DC Comics F**k Up Best New Batman Villain In Years
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- Опубликовано: 9 июн 2024
- DC Comics reminded readers not to buy into any of their new concepts, because they will always screw it up. This week Batman #148 drops the ball with the best new Batman villain in years, Failsafe. Batman #148 features a massively rushed ending to get to Absolute Power with multiple cliche payoffs and some that don't make any sense. Wes and Jim review Batman #148, an enormous exercise in frustration that completes Chip Zdarsky's Failsafe story after 2 years. DC Comics screw up best new Batman villain in years.
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DC f*** up their own characters? You don't say😂😂😂
…I honestly can’t think of a single character that I can say is better than ever (or even just doing okay) especially in stuff featuring the DC trinity.
@@snowbunnie1113 agreed
At this point the character DC have not ruined is Jonah Hex.
I like that Bruce talked to his family about the mistakes that he did over the past year or so and made amends for what he’s done to them, including Jason. I also like that the entire Batman Family worked together to defeat Zur, a clone of Bruce who became Robin, and one of Bruce’s mentors. The one thing I can criticize is Tim’s recent Robin suit because it looks off and that I prefer him wearing his original pre-Flashpoint Red Robin suit because it’s a sign of maturity, evolution, and character growth. Overall, this comic is good!
lol
A Robot? Clones? When the hell did Batman get so goofy and science fiction crazy? It supposed to be dark, gritty and grounded.
Now you're pointed. I think that is just a case of re-using golden age ideas, but its worse, cause the golden age has gone and is a sympton of DC out of ideas.
It's not SUPPOSED to be. That's just what you want. Batman can be many things. Not just dark and gritty.
Granted you have a great writer
You know mix and match toys? The little figures of different animals, aliens, robots, etc. where the gimmick is you can take them apart and combine different pieces? Put the elephant’s head on the giraffe’s torso, put the giraffe’s legs on the monkey’s torso, and so on? I’m starting to think DC is using the same kind of strategy to make characters now. “Let’s put Batman’s head on Cyborg’s body and give him Mr. Freeze’s backstory!” It’s fine to do that kind of thing sometimes, but not all the dang time.
13:35- What the frick is up with laced-up boots that tall? Multiple people would get murdered in the time it took to lace those things up!
15:25- Ha! Got ‘im!👌
ZEA is the worst Batman creation I can think of - agree that part of Batman's history should have stayed in his history. We did not need it dug up again, especially to be implemented so poorly.
He didn't mind wipe jason, he injected jason with a chemical that turned his adrenaline into a pseudo fear toxin
What is it with writers constantly tuning Batman into an incompetent, controlling villain in his own series? DC just thinks that “brooding edge lord who trusts no one” (but also has a huge family he depends on) is his whole character now.
@@snowbunnie1113 Anything else would be "making it political" by exactly parallelling the American voter, killing children under landfills for cents of savings on a Lunchables, which you call smart.
A complete Kafka trap, if they write it SO perfectly even you can follow the plot, it ESPECIALLY offends you.
Chip Zdarsky only knows one history to tell
What it did was show just that they are a bunch of lazy writers and had to resort to a story from the Batman animated series called “his silicon soul”….. which had the exact same premise machine pretending to be Batman but when it thought it killed the original Batman it overrode his programming and went into a rage where it destroyed its master Hard’Ack… and ended its own life. Of course Batman wasn’t really killed but thinking he was dead is what caused the machine to be defeated and frankly even though there’s a slight difference it’s almost the exact same premise!
“His Silicon Soul” was so much better.
I love that episode.
Court Of Owls is still awesome, unlike this atrocity.
Edit: Can you make a video how Grant Morrison turned Talia Al Ghul into a dumb cartoon villain? Even Dr.Robotnik from the old Sonic cartoon is smarter.
Talia: Snooping as usual, I see!
2:00 I can't get over that Stryker or w/e it's supposed to be lifting up it's entire turret to shoot at the robots instead of just it's barrel. It even looks like the cage on the back is clipping into the body of the vehicle lol.
This story reads like it was written by A.I. but the software got a virus and the interfacing went absolutely haywire.
Glad I dropped it back when Batman entered the Earth's atmosphere...without a ship.
Oi !!!
