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		<title>Emanata: Cartoonists, Moment By Moment</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/03/18/emanata-cartoonists-moment-by-moment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 23:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Wolk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a little trend in comics blogs that&#8217;s turned up over the past few months: Tumblrs devoted to a specific creator&#8217;s work, reprinting a single panel or a single page at a time, out of their original context. A Moment of Moore, one of the more prominent ones, is dedicated to Alan Moore&#8217;s work. Whoever&#8217;s maintaining it has been keeping it nicely varied&#8211;besides brief scenes from comics Moore has written, the blog has featured a handful of videos, some artwork by Moore, a photo of the Magus at an age so young his chin is visible, and this priceless riff on a fondly remembered line from Watchmen. It&#8217;s not the first Tumblr of its kind, either: its editor has noted that it was inspired by Kevin Church&#8217;s The Daily Batman and the Moebius fan site Quenched Consciousness. Only a few months old, A Moment of Moore has already spawned a couple of similar writer-devoted projects. A Moment of Ellis is, naturally, devoted to Warren Ellis&#8217;s work, which is somewhat more of a piece than Moore&#8217;s, but also eminently quotable. (&#8220;Listen to the chair leg of truth!&#8221;) And Moment of Morrison, which generally features a full page from a comic book Grant Morrison has written each day, is another sister site, although these days Moore and Morrison themselves seem to have a rather intense sort of little sibling-big sibling rivalry going on. (More on TIME.com: Emanata: Whatever Happened to Romance Comics?) It can be a little strange to experience comics creators&#8217; work in this sort of clip-show format&#8211;a narrative form stripped of most of its narrative and reduced to peaks without mountains below them. But it might be fairer to say that to read a Moment Of blog is to re-experience the work excerpted there. A page of Morrison or Moore or Ellis, out of the context in which you&#8217;ve seen it before, can recall the whole story around it, in an &#8220;oh yeah, that one&#8221; way. It can&#8217;t have the advantage of surprise it had the first time around, but<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=71664&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Five Great Free Comics For Your iPad</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/03/14/five-great-free-comics-for-your-ipad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Wolk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you stood in line (or waited for the delivery person), and now you&#8217;ve got your iPad 2, and you&#8217;ve heard how good comics look on it. Still, you want to take a look at some good stuff before you start running up a hefty Apple Store bill. Here are five awesome comics that won&#8217;t cost you a cent. 1. The Walking Dead #1 The Robert Kirkman-written series about the survivors of a zombie apocalypse (yes, the TV show&#8217;s based on it) keeps going and going, as if not even death could stop it. It&#8217;s also incredibly addictive. The first issue (drawn by Tony Moore) is free on the dedicated Walking Dead app or on Comics by comiXology. After that, they&#8217;ll cost you. And there are a lot of them&#8211;82 issues to date. (More on TIME.com: Robert Kirkman Talks Walking Dead Weekly) 2. Underground A few months ago, somebody on 4chan posted scans of this entire graphic novel&#8211;a spelunking thriller by Steve Lieber and Jeff Parker about a park ranger trapped in a cave. The creators&#8217; response was to chat with the community about how they&#8217;d created the book, and to offer higher-quality images of the whole thing for free on their own site (they suggest a $5 donation)&#8211;you can get it in CBZ or PDF format, and they even offer a black-and-white variant. That&#8217;s some good karma generation right there. 3. Final Crisis #1 Grant Morrison&#8217;s superhero mega-event Final Crisis is densely packed&#8211;Techland posted a reader&#8217;s guide to it a few months ago&#8211;and requires slow, careful reading to make sense of. But it&#8217;s also outlandishly entertaining, and J.G. Jones&#8217; artwork looks fantastic on an iPad&#8217;s screen. The first issue (in which extradimensional gods invade Earth, and the Martian Manhunter falls into the hands of a coalition of supervillains) is free on the DC Comics app. (More on TIME.com: A Prospective Reader&#8217;s Guide to Final Crisis) 4. BodyWorld Before Dash Shaw&#8217;s sci-fi opus about a drug that allows people to experience each other&#8217;s sensory perceptions was a printed graphic novel,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=70325&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Comic Book Club: Night Animals and Batman Inc.