Since DKIII is coming out next week, I'm going to storytime the entire MillerBats saga for people to get caught up.
First up, Batman: Year One.
And just to check, someone confirm if I've got this order right:
Year One
Holy Terror
ASBAR
Batman/Spawn
TDKR
TDKSA
Is that correct?
>>77521215
Why Holy Terror? It's not like DKIII will reference it or anything.
>>77521215
Is correct
>>77521244
I read it as sort of explaining why All-Star Batman is a lunatic.
Please include Holy Terror!
>>77521263
That makes sense. It is a pretty stark contrast in characterization between Y1 Bats and ASBAR Bats.
>HA HA TIME FOR BATMAN
You're good people OP
>>77521498
>>77521507
Best thing about Miller is these internal monologues.
Also, Mazzucchelli's Batman design is still my favorite.
>>77521834
>I hate it when she cries
I only just realized Joker's "But she's beautiful when she cries" is a reference to this
>>77521634
Didn't something like this happen IRL at some point?
>>77521854
Yeah, and Joker's disaffected narration from TDKR is also redone in his bit of ASBAR.
Miller ties back when he can
HAHA TIME FOR TERROR
>>77521424
It also has the first meeting of Batman and Catwoman as well as the first Batcave.
I think of it as a film version of what actually happened within the DKR universe, but for legal reasons identities and locations were changed.
>>77522151
Oh, and also continues the chronicle of Gordon's trauma
>>77522229
Yeah, this page and the final page make it all worth while
>>77522304
The hilarious amount of....passion between these two is maybe the most entertaining factor
>>77521733
>anaconda
I thought anacondas weren't venemous
>>77522338
They're not
Although with a lot of wild carnivore bites you run the risk of death even without venom because there's usually rotting flesh and bacteria between their jaws and teeth
>>77522429
>Humanities major
God I love Frank
>>77523201
Perfect
Continued >>77523286
>>77523295
Good
>>77521424
Yeah, it's more like in the regular DCU, Y1 and other circumstances didn't make Bruce completely crazy.
I mean Batman was rough on some criminals in Y1 (he punched a cop through a wall) but in All Star he was gleefully running down cops (without killing them somehow) like he was Marv from Sin City. Him going through the events of Holy Terror would really explain why he goes on a different path than Post-COIE/Pre-Flashpoint Batman.
>>77522229
>>77522249
Here's a small screenshot of a video from back when it was still a Batman project to see the changes.
>>77524389
Here's another screenshot from the time when it was a Batman project, which you can see wasn't much of a change from >>77522164
>>77522595
>>77522604
Jesus, Frank. And they they call Bendis lazy....
>>77525741
At least he had a clear purpose for doing that. Even in >>77522981
when you see talking heads Miller seemed to have drawn out most of them.
>>77521389
rekt
Bump to read
>>77521525
kek
>>77521566
hell yeah
>>77521956
That face
>>77522009
heh
>>77521915
yeah except they killed batman, iirc.
>>77521915
I believe Ed Piskor talked about that in his comics, although I'm not sure you mean this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE#1985_bombing
Bump to read
>>77521263
>>77521424
>>77522151
>>77522178
>>77524337
Ooo, sounds good to me.
If we consider Millerverse in the same timeline, Batman was anti police in ASBAR, but pro police in holy terror and then DKR before Gordon steps down. Even has support of most of the locals and media in DKR, unlike ASBAR.
>>77521255
that office, and gordon wearing purple... he's the joker isn't he?
>>77521286
god damnit I can't read cursive
>>77521424
It's pretty meta that wht drove Miller crazy is what dfove Millerbats crazy
>>77524337
>I mean Batman was rough on some criminals in Y1 (he punched a cop through a wall)
He shot at a cat, man. FUCK that guy. I love that Batman singles him out for that, he's so damn righteous in Y1 it gives me a hero-boner everytime.