I’d give the overall Failsafe run a 7/10. Biggest problem was, of course, Gotham War because it definitely kneecapped the series. A pointless event with no consequences since everything has already been fixed. On the plus side, at least there is no chance that they’ll ever mention this event ever again. Beside that I thought the idea that the Bat-family would actually believe Bruce would install his mind into a robot body really dumb. As for this latest issue I agree that the ending to this story was rushed. Felt weird to me that Bruce would allow Jason to simply die for him and how anti-climatic defeating Zur turned out to be. Beyond those gripes I thought the series was a fun ride. Interested to see what comes next seeing as how Zdarsky still has more to go. My only hope is that this is the last time they use the “Bruce is on rocky terms with the family” bit for a while.
The Zur En Arrh defeat maked sense to me but the Batman victory is meaningless since Zur is to come back already in the next month in Absolute Power event. Batman books need more better writers.
Like Robert Vanditti.
I'm guessing the mind control stuff was wrapped up because they realised it's a stupid line they shouldn't have crossed.
Lazarus Resign was a big part of Task Force Z. It was used on Jason Todd.
This whole series has just been awful, from premise to execution. Everything that happened felt like a pointless detour in order to get to some other event that wasn’t worth it. (Penguin had to pretend to die at the beginning so King could write his sh*tty maxi series, then the story was put on hold for “night terrors” then Batman and Catwoman had to have a fight so the “Gotham War” crossover could happen, and now we are just going through the motions until “absolute power” can start.)
Yep. Too many events. You can't tell a coherent story if you need to include 15 other stories on top of that. Events should only happen every few years not every few weeks.
If you have cloning technology, why not clone…I dunno….meta humans?
I was so confused by this book. What was up with the machine that was curing the villains or whatever it was supposed to do? Was it implanting other Batman’s into the villains? Did I totally check out and miss the explanation?
The way he beat the villain, I swear I've seen that somewhere before. They need to stop trying to reinvent the wheel.
Vandal Savage as Commissioner of Gotham City is the most fukkkkiiinnngggg idiotic thing I've ever seen in DC Comics. To grab such a legendary, menacing, great supervillain as Vandal and make him some ordinary fkn cop in Gotham City is asinine!!!
I bought this issue... I had not bought a Batman or Detective book in several months now, I bought this one because of the art. But man, this Chip guy is atrocious.
Marvel did the same thing when they made Kingpin the mayor
@@RaymondSingh-um4dw Way different my friend. Kingpin is a normal, human being, albeit he's huge and manacing and brutal but he's a well established street level villain.
Vandal SAvage is an immortal, who has ruled several people throughout the times and has infiltrated and been part of historic events in the DC Universe. He's not street level. He has given The Justice League headaches, including major confrontations with The Flash, Superman, Hawkman. I know his history. He gives two fcks about Gotham City or BAtman. The times he has given a shit about Batman is because he's in the team he wants to destroy at the time.
There’s a story in post Crisis Flash (1988ish)by Mike Baron. Vandal Savage is basically reverted to a street level drug dealer. Absolutely asinine! Savage shouldn’t stop short of ruling the world…. He’s one of those villains. Dr Doom level. No idea why people think Barons Flash is so great. He knew absolutely nothing about DC or the Flash going into it🤷♂️
Awesome work guys
I do like when the Bat-Family comes together as a family; everything else about modern Batman can take a long walk off a short pier.
Let's be honest, the whole Zur-En-Arrh thing was utter bullshit since Grant Morrison.
Batman implanting an alternative personality in himself like he has the skills of Professor Hugo Strange? Please, Zur-En-Arrh is one of those concepts that most comic fans don't mock cause Morrison wrote it so it MUST be good, it's not like it doesn't make sense at all for the character, it's the reader that is too dumb to understand it.
Failsafe is just worse, Batman shouldn't be portrayed as a tech genius and even if he had the skills to create something like Failsafe really of ALL Batman villains Penguin is the one that tricks the "no kill" protocol? The same guy that tried to fake his death and blame it on Joker just to make a robbery disguised as a nun? The same guy that escaped prison faking death thanks to Mortimer Kadaver? How many times Penguin is gonna use the same trick before Batman says "Yeah you know what? I'm gonna explicitly put into Failsafe's code that if the guy that was killed it's Penguin then it doesn't count"
P.S. Jorge Jimenez is the new Scott McDaniel, a great artist that when had the possibility to be the artist on Batman never had a story that made him stand out
Paul Dini and Tomasi are far better than Morrison. They simple write good and smart Batman comics. Most of Morrison's Batman is overrated, cause many people think he is a genius for just using golden and silver age ideas and write complicated plots high on LSD.
@@AbsoluteMisan agreed.
