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Agreed. And while I guess a lot of the modern comics also have consistent artwork, readability, and writing, there was just a magic from that era that they don't usually capture. Plus, a lot of the comics from the late 2000's on seem to have an off-flavor to them. Not to say that a lot of it's not good. I like what I've read of The New 52, and I haven't gotten to Rebirth yet. Nice. I'll check it out.

What about them? Trans, gender-fluid, and non-binary superheroes can be straight. Although, just to clarify in case anybody reading this becomes legitimately confused, I was actually referring to superheroes whose characters were played more or less straight as opposed to aforementioned 90s anti-heroes (although I guess The Punisher is an anti-hero; he just isn't quite Lobo) and not heterosexual superheroes, which should be obvious considering that I included a man known for prancing around in brightly-colored tights, living with more other guys than Jesus Christ, and laying in bed with one of them so often that some cranky old man wrote an entire book about it and nearly destroyed the comics industry as a result.

Or else a bit of a scumbag myself and happen to have a light working knowledge of such things. Either way, stealing from mom and pop shops and/or comic book stores is disgusting, and I hope the piffle (this board keeps deleting my profanity, have to start using new words) gets caught. Not by the cops (as a scumbag, such a wish would seem slightly blasphemous), but by someone who can bust his head in and take the books back.

https://dilbert.com/strip/1994-02-09

Everything from the 70's on seems tolerable. I rarely pick a random book from that era on and dislike it. Conversely, I can rarely read one of the 40's/50's/60's books and get any farther than a page or two. The different art and storytelling seems to go in waves, but the stuff I love and the stuff I hate seem to all be grouped together. The darker stuff from the 80's and 90's are my favorite, and the campy from the early era is my least favorite. How far did you get? Yeah, the older era stuff is painfully tedious. Thanks. And, yeah, there are, but most of the more egregious offenders seem to be in one continuous series, which is both a good thing and a bad thing. If I can just get through them, I won't mind the rest so much... but I would have to get through them, and get through them first. I wouldn't be here if I weren't giving it some serious thought. I have a lot to do at the moment (relatively speaking) but I'm thinking I might attempt starting it in a month or so, if I decide to. I might. I might. It would mean several months where I couldn't do anything else at all, but it's not like I'm not sitting here wasting my life, anyway. It would at least be an accomplishment. I was thinking that my rule-of-thumb would be that any comic that is primarily focused on a Batman-derived character would go on the list. Dark Knight: This and That would definitely be included, and while crossovers like Batman/Superman count since Batman is tied for primary focus of the comic, JLA would not count, since Batman is one of many included characters and doesn't usually take place in Gotham. Brave and the Bold Batman issues might count, if I decide I'm not too lazy to go through them all and figure out which ones those are.

Yeah, well, I do read enough Dilbert to know how seriously I should take an engineer's criticism of my fashion choices (no offense). https://dilbert.com/strip/2015-01-08

If they were any good at what they were doing, they were well-disguised and wearing something different while they were casing the place out. However, after reading the article, my guess is that they weren't, but that's probably a lot of video to go through to get anything interesting, since the earlier break-in might be connected. The fact that they left the car in the parking lot, and that they didn't park several lots away in the first place, points to the fact that these guys are amateurs. Leaving a car in the parking lot when spooked is a very common beginner mistake in retail theft. When I saw the headlines, I figured that a comic store theft of high-value books was something that would likely have been pulled off by somebody smart, but my new guess is that this was a bunch of dumb tweakers who passed by the store one day and saw a price tag on the books. If it were something like a professional theft ring, good luck getting one guy to rat out the others, but that's probably their best bet here. I dunno how it works in Canada, but in the States, you'd be looking at felony charges in any state for that amount, and they might offer one guy a deal in hopes of locating the other. On the other hand, retail theft is a risk vs. reward thing, and if they're not looking at much time, $50K worth of goods might be worth a short stint in jail, depending upon the circumstances. Lot of DA's would cut them a sweet deal if they were first-time offenders, especially if they didn't think of stealing comics as a serious crime (regardless of how much they were worth). It seems planned out, but it was obviously done by someone who isn't familiar with organized retail theft. They knew the guy was moving the books that day at that time somehow, so it might have even been somebody the comic store owner knew - or at least someone he knew gave the thieves inside info. Disgruntled employee, maybe? Someone who knows the local scumbag brigade says, "Hey, my boss is a and I know where some comics worth fifty grand are gonna be, you want in?" My third guess is that this was planned out by someone on the inside who just wanted the money the comics are worth, or even a collector(s) who wanted the comics for themselves. I'd wager that the earlier break-in is connected somehow, but it also seems like someone who knows enough to get away with a break-in wouldn't be leaving their car in the same parking lot as the store, so who knows.

