So to paraphrase the opening of Crimson Peak: "This is not a Batman story. This is a story with Batman in it."

So, whereas Doug Moench's stories glorify Batman to the point where stories that don't even have him somehow _still_ have him, _Fortunate Son_ and _Jazz_ are pretty much Batman In Name Only, just barely keeping him connected. Also, love how we see the extent of the 'I Am a Man' punch. XD

Batman (Linkara): "Okay Robin, in this variation of scenario 46-D, a jazz demon will launch shards of glass out of his saxophone at me." Robin (Linkara): "Okay. Batman, this is getting ridiculous!" Batman (Linkara): "Shut up, Robin! This is totally possible! Now, in scenario 47-A, a super-intelligent emu will use its psychic powers to mind control me..."

5:58 he punched reality so hard his hand went to another location in space and time... Oh my God... Linkara has turned into... SUPERBOY PRIME!!!

"My computers don't help. I went home, played World Of Warcraft for 3 hours, and I'm still no closer to the truth!!" That's a mood, Batman!

There's trouble in Gotham City. That's a capital T and that rhymes with B and that stands for BATMAN!

"I am a MAN!" god i love that joke

Jazz and Fortunate Son were actually early secret attacks by the Music Meister!

Batman taking on the villain from Last Action Hero sounds like a good idea for a parody comic.

At least we find out where he is reaching to in those "I am a man" moments. He opens up a tear in the fabric of reality creating a rift in time and space.... or he has a saucy black woman sitting on the couch next to him that he keeps snatching things from. Either or.

"I can't shoot you through the camera." Well, I mean, I guess it's good to know the magic gun has limits, but that seems like a weird one.

question: was the guy who invented bebop a cowboy?

“Batman: Hip-Hop Hero”? So a crossover with Parappa the rapper? Nice.

I kind of want to see a Batman version of The Music Man actually. Hearing Batman sing “76 Trombones” would be great.

So Batman is defeated by bad weed and the Changeling army is defeated by cake batter. I give up.

**archive binging while being semi-up-to-date with Linkara in present day** Oh, hey, it's Viga! :-)

5:64 *THIS IS NOT MY BEAUTIFUL HOUSE!, THIS IS NOT MY BEAUTIFUL WIFE!*

You know, I love the fighting with music trope

15:11 Thank you ma'am, that narrows it down to only the vast majority of Earth's population.

I was getting sick of this crap already, but when the writers threw in a quick jab at artists who sample music, I lost all patience. These writers are pretentious music history snobs who take analyzing music way too goddamn far. From an outsider's perspective, what's happening here is that Blue Byrd is a rather messed-up person who's too self-absorbed because of his music and the inherent "meaning" behind it because everyone else is too entranced by it to see clearly, and as a result he did some horribly self-serving things, particularly faking his own death and leaving his family and friends behind, that everyone he directly harmed and neglected is giving him a free pass on because they're too entranced by the music's "message" too see the situation clearly. ....so, in other words, he's the Jazz-musician version of Goku. Oh, SNAP! He's capable of doing this one thing apparently so wonderfully that everyone around him takes way too goddamn seriously that they forgive him for all of his crap, unable to realize that their lives are being ruined for the exact reason that they're all spending too much time psychoanalyzing musical interpretations and not enough time living their goddamn lives ....yeah, didn't this happen in Batman: Fortunate Son, too? Linkara mistook the entire thing as an indictment against musical culture because everyone in that comic was acting dangerously insane for *precisely the same reason*: spending more time thinking about musical interpretation than living in reality? You know, that same thing that the writers are apparently really in to and what drove them to write these comics containing these characters that do this thing? ....Ya know, at some point, you have to wonder if this is not about Batman and is more about a round-about cry for help.

"SAXMAN" *jazz sting*

THIS COMIC BLOWS!

It says something that I'm not sure if the super intelligent emu is a reference to an actual comic or not.

Weirdly enough i read a Moon Knight comic where similar weird picasso villains showed up.

"A super intelligent emu will use its psychic powers to mind control me." I'm almost certain that actually happened at some point.

To use an old Bad Movie Beatdown phrase- SYMBOLISM!!!!!

Girlfriend cameo!

I really hope it's the Music Meister. Otherwise I'm going to be very disappointed.

14:11 Sampling is usually done with permission, old man.

19:50 too bad this came out 5 years ago. Apparently the first sound Batman liked from him was a Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion single.