Dini in just one issue proved to be able to create one of the best Joker stories with just a simple car and Santa hat and at the same time wrote some very disturbing plots for characters like Firefly or Mr.Zsasz that he simply couldn't have done in the animated shows
Grant Morrison always brings back stupidest obscure characters. His writing is just above average because he's always packs in this zany bullshit
I just reread Final Crisis. It still sucks. Its like Morrison unnecessarily writes vaguely and confusing on purpose cuz it’s “hip”. Just tell the damn story lol!!!! Use your words Grant!
@deadpilled2942 There is nothing bloofy average about Grant Morrisons writing! Theh ate a gojd writer. I have read their stuff and most of it is very good. I will agree that the their Batman run is not perfect.
2:-02 DAANNNGG - I haven't read the book, but if it is as bad as you say, how can you put such a talented artist on it.
How did Vandal Savage become the commissioner of Gotham? Does Alan Scott have anything to say about his old foe being the commissioner? Is Vandal there just to fill the hole lefy by Ra's al Ghul after his death in the Batman/Robin/Deathstroke crossover from Williamson?
Wes WTF is Benny really dead.
Yeah confirmed by his wife on the channel
@JosephRockford That hurts he was one of dudes besides Rob, Sal and Joel that started me into becoming a serious collector.
@@spiderghost6940 I think it’s amazing to me he never got into politics or drama, he just loved comics more than anything in life. there’s even stories from people who I thought he’d hate where they talk about how sweet and nice he was to them in spite of beliefs ect.
@JosephRockford Facts he seems like a good dude.
Each passing week just makes me more and more depressed as a DC reader and comic reader in general. There just isn’t any talented editors working at any of these publishers anymore. Zdarsky is an okay writer, but he clearly needs a good editor to help him flesh things out and tell him “no, this is a dumb idea” whenever necessary. I know it would probably raise a lot of eyebrows, but DC needs to take a risk and see if they can pay Cates to come over. I’m trying to think of writers that are still willing to work at the big 2 and are actually talented and cause some buzz. Cates might be the only guy and I think he could actually write a really good Batman with Jorge Jimenez on art.
Do you mean Donny Cates?
What the heck? How did the family get together again. Gotham war destroyed them and I don't remember them being pieced back together
Ok, I'm one of the few that loved the idea of Robin king. Such a waste that they kind of brought him back, or at least the idea this way. I think he's a character that can work in the hands of a good writer with the right story.
I stopped reading monthly hero titles a couple of decades ago and Grant Morrison's run on Batman was among the reasons, I struggled to read each issue. I tried to give him another chance with Green Lantern, but I only made it about 3 issues before I gave up despite the nice Liam Sharpe artwork.
I tell you this as a former fan of his work. I have virtually everything the guy's ever done and he's written a few of my very favorite comics, if that says anything. For me, the last really great thing he did was WE3 back in 2004. He can be brilliant when he wants to be, but it seems like he's not putting much effort into what he's doing anymore.
Why Zdarsky wants to emulate some of Morrison's worst writing is a mystery.
Grant Morisson was great when he's writing All-star Superman, another hit was when he wrote Batman and Robin, with art from Frank Quitely. He was also great when handling Batman and Detective Comics back in the day.
I wonder, what kind of story you want if you said superhero stories by Morisson was bad?
WE3 comics?
WE3 is not even a superhero book. If you write a character with long history, of course there will be a lot of limitations, what could be telling or not. Way different with WE3.
I never said his super hero books were bad, in fact his runs on Animal Man and Doom Patrol are fantastic, as is a book called Zenith he did for Titan. Hell, even his run on JLA was fun but Batman and Green Lantern were not good.
Also, not all comics have to feature superheroes.
I'd like modern writers to stop forcing us to accept new characters. They need to be earned.
I feel like Batman in general has been hopeless ever since Tom King killed off Alfred. There is a Quora question/rant about how you can kill Batman. The answer in the Quora rant is that you only have to kill off Alfred. And they give all kinds of evidence justifying how Bruce would die with Alfred no longer in the picture. I would argue that you could kill off Batman/Bruce Wayne simply by giving Alfred a forced vacation for a couple of months. This is what the current writers of Batman don't get. Alfred is essential for Batman to work in the long term! More essential than Robin or Bruce's millions or a Bat cave under a mansion or all of Batman's wonderful toys. In the essential category I would put Alfred and Batman's amazing Rogues Gallery neck and neck with one another. If DC knows what is good for them and us as Bat fans, they will stop pushing Joker and Joker related characters on us and bring back the Goddamn butler (a.k.a. Alfred "Da Man" Pennyworth)!!!
