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Happy Batman Day!
For those interested, Comixology is currently having some great deals on Batman digital comics. I picked up the first three collections of the classic Batman and the Outsiders collection for under $20, which collectively reprint the first 30+ issues and annuals. Now I just need to find the time to read them!
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Gerry Conway Vol. 3 includes the 4-part "vampire" story. Conway is assisted in the script by Paul Levitz in one issue and Paul Kupperberg in another. Maybe it was for a schedule crunch, but I wonder why those two were brought in just for this story.
Whatever the case, dislike supernatural stories in general and I find them especially intrusive and out of place in Batman. Yeah, yeah, it's comic books and it's all nonsense, but I just don't like supernatural stories in my Batman tales. 
Having said that, the vampire story wasn't bad, but it was also nothing exceptional. Superb art by Gene Colan, though. He had some experience with that sort of thing.
I haven't got the Gerry Conway, vol. 3 book yet, but I have the Gene Colan volumes, and I wonder if that vampire story is reprinted in one of those volumes.
I love supernatural stories, but I 100% agree that it doesn't really belong in a Batman book. They push the envelope enough with stuff like the Lazarus pit. Batman in his own books work best in stories that are grounded. To the extent that there are supernatural components, it should be Scooby Doo type supernatural, i.e., it is all smoke and mirrors.
When I want to read Batman dealing with the supernatural, or over the top tropes like alien invasions, I will read Justice League or other character's books featuring Batman as a guest star.
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Gerry Conway Vol. 3 includes the 4-part "vampire" story.
Ooh, that's interesting. I've always been a fan of the later Moench/Kelley Jones Batman elseworlds stuff. Now I'm really looking hard at this.
(Apparently I'm not so much against the supernatural in Batman. )
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For heaven's sake, I already own the Batman vampire storyline in the Gene Colan vol 1. I've got to get to reading that!
And I love the idea of Art Adams doing Superman/Batman with vampires, I'm looking that up. That is, if I don't already own it!
EDIT: No, I don't own it, but it is in Byrne's Man of Steel vol. 6. Hmmm.
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That Art Adams cover does no favors for Superman's neck....
Maybe he's just protecting his neck from the vampire's kryptonite fangs!
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Sep 28, 2019 - 7:07 AM
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Jim Phelps
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That's a real nice page of comic art.
I checked a few comics in a comic shop the other day. The Marvel and DC seem, for the most part, to try and save bad to mediocre art with computer colouring. Though i couldn't give exact examples, it was just my impression leafing through. No art really leapt out either. In the indie comics, of which there now appear to be about 45,000, there was more range but a lot seemed to fall into big-eye leaning towards manga, can't really draw but hopefully the overall pleasing style and colouring will trick people category. If that's a category.
Glad you liked the Bats page; the issue itself is a quick, breezy read--a cartoony fill-in story, really--but it's worthwhile just to admire the interesting art layouts.
I rarely even look in the direction of new comics. Besides, for the $5.00 cover price most new books go for, I could put that towards the Bronze Age books I don't have--but even then, I have pretty much stopped buying even those since I have so much as far as DC books are concerned.
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