Englehart/Rogers or O’Neil/Adams?
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Englehart/Rogers or O’Neil/Adams?
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Gun to my head, I'd say O'Neil/Adams. But both are good runs.
I would way both are equal great
I haven't read either. Those are Bronze Age runs, right?
I heard they lost the great campy atmosphere of the Silver Age.
>I heard
I’d say you heard wrong. Certainly they are more serious than the silver age, but they are very pulpy. They’re not like certain modern takes on Batman where everything must be grim and gritty and super realistic and super cereal
all batman is pulpy till 1986
Both are great, but O’Neil/Adams is more important: Batman becomes Gothic again, Talia and Ra's Al Ghul first appear, the Joker returns
>Englehart/Rogers
Hugo Strange returns, modern Deadshot first appears, new Clayface
O'Neil's batman is Noir, not gothic.
It has many Gothic stories though. And not only because of O'Neil's art.
ok
Jesus, they had extra Robins back then too?
The Englehart run is more of a single run, O'Neil's are more of a few months on, a few off. O'Neil's issues are the more interesting, but keep in mind most of them are contained stories.
Basically this. O'Neil has the Ra's Al Ghul storyline, but Adams didn't do the art for all of it. Plus he and Adams had a few Man-Bat stories and singular stories (the story where Two-Face returned, the Enemy Ace story, Joker's Five Way Revenge, etc)
Englehart had an over-arching storyline and Rogers did most of the art (I think Englehart's first story had a different artist) which makes it more consecutively consistent
>he and Adams had a few Man-Bat stories
A small correction with no intent to offend, anon; the Man-Bat stories Adams drew were written by Frank Robbins.
Oh frick, that's right. I kept thinking it was O'Neil for some reason.
The different artist was Walt Simonson
O'Neil/Adams
Bob Haney's Brave and the Bold
mods
Absolutely based post. Morrison's Batman has nothing on the insanity that Haney brought,
I fricking love Haney.
I really need to bump that Question Omnibus to the top of my reading pile. I forget that Denny was pretty good.
O’Neil/Adams
He was okay.
It was fun because they were trying something different, within the restrictions of the magazine. there's a lot of raunchy jokes here
>Full Steve Engleheart DC Reading Order
https://sonofbatmann.blogspot.com/2022/07/steve-englehearts-dc-universe-reading.html
I didn't know he wrote JSA Classified at some point.
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His JLA was also above average. He made Batman and Superman partners again without any cringe.
Englehart/Rogers by some distance.
Tough call. There are some stories by O' Neil/Adams I like more, but because Englehart's was one big arc it flows better when re-read (Though that's obviously because O'Neil's were mostly done-in-one stories). That said, it's really hard to say whether I like Five Way Revenge or Laughing Fish/Sign of the Joker more.
Both are excellent gateway comics for someone looking to get into Batman through older material though.
O’Neil/Adams by a lot.
i don't know