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Wolk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Evan Narcisse, Graeme McMillan and Douglas Wolk talk about Brecht Evens&#8217; Night Animals and the third issue of Batman Inc. EVAN: I didn&#8217;t know anything about Night Animals when Douglas suggested it, except that he described it as a not-for-kids take on Where The Wild Things Are. After reading it, it seems serendipitous that it came out during Mardi Gras week. Both the wordless stories are about the depths–literally for the first one–that libido will take a person to, and the mishaps that happen on the road to what we think we want. The book&#8217;s chockablock with visual puns, starting with the subtitle (&#8220;A Diptych about What Rushes through the Bushes&#8221;) and the frontispiece image of a beaver/woman hybrid. DOUGLAS: The only things I&#8217;ve seen by Evens are this and The Wrong Place, the graphic novel that Drawn &#38; Quarterly published a few months ago, but they&#8217;re both fantastic. I love his sense of color and wit, and the way his stories always end up going places where they don&#8217;t look like they&#8217;re going. Since my brain is wired for This Thing Is Like That Other Thing, I kept seeing riffs on Where The Wild Things Are all over the book: the bunny-suit guy in &#8220;Blind Date&#8221; is Max in his wolf suit, the dance with the beasts in &#8220;Bad Friends&#8221; is the Wild Rumpus, the shift back to the bedroom and then the outdoor scene mirrors Max&#8217;s bedroom and the final image of leaves in Sendak&#8217;s book. But, of course, there&#8217;s a lot more going on here too. (Also, I could have sworn the woman&#8217;s pose on the cover&#8211;that link&#8217;s NSFW, by the way&#8211;was from some Sendak thing or other, but now I can&#8217;t figure out what.) (More on TIME.com: Weekly Comics Column: &#8220;The Wrong Place&#8221; and &#8220;Hewligan&#8217;s Haircut&#8221;) EVAN: &#8220;Blind Date&#8221; struck me as the weirder of the two stories, unfolding like a wet dream from<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=69820&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;All-Star Superman,&#8221; The Movie: A Roundtable Review</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/02/22/all-star-superman-the-movie-a-roundtable-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Wolk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The All-Star Superman movie comes out today: a 75-minute, PG-rated, direct-to-video animated feature, based on the celebrated Grant Morrison/Frank Quitely miniseries from a few years back, and starring James Denton as Superman and Clark Kent, and Christina Hendricks as Lois Lane. Douglas Wolk, Evan Narcisse and Graeme McMillan&#8211;the reviewers from Techland&#8217;s Comic Book Club&#8211;reviewed it, round-table style. DOUGLAS: What a weird damn movie All-Star Superman is—maybe because, despite the “cinematic” credits in every issue of the original series, Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely&#8217;s comic is not at all a movie at heart. There are things that work incredibly well on the page that fall apart on the screen. Take the famous opening sequence of the first issue, for instance: four wide panels, recapping Superman’s origin in two words apiece, followed by the massive wordless two-page spread of Superman surrounded by the sun. The filmed version loses its sense of scale, its boom-boom-boom-boom-BANG pace, its hilarious concision (there’s even audible dialogue behind the narration)—it just seems clumsy. All-Star Superman, the comic, looks on its surface as if it breaks neatly into discrete, mostly non-overlapping episodes, and as if it just happens to be the length it is for no particular reason. So taking seven of its twelve issues and adapting each one, nearly verbatim in many cases, to ten minutes&#8217; worth of movie sounds like it&#8217;d work. But the comic is actually one big piece of clockwork construction, and if you take out any part of it, other pieces collapse. Take out the Jimmy-and-Doomsday sequence and it’s less clear why P.R.O.J.E.C.T. and Leo Quintum matter, or what the other Planet employees’ relationship to Clark is. Turn Quintum into a minor character who pops up briefly at the beginning and the end, and not only does Superman’s gift of his genetic code turn into an end-of-story deus ex machina, but some of the Lex Luthor routines that the movie reproduces verbatim are meaningless. (More on TIME.com: The Secret of All-Star Superman) Remove the “three future Supermen and the chronovore” business, and the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=67579&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Emanata: Ten Comics We&#8217;re Still Waiting For</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2010/12/10/emanata-ten-comics-were-still-waiting-for/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Wolk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been making note of some of the major comics projects due out in 2011&#8211;keep an eye out for a preview of what&#8217;s coming up next year on Techland in a couple of weeks. But there are also a handful of projects we&#8217;re dying to see that have been in the works for months or years, and aren&#8217;t officially scheduled yet. Here are a few extra-long-view coming attractions. Craig Thompson&#8217;s Habibi. Thompson&#8217;s been working on his mammoth graphic novel about love in the world of Islam since Blankets, basically, and that was 2003. He&#8217;s said that he&#8217;s already drawn and redrawn thousands of pages of it, he&#8217;s been posting progress reports at his blog Doot Doot Garden (where he posted in September that the book was finished, although there&#8217;s still some post-production work to go), and the pages he&#8217;s shown in public so far are stupendously beautiful. The only thing missing is a date when the rest of the world gets to see the whole thing. (More on Techland: Emanata: Adam Hines&#8217; &#8220;Duncan the Wonder Dog&#8221;) Alison Bechdel&#8217;s Love Life: A Case Study. The Fun Home cartoonist&#8217;s long-in-the-works follow-up is a memoir about about self and other and her relationship with her mother. She gave up her long-running comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For to work on this one, and given the way Fun Home batted it out of the park, it sounds like it&#8217;s going