you Bruce, over the fucking line.

>>90735446
more than bane
less than bane

>>90735495
Yeah, you gotta wonder how many inmates and employees Zsasz murdered befor Bane showed up.

>>90734305

I'm going to admit this issue actually got my HYPED for the next issue.

I've been consistently criticising King for his decompression of arcs, but this issues - while being a nothing but hyping it up issue - has me pretty excited for the next issue.

Finch just needs to draw the FUCK out of a Batman v Bane fight and I'll legit forgive King for his decompression.

Like, I want fifteen or sixteen pages of brawling. I want this to be like the time Superman died to Doomsday, but with Bane and Batman, and Batman being triumphant.

You seem awfully mad OP.

>>90734031
dig that BS and FF still have their all star look

>>90735226
>all his women look like inflated plastic dolls.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

He is massively better based on who his inked is though, you're definitely right on that. His stuff in Ascension looks so much better than this, and it's clearly just the inker, his pencils haven't really changed at all between then and now.

>>90735446
Solomon Grundy shouldn't be in Arkham fucking Asylum anyway.

He's a fucking literal zombie magic monster, not a goddamn mental patient.

>>90735842
The authorities probably saw a grey retarded freak who did nothing but repeat a nurery rhyme and figured "let Arkham deal with this shit".

>>90735875
He's almost as strong as Superman, dude.

(Yes, yes, Grundy's power level and personality varies from incarnation to incarnation, but come on.)

>>90735842
I like the JL cartoon's explanation that Arkham is where you dump sick or injured supervillains

>>90733877
>Crane gets off on people describing their gas induced nightmares
That's cool. I hope King brings him back.

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I want King off this book so bad.

>>90734087
What time of the year does the comic take place during?

They've JUST established in "Rebirth" that Calendar Man is a season-connected metahuman.

>>90734225
I'm mad because he said 'son' not 'sons'.

>inb4 >>/tumblr/

>>90734375

The hallmark of a true hack who convinces people he has depth.

Damn OP you seem to really not like this book.

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>>90734058
>Pre-order 1,000,000,000 copies of the new Bane ongoing NOW!

I wish I could.

>>90734245
god you're dumb

>>90734292
>motherfucking Bane getting the jump on a couple of kids
>mad

I'd understand if he'd blitzed Cass without breaking a sweat or something but...c'mon.

>>90734031

god I hate those costumes

>>90735483
Shh. Now is not the time for critical thinking. Now is the time for mindless punching scenes and Kingfags to tell everyone how amazing it is.

>>90734292
>people getting mad that Bane could beat all the (ex-)robins.

Sad.

>>90733991
>hanged

Isn't it hung?

>Batman putting people in danger just to delay Bane

And people will still claim this is a well written Batman

>>90734292
I didn't want to accept it because it was dumb as hell. How are they still alive. Did Bane only string them up about 10 seconds before Bruce got there? That bothers me far more than the off panel fight we missed.

>>90736387
No. Pictures and dicks can be hung, people are always hanged.

>>90736472
I really hope there's some plot twist coming because I can't believe that Bane beat them, went to the batcave and hanged them and then went around kidnapping other people to make a deal with Batman

>>90736436
I could accept it with some villains, but letting ZSASZ go free is something that Batman should never ever fucking do. You can't reason with Zsasz, if you let him out of his cell, he WILL try to kill anyone unfortunate enough to run into him, be it another inmate or someone from Arkham's staff.
And what's stopping these villains from just breaking out of Arkham in the chaos?

>>90736548
what's stopping Bane from killing them anyway
Batman wouldn't put them in danger anyway because if they died it would be his direct fault

>>90736589
>Batman wouldn't put them in danger anyway because if they died it would be his direct fault
None of them are the Joker so he doesn't care if they die.

Currently reading, did Batman actually manage to convince a bunch of his rogues to get their asses kicked by Bane?

>>90734058
I hate books like this.

LOOK HOW AWESOME THIS CHARACTER IS.

It's fine if the hero does it because he beats these guys all the time, but when someone new/who hasn't faced these challenges before does it there's just a bad taste in my mouth.

