costume looks gay as fuck >Humanity broke the barrier between our universe and our universe's shadow. From the void came horrific apparitions that craved nothing but destruction. But from this terror... a legend was born. A warrior who found a way to access the energy that binds our universe and the shadow universe, transforming him into a cosmic dark knight. This immortal legend was named Batman. He fought to keep us safe but then one day abandoned the war. Though he didn't disappear entirely. Now they say he hunts a rogues gallery of monsters... born from the shadows!
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BAT SHIN GETTER ROBO
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>>150092848Is this DC second new Elseworld book after that Tangent green Lantern book?
>>150092848Westerners cannot design toku style suits. This doesn’t look like Toku Batman, it looks like Kenner Cyber Strike Batman
>>150093238I guess it is a Batman book through and through but I can't lie, I was kinda hoping they were all their own unpowered heroes instead of Batman associates.>Batman covering the Night>Blue Beetle covering the Day>Wildcat or Bronze Tiger (or somebody else) covering the In-Between
>>150092858>>150092852>>150092862I’d have been more interested in this comic if the art didn’t look fucking hideous.As overexposed and overrated as he is Dan Mora would have been a perfect fit for this.
>>150093583Aren't all black label books elseworlds too?
>>150093787Dan Mora is drawing part of it.>>150093279
>>150094061Just the back-up, back-story portion. And it indeed looks much better than the regular art. But certainly not enough to make the rest worth reading.
>>150093925No. And this is why for years people have tried telling you faggot ass casuals that it isn’t just a throwaway term for out-of-continuity stories.Elseworlds stories are a specific line of comics. It was discontinued for a decade and they announced a few more this last year.
Mora's art without good coloring is so mid. Anyone who claims he's this generation's Jim Lee is either blind or a troll.
Higgins and Mora are the perfect team for this concept. Not sure why they put Mora on the back up
>>150094336Mora is just a generic B-tier artist from the 2000's who is A-tier in the 2000's because they aren't ponying up money like they used to. He'd be on a Supergirl or a Gambit book in the 2000's. Not an A-list book guy
Kamen Rider Batman is awful. 2/10 book.
>>150094336>overrated, decent artist, who’s on a lot of big name booksSounds just like Jim Lee tho
>>150092852bump
>>150093113HENSHIN
>>150094637He’s more in the vein of new52-era Caputo where the appeal is in the crisp lines.
>>150094529Mora can only draw so many books in a month.
>>150094914Nah, you had plenty of guys with clean line and sort of cartoony/anime inspired styles in the 2000's, too. I would say Capullo is grittier(if cartoony)
>>150094914Capullo’s crisp lines from that era are due to the inker, glapion.
Immortal Batman is an over designed mess, they could have used the one from the one shot and it's a lot cleaner
gay
>>150092848variant covers listImmortal Legend Batman #1 Cover B Homare VariantImmortal Legend Batman #1 Cover C Homare Foil Virgin VariantImmortal Legend Batman #1 Cover D Blank VariantImmortal Legend Batman #1 Cover E 1:25 Matt Taylor VariantImmortal Legend Batman #1 The Comic Corner / KRS Comics Godtail VariantTHE IMMORTAL LEGEND BATMAN IN DEEP SPACE! The Immortal Legend Batman's strength will be tested when his hunt for the new breed of Shadows leads him to the asteroid base of space pirates who decide the fate of their captives through physical combat. Outnumbered and without access to his powers, can the Immortal Legend Batman find the mettle to survive — or will he be broken?Immortal Legend Batman #2 Cover B Michael Cho VariantImmortal Legend Batman #2 Cover C Serg Acuña VariantWhat's the one question the Immortal Legend Batman is afraid of? Learn the answer as the hero is drawn to a long-abandoned estate on a distant moon... now occupied by a devious resident. In a tense battle of wits — in which any mistake will have explosive, tragic consequences — can Batman solve the madman's riddles? And more importantly...can you?Immortal Legend Batman #3 Cover B Derrick Chew VariantImmortal Legend Batman #3 Cover C Ejikure VariantThe Immortal Legend Batman knows how to stop a Shadow attack, but what is he to do when the very soil beneath his feet poses a threat? Deep within the jungle of a seemingly uninhabited planet lies a poisonous threat ready to take down the Immortal Legend Batman!Immortal Legend Batman #4 Cover B Dan Mora VariantImmortal Legend Batman #4 Cover C Keron Grant Variant
Batman Beyond but gayer.
>>150093238>>150093249Nightwing looks like a girl with tits
>>150094765Jim Lee can't even draw one book every 3 months though
>>150093238>>150093249Dumb and gay.
>>150095953are you illiterate?
>>150096139Honestly yeah, you got me.I only skimmed through the picture and didn't read the text. Only saw the second page and saw the man-eaque face and assumed he was male, like he usually is.Yeah, my bad.
S'alright. Does he get a humongous mecha?
