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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Serge" data-source="post: 3540992" data-attributes="member: 4049">I own most of the Alan Grant/Norm Breyfogle run.  That was great stuff.  Grant captured The Batman well (alas, I don't think he wrote more than two Joker stories) and Breyfogle's images were truly nightmarish (his Batman was very, very scary looking).  Still...  I really don't have a favorite Batman writer.  Miller's Year One and DKR were both great, with Year One edging out the latter since it's continuity (mostly... I don't know how much was retconned with Infinite Crisis).  I also really liked Jim Starlin's run (in spite of some of his clearly political commentary) although I never cared for Jim Aparo's later art.  Max Alan Collins handled the character rather well, although his tenure was very short.  Although I haven't read much in the past three years, I think that Paul Dini will do a great job...  Morrison is touch and go with me.  While I admire his willingness to take risks with established characters, I think he's far too willing to go way too far... As his JLA and X-Men runs and recent treatment of The Joker reveal.  Loeb's a strange one...  Although I liked A Long Halloween and Dark Victory (which effectively serve as "Batman Years One and Two" in my mind), his dialogue's choppy (filled with quotes from established gangster movies), and his handling of much of the rogue's gallery leaves much to be desired...  I also despised his handling of the Superman/Batman comic (I'll never forgive him for bringing back Supergirl).In any event, some of my favorite Batman stories feature him as an ass with a sardonic sense of humor (like the JLA stories by Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis).  I've always liked The Batman as the quintessential outsider who's difficult to get along with, respects but doesn't necessarily like Superman, and finds most of the other heroes more dangerous than helpful.  I'm praying that the post-Infinite Crisis continuity doesn't bring back anymore of the Silver Age nonsense and glut to DC than we've already seen (from Supergirl to Krypto to Lex Luthor the mad scientist to Batwoman to an entire Batfamily and so forth).</blockquote>

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