^^^ Likes this.

your not saying that Morrison is not original are you? Or that comics are just regurgitating the same stuff over and over?

Bats Lives Always

Here’s another theory, which seems more plausible to me, copied from the story about DC’s announcement.

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Evil Twin wrote:
To me this is very clearly Morrison’s take on the Prof. Nichols time travel stories and stuff like Jungle Batman and Batman Indian Chief. He’s been mining the 50s era extensively and trying to give those type of stories a modern spin, Batman II and Robin II being an example, and this fits right in.

What, no Village People Batman?

He wrote two Sixth Doctor (Colin Baker) stories and one Seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy), the latter with art by Bryan Hitch. You can get them in the DOCTOR WHO CLASSICS VOL. 3 trade paperback from IDW.

Ugh, can we get a real Batman writer please?

The line had a minor tie to “Elseworlds”; in fact, if you look closely at the lower left of the Dark Rider box above, you’ll see the Elseworlds sigil. Not all of the figures appeared in Elseworlds books; some were original concepts, and some were comic-accurate for the time (like Balent Catwoman, ponytailed Nightwing, KnightsEnd and KnightQuest Batman, etc.).

And while I don’t think that Morrison’s inspiration totally came from this (I was, obviously I think, being a bit tongue-in-cheek), he WAS photographed at around the same time for Wizard clutching two fistfuls of Kenner “Total Justice” figures.

http://www.pvponline.com/my-parents-are-dead/

My PARENTS are DEEEEeeeeeeeEEEEAAAAAAaaaaaaaAAAAADDD!

Still the best Batman comic I’ve ever read.

My favorite figure is the Roadhouse Stripper Batman, with leather studded next choker and ball-gag.

I loved the humor of the article…and that some people are taking it more seriously than intended.

For 100% serious theories, that one copied from EvilTwin seems good and lines up nicely with Grant’s previously stated intention of making all past stories fit into continuity.

The sad thing is that I bought all of those figures as a young child…and still have them lol. RIP was the worst Big BATMAN event story line of this decade 00′s. For a guy who wrote Arkham Asylum…A TRUE MASTERPIECE! One would have thought RIP would have lived up to the height. Here is a suggestion…Make BATMAN wear his all black suit from Begins and Dark Knight moive..DEAR DC PLEASE TAKE THE UNDERWARE OFF OF BOTH BATMAN & SUPERMAN!!!!!! It is almost 2010…NOT FREAKING 1950!!! Marvel has updated most of their custumes…like taking the blue underware off of Wolverine (Excetp in issues where Wolverine is in the past)

I loved that series of action figures!

Arkham Asylum is overrated. Batman is written out of character before he even steps in Arkham to have that as an excuse. But he does basically make the Asylum into its own character, so that is good.

Just like the idea of finding a way to make all past Batman stories part of continuity is great, even if the execution was uneven. One of the reasons I’ll ALWAYS give Grant Morrison stories a chance is because you can never accuse him of just mailing it in. He comes up with interesting concepts and takes chances.

I was thinking more inspiration from the Batman comics of the 50′s and such. Professor Nichols and the trips through time, anyone?

The story arc is the same that the argentine`s comic clasic El Eternauta from Hector G. Oesterheld and Solano Lopez.
Its`very similar.

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MAKE. IT. STOP.

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grant morrison messed up final crisis as batman. batman r.i.p was awful.

oh god i actually had the “dark rider” batman…and his horse. I wonder if i can find it…i coulda sworn there was an Egyptian themed batman i had too…with matching cleopatra catwoman….no joke.

I appreciate for this perfect topic and narrative of current interrogation. You’ve laid it out better than any discussion I have seen. Also thx for citing my text on it. Your’s takes it way increased.