to be fantastic. Paul Pope&#8217;s Battling Boy. Pope&#8217;s been doing lots of little projects over the past few years, and, reportedly, getting ready to wrap up his name-making THB series and collect it all as Total THB. This is apparently some kind of magnum opus, the excerpts Pope&#8217;s posted on his blog are enticing, and First Second has had us anticipating it for years. But that&#8217;s all we know. Grant Morrison&#8217;s Multiversity. It&#8217;s not like we haven&#8217;t been getting a lot of Morrison lately&#8211;between his Batman titles, the apparently-soon-to-be-completed Joe the Barbarian, and side projects like 18 Days, he&#8217;s hardly spent a week away<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=58527&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Comic Book Club: &#8220;Batman&#8221; x 2 and &#8220;The Extremist&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2010/11/18/the-comic-book-club-batman-x-2-and-the-extremist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Wolk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Douglas Wolk, Evan Narcisse and Graeme McMillan talk about Batman: The Return, Batman Inc. and The Extremist. EVAN: After the weird emotional high of Batman and Robin #16, Batman: The Return felt like filler to me. (Doesn&#8217;t help that I&#8217;ve never been a fan of David Finch&#8217;s scratchy-scratchy line, either.) It pretty much exists only to spell out the new status quo, which doesn&#8217;t seem entirely necessary. Those plot beats are just probably best served in Batgirl and the other individual titles, where you have space to see Oracle, Batgirl, Dick and Damian react to the changes. Likewise, the teases with the new Leviathan villains felt a bit too compressed for me to really enjoy, but I did like Terrorist Anti-Batman and the twisted reversal origin of his brainwashed un-Robin. Still, Grant Morrison can keep throwing these doppelgangers–like the Red Hood and Scarlet–at me and I&#8217;ll keep eating them up. Every time he does it, it just demonstrates how flexible the DNA of the Batman myth is. And speaking of that flexibility, my favorite part of the issue was actually the opening sequence with the &#8220;I Shall Become A Bat&#8221; bat. Taking that little bit that all fans know and building a new meaning that works in with the new shift is such a great little grace note. (More on Techland: The End of Spider-Man&#8217;s Brand New Day) DOUGLAS: I do kind of like the way Morrison keeps circling around a few key moments in Bruce&#8217;s life&#8211;we saw Bruce and the bell before in that &#8220;Last Rites&#8221; story in Batman #682/683. (Although didn&#8217;t the bat actually crash through the window in some earlier versions of this sequence?) For a great big new-direction-launching story, though, this really doesn&#8217;t add very much to what we already know about the Bat-family&#8217;s new direction&#8211;it seems like the sort of character beat/splash-page/fight-scene formula that Morrison normally writes rings around. (And the unnecessary lead-in<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=55539&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Comic Book Club: Batman &amp; Robin #16 and Strange Tales II #2</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2010/11/04/the-comic-book-club-batman-robin-16-and-strange-tales-ii-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 21:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Wolk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Douglas Wolk, Graeme McMillan, Mike Williams and Evan Narcisse discuss Grant Morrison&#8217;s final issue of Batman &#38; Robin and Strange Tales II #2. WARNING: Bat-spoilers lurk below. DOUGLAS: The more I think about the Big Reveal at the end of Batman &#38; Robin #16&#8211;which I was genuinely not expecting, even given all the advance press about the forthcoming Bat-titles&#8211;the more I like it. I don&#8217;t object automatically to changes in the premise of a long-running franchise, as long as they open up more story possibilities than they close off. And really, this one does exactly that&#8211;I actually can&#8217;t think of any Batman stories from the past few decades that it would&#8217;ve made impossible (other than the &#8220;Bruce Wayne: Murderer?/Fugitive&#8221; business, which I didn&#8217;t love), and it totally makes sense as a springboard for more stories. (More on Techland: The Comic Book Club: Soldier Zero and Vertigo Resurrected) MIKE: This, of course, makes me think of &#8220;I am Iron Man&#8221; straight away. If this is all handled&#8211;well, I agree, there are a good deal of stories to be told about a Batman franchise system. However, I have been opposed to the widening network of Bat-people for some time. It seems to go against the strengths of Batman. I suppose he has held many roles over the years, intimidator, JLA tactician, detective, legend, leader of men. This incorporation is taking Batman as a symbol and pushing it too far. If I&#8217;m committing crime in Gotham I&#8217;m scared of a giant guy dressed like a bat that&#8217;s going to break my arm. