#while Scott is bickering with Joe HELL

[the-flys-buzz]

he made and exaggerated sniffle sound before gripping onto steven again. hes like a FLEA.

i love you dad-

[OH DEAR. ITS BEEN FOUR DAYS. Anywho! Take this!!]

[Woe! Dad be upon ye! He’s finally back! He probably has a little blood on him…

@steven-reblogs

HIIIII DAD!!!!!!! wh. why is there blood on you.....

EHLP. he went from sounding very excited!!!!!! to sounding incredibly concerned in the span of a few seconds. his dade......

[daisyjonesgf]

On my knees for more jealous Billy, but not with Eddie, I mean random guys who hang around the band. Like other smaller artists or friends of friends. I’d imagine it happened on multiple occasions a dude, who didn’t know better, offered to entertain Muse while Billy went off with a groupie. OH OR while Billy is like about to fuck a groupie or is making out a dude goes to him and is asking where muse is and Billy’s like “why do you want to know?” And he’s all like “I’m trying to get with her, what else?” And it ends with an actual huge fight

-🌾anon

yes yes yes, sorry this took so long to answer, I was busy and having a tiny crisis, but we're all good now ✨️ and I'm literally rewatching djats as we speak

both of these things would totally happen with other artists in the industry, bc it's just become a known thing that billy is cheating on muse and then eventually muse sleeping with eddie is at least whispered about. so some people just think it's all fair game but the dynamics are far more complex then they realize.

like I can envision a party where billy and muse are sitting by each other but only talk to bicker, everyone else is trying to ignore that, but billy is very obviously checking out a girl nearby. at one point he even mutters, "I'll be right back," while clearly staring at her and goes to get up.

so some musician also at the party takes the opportunity to try to slide in with muse, flirt, offer to be there for her that night which makes billy whirl around.

"what the fuck did you say, man?"

"woah, nothing, I just thought-" he's immediately trying to act like it was nothing because billy's rage is palpable.

"yeah, don't think about it." billy is so drunk he's going in for a shove, "don't fucking touch her." taking a step back before turning to muse, "c'mon, baby." and muse is getting up to follow when the other guy is just mumbling a small

"damn, man, what the hell" and billy has no self control so he's whirling around to punch the man square in the face. and muse is pulling him off, billy and muse totally fight about it outside and she breaks up with him because

"oh, yeah so you can make fucking eyes at whoever you want but the moment a guy even breathes at me, you fucking flip? I don't belong to anybody, billy, you're fucking unbelievable!" and shoving him

THE OTHER SCENARIO

also would totally happen, like billy, hands all over a groupie, flirting, about to have his lips on hers when suddenly there's some pop singer who billy despises anyways, let's call him idk kent scott is his stage name (it's actually kenneth scott beauchamp but it didn't play good with audiences, idk why any of this is important but it is to me)

just kent talking to the groupie, "hey, do you know where she is"

and before the groupie can respond, billy is jumping in because kent has a stupid fucking pop single, a pop single where he basically describes seeing muse at a party one night and it's so obviously about her and billy's like 'she's my muse, not yours 😤' attitude (scram, leave her alone, she doesn't wanna talk to you 😔 energy)

but billy is all, "who?"

and kent is like, "who do you think?" with an awkward smile and laugh.

billy is so close to him all the sudden, "why do you wanna know?"

"why do you think?" kent is taking a hit off his cigarette, "you're gonna fuck ginger over here, she's real good, and I'm gonna fuck-" and billy has punched him in the face before he can finish. twice. and that is the end of kent actively trying to get with muse because black eyes don't work well with being a shiny popstar.

anyways in my mind kent looks like joe keery, do with that what you will.

[davidmann95]

Did you enjoy Detective Comics #1027?

Anonymous said: Detective Comics 1027?

adudewholikescomicsandotherstuff said: Tec 1027?

Anonymous said: Thoughts on Detective Comics 1027 ?