Wes, there's a "thumping" behind your audio last few videos.
The hole thing since the beginning was bad they destroyed batman and destroyed zor en ar and it all began before the wedding
Zdarsky Tried To Make BATMAN Gay In The KNIGHT Mini Series!!😡😡😡
The only reason why I follow these stories is to know how they are going to fail, and because they only cost me a few megabytes of RAM...
Chip really did Damian and Jason wrong and dirty in his run. So OCC. To make thing's worse, his run has just been rehashing Morrison's batman arc from RIP to this Zur plot to Bruce getting a mini me.
Most irresponsible act is at the end the Bat Family runs off leaving A BRUCE WAYNE CLONE , Failsafe and Daniel just laying there for Gotham police to deal with???????????
Doesnt Alfred still have that clone of himself still around?
We were so excited for this run and then it became this. Seriously disappointing.
In my view Chip Zdarsky's Batman run has been the worst run in the characters existence. Or at least I can't think of a worse run. The character assassination of the Bat Family in Gotham War, the character assassination of Joker in Joker Year One, and the ruination of the Zur En Ahh concept are all hard to resolve as canon. I just hope this run is forgotten by future writers.
Absolute Power = Absolute Mess
Isn't Damian technically a clone of Bruce already? He was not conceived by Bruce and Talia. He was grown in a lab. Why would DC create another clone?
He was conceived by Bruce and Talia. We saw them have sex and saw them the morning after. In the new 52 they added Talia having the fetus transferred from her womb to a whales stomach to0 complete it's gestation because she didn't want to go through labour
Is Jason Todd the most abused character in DC?
Tim Drake may have him beat.
@@joeparrigen4982 No he doesn't. Tim is the most wanked character in DC. DC shows him far too much love and keeps dumping valuable resources on him despite him not being profitable for a while now. Tim has been useless for almost 20 years now but DC keeps pushing him.
So how I get ahold of dok. I wanna see if he has this xmen at the state fair of texas
Why even introduce the clone Robin if he was going to be treated like an afterthought?!
Zdarsky is a great writer but this series seems like a major miss for him. He’s big on thinking of and telling story ideas that show where he believes characters arcs should take them. He did a great job with Daredevil, Justice League last ride, Avengers Twilight but his idea of where Batman’s story should end up is just off. Some interesting ideas to explore but the execution just doesn’t resonate with people. Too outlandish.
the Absolute Power is just kinda blah...because Amanda Waller is not a very compelling villian.
I like Waller cause she's a Government entity, so when she's a villain, the US government is the villain and I find those kinds of stories compelling
@@sojouner_-1363 its a good idea once or twice like in the Suicide Squad movies - but at this point its been several times - the same plot over and over is boring...i think your one of the only people who like it...thats why DC's sales had nothing in the top 20 the last month, hopefully this month will be better...
@@shawnecibut comics are cyclical and when we do change things guys like Wes complain about ruining the characters there’s no winning with people tbh
@@JosephRockford if you have good writing and good art, comics will win and Wes supports that...sometimes hes happy with a book and many times not but usually for pretty valid reasons from my perspective.
Those digital inks…🤮
This is top tier DC in 2024? Huh…
It has been a tough ride, to hang on to my Batman subscription. Please get better with Absolute Power 🤞
Could not agree more!! Another on point review. Jimenez arts overly rated though. He just draws anime characters.
I sort of agree, and his art has gotten worse. It's a weird western/anime mix that looks a bit off compared to both inspirations.
Disappointing but not surprising.
Chip Zdarsky is only a placeholder. They'll just put someone else in place that will write just as subpar. He doesn't understand the character. He doesn't understand the BatFamily. He ruined Joker in my eyes. Just bad all around.
Jimenez’s art has been the only saving grace of the whole Zdarsky run. But the way his men are slowly starting to have an effeminate manga look to them is annoying me. Tim and Jason looked like emo teens, too. And hope that Robin outfit Tim wore is never, ever seen again!!
Do you think the riddler think ZEA did will play a role
Inconceivable!
Well, not really. It was to be expected. DC can't deliver on practically anything these days. That's their Absolute Power.
It's going to be a looooonnnnnnggggggg Decade before Bruce Wayne becomes Public Domain....
Hey Wes and Jim. I know you have to report the bad comic book news with the good comic book news. But why are all of these videos recently so negative? Why can't we talk about positive, hopeful stuff like the amazing Gi Joe A Real American Hero kickstarter campaign that is going on right now?