>>150093697>Westerners cannot design toku style suits.Because they make suits around the vague "idea" of tokusatsu instead the inherent logic of the specific story. There's reasoning to how Guyver's or Kamen riders designs work, like the belt having a turbine power source or having panels for the mega smasher. Xitter artists and industry drones just throw detail on for the sake of details because something on pinterest had it.
>>150093138RIDER KICKI enjoyed this issue.
I’m not going to read this unless Jason shows up and becomes the Green Ranger.
>>150093714>I was kinda hoping they were all their own unpowered heroes instead of Batman associates.I'm sorry, this isn't against you directly but I need to go on a redditor neckbeard rant about the western interpretation of toku henshin heroes.Alot of the early original heroes ARE NOT UNPOWERED HUMANSGoldenbat= Atlantian mummyUltraman = Alien/HybridKamen rider = cyborgJAQK = cyborgsKikaider = androidAkumaizer 3 = Demons/hybridsSupaidāman = Alien hybridInazuman = MutantThey're not just dudes in suits and I'm tired of it only ever being that.
>>150096176are you still being illiterate^? come on, anon
>>150097610>Supaidāmanwhy do thisyou didn't call the others "urotoraman"
>>150098388
>watch Kamen Rider one (1) time>"I can make a comic book about this!"This shit is bad.I daresay an actual rip-off of Kamen Rider where Bruce gets science-raped into meta-humanity would have been a better concept than this weird overdesigned shit.
tokusatsu shit is so gay.
>>150093113>"become the night">shines brighter than the enemy
>>150093249>Tim DrakeDropped
>>150093192>>150093204>>150093238>>150093249>>150093258This is too complicated even for a genre like tokusatsu. Even the Power Rangers kept it simple. Also I hate the designs, they're overdesigned.
>>150093204The frustrating part of this is that toku shows have traditional villains and antagonist. Just outright badguys using creatures,robots, whatever to further their goals. Every corny knock off western take does this crap.
>>150099258You're gay
>>150093697Is Costa Rica considered "Western?"
What I was promised: Sentai/Rider BatmanWhat I got: Outlaw Star Batman
>>150095243They should have just taken Mora off one of his multiple books and had him write an actual toku batman instead of giving it to fucking Higgins.
>>150101257This is nothing like outlaw star at all. >>150101242Why wouldn’t it be?
>>150096079Are you retarded? He used to be very reliable monthly.
>>150101389>Are you retarded? He used to be very reliable monthly.Yeah, back in 1990.
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>>150101364"Western" tends to be shorthand for "USA/Europe" and very little else.
>>150093271>Thomas ElliotHoly shit, fuck off with Hush!>>150092848Huge snoozefest, some tokusatsu homage it turned out to be.
>>150101738I know, right? If we're going with this weird space/ninja cult Jean Paul Valley would have been a better fit.
>>150101752Hell yeah, Azrael's original costume has been one of my favorite designs ever, also him being a brainwashed soldier to a mysterious cult hits all the right notes for a lot of showa Kamen Rider.
>>150101801I wonder if the suit in this was inspired by the knightfall one.
>>150101752Having the original Robin and Nightwing being Steph and fucking Harper is weird as fuck
>>150102001They said that the tradition has been going on for generationsSo Stephanie and Harper are just the direct predecessors to the most recent generation
>>150101737Not really, given the European roots to most Hispanic culture in North, Central and South American culture.
>>150101397Yeah, dumbass, anon said “this generations Jim Lee” implying Jim Lee was of the past.
Posting the superior toku Bat rider
>Batman>but nothing like Batman at all
>>150093271That was awesome. Thanks!
>>150102001No, he's right though, it's still weird.Also weird having Robin have nothing to do with Dick.
Will it be toku kino?
>>150093238>Nightwing taking the path of balance, like a tightrope walkerNeat
>>150105301Fuck you for rezzing this thread, nobody cares about this shit shill.
>>150107158It's a storytime, either storytime something yourself, or stop bitching, person put work into this to share, people like you are why Storytime threads are dying.Thanks for the storytime, op, was decent fun, wouldn't mind seeing how the second issue looks when it comes, felt this was just trying to play set up a bit. Also, the guy in th beginning of the story, the cargo carrier, might be a longshot, but may be a candidate for Joker, since he was laughing in bolder letters, and his face in the crystal cavern turned whitish when seen hough the crystals a bit
>>150107158Rezzing?
>>150092848Literally all they had to do was just copy Power Rangers. That's all they had to do and they fucked that up.
>Kyle HigginsNo thanks
>>150102394someone could be of a past generation and still working. Jim Lee started working nearly 40 years ago. that's a generational space and then some.
>>150092852Reading
>Kyle HigginsYou know, I see most of people griping about companies continually giving Tom Taylor and Tom King work, but never this guy. He's probably one of the most boring people that I've ever read anything byNot to mention that his MMPR was one giant fan-wank of Tommy with grimdark BS
>Tokusatsu>None of the hallmarks that make people like tokusatsu though.
