I’m certain it’s a result of the vintage of the first life of manuscript, but the ways that this chapter talks about DREAMLAND as the last Breyfogle Batman story (or even the last Grant/Breyfogle Batman story) doesn’t take into account his BATMAN BEYOND work, nor the pair’s BATMAN RETROACTIVE one-shot, both of which were some of the best output of his final professional years.
I know you know, and I don’t mean to be a pedant. I remember despairing in the mid-‘00s that maybe that was all they wrote for Norm, and hoping that his song would come around again. I’m so glad it ultimately did!
Thanks again so much for putting this bio out into the world!!
I'll be covering Batman Beyond and the Retroactive in the last chapter. We wrote this stuff just prior to Batman Beyond and Retroactive happening, so we didn't go over it as much as we should have - we always felt we'd have time. We covered the Archie stuff and stopped there because we both got busy.
At the time we were writing this, Dreamland was pretty much the swansong for Alan and Norm.
Query, Daniel, anyone: Where does the Heroes World debacle/shit show/disaster fit into the Malibu timeline at top of the post?
And FWIW, Tom Brevoort has repeatedly strongly implied that there’s some sort of problem with using the Ultraverse characters. My Spidey sense says that theirs is some sort of creator share thing involved. Now, why that would be a problem, if it is, would be pure speculation on my part, obviously.
Now, part of my sussing is that I cannot believe that there’s *no* interest in, as we say in the 21st century, Marvel exploiting the IP — nose smiting face and all that.
INSTANT UPDATE: My AI chatbot of choice hypothesized (!) or implied that the problem maybe isn’t the creators but the deal with Rosenberg:
I’m certain it’s a result of the vintage of the first life of manuscript, but the ways that this chapter talks about DREAMLAND as the last Breyfogle Batman story (or even the last Grant/Breyfogle Batman story) doesn’t take into account his BATMAN BEYOND work, nor the pair’s BATMAN RETROACTIVE one-shot, both of which were some of the best output of his final professional years.
I know you know, and I don’t mean to be a pedant. I remember despairing in the mid-‘00s that maybe that was all they wrote for Norm, and hoping that his song would come around again. I’m so glad it ultimately did!
Thanks again so much for putting this bio out into the world!!
I'll be covering Batman Beyond and the Retroactive in the last chapter. We wrote this stuff just prior to Batman Beyond and Retroactive happening, so we didn't go over it as much as we should have - we always felt we'd have time. We covered the Archie stuff and stopped there because we both got busy.
At the time we were writing this, Dreamland was pretty much the swansong for Alan and Norm.
Query, Daniel, anyone: Where does the Heroes World debacle/shit show/disaster fit into the Malibu timeline at top of the post?
And FWIW, Tom Brevoort has repeatedly strongly implied that there’s some sort of problem with using the Ultraverse characters. My Spidey sense says that theirs is some sort of creator share thing involved. Now, why that would be a problem, if it is, would be pure speculation on my part, obviously.
Now, part of my sussing is that I cannot believe that there’s *no* interest in, as we say in the 21st century, Marvel exploiting the IP — nose smiting face and all that.
INSTANT UPDATE: My AI chatbot of choice hypothesized (!) or implied that the problem maybe isn’t the creators but the deal with Rosenberg:
https://g.co/gemini/share/3f84ec956c59