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m scared of copyrighted corporate Bat logo and what it represents. This all sounds like something Booster Gold would think up. DOUGLAS: I don&#8217;t know, there&#8217;s been a big ol&#8217; Bat-network for a very long time&#8211;remember, there was a Batman Family series in the &#8217;70s! GRAEME: I like the idea of Batman, Inc. in theory &#8211;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=53545&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Secret of &#8220;All-Star Superman&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2010/11/02/the-secret-of-all-star-superman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Wolk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely&#8217;s superb All-Star Superman appears in an oversized &#8220;Absolute&#8221; hardcover edition this week. It&#8217;s one of the best Superman stories ever created&#8211;a beautiful encapsulation of everything that&#8217;s great about the character. As with a lot of Morrison&#8217;s work, it&#8217;s also filled with tiny details that don&#8217;t call attention to themselves but deepen the story for those who notice them. There&#8217;s one series of details and comments that&#8217;s particularly clever, and runs through all of All-Star Superman. The revelation it points toward is never explicitly stated in the course of the story, but if you go back and reread the series with it in mind, there&#8217;s a lot of evidence backing it up. A few people were batting it around as a possibility when the story was originally serialized; if you&#8217;ve read All-Star Superman, you may have figured it out yourself. Or you may want to figure it out, based on the following question: What does Lex Luthor do after the end of the story? (More on Techland: Superman: All the Anniversaries) To avoid spoilers, click through for the answer.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=53037&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Comics on Our Pull List 9/15/10</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2010/09/14/comics-on-our-pull-list-91510/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think, Stan help me, that this is going to be a light week. Finally. I could use the slack to help offset my fantasy football dues which I can tell already won&#8217;t be paying off. But just because my brown paper bag won&#8217;t be bursting doesn&#8217;t mean it won&#8217;t be a good week. Here are some books I&#8217;m looking forward to. Morning Glories #2 I am buying into the hype surrounding this book. It seems like it would be some typical high school fare but there&#8217;s a hefty dose of mystery here. And not the lame Agatha Chrystie kind of mystery either. After the introductions were made last issue the writers don&#8217;t waste any time ratcheting up the WTF in this issue. Previews don&#8217;t lie. Usually. X-23 #1 Everyone&#8217;s favorite little Wolverine clone is getting another mini series. Now that Logan has gone to Hell, literally, X-23 is ready to step up and fill in his size eight shoes. Now, as much as Logan is blood thirsty his wee clone is a borderline sociopath. We&#8217;ve gotten a good look at her wildly spinning moral compass in the pages of X-Force and in the Second Coming X-event. However, she&#8217;s still a relatively new character and her canon hasn&#8217;t been completely hosed yet so maybe there are some good stories she can be part of. Fingers crossed. Joe the Barbarian #7 It&#8217;s taken seven issues but the sugar starved mind of young diabetic Joe is finally going down into the cellar. He&#8217;s going to take on the enemy on their own turf. At times this series has lost me, despite its intriguing basis of delusional fantasy, but finally (finally!) Joe is going to stand up for himself and rescue his pet rat. Or something. Good luck, I&#8217;m still scared of my parent&#8217;s basement. Wolf spiders hang out down there. Shadowland: Ghost Rider #1 As the first notable &#8216;event&#8217; of the Heroic Age, Shadowland has been disappointing so far. It might still redeem itself but where I was hoping for a street<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=45280&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Comic Book Club: &#8220;Batman &amp; Robin&#8221; and &#8220;Amazing Spider-Man&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2010/09/10/the-comic-book-club-batman-robin-and-amazing-spider-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Wolk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up talking about what we picked up. This week, Douglas Wolk, Evan Narcisse, Mike Williams and Graeme McMillan discuss Batman &#38; Robin #14 and Amazing Spider-Man #641. DOUGLAS: If Grant Morrison was a gunslinger, there&#8217;d be a whole lot of dead wannabes. The current storyline in Batman &#38; Robin is hitting for me like no other superhero comic right now&#8211;when Morrison gets to work with an artist who really gets him and can pull off mood, he&#8217;s unbeatable. Jesus, Frazer Irving is amazing; this is the best work I&#8217;ve ever seen him do. When those early pages of the preview went up a few weeks ago without lettering, I wondered if maybe the whole issue was supposed to be silent; his storytelling is so strong that what was going on was pretty clear anyway, and the acting and composition are fantastic, and the coloring&#8211;this is the best-colored book on the stands. GRAEME: Yes, definitely. This is a very pretty book, and I don&#8217;t mean that as an insult. The care and attention that Irving brings to his colors (not just in his color choices, although look at the colors in the scene with Gordon being surrounded by Pyg&#8217;s Dollotrons, but the textures he leaves on each page, as well) is pretty much unmatched in mainstream comics. I like his figurework and composition, but Irving&#8217;s real strength for me is definitely his color work. (More on Techland: The Comic Book Club: The Unwritten and Ultimate Avengers 3) DOUGLAS: A lot of people seem to have picked up on that thing Morrison mentioned about &#8220;B&#38;R Must Die&#8221; being &#8220;Batman R.I.P.