You can't say this is not newsworthy. The campaign now holds the record for most money made in 1 day for a graphic novel or comic book compendium. As we speak, they have already made over $2 million dollars with this campaign. But let's not just focus on the money they are making. The attention this Joe compendium is getting will definitely spark some more awesome new GI Joe content from Image and Skybound. And hopefully, the publisher can come out with the rest of Larry Hama's GI Joe: ARAH run when it was it different publishers prior to the relaunch with issue 301.
Let's also talk about how much Image is killing it of late. Between the Energon Universe, Ghost Machine properties, the relaunch of GI Joe: ARAH, some stellar Tony Fleecs series, and the staying power of the Spawn Universe books, Image is presently in a very good place.
G'day Jim and Wes. Thanks for another great video.
If you want good Failsafe stories get the real thing in Infinite Crisis era OMAC Project 3.5.
Failsafe is the bargin bin knockoff of that story.
Chip Zdarsky DESTOYED BATMAN! HE SHOULD HAVE NEVER TOUCHED BATMAN!
Yep this just solidified my reason for reading this run in trade rather than getting this week to week
Failsafe sucks. The Grant Morrison version of Tlano, the Batman of Zurr-Ehn-Arr also sucks, too. Another much more crazy, and violent personality for Bruce Wayne? That's idiotic. They should've just left him as an alien super-hero who is from another Earth-like planet that when he is on his homeworld, he is similar to a human, but when he travels to Earth, he becomes a super-human similar to Superman. The same effect happens to humans who travel to his home planet. Which is why Batman would become a Superman-like super-hero if he ever traveled to the Planet Zurr-Ehn-Arr.
The Silver Age sci-fi story was way better. The artificial split personality is stupid. Failsafe is just as dumb as Brother Eye. The A.I. sentient computer hardware and software program and virus deliberately designed to continue Batman's mission even after Bruce Wayne's death. Yeah because that totally sounds like a Batman story. 🙄😒
No, that kind of science-fiction story is not a street level crime drama worthy of Detective Comics. That's some kind of advanced Brainiac-like alien technology and weaponry bullshit that Superman should be fighting against. It's way too epic and it requires the presence of extremely powerful and strong super-human beings, not costumed human vigilantes.
If it was me writing for a Batman comic book, he would be fighting against people who are on the same level as himself. I would've had characters from back in the day coming back to try to eliminate Batman. Such as Nocturna, a seductress who was formerly the lover of both Bruce Wayne and Batman, respectively.
Night-Slayer (Anton Knight) formerly the Thief Of Night, a.k.a. Night-Thief, who is the former lover and partner-in-crime of Nocturna, but who is now both her and Batman's arch-enemy.
The KGBeast, and the NKVDemon, two best friends, and business partners who are communist mercenaries and assasins from Russia and Germany, respectively, and who are among the most dangerous and deadliest of Batman's arch-enemies.
The Reaper, who is an even more extreme, powerful and strong costumed vigilante than Batman is.
And Pagan (Marian Mercer), who is a brutal, ruthless vigilante who hunts down, fights and kills sexual predators. The Joker, the Riddler, the Penguin, Catwoman, Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn, etc. are all overused. Those others are the kinds of people who should be causing trouble on the mean streets of Gotham City much more often.
Instead of wasting good opportunities to write good stories by focusing on bad plots and premises, they should be using these old school underused DC Comics comic book characters who are among Batman's most underrated gallery of psychologically damaged rogues.
Writers and editorial are very good at taking solid ideas and scribbling all of their own “fan fiction” over the top of it.
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Have to be honest, Jorge Jimenez is ok. He is not a great artist. His artwork does not have the right feel for Batman. I flipped through this and the artwork is not engaging, and everyone has mile long pencil legs that are off putting. Also that is the worst looking Bat symbol on Batman's costume I have ever seen. Ugh...enough with clones too. The next stage of this series has to be back to basics and make it simple. Just do Batman....that's all the Batman fans want. WTF20.
His art is pretty mid-level but compared to other artists at dc his art looks above average...same with Dan mora ..
@@tonyfrickey9062 Yeah I agree. I look at Dan Mora and it's rather generic and doesn't really do much for me. There are many other artists out there better then these 2 guys. Course some of them aren't doing monthly books though. Just covers, or issues here and there.
I really liked the chip Zydarsky run on Batman. I think Bob Kane and Bill Finger would be proud.