Batman BROKEN - This Controversial BOOTLEG is KNIGHTFALL Done RIGHT!

[@dbregel]

MORE BOOTLEGS! I'd really like to see the world hinted at by the epilogue. I'd also like to see a batman that is broken and half machine try to fight back in that world.

[@aaronturner2832]

Pretty cool he used The Dark Knight Rises for the epilogue. Works well in comic format.

[@NFLDude56]

The dialogue in the epilogue might be from the Chris Nolan movie.

[@largefactory]

The last word bubble is an exact quote

[@keithperkinsart]

Stalactite == on ceiling remember it by it holds "tight" to the ceiling. Stalagmite on the floor.

[@MADcapHouse]

I laughed so hard when Jim says, "I still don't know why Bane is naked."

[@scottscottscott_]

That back cover was done by Jayro Lantigua

[@LordProng123]

It's likely a case of nostalgia but even bad Aparo is great to see. I miss him as a regular artist on Batman. I grew up on reading Aparo's Brave and Bold comics. Nonetheless, an interesting take on a classic comic. Certainly a lot of energy in those panels. And I love the epilogue!

[@jrodriguez6]

Aparo was a serviceable to good Batman artist for the late seventies to early eighties. He was not right for this saga or issue, I remember someone from the production team admitting as much. Then again, perhaps there was no jobber right for a "breaking of the Bat" type of story. Just look at what safe and correct nineties artists did with The Death of Superman.

[@jrodriguez6]

@@wtk6069 Yeah. Now that you mention it, I can see how his style developed as a synthesis of those influences and remained distinctive through such a long time. Don't get me wrong, I like what he did and consider him a definitive artist of that era.

[@jrodriguez6]

@@wtk6069 I love Don Newton's take on the Bat. Garcia-Lopez was also a Charlton alumn, right?

[@buyita24slash7]

@@jrodriguez6 norm breyfogle should have been the main event or kelley jones

[@trustobey1016]

I broke my back, my back is broken. Spinal.

[@admbrnk3665]

3:15 hey be careful, people might take it the wrong way when you start talking about the “hard R” 😅

[@freeradiomars]

17:30 - this reporter is straight out of Frank Miller's Dark Knight

[@dreamtowermedia5301]

Seems to me the original is a prisoner of representationlism, but the bootleg is a prisoner of expressionism. The true art lies in capturing both, as people like Klimt and Egon Schiele were able.

[@Phantastique_138]

I’m under the impression there’s a James O Barr Batman bootleg but idk how complete it is

[@JorgeFigueroa-lx6rh]

I had watched the stream and looked forward to this. It is so much better than I had imagined. I called my wife over and we were cackling like schoolchildren. That one panel of bane holding up batman bare-ass naked and fully erect, goddamn. I don't need to go to the gym today, I got a full body workout just try to hold myself together through this thing.

[@KingConan]

Abobo from Double Dragon!!! Haha, what a reference 😂

[@jrodriguez6]

Oh shoot, that liquified Batman panel is nuts.

[@JohnDCochise]

I picked this up from Ryan at a show in Minneapolis. Really cool comic. Grab one while he still has them.

[@daveyc6720]

Bane is reminiscent of the issue of Faust where he's nekkid with a woody, doing all sorts of violence.

[@raphaelcurley]

Stalactites hang-on tight to the ceiling of the cave.

[@brettito]

I was always wondering why there was a dinosaur on the front cover of 497. Loved dinosaurs when I was a kid so I was a bit disappointed.

[@TheHumanPurpleTape]

The back cover is by Jayro Lantigua

[@Therealmrmeow]

Been waiting to get eyeballs on this since the live stream!

[@drawrobot]

Yup, that ending is straight out of the last Nolan movie. Which I thought was a complete mess of a movie. The fight between Bane and Batman in that one was worse than the original comic.

[@davidcarmichael4006]

Bane has a bone to pick w/Batman

[@mladen8127]

I feel like this comment section will know, I've been trying to track this one down for a while: what was that batman bootleg where batman has completely lost all sense of reality and is cookie cutting the lips off of junkies and scraping his own fingernails off?

[@batlover1977]

Mark of the bat by Josh Simmons. I believe this channel has since done a video covering it!

[@richle905]

If he broke his back like that Batman definitely would have lost control of his bowels. With Batmans physique and daily workout, it would be a sh!tshow.

[@Echo2niner]

Where can I find this issue???

[@adriananthony602]

Man I love these bootlegs!

[@SonySteals]

"we want hard R.." ...... xD

[@sublimebravo]

It was always a disappointment to get a batman comic with a good cover and stiff Aparo art inside. Personally I feel this comic shoulda been drawn by Breyfogle

[@largefactory]

The ending of the comic happens in The Dark Knight Rises. Amazing comic, just wanted to point that out.

[@ronbeekiii781]

Stalactites have to hold on “tite” to the ceiling. ;)

[@SonySteals]

Also - daaamn.. I remember Knightfall being way better lol

[@xtraspecialmango]

Excellent ending

[@bujilou]

Oh man knightfall is my favorite I gotta get a copy of this

[@juanitot7302]

Outlaw style 😎

[@rssbr88]

This is amazing! Nice touch on the epilogue. Time for me to go remake Death of Superman...

[@erikwirfs-brock2432]

Hell yeah hope you make that lackluster issue sing

[@bassgod47]

Having never heard of this; I thank you. I was always so disappointed by this issue of Knightfall and the indy-scene has finally fixed it. Great video guys; take care.

[@johnfarman9804]

You should check out Ed Pinsent's Illegal Batman.

[@snarferyasmr3739]

"BY GOD HE'S BROKEN IN HALF!!!" I think the naked Bane comes from the recent Tom King run. In "I am suicide" Batman and Bane had a fight wear bane is naked to show he needs nothing to beat the bat.

[@harrisejaz280]

cool nod to movie at the end there

[@shaneberryhill5800]

nudity is metacommentary indicating a deeper level to what on the surface is a mere punchout...they are literally in a relationship/locked together...sex and violence being two sides of the same coin (the violence being the dark, dark side of said coin, though admittedly between consenting adults I know I don't have to tell you 'rough sex' is a thing far and wide for all history)...and Bane is definitely getting off on it...furthermore, practicing jujitsu is called "rolling" ...and the positions definitely mirror a "roll in the hay" for example...the term "go at it" could be used for either or, etc, etc. The first I heard of this convention is in the Philip Jose Farmer books (you've probably heard of his Wold-Newton mythos)...in said mythos his Tarzan / Doc Savage analogs are locked in hand to hand, genitals engorged. Shocking to hear at first, but once you think about it, there is admittedly a very sexual aspect/next logical step to the classical superhero punchout.

[@Wurmzilla]

This book is so good. Thanks.

[@mariop8852]

you guys need to be careful or you're going to end up being the next Image.