&#8221; &#8220;as farce,&#8221; and it does keep bringing up the elements of &#8220;R.I.P&#8221; upside-down&#8211;Gordon, especially, keeps playing the Jezebel Jet role. But I also see it alluding, over and over, to &#8220;The Killing Joke&#8221;: the whole sequence with Gordon and the Dollotrons is completely a playback of Gordon&#8217;s introduction to the Joker&#8217;s carnival there. There&#8217;s some crazy symbol-systems being<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=44846&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The New Batman Status Quo: Less Dark, More White Collar</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2010/08/10/the-new-batman-status-quo-less-dark-more-white-collar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grant Morrison has been talking about what to expect from Batman, Inc., his new fall-launching series that takes place after The Return On Bruce Wayne and sees the Dark Knight rebrand himself and his community.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=39335&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Grant Morrison Announces &#8220;Batman Inc.&#8221; At Comic-Con</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2010/07/23/grant-morrison-announces-batman-inc-at-comic-con/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Wolk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And we thought DC wouldn&#8217;t have any big announcements this time. Grant Morrison&#8217;s back-to-back panels Friday afternoon&#8211;his own spotlight followed by the Batman panel&#8211;saw the announcement of Morrison&#8217;s new Batman series, Batman, Inc. It will debut after the Grant Morrison/David Finch one-shot, Batman: The Return, which will debut Batman&#8217;s new Finch-designed costume. On the subject of the new series, Morrison said, &#8220;All I&#8217;m going to tell you is that this is a kind of a team book&#8211;I was looking at the Brave and the Bold cartoon, which I love, and I kind of wanted to do that kind of thing, Batman with other people. We came up with a structure that allows us to do something like a team book. And that&#8217;s what we&#8217;ll be seeing what Bruce is up to. Everything about his operation is about to change. In RIP, you got to see what happens when you take Bruce out of the equation. This is what happens when Bruce is more in the equation&#8211;he turns it into a franchise.&#8221; (More on Techland: The Comic Book Club: &#8220;Batman: Odyssey&#8221; and &#8220;Scarlet&#8221;) A few other highlights of the Morrison panel (beyond the interpretive dance with which he began it, and we aren&#8217;t kidding): *On how old Bruce, Tim and Dick are: &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t matter&#8211;these people aren&#8217;t real! Batman&#8217;s a mythical figure! Basically, Batman is 75 years old.&#8221; *His favorite comic in the world right now: Michael Kupperman&#8217;s &#8220;Tales Designed to Thrizzle.&#8221; *On when we&#8217;ll see Morrison&#8217;s much-rumored Wonder Woman project: &#8220;Soon.&#8221; *On when his long-in-the-works Multiversity project will be coming out: &#8220;We can&#8217;t get a concrete date, because Frank Quitely&#8217;s doing one of them, but I think maybe next summer.&#8221; One issue whose script is finished is a Marvel Family book called Thunderworld, to be drawn by Cameron Stewart. (More on Techland: Exclusive Interview: Grant Morrison on Batman Times Three) *On the forthcoming third Seaguy miniseries with Cameron Stewart, Seaguy Eternal: &#8220;I&#8217;ve written the first two&#8211;I think it&#8217;s the best of them all. The idea of the series came from<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=36719&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Emanata: The Black Mass</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2010/07/09/emanata-the-black-mass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Wolk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are days when I admire people who don&#8217;t have a serious, unkickable superhero-comics habit, and there are other days when I feel a little sorry for people who don&#8217;t get to enjoy things like Batman and Robin #13. It&#8217;s the best episode thus far of Grant Morrison&#8217;s ongoing Batman project: the one in which the dominoes he&#8217;s been lining up for the past year and more are actually starting to fall. Morrison&#8217;s called the current &#8220;Batman and Robin Must Die!&#8221; storyline &#8220;&#8216;Batman R.I.P.&#8217; as farce&#8221;&#8211;not the door-slamming Lend Me a Tenor kind but the &#8220;first time as tragedy, the second time as farce&#8221; kind. When I interviewed him for Techland a while ago, he also mentioned that it was a &#8220;black mass&#8221; for Batman, and indeed it is: a deliberately degraded inversion of all the classic elements of a Batman story. That ritual is signaled by the religious invocation in its opening sequence, which is immediately followed by the filthy communion of the one-panel de Sadean orgy scene and the Satanic &#8220;high priest,&#8221; Doctor Hurt, descending Wayne Manor&#8217;s stairs to approach his (sacrificial) altar, and an inside-out version of the flash-forward from the beginning of &#8220;R.I.P.