Comments on: Holy DVD, Batman!•

by: Ken

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:23:57 +0000

It’s a crime that every show is on DVD but the greatest Batman of them all. Burgess Meredith: best Penguin, Julie Newmar: the icon, Yvonne Criag: will always be the real Batgirl. Frank Gorshin: manic genius, and Cesar Romero and he have the best laughs of them all. I would gladly trade in Christian Bale and Heath Ledger for a little Adam West and Victor Buono.

by: Chris Midweeker

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:04:02 +0000

Rich isn’t a reporter, and as far as I’m aware, makes no claims to be. He’s a rumour columnist, and as he says himself, LiTG is an entertainment column, not a news column.
He’s not always right, but again, he doesn’t claim to be, he’s just repeating rumours that he’s heard, or in some cases, extrapolating theories from the information he’s received.
I think most peple in the blogosphere (god I hate that word…) are fully aware that his columns aren’t always completely accurate, but he does have a pretty decent hit-rate, and after a cursory look through the last couple of months of columns, I couldn’t see more than a handful of stories that were blatantly incorrect…
It’s easy to hate on Rich, but he does this out of a love for the medium, and personally I think it would be a lot more boring without him!

by: Itch Johnson

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:15:20 +0000

a big “seconded” to BPearce.

Rich is not a reporter—he’s never “reported” a story in his life, and anyone with any respect for journalistic principles should tread very carefully here.

Why does everyone in the comix industry blogosphere accept that if Rich reports it, it must be true? Hey Beat, why not spend some of your ample spare time backtracking Rich’s “reporting”?? he’s wrong so often it’s ridiculous…

by: John Smith

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:13:21 +0000

“I don’t know that I would call running what amounts to idle speculation in the absence of any sources or attribution as “breaking the story.” ”

That’s because it isn’t.

by: BPearce

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:34 +0000

I like Rich Johnston, and credit is due where credit is due — but I don’t know that I would call running what amounts to idle speculation in the absence of any sources or attribution as “breaking the story.”

by: Tracy

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:14:17 +0000

My 12-year-old daughter has been waiting for the DVD release for several years. So the fan base may shrink, but it lives on!

by: Ron

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:40:47 +0000

Hopefully they get a set of these out before the fan-base dies of old-age …

by: Torsten Adair

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:16:40 +0000

Hey… who’s got the rights to “Legends of the Superheroes”?

“KAREEM!”

by: Scott

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:15:53 +0000

Whatever it takes to get the Adam West stuff to DVD, I’m ALL for!!!!! I’ve got great bootlegs of it, but an official digital restore would be great!

by: Jimmie Robinson

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:36:17 +0000

Extortion has a new face.

by: Ali Kokmen

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:20:11 +0000

The Al-Michaels-for-Oswald-the-Rabbit swap was the first thing I thought of when I heard the Watchmen-for-Batman rumor, too.

Great minds, clearly, think alike…