Batman - Where are the editors?

[Blue Saint]

Mike Marts is bad at his job, plain and simple. He lets Morrison do as he pleases like he did with the X-Men which time has shown isn't such a good thing, I admit this is a personal opinion though. On the other hand he can't get books out on time which is a failure at one of his most basic duties. But this is just sad.

In Tony Daniel's latest arc in Batman he introduces a new superheroine. She is named Peacock and dresses in a bright blue costume meant invoke the Indian Peacock. So do you not only name a new new heroine after a male animal but you also design her after the species of peafowl where the female isn't even remotely close to male in coloring. That is epic.

 

[Demi-Fiend]

The same questions can be asked for a lot of books. That said, the answer is simple. They don't care.

 

[KouAidou]

I think that once you're dressing up like an animal of any kind, worrying about whether the animal is of the proper gender is kind of splitting hairs.

 

[Skiks]

It might of been a design choice really...I mean maybe they just liked the male peacock colors better.

 

[m121akuma]

Mike Marts is bad at his job, plain and simple. He lets Morrison do as he pleases like he did with the X-Men which time has shown isn't such a good thing, I admit this is a personal opinion though. On the other hand he can't get books out on time which is a failure at one of his most basic duties. But this is just sad.

In Tony Daniel's latest arc in Batman he introduces a new superheroine. She is named Peacock and dresses in a bright blue costume meant invoke the Indian Peacock. So do you not only name a new new heroine after a male animal but you also design her after the species of peafowl where the female isn't even remotely close to male in coloring. That is epic.

I must respectfully disagree with you. Morrison's run since RIP has been quite possibly the most fun I have ever had reading a comic franchise. I love all of the ridiculous metafiction involved in all of it, ESPECIALLY Batman 702. That was one of the best comics I have EVER read. The evil Ad Jingle, the falling through time and space, the foreshadowing for Return of Bruce Wayne 6, it was all masterful.

 

[Demi-Fiend]

That can be said of many of Morrison's books. He's one of those writers that you either really like or hate with a passion.

I don't care for him that much.

 

[Blue Saint]

I must respectfully disagree with you. Morrison's run since RIP has been quite possibly the most fun I have ever had reading a comic franchise. I love all of the ridiculous metafiction involved in all of it, ESPECIALLY Batman 702. That was one of the best comics I have EVER read. The evil Ad Jingle, the falling through time and space, the foreshadowing for Return of Bruce Wayne 6, it was all masterful.

Morrison solid technical writer, though he clearly at his limits now, I just find him boring. The thing with Morrison is that his main selling point is that he a radical and he just isn't, he is a post-modernist. This doesn't come up that often because when people think post modernism in comics, especially superhero comics, they think of deconstruction which Morrison doesn't deal with all that often. Morrison's wheel-house is re-interpretation and interpretation, this is where most of his metafictional aspects comes in play too. The thing is for me it is interesting but it isn't fun. It is like pulling back the curtain on the Great and Powerful Oz and finding Oscar Diggs.

I love post modern though, I am not that well versed in it as I would like in part since it is a bitch to find good books on it. The problem is when you start to think in a post modern mindset it opens up a lot more questions, and this can destroy stories. This is what happens with Morrison. The most recent example is the reveal at the end of Batman of Robin#16, when you start to think about it and what Morrison is commenting on it falls apart.