One of those videos you see the title of and cannot possibly avoid immediately clicking on

Linkara ever thought about reviewing Azrael's time as Batman, and discuss how he's a Deconstruction of the Comic 90's Action Hero? I'm interested in your opinion on the subject.

batman is back at it again.

So this hole time when he does the "I AM A MAN" he has just been stilling his fiancé's stuff lol that makes the joke funner when u rematch some of the stuff that he has grabbed.

3:18- And stuff like that is shown in the DC Extended Universe, like when he used the exocskeleton suit and kryptonite smoke grenades in his fight with Superman. 12:24- I'm perfectly okay with Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, because it's about arguably the greatest American president fighting vampires. I haven't read the book, but I HAVE seen the movie, and it was pretty good.

1:07. WRONG! Everyone knows it was 2 terrible parents and then much later, Shredder and Krang that made the Bebop we know today.

8:34 You know that would be a funny elseworld story. Batman: The Conspiracy Theorist

Weird to think how the Cartoon All-Stars could have fixed all this...why didn't they just listen to Alf and Michelangelo!?

Okay... in between his career as a comic book writer and his current status as an inmate of the state of California for child pornography, Gerard Jones was- among other things- a music critic. I believe he dabbled in music himself as well. But here's the thing that has started to irk me as I watch this review... and Fortunate Son: The idea of 'the special artistic genius who is almost unearthly good at it are the only ones who are really people not in spite of how creepy the world thinks they are... but because of it'. You see it a lot with well... people with Jones admitted predilections. Now, it's not as creepy here as it is in some of Gerard Jones other work. He didn't create the idea of Hal and Arisia being a couple, he did get them back together and this time she was back to her 'true age'. And there was a lot of icky in stuff in his run on Prime if I remember correctly. Not it's not as blatant as a Victor Salva movie... but it in hindsight it is all kinds of 'I need to vomit!' Oh.. and the irony... some of Jones best received non-fiction was a true crime book. Oh the irony.

Batman vs. the Utah Jazz has to happen

I'm with you, someone needs to make a saxophone that doubles as a glass blower

This is 10 years old. I feel old.

Fun fact: In the minute 13:15 it can be read the words Mr. Bloom, funnily this is the name of a new Batman Villain in the new 52.

Comment from the Future: 2019 I resently came upon these old reviews an decided to give a watch and i do enjoy them." ;3

Who in the right mind thought Batman and music went together? All well, guest they were stoned.

24:00 Do my eyes deceive me, or was that a MLP Comic you had there?

Is that an ad for a Candyman movie on the back of that Batman book?

Ok am i the only kne who wants to hear Harvey do jazz?

13:55 Who wants a Linkara See 'n' Say?!

What do you thinkof Old Man Logan?

Something just occurred to me about this comic. The old man in this is meant to be that 'Whiteman' guy that the Rap Critic brought up in the Vanilla Ice review.

The art for this comic proves that there is a market for "What the fuck is this.".

Does Viga review mlp comics? If she does, i'd like to see them

1:11 Spoilers, It doesn't!

6:10 well, he might be giant

Didn't recall that "I am a man" joke in this one. Neat to see stuff I don't recall in older episodes

Digging the Villains

He made that joke about warcraft....while i was playing wow. Ha

Fictionalization of real life people is always going to be a tricky subject, but I'll give the comic credit that at least they didn't turn Charles Parker into a white person who revolutionized Jazz. Whitewashing sucks.

I just noticed that Viga's MLP comic has an add for Transformers. That's Swoop on the back cover and I think I see a couple of his fellow Dinobots (Slag and Snarl, if I'm right) there too.

To be fair, even Kingdom Come isn't what one would call a Superman story. He's the main character and key to the story's themes (primarily passing values onto the next generation and the ways one should use amazing power) but it's also, for want of a better term, an "anthology." It's more of an intelligent deconstruction of superheroes and how power can corrupt but one should be altruistic.

Oh, hey, there’s a Lil Petti plush on his shelf. Were those ever for sale? Also, Batman saw the “glass” last issue before it even hit him, so yeah, he’s dead

Batman VS Wu Tang clan. Make this happen

Here’s the thing, this story could work as a music murder mystery. Let’s take this back to the drawing board. It’s Gotham City in 1947, Batman is out on patrol when a scream rings out in the night like a shrill violin. Batman runs over to the scream to find a small group huddling over a body, a jazz musician named Charles “Blue Bird” Birdside (In this version, he’s not the creator of Bebop, he’s just a good musician who got merked). Batman decides to solve the crime as he feels that there’s more to the murder. While investigating, a group of hitman posing as jazz musicians confront Batman and they get into a fight. After interrogating one of the thugs, Batman learns that Blue Bird once worked for Carmine Falcone. Bird was once an opium dealer and he decided to keep his share of the money instead of giving it to Falcone. Now much later in life, Falcone finally got to Bird. Batman confronts Falcone and interrogates him, stating that he may not be able to get him for his other operations but he can get him for murdering Blue Bird.