>>150110604There's a laundry list of writers to avoid, including writers that people still suck off today like Jeremy Adams, David Pepose, Ryan Parrott and Tom Peyer. They're boring.
>>150108211So you agree it would be retarded to compare his current rate of output rather than during his prime?
i dont like it
>>150092879At least the costume looks better here. Gives me an Azraelbats vibe. Still, the cover already put me off the comic.
>>150111231This is my exact problem with it. This comic is clearly drawn and written by people who vaguely remember watching Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers and just apply modern Western action sensibilities to that memory and call it "tokusatsu".
>>150102956He was always what I figured a human Meta Knight would look like
>>150092870>>150092879The suit looks cool.
thanks op
>>150092884Teasing Bane?
crap
>>150093192>>150093204Love the coloring and composition here
>>150101930Yeah is like that
>>150092975Green Lanterns are mercenaries?
I think it looks cool because Power Rangers reference with bat/vampire cape
>>150122351i seem to be the only one who doesnt care for it
Why is it that every project like this feels insincere? When American studios try to do "manga inspired" anything, it comes across as parody.
>>150101801>>150101930This boils down why Dan Mora's designs suck. The Azrael suits look more like actual armored suits with depth. Dan Mora's designs are extremely busy with no depth. Using scifi as an excuse to not actually put the effort in to make it look coherent or anything like real tokusatsu suits.
>>150092848Given enough time, Kyle Higgins will turn everything into Power Rangers. Did he get fired by Boom or why didnt he just stay on? Hope he gets to consult on the new Marvel fighting game.
>>150123031>Did he get fired by Boom or why didnt he just stay on?If DC and Marvel barely pay decent wages, what do you think Boom pays?
>>150093279Thanks
>>150122985None of them look good lol
>>150124204The point is Azrael's suits look more like actual toku suits with armor on top of an undersuit. Dan Mora's designs don't convey that. They're just drawn like flat bodysuits.
im tired of alternate versions of characters
>>150093204interesting
>>150092848Thanks OP
>>150092848Very anime like armor
>>150092848>costume looks gay as fuckGo fuck yourself. It looks good, deadass.
>>150093697>Westerners cannot design toku style suits. This doesn’t look like Toku Batman, it looks like Kenner Cyber Strike BatmanWtf? The suit does look toku style. It's overly designed and exaggerated.. just like super sentai
>>150110604>Tommy with grimdark BSThey need to make it more colorful for the next iteration of MMPR.. I hope Disney finna not fuck it up
>>150129889>It's overly designed and exaggerated.. just like super sentaiThese are the last 3 Super Sentai suits, maybe I'm just used to it by now but even Donbrothers being thematically based on the story of Momotaro I'm not seeing anything that screams overly designed and exaggerated.
>>150129889No Super Sentai suits are very simple. Only thing simpler is Ultraman. Dan Mora's designs wouldn't fit alongside actual tokusatsu designs.
>>150100727>This is too complicated even for a genre like tokusatsuThe hell are you talking about, this is basically Kamen Rider Ryuki but people inherit the roles instead of picking them up.>>150101030Are you complaining about the shadows being mindless monsters, or that they're setting up a "aha, the monsters were just misunderstood"?
>>150130879I'm going to have to disagree look how overly designed they look. And I like the overdesigned look on Super Sentai. It's colorful, exaggerated to show power that the rangers have.. I like it this way.
>>150131227Well you'd be wrong. Even the latest Sentai is more subdued.
>>150130940I'm looking at pics from the various Kamen Rider shows over the years and it looks like they've gone the full range from simple to extremely flashy and complicated. This is a poster for Kamen Rider Gavv which ran from 2024-2025 for example.
>>150131461By contrast this new one coming out this year has a much simpler and sleeker design for the main guy.
>>150131506>>150131461Gavv is snack themed. Zeztz is a bad design because the design is clearly homaging Ichigo but it doesn't convey that the show is themed around dreams & the main character is an agent who fights nightmares. Ironically it was also designed to look like western suits. Just like Zero-One.
>>150131054>Are you complaining about the shadows being mindless monsters, or that they're setting up a "aha, the monsters were just misunderstood"?Monsters in real toku are sapient beings capable of speech and some cases modified humans themselves because it gives them actual motives, strategies and impact in the story behind being a generic punching bag to beat up between melodrama. They are enemy soliders and WARRIORS.Making them "mindless" is just a lazy sissified cop-out to avoid any kind of moral gray from rightfully putting down a terrorist that only makes the hero more of a hypocrite for not even checking to see if they actually are mindless or not.Kamen rider greases mofos like Kenshiro does
>gay>/co/ loves itnot surprised
>>150124993I am not, they are fun.
>>150136565im so tired of them you have no idea
>>150092852I will bump now and read later.
>>150093271I am not sure how to feel about this.
>>150139496dont bother. its bad
>>150138113Go away, then.
