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  • ending was awesome. Get involved! lol

  • could batman of been one of the killers????

  • "Hello and Welcome" makes me laugh every time

  • I like The Dark Knight Returns but The Long Halloween is my favorite because most of it went into The Dark Knight and that's pretty much my favorite movie!

  • theres too much noise

  • hey kev did you like HUSH?

  • whats the banging noise

  • GHOSTS!

  • I read that now I'm reading Dark Victory. I was hesitating at first because of Robin. The whole Batman loner thing has grown on me. But if these are the same guys who did Holloween, I'm sure the mood is right.

  • could you please do a 101 on batman: arkham asylum?

  • i always told my sister that i think the third batman movie will be about the rise of the "freaks" and the downfall of the "gangs," There's no where else for them realy to go,racheal is dead, hary is "dead" the joker is still alive, the crime families are in distress,i could realy see them putting multiple "freaks" into the next movie(anyone from the riddler,to the penguin, to catwoman(who would make sense as a new love interest on his level,being that racheal is dead))...oh yea,its gilda,dent..

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  • great review! I was always a Marvel fan but after the Nolan films I started to explore the Batman universe. The Long Halloween is a great story. It really is a murder mystery, a novel, and a comic all at the same time. great stuff.

  • Dude this is my first time commenting on any of your videos and i have to say u give some of the best reviews ever!!!keep up the good work and the long halloween is one of the best graphic novels ive ever read

  • Didn't Harvey Dent commit some of the Holiday murders?

  • kevin who do u think was the holiday killer i was cirtin it was alberto but at the end my jaw dropped when i saw dents wife burning all the holiday stuff

  • Kevin, so many I talked too hated it so I avoided it. Now I've read it because of your recommendation. Now I get it. They were comparing it to Frank Miller. Taken in its own world, it's one of the best graphic novels I've read. Comparing to Frank Miller -- well of course you would feel angry but this is NOT Frank Miller. Frank Miller is Frank Miller. It's like comparing Jack Kirby to Neal Adams. Can't be done! Thank you Kevin.

  • Kevin one more thing? Have you read Dark Victory? Is it worth reading?

  • dark victory is the sequal to long halloween if im correct

  • Frank Miller is overrated. The only thing good he did was TDKR and Year One.

  • So you're just going to look over the fact that Sin City was an epic series? To each their own, I suppose..

  • What about his run on Daredevil? Particularly the AWESOME classic known as Daredevil #181, where Bullseye killed Elektra after a bloody, violent confrontation? Then Daredevil paralysed Bullseye in that equally awesome fight that followed?

    The list of classic works that Frank Miller has under his belt is VAST.

  • Miller is racist against Arabs. He supported the Iraq war and supports crushing the Palestinians. He also made the Persians look like fucking monsters in 300. His racism is obvious.

  • I think you're reading a little bit too much into what are, essentially, just comic books.

  • When it matters to my people, it's not read in too much. If I made a movie depicting Jews as monsters, the whole world would be calling me a racist. But when Miller makes a movie depicting Persians in such a way, everyone fucking loves and fails to see the racism. Because the world is totally biased against the Middle East right now. I love Batman, especially the Long Halloween. I just wanted to get that out there.

  • No, I can understand why you'd think it was racist against the Persians. Personally I don't think it is, and I don't even like 300. But then again, The Long Halloween is the only Miller book - along with Year One - I can actually read without cringing at how ridiculous his dialogue is.

  • So you don't think it was ridiculous that the Persians were fucking monsters while the Spartans were all humans?

  • I think he handled the book clumsily, yes. But I hardly see how the Spartans came off particularly well: They talk of freedom and at the same time abandon weak or deformed babies in the mountains. They talk of the King's ability as a mediator and then show him kicking Persian emissaries into a well. FM also show the Spartans hypocrisy; they call Athenians boy lovers, failing to mention their own enforced homosexual man-boy practices. That was intentional. You are deliberately ignoring these.

  • I'm just saying...none of that makes up for depicting Persians as monsters. Let me make a GN/Movie depicting the Jews as monsters when they kicked hundreds of thousands of Palestinians out of their homes. Let's see how well Hollywood will take that. It's okay when it's middle easterns, but when it's Jews or another race, it's not. FM is a hardcore Zionist and even admitted that he thinks Muslims as a whole should be regulated and denied certain rights.

