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Who is Ellen - 07 - HD
🕑 Added 2022-06-30 03:01:00 +0000 UTCFinding a comic.
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There are just so many versions of these characters.
To be fair, I don't know how many actual new Batman comics there are out there right now. What I'm mostly remembering is a young me looking to get into comic books, and there being a ton of different versions of Spider-Man, X-Men, etc.
Me being a 90's kid, I basically just wanted X-Men The Animated Series as a comic book, which I'm pretty sure existed for a while even before they did some weird multiverse version of it later.
Even so, when I think of multiple versions of the same character, I think of Batman, because ye GODS are there a lot of Batmen. One could fairly argue Batman does anything depending on what continuity you're going with.
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Hurley
And none of them are worth a damn except Batman: Wayne Family Adventures!
John Trauger
Ellen hasn't even gotten into the numrerous robins, ex-Robins, Batgirls and Batwoman.
Latency
I believe Batman has the most comics of any super hero.
Jared Fattmann
Ah, but the complaint is not about time at all, but rather the illusion of seperate comic book series when really if there are 8 Batman books coming out monthly, it tends to be the same thing as 1 Batman book coming out twice weekly.
Dan Merget
This is an unusual forum in which to complain about a clue getting introduced in one book, and not getting explained until much later. In comic books, "much later" is usually less than two years. By comparison, El Goonish Shive often introduces clues that don't get explained for over a DECADE. For example, there was a clue in the first panel of https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2002-06-10 that someone/something meddled with Tedd's mind, but the character responsible wasn't introduced until three years later in https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2005-02-18, and it wasn't explained until fifteen years later in https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2017-11-22. The only comic book I know of that had longer intervals between "introduce clue" and "explain clue" than EGS was Cerebus. (Does it still count if the author goes insane while writing the series?)
Prof Sai
Which is a good explanation for why no one reads comic books anymore.
Jared Fattmann
Usually your multiple ongoings of the same character are gonna be less different versions and more "here's author X telling a story about Y hunting down Z and here's author n telling side stories about Y, but watch out, issue 537 of n's book has a vital clue about Z that won't be explained until issue 5 (they renumbered last fall, but the storyline started in issue 294 before that) of X's book"
Prof Sai
That must have been hell on writers and continuity.
Chronos Cat
I remember back when I was reading comics in the 90s, it was common for popular characters to have at least four different series running simultaneously, with their publication timed so there'd be a new comic about that hero each week. It would all be in the same continuity though (except for the occasional Elseworlds/What If special or mini-series).
Chronos Cat
There actually was a comic series based on the 60s Batman (called "Batman '66") for a few years last decade.
Professor Harmless
Bruce finally learned the magic word: Franchise.
Matt R
There are/were plenty of Batman books during the New 52 run especially
jubs
Four should be opposite of two, everything is basically just the 60s batman show as a comic.
Prof Sai
I think they should have four prime universes and aim each one at a different target audience. So universe one would be aimed at kids, and have short stories and minimal need to have read other comics from ten years ago. Universe two would be the dark angry comics where everyone is half insane. Universe three would be for El Goonish Shive fans, and universe four might be like a big elseworlds world.