>>90736179
>god you're dumb

I was proven to be misguided in my post in regards to the Riddler, yeah. But the heights of Bane's capabilities in this book are beyond retarded i don't give a fuck what you think

>>90736638
>It's fine if the hero does it because he beats these guys all the time,

This issue and last issue are all about how Bane is a dark mirror of Batman. Bane is now the hero of this story, he's "running the gauntlet" like Batman did numerous times.

I'm not saying it's well written, but that's what King is going for here.

>no I can't call the justice league, that wouldn't help
>but I can release these criminals instead

>>90736638
Bane's whole thing is being Batman's dark mirror version.

He SHOULD be the one "Batman villain" that can run the gauntlet JUST LIKE HE HAD BATMAN DO before he ambushed him in his own mansion in Knightfall.

Seriously, try to remember Bane's strategy for slowing down and wearing out Batman before he went up against him in his own first appearance.

Think over this issue, and what it means.

Is it perfect? Hell no. But there is a method to the madness.

Glad more and more people are coming around to accepting that King is a hack.

>>90733843
what the fuck is grundy doing there?
Also grundy is not strong enough to battle superman from a few rounds?

Bane has no chance against Grundy, not even with a cistern truck of venom.

>>90733991
what?
where not "the boys" in the fortress of solitude?
When he defeated the JL?
When he killed Gotham?

>>90734058
How the hell Batman convince all those maniacs to help him? Grundy, Two faces, mr freeze, Zsaz, Hush, dr phosphorous, etc. and they do not shit against bane? what the fuck

>>90736271
He defeated the JL THAT IS SAD..

>>90736877
Grundy's power level changes each time he dies.

>>90736951
Man, does nobody remember anything that happened in this comic only a few issues ago? Bruce was talking about the JL coming into Gotham during Gotham's (the guy) rampage. Yes, they solved the immediate problem, but he's apparently suffering some sort of depressive episode, and doesn't think they're a solution for Bane himself.

Batman isn't an entirely rational being, you know?

>>90736854
>King is a hack
hack is to small of a world to describe this issue

Between broken record Batman with his utterly retarded plan that involved getting beaten up by bane and getting his back only a bit broken, and his plan in this issue, King is 100% hack.

I can't believe some faggots on /co/mblr say he's a good writer.

>>90734059
Maybes he's got s good life-insurance policy or Arkham asylum is run by people who can't tell a patient from a literal dead man

Wasn't Saturn Girl in Arkham? Or was it Belle Reve?

>>90737252
She's in Arkham, yeah.

>>90737274
Why though? Even if you think she's crazy, she's not CRIMINALLY insane.

>>90737362
She stole one (1) sandwich. Very criminal, must put fiends like that in Arkham.

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So wait, am I supposed to hate this? Because PLATINUM MAD Bane is pretty fun, and his interactions with the inmates (beyond just punching them of course) are pretty fun.

>>90736028
And what are his power during each season?

>>90736271
Individually it could happen
But not all 3 on the same time

>>90733843
Why is Solomon Grundy in Arkham

So the last issue was mirroring Bane and Batman's origins.

Now this one is Bane going through a Batman Death Trap orchestrated by all of the Bat rogues.

This Bane / Batman mirroring really better pay off in a big way in the end.

>>90737510
>yfw they will both break each others back at the same time

>>90737470
What makes you think he fought them all at once?

We have no idea what actually went down, other than, he went after them, they wound up unconscious and hung in the batcave, then into stasis pods in the Fortress of Solitude.

He could've picked them off individually for all we know.

>>90737592
The posts in this thread made it sound like he beat them at once, but seeing how Jason and Bizzaro with him 24/7 and Artemis close buy and when he isn't with them then he is with the bats. So I'm just not seeing a timeframe for Bane to ambush him alone

>>90737551

Followed by a full issue of them paralyzed on the floor side by side glaring at each other and aggressively writhing towards each other with dueling inner monologue captions of them explaining their hatred for each other.

>>90737641
We have no evidence of when or how he took out the batkids. Just that he did. Which isn't particularly implausible, Bane going 3 for 3 with them.