  • Yeah, but there's a flipside to what you're saying. A lot of people think that Muslims are given preferential treatment and so on. I don't think many would take a hardcore anti-Muslim film or TV show particularly well. But this issue of Judaism/Islam is one of faith and not ethnicity, and is off-topic regarding what we're talking about. I agree with you when you say that a lot of 300 could be taken as racist. I think that clumsy writing is responsible, not any real bigotry on Miller's part.

  • I'm just saying that when I saw 300 I raised my eyebrow a little bit..and when I did more research on Miller...I realized that a lot of his thoughts on politics seem to reflect a similar type of biased against Middle Easterns. Idk if Miller was solely responsible for making the Persians look like monsters and exactly how hateful he is towards Middle Easterns, but I'm just saying that the evidence I've seen would suggest so.

  • The Long Halloween isn't written by Frank Miller, it's by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale.

  • just putting it out here jews and middle east so diffrent the jews did nothing and got killed by a man who saw that everyone but the white greman male and females need to be killed the middle east do suicide bombing and destroyed the world trade centeres hit the pentagon and took inoccent passangers lifes so yeah big diffrence

  • It's a comic (300). Not to mention the fact that at that time, the Persian were the aggressors. The Persians were the ones invading at that time. The race card is such a tired copout.

  • So then let me make a movie about the creation of Israel and how the Palestinians were massacred...and I'll make the Jews into monsters. Let's see how many Jewish ppl come out of the wood work to call it Anti-semitic.

  • and honestyl, why would you care. art is art, and if you dont like it, dont watch. people like you piss me off..."Oh, boo hoo, someone wipe my ass. That's just racist." No. It's history. Grow a spine, and go ahead and make your Palestinian movie....

  • ass bag

  • wtf? So making a race of people look like monsters isn't racist? Is that seriously what you're saying right now. I guess you think saying that black ppl are animals isn't racist either, right?

  • Look ignorance, Im not going to try and explain symbolizm to a child. Who said black people are animals? I never did. Youre really grasping at straws here.

  • If you think it's okay to depict Persians as monsters, then you must think it's ok to dehumanize other races. The most popular instance amongst racist white people was that Blacks were animals..that's why I brought it up. Look man, I'm a HUGE Frank Miller Fan. TDKR is my favorite GN ever. It just saddens me that my hero is racist against my people.

  • It's not a question of Frank Miller being racist against Persians. Look at the character of Ephilates---a white Greek. Depicted as an inhuman monster. Why? Because of his Judas like betrayal. And again, to a Greek soldier the Immortals (Xerxes elite guard) MUST have seemed inhuman in some way. No matter how many were killed, their numbers never diminished. Granted there is a logical explanation for this, but not to someone living thousands of years ago.

  • i really dont think that Frank Miller was trying to depict any racism into the novel. I think the reason the Persians look so "monstrous" is a simple case of imagery to show that they are the bad guys of the story. But I also love Frank Miller and TDKR is my favorite Batman GN, so I know where you are coming from man. But I really just think it's Frank Miller using his usual visual drawing style to represent the antagonists.

  • @BROKENHOUSEFILMS

    that's true. I get the antagonist thing. It was just the research I did afterwards that made me think otherwise. Because he has said some pretty racist stuff towards middle easterns. I think there's even a quote on wikipedia

  • boohoo cry somewhere else emo kid.

  • The persian empire was huge. it spanned from parts of india, all the way to the opposite side of the aegean(sp?). So it encompasses many different races. So, different races were represented. Making something monstrous IS done for effect. But have you even CONSIDERED a different effect, rather than just jumping to the conclusion of racism. The persian were the ones attacking. monstrosity was given to an invading army....

  • Based on Miller's political statements (which are blatantly racist against middle easterns, persians and arabs), it's safe to assume that his intentions were not good by making those characters into monsters. Had he not been so contraversial in his beliefs, I would not be saying this at the moment.

  • ...that threatend the freedom of Greece. The Immortals were a REAL group of elite guard, whos numbers never changed. They would appear to others as something with a dark supernatural origin. That explains the monstrosity of them. As for most other embelishments, watch some of the extras on the 2 disc dvd. I think you should.

  • You want to think it's racist? Fine. I contended that it is not, simply because the Persians were the bad ones, and actual Persians do have a different skin color. So, get over it....

  • Dude he made them look like monsters. Did you even see the fuckin movie? it wasn't just different skin color lol. I'm Persian...I know what they look like.

  • @batman24769 the "bad ones " dude who is the good one in a war, aside from Hitler, it is one Country vs. another, and winners write the fiction we call history.

  • Just because he supported the Iraq War doesn't make him a racist.