&#8221; (More on Techland: Exclusive Interview: Grant Morrison on Batman Times Three) Even more than Morrison&#8217;s writing, though, the aspect of this issue that&#8217;s knocking me flat is Frazer Irving&#8217;s artwork. Irving has worked with Morrison before (on Seven Soldiers: Klarion the Witch Boy and the second issue of The Return of Bruce Wayne), but he really gives this issue a look of its own, carving out silhouetted shapes in space against backgrounds that dissolve into garishly toned fog. The first page is a restaging of David Mazzucchelli&#8217;s classic cover for Batman #404, of course, but Irving turns it into a sort of decadent Gustav Klimt image&#8211;Martha Wayne&#8217;s body angled just so against the delicate but consistent white texture of her coat, the blood running along the sidewalk at neat right angles, the blackness out of which Thomas emerges at the top of the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=34654&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Comic Book Club: &#8220;Batman&#8221; #700 and &#8220;Young Allies&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2010/06/10/the-comic-book-club-batman-700-and-young-allies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Wolk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up talking about what we picked up. This week, Graeme McMillan, Douglas Wolk and Evan Narcisse discuss Batman #700 and the first issue of Young Allies. GRAEME: God, I&#8217;m getting old. I remember Batman #400, 500 and 600 all coming out and my buying them. #700 was&#8230; okay, I guess? I wanted to like it a lot more than I actually did, and what I did like was little touches, rather than the whole thing. The idea of three different Batmen (and then some more, right at the end, including Batman One Million, which made me very happy) all working on the one case is a good one, if somewhat unoriginal, and the time travel aspect was interesting, but&#8230; I don&#8217;t know, I feel as if none of the Batmen in question really came out of it that well. Certainly, this flashforward to Damian Batman made him seem a much less interesting incarnation than he did back in #666. Biggest disappointment? Frank Quitely not being able to finish his story. Scott Kolins&#8217; new painted look is nice enough, but a bit jarring when compared to Quitely. Biggest surprise? I didn&#8217;t hate the David Finch pages. DOUGLAS: On a first reading, what I liked about Batman #700 was the little touches, too. After I reread it a few times, I realized that there really are an awful lot of good little touches, despite the not-quite-there central mystery. (Although I would much rather have had eight more story pages than the Bat-editorial office burning through some of its inventory of emergency generic Batman covers.) Some details I particularly liked: *The suggestion that the &#8220;yesterday&#8221; sequence is the transition from the Carmine Infantino-era, TV-show-derived Batman to the meaner Neal Adams-era Batman *The callouts to other notable Batman stories outside the scope of the three specific eras here&#8211;&#8220;No Hope in Crime Alley,&#8221; the gang from The Dark Knight Returns, the fact that the Joker-baby is Terry McGinniss *Dick asking after<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=30494&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Emanata: A Prospective Reader&#8217;s Guide to &#8220;Final Crisis&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2010/05/28/emanata-a-prospective-readers-guide-to-final-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 16:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Wolk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Final Crisis, whose paperback edition comes out next Thursday, was as divisive a superhero comic as there&#8217;s been in years. The range of reactions to Grant Morrison&#8217;s (and a zillion artists&#8217;) massive DC-universe epic wasn&#8217;t just along the axis of readers who loved it and readers who hated it (and there were plenty at both extremes), but along the axis of those who found it very readable and those who found it totally incomprehensible. (I&#8217;m way up there in the loved it/readable quadrant, but all four quadrants are well-populated.) Its reputation among superhero readers (and Morrison buffs) who haven&#8217;t yet read it is, consequently, weirdly mixed; I&#8217;ve talked to a number of people who suspect that it might be up their alley, but have also heard that it&#8217;s pretty deeply linked to decades&#8217; worth of other comics and suspect that they might find themselves frustrated by it. So here are a few notes for anyone thinking of taking the plunge. (More on Techland: Eight Questions For Comics Creators) You don&#8217;t actually have to have read any other particular comics to understand Final Crisis. And I say this as somebody who ran a blog annotating the whole thing; in fact, I suggest you avoid looking at annotations your first time through, because a lot of the fun of reading this story is working it out for yourself. Morrison throws you face-first into the deep end, and never lets up with the barrage of characters and settings and gizmos, but every one that matters is introduced by name and given enough explanatory context to get you through. Almost every page alludes, one way or another, to particular comic books of the past, but they don&#8217;t assume or rely on knowledge of those comic books: it may deepen a megageek&#8217;s enjoyment of the story to notice that, say, the bouncer outside the Tokyo club at the beginning of chapter 2 is riffing on the cover of an issue of The Flash from 1966, but if you don&#8217;t, you&#8217;ll never know the difference. If<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=28736&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Comic Book Club: Wednesday Comics and Bruce Wayne #2</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2010/05/27/the-comic-book-club-wednesday-comics-and-bruce-wayne-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 20:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Wolk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up talking about what we picked up. This week, Douglas Wolk, Graeme McMillan, Mike Williams and Evan Narcisse