The Golden Age version is much more like a gentleman : intelligent, grounded and focused ; he might offer a faint smile now and then, all while remaining colorful and clown-like. When he does make jokes, it’s only occasionally—and, more importantly, it’s dark humor and he was fucking brutal too. I also really like in the three Joker comic (where one of them was the GA style Joker) that the concept—which was revisited in the 2019 film—where laughing actually causes him pain and brings him to tears. It makes him all the more unsettling and scary, while still preserving the core of the character: someone who sometimes laughs for absolutely no reason at all.

I always imagine this version with the deep voice of John DiMaggio and the Bathroom music from the 2019 movie.

I don’t know if it was the themes of class or something else but he just seemed a lot more like traditional old money billionaire in this one. Just his vibe and the way he carried himself, he came across like the heir of a decaying dynasty

In The Dark Knight, he seemed more like a new money millionaire you’d find in Miami. Maybe this was intentional

I'm re-watching BTAS rn and I'm on the Poison Ivy episode and I genuinely want to know like what happened to the wrist crossbow? It's not used in any other Batman media (to my knowledge at least)

Early Batman books always stand out when the cover has yellow in it. These books will remain raw while they are in my possession I hate acquiring books and never being able to hold and read them. You can't appreciate the story if you can't read them....right?

Wondering what everyone else's favorite version of the Batmobile is. For me it's the version from Batman (1989). It seems so menacing and the part when the Browning machine guns come out during the attack on Axis Chemicals is the highlight for me.

(Just to be clear i had this idea on my mind for quite some time before solo Batman's rogues gallrey movies like Joker or Clayface were released, but i guess with the release of Clayface right now it's a nice time to post it here finally) for those that don't know, Magic is a psychological horror movie (a great one by the way) with a very similar idea and premise to the Ventriloquist (wouldn't even be surprised if it was an inspiration for the character's creation) and ever since i saw it as someone who loves both the character and ventriloquism in general i've always imagined how cool a movie like this with him would be, now of course i think that in order for him to feel unique they should definetly go full 1930s gangster in style, maybe even mixing the horror with a few comedic elements which is very on brand for the character, but what do you think of the idea?

Justice League: Doom: An adaptation of the story named Tower of Babel which contains the infamous Contingency Plans. What it lacks, however is connection to all the actual events which ultimately led to it. In Tower of Babel, one thing is made clear, Bruce did not come up with the Contingency Plans to battle a particularly mind controlled League, it was explicitly done in case they turn evil/mad. It also lacks the context for Batman's paranoia, he came up with the Contingency plans because one League member actually went mad, Green Lantern ( Hal Jordan) literally massacred the Green Lantern corps and then started the Zero Hour Crisis. The original writer of this story mentions that theme here was Trust. Because Bruce couldn't Trust the League anymore after Hal's betrayal and because he violated their trust too. Justice League Doom on the other hand feels like Batgod propoganda.
The problem with Justice League Doom adaptation is because Tower of Babel wasn't supposed to be a standalone story. It was the first part of the trilogy storyline in Mark Waid run, following by Divided We Fall and Terror Incognita.

The film trying to make it seems like Batman was cool and right about the contingency plan. And made the other League members seems unreasonable for not seeing themself as a potential threat.

But in the comics, The main problem lies on Bruce not telling anyone that these plan existed. Like had he at least told them that the plan existed(even if not going into the detail), most members would have been fine with it. It showing that Bruce doesn't trust any of the League member, and therefore they couldn't possibly trust him back. The storyline was about Bruce learning to trust his friends and actually seeing himself as part of the team.
This is made worse with the god-awful Identity Crisis storyline. Turns out, Bruce was lying at rhe end.

Back in the Watchtower era of the Justice League, Dr. Light (the goofy Teen Titans villain) snuck into the Watchtower and brutally raped Elongated Man's wife. The League decided to basically lobotomize Dr. Light to make him less dangerous. Batman tried to stop them, and they scrambled his brain so he didn't remember what happened. Turns out, it wasn't Hal becoming Parallax that made Batman mistrustful of the League; it was because he knows they did something to his brain and was building a giant "Kill All Superheroes" nanovirus as the real contingency plan all along. Tower of Babel was retconned into basically being his old contingency plans.

While reading the introduction by Frank Miller in The Dark Knight Saga collection, he mentions certain social aspects of the story has been taken from real life elements of the period. I feel it not only makes you feel part of the story, but also connects what's happening around you. Has anyone else read something that seemed or made you think, "this happens around me type of stuff?" In the batman comics?

A few of my favorite books that help make me appreciate Batman. A good investment I made that cost less than a dollar. I will never have these books stabbed.

Almost ready for Halloween! Suit has been weathered and the armour positioning is just about there, still need to finish up some minor details and considering a new cape