My own cover of choice since the main one while also very good was a wrap-around, which doesn’t work quite as well for a 144-page beast like this (plus in place of that there’s a cool spooky Batman silhouette on the back). And I did enjoy it! Unfortunately it isn’t as much of a tier unto itself relative to its anniversary brethren of the last couple years (Batman’s 5th next to Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash, and Green Lantern’s one apiece, and the entirety of Marvels’ two) the way the creative lineup had me hoping, but it’s still got some great work and is a steal at $9.99 for what’s basically a modest trade.

Blowback by Peter Tomasi, Brad Walker, Andrew Hennessy, Nathan Fairbairn, and Rob Leigh: That being said it does not start out on a great foot. I was actually willing to cut this a little slack - Walker’s artwork is gorgeous, and I’m willing to believe Batman would go into an internal poetic monologue on the nature of crimefighting in the midst of an escape - but Tomasi’s tendency for devolving into nonsensical stream-of-thought rambling grates here like never before, and the ending is a total non-sequitur. I just don’t understand how Tomasi has seemingly reached that sort of Miller/Adams rarefied air where he can turn in literally whatever he wants and get it printed.

The Master Class by Brian Bendis, David Marquez, Alejandro Sanchez, and Joshua Reed: Thankfully, immediately followed up by one of the better ones. I feel like this story is exactly what this site specifically wants out of its Batman comics - the Batfamily bickers and solves a mystery involving one of the rogues gallery doing something slightly silly, Bruce himself mostly just hangs back to let the kids do their thing and praise them at the end. Much as I’ve found his Superman work revelatory, I can’t deny that it’s Batman who’s produced Bendis’s best hit-miss ratio since coming to DC, even if it’s a very different kind of Batman than we would’ve expected from him. And naturally Marquez brings it, definitely one of DC’s best acquisitions of the last several years.

Many Happy Returns by Matt Fraction, Chip Zdarsky, and Aditya Bidikar: Okay this was not the version of Batman vs. Joker coming from the Sex Criminals team and the writer of the great Bat-Olsen Prank War of 2019 I imagined. It’s a straightforward story ending on a familiar thesis, but it’s the best execution of it we’ve ever seen, and while I was expecting it to look very good I was not expecting Zdarsky to walk away as the artistic MVP of an anthology with Mora and Burnham in it. And while I’m usually a philistine who doesn’t notice these sorts of things, Bidikar’s lettering here is also conspicuously great. They all have better things to do, but for real give this team a Batman ongoing, best story of the issue.

Rookie by Greg Rucka, Eduardo Risso, and Tom Napolitano: Followed by the worst! Not in terms of pure storytelling - it’s Rucka and Risso, of course it reads fine - but as a “yes, most cops suck, but if you try REALLY hard you can totally be a good cop, even in Gotham!” story in 2020. In 2015, 2016, and 2019 I was excited about Rucka’s returns to DC, but between this and Lois Lane #12 this is the year I never want to see him write a superhero comic again.

Ghost Story by James Tynion IV, Riley Rossmo, Ivan Plascencia, and Andworld Design: Finally Tynion gets to write in the era he’s I think really wanted all along, and Rossmo’s a surprisingly good fit for it. A tight, nifty little high-concept romp that touches on the big concerns you expect with an anniversary issue without getting too self-serious about it.

Fore by Kelly Sue DeConnick, John Romita Jr., Klaus Janson, Arif Prianto, and Troy Peteri: A standout! One of those ‘addressing a bunch of modern Batman criticisms head-on’ stories while keeping terse enough to let Romita Jr. on one of his better days do his thing; surprisingly this is the only “Batman as a scary badass of few words fighting street crime” story in here, and this team’s really good at that.

Odyssey by Marv Wolfman, Emanuela Luppachino, Bill Sienkiewicz, Jordie Bellaire, and Carlos Mangual: ...huh? I guess this qualifies as a history-of-Gotham/detective story, but even for a veteran like Wolfman with nothing to prove I can’t grasp why you’d get offered a big anniversary story and turn in...this. And Luppachino and Sienkiewicz are two great tastes who don’t taste great together.

