@@bZman Are you trying to Imply Clark Kent reporter for the Daily Planet who looks exactly like Superman is actually Superman? Dont be stupid, Clark wears glasses so it cant be him.
Consenting to brunch with Clark isn't an alien abduction Bruce! that's two grown men being friends. see a therapist Bruce! lmao love Alfred and it's now my head canon this happens often as a conversation, thanks for your comment!
Yeah, it always bugs me in comic universes when people don’t believe in one thing or another. You’ll have some dude like “I don’t believe in magic” but that same dude is on a team with a wizard.
I might buy that conspiracy if I was in the DCU. If we ever encounter aliens 100% chance they're not humanoid at all and even if they were they wouldn't look like Supes. Martian Manhunter would be harder to deny though.
@@Aaron-zt5ee In our real world we have people who don't believe in vaccines, who think birds are not real, and think the earth is flat...people not believing in magic seems pretty logical.
Superman: "Hi, J'onn. Have a seat. Close the door." J'onn (confused, closes door): "What's going on?" Icon: "We found Batman's Contingency plans." J'onn: "Which ones?" Orion (slams table): "The ones where he painfully takes us down!" J'onn: "Oh...Have you talked to him about it?" Superman: "You and I know that Bruce wouldn't respond to that." J'onn: "Okay, so what is this? Are we thinking of alternative ways to confront him about it?" Everyone: "Pfft." Icon: "No. Bruce won't learn anything, regardless. We might as well mess with him for it." J'onn: "I dunno..." Orion: "He sets you on fire eternally in yours." J'onn: "What do you have in mind?" Later... Superman: "So? What do you think?" Icon: "...It's Batman. Y'know? World's greatest detective?" Orion: "You're right...Martian! Do you think you could bring down the Bat's IQ?" J'onn: "Lobotomize him?" Orion: "I never said that." J'onn: "...Okay I can, theoretically, make his intelligence lower than it usually would be. But I need a point of reference so he's not a vegetable. But it can't be high enough that he'll notice." Superman: "Anyone have any suggestions?" Booster Gold busts through door: "Hey, do you guys have Wifi yet? I need the password." Superman: "Perfect."
Having Alfred hypnotize you- Batman just call J'onn! He's a Martian telepath and he's been earth for like a century if there's anyone who can tell what's going on it's him!
This is my all time favourite Batman story ever, and I am beyond excited to see these three react to the absolute and utter madness of Batman The Abduction.
@@architeuthis3476 Because of its pure madness and deranged nature. It's a perfect distillation of one of my favourite eras of science fiction, the 90's. Weird nonsensical conspiracies, a bafflingly wrong understanding of computers and how the internet works. I live for that, I just love how absurd this is and I desperately need them to see the sequel to this because it's even more bizarre. Also Bruce Lee fights Batman is one of the stupidest things ever put to page and I adore it for that.
It hit me with the art that this would have made a great BTAS episode simply because it wouldn’t have the baggage of the fact aliens are absolutely real in the dc universe
Now I want to see Superman doing the history channel “aliens” meme, with the crazy hair and everything… this story takes place in the 90’s, Superman wasn’t above crazy hairstyles lol
I'd love if there was a story where a second batman appears and any of the alien character where just like "Wait you were abducted by the gradiens? Their like Facebook of the galaxy. They sell people's data to the highest bidder. Why didn't you say anything?!". And batman just shouts "I knew I was abducted! Wait what?".
Great episode😂😂 so many funny comments from all of you about a ridiculous book. A few of my favorite moments: 13:36-14:52 all of Ethan’s comments 20:41 *insert aliens meme* 32:43 Ben’s comment made me laugh out loud in the airport🤣 41:06 “too afraid to do drugs” 56:25 😂
"Franklin Selly" seems to be a reference to Frank Scully - a writer who promoted the original UFO crash stories in the 50s, and also Dana Scully's namesake.
I've seen all of the Back Issues videos there are. You enjoyed yourself the most in this one - and it totally transfers. Thanks for that one, keep on enjoying making more episodes.
Yes, my father took me to see Fire in the Sky when I was a kid...pretty good flick imo. I like how it's based on a true story and Sal's like "that's a good idea" 🤣
Cue the X-Files theme. THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE! Edit: oh my God my sides. I have laughed harder at this episode than I have anything in a while. This is a gold tier episode
It’s funny I haven’t thought about this for awhile but my older sister used to be a huge fan of the Xfiles and had a ton of issues of the comics series collected. There were a lot of twists and surprises in this episode but that memory was a pleasant addition.
35:51 There are incidents of people believing they had been shot, when they hadn't. Yet they started bleeding somehow. I think something along the lines of that would make for an interesting NOPE! episode.
You know Dick Grayson can't be in this story cause if Batman told him he was abducted and probed by aliens the response would be "Yeah and I probe an alien every other night."