>>90737504
Some dumb bureaucrat probably.
Is anyone kept in Blackgate these days?

>>90737815
Jaywalkers.

Sandwich thieves go to Arkham.

>>90737815
Catwoman was before she was moved to Arkham.

>>90734006
>Batman gave Mr. Freeze his gun back
It's like he wanted these villains to escape

>>90736951
>Batman knows how to beat all the league members
>Bane is as smart as Batman
>Bane therefore can beat all the JL

I know it takes a lot of leaps in logic but it could.... happen... if you look at it like that?

>>90737974
But this Bane isn't even doing anything clever, he's just beating everyone with his retard strength.

>>90736638
>>90734058
>LOOK HOW AWESOME THIS CHARACTER IS.

He deserves it after how horribly he got fucked up in Secret Six.

The dialogue is really annoying in these books.

>>90738061
>Bane isn't even doing anything clever, he's just beating everyone with his retard strength

I hope this doesn't become a recurring thing because that's what seems to be happening due to shitty writers.

>>90738159
Dixon and Nolan will make Bane great again starting in May.

Do we know much about The War of Jokes and Riddles?
I'm hoping for Joker vs Riddler. I'd pay to see that.

>>90738190
>Joker
Which one?

>>90738116

It's all fine except for Bane. His dialogue is cringe inducing.

>>90736842
>Bane's whole thing is being Batman's dark mirror version.
But he isn't here.
Batman's whole shtick is that he doesn't use just brute force, and in some cases that was Bane's thing as well. But here he just powers through villains like they were carboard, even when he's not supposed to (Grundy, Crane, Hush).

Having a Rumble Royale of all villains vs 1 like this is usually very very dumb, because:
1) There's usually some villain in there who's already a physical match when alone, nevermind in a group.
2) Some villains don't fight the enemy head-on.

And this issue checks out all the stupid boxes. All of this is just dumb.

>>90738241

3) It doesn't make fucking sense that the hero can take down one of his rogues in three panels, when in other stories, that same villlain probably managed to fuck with him/almost beat him in a 12-part epic.

>>90738326
That could be justified by the hero's experience with the villain's modus operandi, which most of Batman's rogues have. But Bane should be in the dark about a lot of those. Has he ever faced Mad Hatter before?

>>90735226
I'm not a fan of Finch, but he is knocking it out of the park on this arc. Inks and colors have a lot to do with it, though.

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Why has King only been getting worse?

>>90738775
He's not a good writer despite what the hype machine tells you.

>>90737592
Batman told them to go away
They instead decided to stay and go after Bane themselves, so it makes sense they all went together and got defeated

>>90738775
he is only good when he writes characters he cares about like Dick and Green Lantern

So in this Kingverse the Robins are dead maybe, and Cassandra and Spoiler and all of those just don't exist or something. Also, what happened to black kid?

>>90733827
Being Harvey is suffering

>>90734058
>Batman let's put all these criminals
>not Kite-man
Hell no

>>90733843
>I don't know what rhymes with Amygdala.
Meta, King.

>>90734031
>I really think you could make a good Flamingo one-shot story that stresses his "Evil Zorro" aspect with Bruce brooding over how even that childhood icon of his isn't immune from villainy and perversion.

>>90734112
>Bane dragging around Riddler like a toddler.
>Bane threatening to replace him with Puzzler
>Cute twink Riddler

Based King

>>90735842
I figure it's just gone to the point where Arkham is basically an SCP Foundation-type place for super powered villains and extremely dangerous killers like Zsasz and Calendar Man.

It would also explain why Clayface of all people is commonly seen in Arkham as well.

>>90734112
>Puzzler

Kek was Cluemaster too much of an obvious choice?

Scott Snyder causes four-color comic book bulimia with forcing his "creations" on fans of Batman and the legacy Family members.

>>90740499
Cluemaster is dead

>>90733843
>I am Venom
Nope

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>>90740543
Oh alright. Comic book shit was always really confusing and hard for me to keep up with. I have no idea who's dead, who isn't, who's been resurrected and who hasn't.