  • i jus bought it nd so far im likin it

  • lol no offense but judging by the background sounds it doesn't sound like the warehouse is that abandoned :P

  • do you got any preacher reviews comin up?

  • nice car man

  • awesome video kev! batman long halloween is probably my favorite batman story. the ending was funny by the way XD

  • nice review there man, could you please do a 101 class on Deadpool please?

  • You should do Punisher: Red X-Mas for christmas :)

  • edchitty website is closed

  • yeah I know, I think he won, it's an old sign.

  • ed shitty

    ahahaha LOL

  • Is Ed Chitty's name really pronounced 'shitty?' lol!

  • fuck you

  • I do, right on my wife's nice melons.

  • dude WTF LOL

  • ......(awkwardly)OK

    No offense but I don't think that's something to share with people.

  • I'm kidding... hasn't my sense of humour come thru by now :)

  • Maybe its from knockin out too many little bitches like you...jerk off

  • Another great 101, Kev! Kudos for doing it in a warehouse. That's another Batman story I need to get around to reading.

  • Awesome review Kev! Can't wait to see your next 101. How about a Crisis on Infinite Earths 101? I would love to watch that. That would be an awesome one to do during the hype of Final Crisis.

  • Great vid DCompose, I didnt get to watch it all cause I havent read it yet. Happy Holloween!

  • it was two face, his wife, and falcones son

  • this is my favorite book of all time, im glad u did a review of it

  • i think two face did it. oh yeah.......Happy holloween!!!!=)

  • CHITTY '08!

  • why not do a THE DARKNESS 1o1?

    I never read its comics but played the game so I would really like a good start XD

  • hey you should do a HUSH 101

  • I remember this lol,so long ago but it seems like it was last week.Thanks for the 101 Kevin.

    Happy Halloween.>=)

  • I want a Chitty mayor!

  • The Long Halloween is one of my Favorite Batman stories. The Dark Victory is another must read aswell as Haunted Knight, Year one and The Killing Joke.

  • another great video! thanks for the new 101!

  • awesome review. such a fantastic book.

  • Loving the new intro, great idea overlapping "Hello and welcome" lol

  • Er, that is, both of these selections won my vote (Long Halloween and Abandoned Warehouse).

  • Thank you so much, Kevin. Both of these locations won my vote last year, and I was always hoping you'd give this another shot. You made my day, man.

  • too awesome

  • ur too awesome to only have a 10 minute tine constrain

    keep it up:)

  • agreed hehe

  • YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Awsome Material!!!! So appreciated man!!!!! Real cool!!!

    PS: Pity you didn't show us all the covers in the beginning though.

    Still, with that said, this couldn't be more awsome!!!!!!!!!!!

  • One of the best batman books,along with "The man who laughs",'

  • This is one of my favourite Batman stories. Thanks for doing a 101 class. You are the man DCompose!

  • Read it a year or so back. The story is one of my favorites. The overall idea of the chaos in Gotham slowly getting worse and worse as the months go by was rather creative. Great book, and thanks for the 101.

  • start with year one then the long halloween then dark victory and wash it down with haunted knight for the best batman reading you'll ever have.

    year one was awesome and Loeb followed up with style

  • lol good video but don't make fun of my hometown mayor lol

  • hahaha, that explains a lot dude.. .that explains a lot ;)

  • ed chitty haha i have no idea who that guy is but he has a funny name

  • long halloween is one of my all time favourite batman stories

  • Ed Shitty! HA HA HA I would like a Chitty mayor! Call up Ed Chitty! Awesome 101 Kev! Long Halloween is one of my favorite Batman stories DC ever did. I think I am going to read this again on Halloween day and night. Anyways thanks for the GREAT 101 and the remarkable video! Later.

  • ED CHITTY.....GET INVOLDED!, LOL

  • Good 101 and how appropriate...only 4 days until Halloween.

    Gotta pick up this book soon. Sounds good.

    I read 'The Killing Joke' and that was good as well :)

  • yeah totally. that and dark victory are 2 fantastic stories.

  • I think you should film all your videos there, good audio quality (despite the occasional background noise). Plus it looks cool.

  • yeah, it's definetly a neat place.. if it was less windy it would've sounded much better.. although it would've been less halloweeny (is that even a word, if not, who cares, I just made it up) :)

  • I actually got a free copy of the whole story just a couple of months ago, and just finished reading it last week and I thought it was fantastic. I've never been heavy into comics or graphic novels but I really enjoyed this one.......Batman: Dark Victory is another good one

  • looks like a great read thanks

  • Once again a great review (loved the ending)

  • thanks man :)

  • The end had me rolling on the floor laughing.

