Dec 1, 2008
The Hartley Show Returns!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR_XMJ89L4c
Yes. It is back! The Hartley Show is back on the air and we got it right here for all your comic reviews PLUS Hartley talks Batman RIP! Check it out, good fun! As always shot on location from POW Comics!
I hope to one day go see a “filming” of the show and/or get Hartley on BtS blogging when he’s not busy with Hollyweird and all! Was great to see Hartley at the Vancouver Comicon a few weeks ago with William S!
Part II continues here…
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_iYRUUhqk0&feature=PlayList&p=6C19C30162206CAB&index=57
BTW – This is NOT Work Safe to watch (f**cking swearing and what nots)!
It is too bad that Hartley loved Batman RIP but hey, can’t be right all the time about books! 
Hehee… we all know Hartley is wrong ’cause RIP was as For the Love of Comics blogged about how it was more like Batman RIP-Off (Kudo’s to Dustin for being on Thoughts of Batman RIP post for Blog@Newsarama.com)!
I have one big point to make on what Hartley said – Yes Batman is a serial and things need to keep moving but that did not stop older Batman comics to come to a fricken conclusion. Batman: Kightfall, we didn’t get a vague sense of WTF happened, we saw Bane break Batmans back. Batman: Death in the Family – was it a kinda huh wha? when Robin died? Nope, it was right in your face with the conclusion. No, no, Grant Morrison failed in Batman RIP. Enough with the vague mythos and give some solid f**cking storytelling please OR piss off and let someone else take a shot!
I’ll argue that Knightsfall didn’t have a conclusion any more than RIP did.
It was just another big set up and Bruce Waynes ultimate fate was left unknown.
It was a giant set up for Azbats which led to a years worth of crappy stories about someone none of us wanted to see as Batman in a mostly retarded outfit!
The only real conclusion was when Bats regained his title at the end of it all, but even then there were still questions.
Having said that the end result of Knightsfall did have a pretty solid conclusion, but I don’t see RIP as the end of the story by any means, and I’m actually pretty happy about it!
As an aside, dude if we can get a next day of the filming hammered down any time soon I’ll do my damnedest to contact ya!