BATMAN AND THE MONSTER MEN

[Norrin_Radd]

Is this a great series or what?!

 

I went to my LCS for the first time in two months and picked up the first two issues. Great art and a good story so far. It's nice to see the return of Batman's first nemesis (Professor Hugo Strange).

 

 

Anybody else reading this?

[john72tex]

I am reading it as well. Nice to see a new Hugo Strange story. You don't see em very often.

[rob_react]

Is this a great series or what?!

 

I went to my LCS for the first time in two months and picked up the first two issues. Great art and a good story so far. It's nice to see the return of Batman's first nemesis (Professor Hugo Strange).

 

 

Anybody else reading this?

 

 

I'm really enjoying it.

[RTBrandy]

I Likey!!!

 

Hint:

 

If you want to make it even better, read it after an issue of 'Journey into night'

[followtheleader]

Can you give a synoposis of the story? I didn't pick it up as I wasn't a big fan of the artwork. But I'm always down for a great story.

 

Pat

[CentaurMan]

It has a very Golden Age feel to it, but modernized with occasional dismembered limbs. I think it's fantastic. Although as a big Hugo Strange fan I may be biased. Properly written, he's spooky as hell.

[bobpfef]

I'm enjoying this as well. Well written and nicely drawn.

[Durden08]

For those of you that did not know, this series is a retelling of the Golden Age story that appeared in Batman #1. That story also had Hugo and the "monster men".

 

I concur with eveyone else, this new book has been an excellent read.

[Norrin_Radd]

For those of you that did not know, this series is a retelling of the Golden Age story that appeared in Batman #1. That story also had Hugo and the "monster men".

 

I concur with eveyone else, this new book has been an excellent read.

 

There was an advertisement in Detective #37 for the Monster Men story in the next issue. But because they changed #38 to introduce Robin, the story was included in Batman #1.

 

Similar to the first Joker story being moved from Detective #40 to Batman #1.

[Norrin_Radd]

I picked up Batman: Monster Men #3 from my big city LCS yesterday and read it while sitting in traffic on the way to pick up my wife. The last time I did that was during the early issues of USM.

 

Great stuff.

[followtheleader]

I finally picked up issues 2 and 3. The LCS is grabbing me a #1 this week (sold out). I'm thinking I might not wait and start reading #2 due to the high recommendations. Thanks guys.

 

Pat

[SignatureSelect]

I haven't gotten to read it yet but I love all of matt wagners stuff so I am sure I will love it too.

[HouseofComics.Com]

Yeah, it's great. I don't know why it doesn't get half the attention All Star Batman and Robin is getting.

[grider67]

Simple, Jim Lee (WildCats & Batman: Hush) and Frank Miller (Daredevil & Sin City) are huge names.

[followtheleader]

#3 was listed in Wizard as one of the best covers. Not sure if it's for the month of January or what.

 

Pat

[HouseofComics.Com]

Simple, Jim Lee (WildCats & Batman: Hush) and Frank Miller (Daredevil & Sin City) are huge names.

 

Yeah, that's why the superior series with the same character by a good name should get at least half the attention!

 

This thing is really under the radar.

[Kevin Boyd]

In all honesty, this is a "wait for the trade" situation. It's a great, solid read, that's only six issues long. (Yes, I'm aware there's a second 6-issue mini that will follow).

 

Trinity did quite well as a hardback, but individually it was just an okay seller. I suspect Monster Men will do the same.

 

It's also coming out right in the midst of intense interest in the main DC books due to Infinite Crisis, and in the superstar creator driven All Star line. It doesn't take a lot to see it's just not going to get that kind of attention because it's a stand-alone creator driven story.

[HouseofComics.Com]

How do you think it compares in quality to something like Long Halloween or Dark Victory? Because to me this is right up there. Ie, best Bat story of the year.

 

If it were 12-issues instead of 6 would that make it any more or less likely to be a wait-for-the-trade type situation?

 

Just curious,

Marc

[HouseofComics.Com]

You know what this book reminds me of? The new Conan series from Dark Horse. Both are taking "old" stories and giving them the deluxe, modern treatment. The DH Conan will take a story that was one issue in the 1970s version and give it two issues with lots of interesting new stuff. Same here. EG, we've already learned more about Julie Madison in Monster Men than we did in all her GA appearances.

 

Marc

[Kevin Boyd]

Well, I prefer Matt Wagner's artwork to Tim Sale's so I'm obviously biased in favor of Monster Men. That being said, I stopped Monster Men with issue 2 to "wait for the trade" so I haven't read enough to declare it the next classic Batman story, but I have faith enough in Wagner to think it probably will be.

 

The one thing I'll give Long Halloween and Dark Victory is that those were both original works, while Monster Men is an expanded and revised adaptation of the Hugo Strange story from Batman #1 (while the second mini deals with the Joker story from Batman #1). I sort of know what I'm going to get with Monster Men.

 

And Wagner's story WAS originally to be a 12 issue mini, called Dark Moon Rising. DC made the decision to split it into two 6-issue minis. I don't know why, but I would assume that it had something to do with repackaging the material for the trade paperback market. DC doesn't like to reprint 12 issue minis as a single volume anymore. Recently they've divided longer stories into two trade paperbacks (such as the Jim Lee Batman and Superman arcs, as well as New Frontier) to double their sales and get product out faster.