  • glad you enjoyed it.

  • they'll hopefully be coming eventually :)

  • hey whats the name of your old theme song called? and that was great!! I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE NEXT HOLLOWEEN SPECHAIL!! Plus, Who do YOU think Holiday is?

  • Hey DCompose Good Job On This Video Watch Some Of My Videos If You Can

  • GREAT CLASS ONCE AGIAN may i give a request

    Sinestro Corps War 101 PLEASE

  • 2 other stories that will eventually be 101's :)

  • Haunted knight and dark victory were great too

  • I love that book, that's my #1.

  • ed chitty?!

    what kind of a last name is that?!

  • the name of a man who keeps his commitments... his chitty commitments :)

  • ED CHITTY ROCKS THE SOCKS

  • Thank you for this 101, always wanted to see this one. You're a great chap!

  • dope whip there kev

  • man, i read that book five times and i'm still not sure who the real holiday killer is

  • i think it was harvey and gilda but idk

  • The only thing we know for SURE is that Alberto and Harvey killed people. it's hard to say who "Holiday" actually was.

  • but why Alberto? he killed his own familey right? or was it Two-face?

  • He got crazy and had huge daddy issues, since Carmine forgot his birthday. ;)

  • Don't we all?! ;)

    nice....

    Man, THEY NEED TO HAVE HOLIDAY in batman 3!!!!

  • sounds like a good story well done mate,

    what were the noises in the background?

  • the background noise was annoying.

  • can't control that, that's the sound of loose metal in the wind. None of those noises were my doing.

  • I read Long Halloween. It was GREAT! WAY better than Killing Joke!

  • would've been better if it was at night with night vision/little light?

  • it's an interesting area to get to this particular abandoned warehouse, I wouldn't want to have to hike it in the dark.

  • wat be those noises?

  • interesting 101.

  • thank you :)

  • Darn it, i knew i should have bought this! LOL Ed Chitty. Great Review DC.

  • Ed Chitty is the future of politics! :)

  • loudest abandoned warehouse ever, lol

  • i know, it wouldn't shut up :)

  • Hey kev,

    there's a new boxset for the long halloween, 35 bucks, comes with Long Halloween, and 2 figures that are modeled after the art style in the comic. (Batman and Joker.)

    You've got perfect timing though, I'd been thinking about gtting that but didnt know much about long halloween.

    I'm gonna get it now! Thnx dude!

  • Yeah, I saw the set, it's a good buy, considering the book itself usually runs close to $20 anyways.

  • Great Video! I wonder what was all of that noise in the background.

  • creeking Metal.

  • Glad that the 'warehouse' didn't fall apart during your reivew. Lol.

  • Bees Knees and cats pajama's

  • This and The Killing Joke is the Best in the Batman Comic Series! THANKS KEV! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

  • Happy halloween to you too dude :)

  • The Long Halloween is AMAZING! This video is AMAZING! By far my favorite!

  • thank you.

  • nice

  • ha ha ha ho he ha ha ha and i thought my jokes were bad

  • I'd get it if I had money

  • Awesome job man, and wowzers gosh golly thats a super duper new theme ya got there ;) bwahaha

  • heheh, of course it was, you composed it ... or DComposed it :)

  • Well, if this book inspired such great movies, I'm definately picking it up first chance I get, great review Kev.

  • do so, you'll love it.

  • well done man and the sequal dark victory is good too you should do a vid on that! thanks my fave batman!

  • I may do one on that as well.

  • Lol Ed Chitty!!! That's priceless! Great 101 Kev, thoroughly enjoyed it.

  • thanks man hehe.

  • I want a Chitty mayor!

  • we all do... we all do :p

  • Great 101 classes. I was about to buy 'The Long Halloween' soon. Good vid

  • definetly buy it.

  • great video for halloween.

  • I though so too :)

  • Great review, my favorite so far.

  • thanks man, I appreciate it.

  • awsome 101

  • Thank you.

  • the long halloween may be the best batman comic ever written, they based a lot of what they did in TDK on that

    also i hear there comming out with an PG13 animated movie of it

  • definetly is the basis of much of the "meat" of the 2 new movies.

  • really? that sounds cool.

  • lol the end ed chitty

  • hehe, though I'd throw that in there as a little easter egg ;)

  • u always do great 101s, and this one is no exception..good job bro.

  • mabey next year your can do scare crow

  • probably will :)