It seemed that you missed an opportunity to say the Goddamn Batman appropriately

So Duchess, did you never get into other Jazz artists after Bird died? Louie Armstrong didn't appeal to you? Or Miles Davis? Or John Coltrane? Or Thelonious Monk?!! God this woman is so pretentious! Oh, and "expose the dark soul of this country"? I've listened to Charlie Parker's Sessions album, and there was no expression of sorrow and shame in there. I mean for gods sake, Coltrane break through record was a covers album titled 'My Favorite Things' and Louie Armstrong's biggest hit was a show tune. How are they expressions of depression and the darkness of the soul?

I get the vibe that this outfit is heavily inspired by Malcom Reynolds from Firefly.

That was the return of queen chrysalis good but reflections is a bit better

*The following is the opinion of a Salty SEAGULL named EARL who just shows up in my posts whenever he feels like it!* [EARL the Salty SEAGULL:] "So, BLUEBIRD is a PINBALL WIZARD, eh! Doubt he could beat MARSHALL THE PINBALL WIZARD of ADVENTURE BAY's PAW PATROL (seriously, I'd like to see BLUEBIRD, try to get a HIGH SCORE on the LOOKOUT's ELEVATOR, (which MARSHALL did purely by accidental elevator wipeout)!"

My first thought when you said cosmic ray: you mean the guy who I guess owns the starlight cafe in tomorrowland? Yeah I'm a loser what of it?

Dc does release soundtracks for some books nowadays. I don’t get it at all.

I like how the countess character keeps trying to make it a white/black racial thing. Where white musicians stole his music. So we then find out instead of being dead. He was studying modern composers.....in Europe. Kind of curious if that plays a part invthe story. Or was some real bqd oversite.

yea... you might want to reset and try to show some MERCY, sky

linkara are you worried about one more day since there making civil war and civil war came right before one more day well in movie form?

This seems like something that should have been a short story in Batman Black and White, not a full fledged comic.

Linkara should review a comic that knocks off the Rob Liefeld style like gi joe extreme.

Isn't WAP that Cardi B song?

I think the rhyming the Jazz demons due is related to a trope in DC Comics where rhyming demons are one of the lowest classes and they have to ear the right to speak......they can also get it as a punishment

Did that Emu thing actually happen?

Which review did he cover that had the Grinch?

8:12 Ah yes, because the GCPD, known for it's corruption and godawful maintenance of their city, would _totally_ search for a random black man. (I'm Black, btw. I'm just pointing out the Countess' train of logic is just plain stupidity.)

Did the superintelligent emu thing actually happen or was it just a joke you made up on the spot? Cause it's funny either way

Who did your ending theme song, Linkara?

Ewwwwe Linkars did Scat.

how do you donut a comic?

Transparent aluminum

Hey, I know it's the kind of mistake you said would be easy to make w/out a background in Jazz (and I'm really not trying to be pretentious like the writers of this Batman story are) but you played "Classical Gas" over the "Batman Jazz" intro... Eh what do I know, I'm just a third generation jazz/rock guitarist/vocalist who's grandad was a Luthier (that doesn't make me better than anyone, it simply gives me a solid background in these genres). And my family's not religious, so t's honestly a little bizarre when I hear someone doesn't know their modern music history because it was so inescapable for me growing up. Music probably served the place of religion for me... Feel free to ask where I got my morals from growing up; I think you'll be pleasantly surprised!

So, where was Robin during this time? Was there no Robin at the time? Did he just not show up for some reason?

pointless scatting

Who's the mlp comic reviewer lady

So you're not a Brony then?

Well, I hope this means you're going to do an MLP comic.....

Do the Pokemon reburst manga it's messed up

I'm sorry, but autotune is evil and needs to die.

REVIEW BERSERK!!!!!! JUST DO IT!!!!!!!

I feel like Linkara would be persecuted for criticizing this comic today just for joking at a comic featuring violence against black people.