Hello. My name is Wet Blanket.And I'm about to throw myself all over this stupid book and it's glowing reviews.I knew going into this that it was an Adam West sort of Batman book. A throwback, if you will, to the days when Batman was a bit more campy and fun. A SILLY comic.I expected it to a be tongue-in-cheek nod towards simpler times.BUT.I also expected it to be smart and funny.You know, to poke fun at itself in some sort of a clever way.It wasn't. And it didn't.This was nothing more than prac...

Took a coupla flushes, but I finally got this turd to go down. A group of Goodread’s friends chose Batman ‘66 as a group read. So, here’s what I liked. Not much. I like Adam West and genuinely appreciate his contribution to the Batman’s history. He was funny on the show and has been able to laugh at himself about it since. I enjoyed Joe Quinones’ artwork in the Joker story. Reminded me a little of Allred (who provided the covers). I liked Dave Johnson’s variant cover from #5 because it had a pre...

So I was on the library website tonight, hunting down the Batman '66 volumes I had missed. "So much entertaining, crazy stuff happened," I reasoned. "I must be on #4 at least."It gradually dawned on me that all the wonderful stuff I'd remembered had happened just in #1. I think that covers it.

Batman and Robin fight crime in Gotham City in 1966!Batman '66 is a series of comics picking up where the Batman television show of the 1960s left off. It's full of puns and Bat-humor. The art is done in a retro style by various creators with awesome covers by Michael Allred.In this volume, Batman and Robin go up against Catwoman, The Riddler, the duo of The Penguin and Mr. Freeze, the Mad Hatter, the diabolical Egghead, and even team up with The Joker to face a common enemy. I really liked the

"KA-KICK!"I get the schtick but I can't say it's terribly interesting. There are bad funny jokes and banter, silly sexual innuendo, dramatic fights and hyperbolic characters. The artwork is pretty cool in a modernized pop comic method. It is what it is. It's not bad or good, it's just there. I'm too young to have grown up watching Adam West but I remember watching reruns with my father. Batman was no longer a detective or vigilante as much as a weekly hero there to knock the baddies and dance an...

I read about the initial release of Batman '66 comics as an excited tech geek and user experience bigot. When these comics first came out, they were specially designed as a Comixology-first experience, so the layouts and flows were enhanced for tablet reading. Lots of swipes, in-panel alterations, and stuff that looks like low-grade animation.I've used a video of that experience in a speech I give on great experience design in modern comics, and it never fails to catch people's attention. So I w...

This. Was. AMAZING!!!!!This comic is inspired/based on the Batman television show from the 60's and it is on point. It captures the tone of that show puuurrfectly with over the top villains and punny dialogue.So nostalgic, this campy crusader was my first introduction to Batman as a child and I remember singing the theme song along with my dad...(although he often changed the one word lyrics to Fatman)This comic brings the reader back to the colorful 60's when Batman wasn't some brooding emo wit...

POW! BIFF! SOCKO!The sixties Batman TV show was a mix of campy humor and neutered villains, with none of the brooding, nasty-assed Batman pounding villains into a pool of jelly. Plus it included Aunt Harriet, a thirty year old Robin and the Batusi. This was a perfect mix for the sugar addled seven year old boy. Here, little Johnny have another bowl of Captain Crunch while you watch Batman.SNAP! CRACKLE! POP!The brain trust at DC, desperately decided to try to capture some of this “magic”, so the...

The Good: Fans of classic television, of which I am one, have a special place in their heart for the Adam West television version of Batman; it's unlike any audiovisual interpretations of the comics, but it's cutesy, good-hearted fun. The comics contained in this volume are in the style of that old-school show, and they're pretty much just the same. Fans who prefer the dark, brooding Bruce Wayne that we saw in the movies may scoff, but, for those of us who are young at heart, this is great stuff...

Batman continues to remain a household name because of all the superheroes from comics, he's the one who gets the most film, television and game adaptations, more so in the last few decades or so. Every era has its own special flavor of Batman. These days our Batman is marked by the Nolan franchise--a proper dark knight who is brooding and always intense; plus the New 52's revamp of this same gritty package by a roster of great writers like Morrison, Snyder, Layman, Tomasi, etc. My Batman defini...

** Update below **As a child, I really liked watching re-runs of the campy Batman TV series from the mid-sixties, with its wacky plots, over-acted characters, cheesy dialogue, pastel-coloured gas, tilted camera angles in the villains' lairs, and - of course - the BAM! BIFF! POW! "sound" effects. Once in a while I'll search on Amazon to see if the complete series is soon to be released on DVD; that is something I'd consider buying! Sadly, every time I check it seems I'll have to wait a bit longer...

Crap! This kinda sucked. It's like Jeff Parker saw the TV series once and said "that's it. I completely understand the tone and humor" One good story and the rest were just kinda an insult to fans of the show. Not recommended.

(This review is only for Goodreads, written solely in response to this review. I’ve written a separate “proper” review which you can read over at my blog here.)Batman ‘66 and Sam Quixote in: The Case of The Bad Review!Prologue: Something Negative This Way Comes(Scene: the sea, a few miles off of Gotham harbour. Bubbles pop to the surface, more and more, until a large object begins surfacing. A nearby fisherman turns around and sees a shadow looming ahead of him. He gasps - his corn cob pipe fall...

Yes, I actually watched the Adam West Batman tv series live with my sister in the sixties:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLZQ3...Yep, that's what it looked like. Campy, silly, goofy, not realistic, pure childish escapism, and I knew already then that the Batman I was viewing on the screen was different from the Batman single issues that I was also reading, which were darker, deadly serious. Any serious Batman fan at the time cringed at the tv show, which decidedly did not take him or his angst

You know, I really did like the 60s Batman show. It was fun! Yes, it looks campy and even silly now, but that's ok. A little camp never hurt anyone. Even so, I was skeptical about this book. The tone is kind of tough to pull off. Make it parody of something that reads like a parody now? Or a straight homage to something that was earnest at the time? Parker seems to have gone the route of straight homage. I'm not saying that it was a tactical mistake in general, it just didn't work out here. Why?...

It would be easy to dismiss DC's Batman '66 as an attempt to cash in on the current wave of nostalgia for the campy TV classic and its recent release on DVD and Blu-Ray. But doing that would sell short this fun, digital comic book take on the series which while it doesn't perfectly capture the fun of those early episodes, still does a nice job of keeping the spirit of the TV show alive.Collecting together five printed issues (apparently multiple weeks of the digital comic), this collection feels...

When Jonathan Case is doing the art, this book really captures the zany fun of the old Batman TV series. The colors and use of sound effects really make the art pop. Unfortunately, Case isn’t the artist for all of the stories in this volume. The other artists don’t reach the high standard that Case sets.

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My main problem with Batman is that he is ALWAYS so dark and intense. I get that's basically the character and his books are always gonna be aimed at that. The Bat fan will enjoy it but seeing as I'm not one of them, I prefer stories that soften the character and Batman '66 is the perfect encapsulation of that. Sure, Batman is still protecting Gotham from dangerous criminals, but the villains of '66 are written in a playful manner. Their threats are not threatening, but laughable. You can expect...

Well it wasn't awful but it most certainly wasn't my cup of tea either.