discuss the Wednesday Comics hardcover collection and the second issue of Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne. DOUGLAS: I was excited about Wednesday Comics when it was running as a weekly, although probably more in theory than in practice&#8211;I wish comics publishers would stretch out beyond the standard format more often, because form can determine content more than even the people making the content generally realize. The flip side of that is that a lot of people who&#8217;ve been doing comics for a while are so acclimated to the standard format that they just did the same kind of thing they usually do here. Seeing all the stories collected in one place really makes it clear which ones worked in the gigantic size and which didn&#8217;t. Paul Pope&#8217;s Strange Adventures is huge in scope and uses its pages beautifully&#8211;the kind of thing I&#8217;d happily read every week forever. I love Ben Caldwell&#8217;s ridiculously micro-detailed, zillion-panels-per-page Wonder Woman, too, even though it has to be read at a very different pace from the rest of the book and feels a little like a speed-bump. And I was really impressed by the way Karl Kerschl and Brenden Fletcher&#8217;s Flash played with the format of a Sunday comic strip, even though it&#8217;s a little less effective if you&#8217;re not reading it in an actual newspaper tabloid and watching it mess with the assumptions associated with its format. (I also think it&#8217;s kind of weird that Neil Gaiman and Michael Allred&#8217;s Metamorpho was clearly done for the book collection&#8211;there are two double-page spreads in the course of twelve pages!) The collection also made me wonder why something like Wednesday Comics couldn&#8217;t be done in an actual newspaper. Did any of you see the San Francisco Panorama, the one-off newspaper that McSweeney&#8217;s published late last year? One of the great things about it was<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=28671&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Comic Book Club: The Return of Bruce Wayne</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2010/05/13/the-comic-book-club-the-return-of-bruce-wayne/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 18:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Wolk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: Douglas Wolk, Evan Narcisse, Mike Williams, Peter Ha and Lev Grossman end up talking about what we picked up. This week, we discuss the first issue of Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne. DOUGLAS: I enjoyed this, but I was surprised by how straightforward a story it was&#8211;this is as loose and airy an action story as Morrison has written in a while. One thing that always bugs me in these &#8220;familiar character in other eras&#8221; stories is the way the circumstances of the familiar character&#8217;s life always assume the same pattern we know already (Neil Gaiman&#8217;s &#8220;1602&#8243; was particularly egregious about this), and here of course we get a bat-costume, a Robin, a Joker, a bit of business involving a significant heirloom necklace&#8230; (More on Techland: Comic Book Club: Astonishing Spider-Man/Wolverine and I, Zombie) EVAN: Man, I thought it was only me that was surprised by how straight-ahead this first issue of The Return of Bruce Wayne was. I went in expecting all the Morrison-ian allusions to myth and meta-narrative structure. It was all pretty much Bruce acting on instinct. I did like how the mental impairment reduced Bruce to essentially a caveman himself; he didn&#8217;t have the benefit of communication and was essentially more savage than the cavemen. But, also the fact that he was able to use some of his Bat-trappings–giant cloak, use of fear and shadow, utility belt, above-average fighting skills–kinda drive home how deeply ingrained his Batman-ness is in him. I felt lost as to what was in the ship, though. I&#8217;m sure Wolk will explain all&#8230; MIKE: I agree about the story. Very cut and dried. I guess I just don&#8217;t remember how Bruce got started on his journey. Wasn&#8217;t he zapped with the omega beams of Darkseid? Which everyone assumed killed him? DOUGLAS: Right. He got zapped in Final Crisis #6; on the last two pages of Final Crisis #7, we see Anthro dying, and Bruce in the cave next to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=26734&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Exclusive Interview: Grant Morrison on Batman Times Three</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2010/05/07/exclusive-interview-grant-morrison-on-batman-times-three/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 19:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Wolk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The next few months will see a whole colony of Batman comics written by Grant Morrison. Besides the ongoing Batman and Robin, whose most recent issue ended with one of those classic Morrison twists that are obvious only in retrospect, he&#8217;s writing the six-issue miniseries Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne (which launches next week), as well as three issues of Batman dealing with the Batmen of the past, present and future. Morrison spoke with us this morning about his plans. So Oberon Sexton is actually Leo Quintum, then! (Laughs) Is that how it works? Or maybe Xorn. Was the plan from the beginning for the last panel of Batman and Robin&#8216;s first year to be that revelation? Always, yeah. The Joker&#8217;s been kind of haunting the book since the beginning. The next issue&#8217;s even better, because it&#8217;s a different Joker than anything we&#8217;ve seen before. It&#8217;s a black mass for Batman, basically, from page one on. You&#8217;ve mentioned that the next Batman and Robin storyline, &#8220;Batman and Robin Must Die,&#8221; will reflect the themes of &#8220;Batman R.I.P.