By Rob Bricken in
Comics
Monday, Feb. 8 2010 @ 1:55PM
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On Friday, DC's Source released two covers for the upcoming Return of Bruce Wayne comic written by Grant Morrison and about the adventures of Bruce Wayne quantum leap-ing through time. The first cover had that Bat-themed caveman outfit we'd already seen, but the second had Bruce as a bat-themed pilgrim. It's above.
Seriously. A cross between Batman and a Thanksgiving pilgrim. I'm pretty much ready to award Return of Bruce Wayne the Best Comic of 2010 award right now. If we get a Batman/Roman soldier hybrid later on, my pants may actually fly off my lower torso in pure joy.
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MattK said:
I expect to see a pilgrim version of The Scarecrow using fear-mongering against witches and any non-Puritan foes.
Southpaw Samurai said:
OMG! It's Solomon Wayne!
PJ replied to Southpaw Samurai:
Thank you, that's exactly where I was going to go with this. :)
Necronomic Forecast replied to Southpaw Samurai:
YES.
ZADL said:
You know, Pilgrims didn't really dress like that. The fashion was applied to the images in the mid 1800's because it looked "quaint." Minus several thousand points out of ten for historical accuracy folks.
kenshiro replied to ZADL:
well, I guess it couldn't be much worse, seeing as how it already has a -100000000000 point rating on historical accuracy due to it being a batman time travel comic.
Ben Gebhart replied to ZADL:
And you officially have minus 1,000,000 points for being an uptight doofus in regards to what is without a doubt awesome comics.
Disagree? Well, you're wrong. You just are.
ZADL replied to Ben Gebhart:
How would it be any less awesome if they got the clothes right instead of perpetuating lies? Asking for a little historical accuracy when it's really no effort to do so it isn't unreasonable, especially since reality (and yes I realize that a time-traveling Batman is completely unrealistic) could have provided an equivalently visually striking outfit without such a silly hat.
So defend your slavish clinging to lies and deceit, and I will continue to laugh at your pathetic education. For my knowledge of history is superior to yours, and therefore you are a doody-head.
[ extreme facetiousness is meant in this post, because, hey, if we weren't nerds nit-picking over stupid details like this, we wouldn't belong here, would we? ;-) ]
I think words like "lies" and "deceit" are a little harsh. I think more accurately you should have use terms like "common misconception".
Bad Frog replied to ZADL:
It is a work of FICTION.
no historical accuracy is needed.
I know it's fiction, and it's fantasy / sci-fi whatever. Fiction that bows to a modicum historical accuracy is more believable than fiction that inserts fantasy willy-nilly.
One is good strorycraft, and the other is sloppy. Look at the new Clash of the Titans - Zeus is depicted wearing armor in a style that dates 2000 years after the time the movie is set. Does it benefit from that or is it as out of place as an Abram's Tank on the fields of the American Revolution? Pandering to ignorance because something looks cool is just ignorance.
It doesn't take that much effort to make things look cool, and it doesn't make much effort to make things look right and cool. I think the former case is just laziness, and the latter case shows some care on the part of the artist.
In any event, yes I am nitpicking. But then I am a nerd. It's in my nature to argue these things. :-)
Besides, he looks like V for Vendetta. Only scowly. If they'd gone for a more historical look, he wouldn't be a carbon-copy of a different hero.
SkywalkThis replied to ZADL:
Uh, Zeus is a god. I don't think he's necessarily limited to current human technological discoveries. Lest you forget, the original film had them using a goddamned robot owl. There are some serious questions of focus here. Why is Zeus wearing plate mail less plausible than Zeus existing in the first place? It's not like it'd have been outside the realm of what Hephaestus could make. If Zeus shows up driving a Pinto, then maybe I'll be concerned.
JC replied to ZADL:
Next we will be arguing over how Bruce found a bat big enough to wear over his head for the caveman issue.
Asat replied to ZADL:
I've a friend with a similar attitude. She literally cannot watch some films because they get the costuming so very wrong and this completely inhibits her ability to enjoy the story. This falls in the "disadvantage" category, if you ask me, no matter what other benefits may accrue.
Then again, simplistic grammar and limited vocabulary make some novels unreadable for me, no matter how popular they are. Isn't that pretty similar?
Deacon Blues replied to ZADL:
He's not even an actual pilgrim. He's a witchhunter, as you could tell if you looked at the picture instead of jumping at the chance to correct people on the internet. Which I guess is even less accurate, but whatever, it's Batman in a tophat.
Menshevixen replied to Deacon Blues:
This.
PJ replied to ZADL:
I feel for you, ZADL. Unnecessary historical inaccuracies annoy me, too, but clearly not as much as they do you. It's a shame people are being as harsh as they are to criticize your opinion, but ah well.
To be perfectly honest, however I feel about all the bat costumes (and 'kinda cool' seems to be my general sentiment), I'll probably never touch the series for the same reason I avoid pretty much all mainstream Marvel/DC stuff. There's just too much material to sift through to get into them. This surely won't make it any easier.
Red Washington replied to ZADL:
Batman is from the future. If he makes his own clothes then they don't have to be historically accurate, now do they? Maybe Batman finds great satisfaction in making our modern misconceptions historically accurate.
Myles said:
It looks more like Bat-Soloman Kane, which is even more awesome!