Detective #26 by Grant Morrison, Chris Burnham, Nathan Fairbairn, and Steve Wands: I’ll admit the point of this one sailed over me beyond the clear message of “there were pulp heroes and then Batman happened” on first reading even if I enjoyed it, but thanks to @khancrackers​ I got it - much as Batman was the amalgamation of many influences the guy here had all the ingredients, but he could only think to become the latest iteration on an already rapidly-curdling idea. There were plenty like that, 26 issues worth in that book alone, but it was #27 where the spark lit and something unique was born. In Morrison’s own words elsewhere, “You’ve GOT something. You SHINE.” Which itself makes this an interesting companion to his Batman epic, which has fistfulls of ‘lesser’ iterations of the basic idea, but they become heroes because they’re inspired by Batman himself. It would be the best story of any Batman anniversary issue that didn’t include Many Happy Returns, and is still an interesting final word on the character as a spiritual prologue to Morrison’s 7 years with him. Oh, and Burnham fucking rules, obviously.

Legacy by Tom King, Walter Simonson, Laura Martin, and John Workman: It sure is a Tom King Batman comic. Which isn’t a criticism! But it sure is what it is and not much more. I guess he felt he needed it to be a sequel to something Simonson had done before (while also tying into his own run a bit), and worked with what he had. And speaking of whom, while I haven’t seen much else of his contemporary material I think this is where I’ve realized Walter Simonson’s work is turning into a caricature of itself in much the same way as Frank Miller, but in a much more generally palatable way.

As Always by Scott Snyder, Ivan Reis, Joe Prado, Marcelo Maiolo, and Tom Napolitano: I was surprised by how much I loved it and I kind of want this to be Snyder’s final Batman story? It’s a perfect full circle in multiple ways, as it’s not only a Batman/Gordon story mirroring Detective Comics #27 itself, but Snyder’s own first Batman work, even as it shows how much his vision of Batman has changed since Black Mirror. A perfect ‘last’ story for the collection, the next two glorified advertisements notwithstanding.

Generations: Fractured by Dan Jurgens, Kevin Nowlan, Hi-Fi, and Andworld Design: A nothingburger, but a hilarious one because a couple days after Jim Lee’s statement this is basically hollering “hey kids, have you heard of 5G?!” Still gorgeous with Nowlan onboard.

A Gift by Mariko Tamaki, Dan Mora, Tamra Bonvillain, and Tom Tapolitano: Of course pretty as hell with Mora and those Bonvillain colors, but as an actual story it feels perfunctory, some standard Batman ‘once my very important dad said...’ lecturing across a throwaway action sequence with a tease. I dunno if this is setting up Tamaki on Detective, or a future Tomasi story without him just writing it himself, but while it’s basically competent and therefore doesn’t end the book on a wet fart or anything, you can’t help but wish it could’ve been just a little better.

So 7 out of 12 good ones. That’s definitely not as positive a ratio as I’d gone in expecting or even walked away with the impression of, but that’s still 81 pages of good comics, and even the lesser stories mostly still have quality art. In summation, Rookie <  Odyssey < Blowback < Generations: Fractured < A Gift < Ghost Story < Legacy < Fore < The Master Class < As Always < Detective #26 < Many Happy Returns, and the pinups by Garcia-Lopez, Campbell, Cheung, Bermejo, and Coipel are all as good as you’d expect.

[steven-reblogs]

“Of course, kid. You always make me proud by the way. No matter what you do? I’m proud to call you my son. Alright?”

[OH DEAR. ITS BEEN FOUR DAYS. Anywho! Take this!!]

[Woe! Dad be upon ye! He’s finally back! He probably has a little blood on him…

@steven-reblogs

HIIIII DAD!!!!!!! wh. why is there blood on you.....

EHLP. he went from sounding very excited!!!!!! to sounding incredibly concerned in the span of a few seconds. his dade......