&#8221;&#8211;can you say a little bit more about that? I got the basic idea for this new version of the Joker, which I don&#8217;t want to say too much about, because I hope the next issue will be quite exciting to read, but it came from the notion that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce; this is &#8220;R.I.P.&#8221; as farce. But how do you make farce even scarier than tragedy? That was the idea that I built this story on. Each issue&#8217;s got the title of a different painting: the first one is &#8220;The Garden of Death,&#8221; the second one&#8217;s &#8220;The Triumph of Death,&#8221; and the third one, best of all, is &#8220;The Knight, Death and the Devil.&#8221; So, that said, it&#8217;s based on how far you can take the gothic feeling of &#8220;R.I.P.,&#8221; beyond ultraviolet, beyond humor&#8230; it&#8217;s everything about Batman going wrong and upside-down. That&#8217;s all I&#8217;m going to say about it. You&#8217;re also writing three issues of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=25806&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Emanata: Batman &amp; Robin Pour Down Like Silver</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2010/02/26/emanata-batman-robin-pour-down-like-silver/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Wolk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a touch of silver in the solicitations for the next few months&#8217; superhero comics&#8211;a hint that both DC and Marvel are trying to recapture the tone of the so-called Silver Age, the era from the late &#8217;50s to the early &#8217;70s when both franchises laid the groundwork for what they&#8217;ve been doing ever since. Nobody&#8217;s let anything substantive slip about either Marvel&#8217;s &#8220;Heroic Age&#8221; or DC&#8217;s Brightest Day, but both names hint at back-to-basics moves, a return to the long-gone era when bad guys would end up muttering something like &#8220;curses, foiled again,&#8221; and nobody&#8217;s superpower was vomiting blood. In the meantime, one of the most entertaining (and most successful) superhero comics of the moment is a Silver Age homage of a very different kind: the Grant Morrison-written Batman and Robin. The premise of the series, for those who haven&#8217;t been keeping up, is simple but very clever. Bruce Wayne is&#8230; not dead, exactly, but out of the picture; the new Batman is Dick Grayson, the original Robin; the new Robin is Damian Wayne, Bruce&#8217;s arrogant, entitled ten-year-old son, who&#8217;s been trained since birth by master assassins. Do the two of them have a difficult power dynamic? Why, yes. (More on Techland: Top 10 Superhero Deaths of the Decade) &#8220;Batman and Robin&#8221;: the phrase suggests, more than anything else, the &#8217;60s Batman TV show, the campy bam-pow routine that comics have spent four decades trying to wave away with &#8220;realism&#8221; of one kind or another. Morrison doesn&#8217;t have a lot of use for realism in general. There are plenty of media and genres that can reflect their audience&#8217;s reality in a more-or-less literal way; only superhero comics can offer an insane demonic zombie clone of Batman revived from a charred skeleton by a magical resurrection cauldron in a collapsed British coal mine, and use that to address various father-child relationships, which is what happens in this week&#8217;s Batman and Robin #9. It&#8217;s the conclusion of the three-part &#8220;Blackest Knight&#8221; story, wittily and elegantly drawn by Cameron Stewart&#8211;a riff on<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=17098&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DCU 2010: The Return of Bruce Wayne</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2009/12/09/dcu-2010-the-return-of-bruce-wayne/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Ha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DC is motoring right along with their 2010 announcements this week and today we learn that Bruce Wayne will be making his triumphant return to Gotham in a six-part miniseries penned by Grant Morrison. If you weren’t following Final Crisis or even Battle for the Cowl then you probably wouldn’t have picked up on the fact that Bruce Wayne had “died” and that a rat pack of miscreants was squabbling over who would take up the mantle. I won’t give anything away as far as Final Crisis is concerned but let’s just say that Bruce didn’t so much as die, rather, he went traveling through time. (More on Techland: Best of the Decade: Comics) I just hope this means I won’t have to continue picking up Red Robin. Chris Sprouse will handle the art in issue #1 but several other artists will lend a hand as well. Morrison considers this to be a ‘definitive’ piece in the ongoing Batman epic. I wonder what he thinks of Batman: Earth One. In an interview with USA Today, Morrison had this to say about Wayne’s return to modern day Gotham: “the status quo of the Batman universe will be changed completely after this book.” The Caped Crusader’s look will change with each period, so we’ll see Bruce as a Caveman, Pirate, Viking and even as a Cowboy. Can’t. Wait. Look for The Return of Bruce Wayne come April 2010. More on Time.com: Tech Buyer&#8217;s Guide 2009 The Top 10 Everything of 2009: Fiction Books Time.com&#8217;s Holiday Gift Guide 2009<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=7122&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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