I've come across several threads like this across the internet, and general consensus is that it's a borderline-impossible, Herculean task. And that was generally just for Batman and/or Detective Comics; in my case, I'd also want to include every spinoff based on a main character from Batman (Nightwing, Robin, Joker, Harley Quinn) or otherwise primarily based in Gotham, and every Batman spinoff ever released, including Elseworlds, graphic novels, and whatnot. I'm a hikiNEET with absolutely nothing better to do, and, by my calculation, if I spent all day every day doing nothing other than reading Batman, I'd finish somewhere between day 60 and day 90 - assuming I got through 50 normal-sized comics per day on average, and allowing for the fact that some of the older comics were 50ish pages and there are probably a bunch of series that qualify vaguely as "Batman" which I'm not even aware of yet. I have already acquired every issue of the original runs of Batman and Detective Comics (before The New 52), which are one-third to one-half of all of the comics, and now I'm working on obtaining the others. Regardless of whether or not I ever commit to this in full, I plan on at least compiling a complete list of material that meets the above criteria. Has any organized, complete, comprehensive list of Batman-related comic titles ever been made, and if so, where can I find it? Of course, I'll post my final list in case any comic nerds out there find it useful for whatever reason. I feel like the main hurdle in accomplishing this is that there are a solid 25 years of Batman and Detective Comics that were just plain bad (some of the early stories were great, but it gets pretty awful in the 40's and that continues in one form or another for a while), and I'd have to get through most of them before things really started getting good (around the early 70's), assuming I'm reading in order to some degree, so I'd be tempted to quit during Batman's campy phase, the Seduction of the Innocent blacklash phase, or the weird 50's sci-fi phase. But once I broke through that barrier, those comics would pretty much read themselves. Thoughts? Opinions? Is this actually a realistic goal, assuming I don't find a job or a life or anything better to do in the meantime? Has anyone accomplished this before? How many issues of Batman have you read, and how long did it take? How fast can/do you read comics? What are your favorite and least favorite eras of Batman, while we're at it?

Yes, most of the definitions I'm seeing on Google seem to refer to people who feign certain qualities in an attempt to get attention and who are not easy to get along with. Well, in my case, I'm a legitimate, certified, grade-A lunatic (there's quite a bit of paperwork on the subject), any attention I generate is not necessarily intentional, and you won't find me too difficult to get along with most of the time. Still, I'm obsessed with anything related to gore and/or demons, dress in all black, listen exclusively to edgy music, and I'm really not all there, so I get called that enough to embrace the label.

Hey. My name is Jack, and I'm an edgelord. My primary interest when it comes to comics are horror comes, specifically and especially obscure pro-code horror comics and magazines like Psycho, Eerie, Creepy, and the like. I also love goth comics (Courtney Crumrin, Gloomcookie, Lenore, and really anything by Slave Labor), ero guro and extreme horror (everything from Western stuff like Crossed to the work of Uziga Waita), really anything dark or horrific in general (really enjoying Harrow County currently), and bad 90s antihero comics are a guilty pleasure. As far as straight superheroes go, I like Batman and The Punisher. I'm 27, and, yes, I do still wear fingerless gloves.