Batman to get costume redesign

If you like Bruce you should read the last 12 issues of Robin that leads into Red Robin and then read Red Robin, because Tim has pretty much taken over the role of Bruce in just about every way.

I can't really comment on anything up to date other than Red Robin and Batgirl, but from what I know of story Red Robin's first several issues are more important to the overall story arc and certainly Tim's hitlist has a lot more impact on Gotham than Dick and Damian doing their thing.

Streets of Gotham are less likely to hold anything story wise
Detective Comics focuses more on detective work than overall story so I doubt that has much in it right now.
Batman is probably Dick lamenting about what he's doing more so than him actually doing anything like always.

So I'd say you'd probably want to read Red Robin, Return of Bruce Wayne, and Batman, Inc. if Batman, Inc is supposed to focus on Bruce...

As far as...
"Batman and Robin (alas no where I look has back issues, specifically 9, 10, and 12)"

PM me if you want to find those *cough*

Haha, will do. I'm gonna check my comic shop here next week, and if they still don't have anything I'll give you a shout.

Anyway, thank you for the tips.

GAaaaAAaaaaAAAAGh!

YOU CAN'T UNSEE THINGS!

It's the roller blades that make it just that special.

The bat emblem is back to the 89 movie version, the bat symbol inside an oval with a yellow background. the belt is more streamlined and tech looking. The cape is also gathered behind the emblem, as if the emblem were a clasp of some sort. Also the dark blue/black bat-briefs are gone.

This is incorrect; it is an "urban legend" of comics fandom. However, the reasoning behind it is sort of correct.

In broad terms, insufficiently distinctive marks (images, phrases, what-have-you) cannot be successfully protected by trademark. If someone challenges such a mark in court, the court is likely to find the trademark invalid (and unregisterable, if it's a registered trademark). This is the reasoning behind the legend, and this reasoning is more or less legally correct. That is, DC or its parent couldn't defend a trademark of "an image of a bat."

However, the black Batman emblem that was used before the yellow oval was introduced is not just "an image of a bat." It's stylized and quite distinctive. The oval-less emblem could almost certainly be successfully protected by trademark, just as the one with the oval could.

Turning from law to fact, Julius Schwartz, editor of the Batman comics at the time the yellow oval was first adopted, repeatedly stated that it had nothing to do with trademark protection or lack thereof. Rather, the introduction of the oval was meant to create a "new look" for Batman, in much the same way that Schwartz had ushered in new versions of Green Lantern, the Flash, and the Atom a few years earlier. That is, it was what we'd call these days a "rebranding" to make Batman look more like the other DC heroes of the day.

Note: The discussion of trademark law above is taken from both my own understanding of trademark law (this is not my area of practice, so don't consider this post legal advice) and the discussion of this comic book legend in Was Superman a Spy? by Brian Cronin (Plume Books, 2009), pages 40-41. (Cronin is also an attorney as well as a blogger on the subject of comic book urban legends.) The discussion of Schwartz's reasoning is taken from Cronin's book.

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Personally, I don't particularly like the new design, but I've just never been a fan of Batman's costume, period. I've always disliked the use of grey; it gives the impression that he either can't keep the costume clean or can't afford to have it dyed an appropriate color.

Honestly, if he's really as good at stealth as we are supposed to believe, the bad guys won't see the yellow until it's way too late.

I knew a girl who put a bell on her cat's collar once, so that unsuspecting birds in her back yard would hear the cat coming before she could kill the birds. The cat just got to the point where that bell was the last things those birds ever heard.

I figure with batman, the yellow symbol would just be the last thing the bad guys see before they end up in Arkham.

My work here is done. Now to get out before Sho tackles me.

simply not true,the vast majority of his stories have had long life spans and usage in comics after he wrote them.

even ones that were not meant to be in continuity have often been pulled into continuity,such as Marvel Boy,or Doom Patrol for instance.

about the only thing i can think of that got retconed soon after he wrote it was Magneto's death.

my eyes!!!!!! what the hell? thats just wrong on so many levels.....

It's a space station.

Yay random Necros!

Spoiler: It's metrosexual Batman

My thoughts as well.

Uh... umm... o.O


I think it's worthy:



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