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I like King, but his dialogue and ''poetry'' in this book really make me question his abilities as a writer. Also the story feels super empty when you start to think about it.

Anyway, I'll stay tuned, but just saying. There's a lot of good, too, but sometimes the bad just outweighs the good.

>>90736436
Yeah, I mean letting SOME Arkham inmates out to delay Bane is a fun idea and could've been done well but this just seems absurd, messy, and careless. Plus Batman saw what Bane was willing to do to his batboys so why'd he think Bane would spare arkham inmates getting in his way? Sure Kings Bat is an autist but this is the first time he's been legitimately fucking mental

>>90736544
Sorry dude. There's no plot twist. This is all pretty straightforward (and awful)

>>90740668
People always criticize Snyder here but he did the whole "using the rogue gallery for help" way better in Endgame

The Batfamily commands at least four teams of superheroes, and Batman himself commands the Batfamily.

Why doesn't he just send the entire family, the Birds of Prey, the JL, the JLA, the Titans and the Teen Titans against Bane's ass?

The arc after I am Bane is a flashback/set in the past. King will definitely do a death story and Snyder will use that to angle Duke as Batman.

>>90739363
You're just making shit up

i have a lot to say about that piece of garbage. If anyone had any doubts that King was out of his mind, I think they need to take a look at that issue. I'm starting to see what you mean by saying Snyder is really the root of the majority of the problems the Batman books are having. King is just a symptom of that, and Tynion will keep writing mediocre stories until Snyder leaves and take him down with him.

>>90740753
because it's the Batman solo book

>>90740753
Because that would be logical and the story would be over in half an issue

>>90740847
Tynions the LEAST offensive bat writer right now

>>90739363
>So in this Kingverse the Robins are dead maybe
They're in recovery at the fortress of solitude.

>>90739363
>Also, what happened to black kid?
Read the book?

>>90734194
batman looks fat

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>>90735139

>>90735446
Grundy goes from low tier super human to wondy's level depending on his latest death

>>90736039
me too

>>90736951
That's not what he said, he is saying you can use a tank to catch pickpocket. Beat bane in a way he doesnt respect and you will have a nuke in gotham in 4 months or something.

You can't use a chainsaw to extract a brain tumor.

>>90733768
Not posting the Sale cover before page one....

Where the fuck is Norrin or RebirthAnon?

>>90744018
Norrin was posting Superman at the time this thread was made

>>90736028
What? Where?

>>90733827
Bane ain't having none of Bruce's shit.

I am amazed at the complete lack of baneposting.

Congratulation /co/.

>>90733991
>Damnit Bruce why do we even have a batphone if you're not gonna use it?

>>90744575
See
>>90743848

>>90733827
I'm curious how Harvey thought that would go.

>>90744521
This book is so joyless Baneposting isn't even worth it.

>>90738071
Its just a reverse of the original strategy Bane used to beat Batman. He had him fight all of Arkham, and beat him when he was weakened.

Bane is a match for Batman, maybe a little stronger even, but he's more fallible as well at times.

King's Batman is actually Great

>>90736691
Seriously. Clark or Diana or Wally or Barry won't help, but Bruce is willing to recruit sadistic murderers? Come on.

Does anyone know how long King will keep writing Batman? Any word on future writers? I'm so fucking sick of his mediocrity.

>>90746520
There's a flashback story with Joker and Riddler coming up

>>90736028
fucking why

>say something is impossible
>Bane can punch SO hard that it's not impossible
>beat up random bat villain
Repeat x10

This, shit is easy. Where is my exclusivity contract, DC?

>>90733843
Why is everyone rhyming?

>>90733827
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIJJMa3y0ek&ab_channel=PinolessTV

>>90733843
Seriously Bane would stand zero chance against Grundy.

>>90744058
I was just joking. Appreciate the STs, no matter who the poster is.

It's a tough road to walk being the lone Salefag in the bat threads.

>>90745616
People decide they hate the issues before reading them, /co/ predicted this would happen before the run even started. Every other comic forum I've looked at and everyone I've talked to at my local comic shop have been loving this arc.

This is one of like three well written Rebirth series, but people go out of their way to find flaws in this one while crap like Green Arrow will get a pass because of different standards.