CaptainLoquacious said:
Those witches are fucked. Seriously, I can't even describe in words how badly Solomon Wayne is going to just beat them. Really, now that I think about it, how much of humanity's fear of the dark is because of Batman's traveling through time. Seriously, every couple hundred years or so, just when people are starting to feel comfortable going outside again, there's a string of strange events and a guy in a bat suit just comes out of nowhere to beat the crap out of people (evil people granted, but still, that would freak townsfolk out). I wouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the series, Batman's just sitting in his library catching up on history, just in case something like this happens again, when he comes across a series of entries referencing "ye olde bat-man" who "held the colonies in a state of terror."
CaptainLoquacious replied to CaptainLoquacious:
I just noticed that in the picture Batman's got gas pellets (Apparently) on his belt. Just one more example of Bruce fucking up the time stream, because you know it's not going to be anything simple like smoke. No, it's going to be hydrochloric acid or something because he's the GODDAMN BATMAN. Seriously, Rip Hunter and Booster Gold are going to have a stroke over this.
kenshiro replied to CaptainLoquacious:
They are probably ok with it. I'm sure Batman will turn out to be one of their ultimate ancestors, because he's the goddamn batman in the past now too.
CaptainLoquacious replied to kenshiro:
Well put, sir.
stewbacca replied to CaptainLoquacious:
What if Grant does the ultimate time paradox- and Batman at some point becomes his own Great, Great Grandfather....
God I hate time travel.
Necronomic Forecast replied to stewbacca:
Isn't Rip Hunter's true identity a mystery?
And isn't Batman currently lost in time?
Do you see where I'm going with this?
Poe Ghostal said:
Heheh. Solomon Wayne.
sillygolem said:
Hey, look! It's Chakan!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakan:_The_Forever_Man
IIRC, there was a comic of this published at some point.
CHR said:
I don´t like it. I mean, we know that after this the DCU is going to be fucked up even more. And yes, I read final crisis.
tvtastegood said:
I couldn't care less if the DCU gets screwed up, because its friggin batman!!! Traveling through time and kicking ass creating a batsuit and utility belt in every era he's in!!! Did I mention HE'S BATMAN!!
Sorry I'm a big bat-fanboy
CHR replied to tvtastegood:
....
Yeah definitively that´s got to be the #1 nerd rule. You got me there.
keepoffthegrass said:
Wow this looks like a cool new ElSEWORLDS book....oh wait....
stewbacca replied to keepoffthegrass:
Beat me too it---
I wonder if we will get Batman as a Pirate, or Batman in 1890s London....
It sucks that Batman has now become Wolverine..
keepoffthegrass replied to stewbacca:
It sucks that hes Quantum Leap.
Whats next Alfred as AL?
wait....thats a brilliant idea!
Haz Nomis said:
The title of this is probably the coolest reference ever.
B.C. Cakes said:
I hope he breaks out the Bat-Horn-of-Plenty sometime during this story. Can't be a good pilgrim without a horn-of-plenty.
Anonymous said:
Anyone else wanna call this event "Batman Returns" from now on?
Boredlizzie said:
Batman meets The Crucible, in the style of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies!
Xenos said:
Yup. Definitely been hearing a lot of Solomon Kane comments. Thankfully I've recently gotten into that Howard character with the new Dark Horse series and the collections of older comics. Have to still track down some of the original prose stories though.
I bet Bruce is gonna be in Europe or maybe in the Salem, MA area. Most likely European witch hunts though.
Captain Spadge said:
You know what? I think this comic would suck. Seems like the worst idea since the bat-niples.
dnwilliams said:
Congratulations on that pun in the title.Seriously, that's a once-in-a-lifetime pun.
Evil Monkey Pope said:
The Burning Times were all about the religious persecution. It doesn't seem right that Solomon Wayne should be out there hunting witches. Although this is a dude that beats up the insane in the present and mutants in the future, so maybe beating up on hte socially maligned is his real game instead of justice.
Pete Cantropus said:
Wahahahahaaaaaa..... He's got Kamina's Glasses on the hat wahaahahaaa... absolute bat-plagiarism. Seems like Wayne wasn't manly enogh to fight witches without the power of the Gurren Brigade. LOL
clashcty replied to Pete Cantropus:
OMG! no shit!
clashcty said:
I think during this period, Batman would most likely be considered a demon.
He's using tech sufficiently advanced to be considered magic to most people of that time.
Oh, and don't forget the look... He'd be in the same boat as a witch.
jeffers replied to clashcty:
I'd love the writers to mix everything up and have Batman team up with the witches because it's the only feasable way to survive the witch hunters.
Adam said:
Glitchy Goblin said:
You dog, Rob.
I read this title three or four times before I got your joke.
You're a scoundrel, and I plan to tell you so in every other comment I leave today.
Hopefully, Bat Pilgrim won't lose himself to Cat Ramona and will keep his hands off Knives Robin (Age 17)
B8TINGU said:
LOL.. most of you guys suck!! .. (that is meant in jest!) There will be no Roman gladiator Batman.. issue #1 deals with him in prehistoric times with cave men..then if he Quantam Leaps to the Puritan period in issues #2 it will mean he will miss the Spartan age..then as subsequant issues there will be more happy endings a QL to the next period to fiannly come back and take the cowl back from Dick Grayson.. yea messed up but I would rather have Bruce back, he is the BATMAN!
