SILENCE! #296 (PRESTIGE FORMAT SPECIAL)
August 3rd, 2021
HEY PUT IT DOWN, THAT’S DAD’S SWORD!
It’s a Very Special Episode! The Beast Must Die is flying solo, with an episode-length exegesis on the myriad pleasures and horrors of the fabled Prestige Format Comic. It’s an epic for our times for sure, and when you look at these times that tells you everything you need to know about this epic…
<ITEM>Okay gird your girdles, stop your grinnin’ and drop your linen…here we go. The Beast talks about Batman: Gotham By Gaslight, Batman: Holy Terror, Batman: Full Circle, Batman: The Scottish Connection, Batman: Mitefall, Batman: Year 100, Batman: Manbat, Batman: The Cult, Batman: Run Riddler Run, Robin 3000, World’s Finest, Catwoman Defiant, Cosmic Odyssey, Legend Of The Green Flame, Blackhawk, Deadman: Love & Death, Deadman: Exorcism, The Horrorist, The Golden Age, Hawkworl, The Books of Magic, Martian Manhunter: American Secrets, Adam Strange: The Man of Two Worlds, Twilight, OMAC, Justice Inc, Black Orchid, The Prisoner: Shattered Visage, Breathtaker, Black Mask, Gilgamesh II, The Nazz, My Name Is Chaos, Clash, The Psycho, Skull & Bones, Tempus Fugitive, The Griffin, Grendel Vs Batman… sweet christmas… I need a lie down.
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September 3rd, 2021 at 10:08 pm
Hi. A few of these stories were collected in a elseworld anthology with a Green Lantern Batman on the cover. That story and a few others in it are pretty bad but the holy terror you mentioned was interesting though Gordon’s comment on how Cromwells reformation was “tolerant and kind” made me laugh. Theres a painted story with Batman and Houdini called :The Devils Workshop that is great and has Howard Chaykin as one of the writers along with John Francis Moore. I didn’t sense any of Chaykins influence and was surprised when I looked it up. The story actually deals more with Houdini’s life and Batman is more of a supporting character. The other Chaykin story:Dark Allegiances has Batman and Catwoman saving hitler and is terrible. Theres another painted story: Castle of the Bat thats a Frankenstein and Man-Bat mash up thats a lot of fun too. The Robin 3000 story I enjoyed the most and wish it could have been finished. Oh theres also a wild west story: The Blue the grey and the bat which is forgettable and a fantasy Batman and Joker story called :The Wild, which is 92 pages long and was the weakest story in the collection. The Green Lantern story : In Darkest Knight just feels like a set up for a series that never happened and its just Batman fighting Sinestro and him getting away over and over. Sorry for the long comment but I haven’t heard anyone talk about some of these elseworld stories and it was great to hear your thought and recommendations on them. Thanks for all the episodes