Thankfully King will probably stay on Batman for at least a little over another year to finish out the two-year Rebirth story. After that we'll end up with someone terrible like Tynion or Seeley, but the rest of King's run will be good while it lasts.

>>90733904
This is a pretty good page

>>90736039

I'm not. I view his relationship with Dick as more of a big brother & little brother relationship.

>>90749003
Nothing about this is well-written. It's incredibly stupid Snyder/Slott tier writing.
For what it's worth I stopped following Green Arrow once the novelty of the art wore off.

>>90734284
Thank you. I see a whole bunch of children in this thread who've never read a batman comic that came out before court of owls.

This was literally a perfect fucking issue from that standpoint. batman didn't need to break anyone out of arkham to run Bane through the same gauntlet he was run through.

Do I have problems with King's run? Yes. But I AM BANE has been easily the best arc and not just because the ones before were a mixed bag.

>>90737424

Batman story times have autists whinging all the time.

It doesn't matter if it's Morrison, Snyder, or King /co/ will rage on and on about tiny shit in the issue.

>>90749298
Maybe those "children" wouldn't be whining if this was written well.

>>90737551
>>90737667
I would legit like this, probably more than what we're actually going to get.

>>90735483
they just pretended Hush escaped when he actually didn't.

>>90749003
>After that we'll end up with someone terrible like Tynion or Seeley

Nah, they're really particular about who gets to write Batman and it's basically only people who've had critically acclaimed books.

DC doesn't hand over the Golden Goose to anyone. Detective Comics or other books with Batman sure, but Batman itself only goes to writers with critically acclaimed books. At least it's been that way since they added Morrison to the book.

>>90737504
The guy obviously needs help anon. Even retarded, undead gangsters deserve psychiatric help.

>>90749642
They gave Batman to Tony Daniel (but only because the flagship book moved to Batman and Robin and then Batman Inc).

>>90733957
What did he expect?

>>90736041
>quotes can never ever be used well ever

get over yourself, you havent done shit in your life to make you an authority on this and no one will ever care about your opinion.

>>90734395
he is quoting everyone because he is autistic and must let everyone know he hates this book

>>90734305
thanks for the storytime, but you are one of the worst storytimers ever

>>90749800
You cared enough to seriously respond to him.

>>90740631
its meant to be a reversal of the gauntlet that Bane put Batman through in Knightfall you dummy


and what is wrong with the quotes other than you not understanding them? its perfectly in character with Maxi Zeus

>>90734087
Best boy

>>90749003
>other comic forum I've looked at and everyone I've talked to at my local comic shop have been loving this arc.
You should maybe tell them to buy a copy rather than read it online, then. Because the sales are already getting down to double digits.

>>90740753
>>90740854
>>90740896
he fucking flat out says that calling in more people would do no good. Either he cares about them, like the Robins, and doesnt want them to get hurt, or they are too powerful, like the JL and would defeat Bane in a way that he doesnt respect, meaning he would nuke gotham or someshit after (like when he called the JL in to stop Gotham but it only made things worse in the long run)


you guys are idiots

>>90740919
>>90740847
there is nothing wrong with this issue, or do you plebs not remember Knightfall?

>>90749298
>this issue sucks but Imma give it a pass
>because Muh Nostalgia Fagging
You are literally cancer.

>>90749642

Daniel and Tynion have both written the Batman comic since then...so yeah you don't know what you're talking about.

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>>90749800
>you havent done shit in your life
>he responded to the unknown poster on the Anonymous Mongolian Reaction Image Board

>no one will ever care about your opinion
>he went on to reply to the unknown anon who's opinion he so didn't care about
King, you're drunk. Go home.

Because you're even worse at this than you are at writing comics. Which is impressive in it's own sad way.

>>90749214

I could see uncle/nephew, but brother/brother? That's utterly ridiculous. Their relationship is not brotherly in any context you idiotic Dickfag.

>>90749858
>I-ITS POTTERY!

Retard.

>>90734305
>this way of replying
Never post again.

>>90734305
>crappy TDKR memes
Someone get this hothead out of here