This story was absolutely wild and Batman didn't call one of his friends is crazy but at least they did it once ...wait this got a sequel, why does this have a sequel?!
This is easily one of the most hilarious and bat-shit insane plots I've listened to on this channel. And the shame of it is that every ten minutes, Sal and Company would come up with a much better plot off the cuff. The idea of Batman being abducted by aliens isn't bad by itself---the first third of this was admittedly pretty interesting. It's just that this should've been the beginning of a much grander plot; one that should've involved the Justice League. But instead, we're given a random X-Files episode, but with Batman. But even the more comedic episodes of the X-Files were more dignified than this. The second Bruce Lee showed up, that's where I gave up.
I love this. Also heads up, in your video editor, put a limiter on the audio, set the ceiling to -1db and add 10-11 dB of gain. I'm an audio engineer and your levels are usually kind of low and I tend to do that on my system when watching the show.
Man I already thought this video had went off the rails when I heard the premise that Batman got abducted by gray aliens but at 28 minutes there were rails I didn't know I could be flung off of at high speeds!! We are off the rails now boys!!
Somehow I had never heard of this before, and the idea seemed so lame that I was on the fence about clicking on this video, but OMG am I glad I did! This is one of the funniest videos ComicPop has ever done. I can't recommend this enough!
The Batmobile we see in the issue was designed (by I wanna say J.H. Williams III?) years prior, and was THE official Batmobile of the mid to late '90s. If you look through Batman comics of the era, you'll see it time and again. It wasn't until the mid 2000s that the Bat office stopped giving a shit and completely gave in to nostalgia and just let the artists draw their favorite Batmobiles.
This maybe..just maybe....be a top 5 back issues episode. Holy shit every single time you guys made fun of all the issues with it being batman going through this I laughed my ass off. We HAVE TO get an episode on the sequel. Well done guys.
Batman for the last time just because Clark asks you to hang out doesn't make it an alien abduction.
Thats just how Batman avoids the annual Kent Thanksgiving and Xmas invitations.
@@bZman Are you trying to Imply Clark Kent reporter for the Daily Planet who looks exactly like Superman is actually Superman? Dont be stupid, Clark wears glasses so it cant be him.
@@chandlerburse2754 the son or the dad?
Consenting to brunch with Clark isn't an alien abduction Bruce! that's two grown men being friends. see a therapist Bruce! lmao love Alfred and it's now my head canon this happens often as a conversation, thanks for your comment!
@@xavierlehew6746Clark Kent is also fat and clumsy
Batman: "Well, I better make sure Hal, Clark, Carter, J'onn, and Shaiera don't learn I believe in aliens. They might think I'm crazy."
It’s at the same level as Kaiba from Yu-GI-Oh going “I don’t believe in this mystic magic mumbo jumbo.”
@@comixproviderftw_02 "But Big Brother, Pegasus stole my soul and put it in a card."
"HOLOGRAMS AND HYPNOSIS, MOKUBA!"
"Dick, can I tell you a secret? I believe in aliens."
"... Bruce, my girlfriend is an alien."
"YOU'VE BEEN ABDUCTED?!"
"To her bed, yeah."
To be honest in DC the "wierdos" would be alien deniers. "Superman is not an alien. He's just another metahuman."
Yeah, it always bugs me in comic universes when people don’t believe in one thing or another. You’ll have some dude like “I don’t believe in magic” but that same dude is on a team with a wizard.
I might buy that conspiracy if I was in the DCU. If we ever encounter aliens 100% chance they're not humanoid at all and even if they were they wouldn't look like Supes. Martian Manhunter would be harder to deny though.
@@Aaron-zt5ee In our real world we have people who don't believe in vaccines, who think birds are not real, and think the earth is flat...people not believing in magic seems pretty logical.
The title and the first 12 seconds already tells me that this is gonna be a good time
"Ah damnit Dads in the tank again."
That tangent was hilarious and went on much longer than i expected and i couldn't stop laughing
It’s like sleeping with the fan on. You can never go back 😅
@@MeSpawn297 lol I remember that one
Same. What a wild turn
“Theyll never believe me.” Like Batmans worried about the JL not believing him like theyre kids at a school😂
I love that the tone was set the moment Ethan broke into laughter. Already know this is gonna be a classic.
I keep coming back to this episode 😂
Me too!
You know, Bruce Lee fighting Batman in a book about aliens was surprisingly something I didn't think I needed.
But not just one Bruce Lee 4 of them
I am glad you learned about yourself
Needed it and didn't even know it
Superman: "Hi, J'onn. Have a seat. Close the door."
J'onn (confused, closes door): "What's going on?"
Icon: "We found Batman's Contingency plans."
J'onn: "Which ones?"
Orion (slams table): "The ones where he painfully takes us down!"
J'onn: "Oh...Have you talked to him about it?"
Superman: "You and I know that Bruce wouldn't respond to that."
J'onn: "Okay, so what is this? Are we thinking of alternative ways to confront him about it?"
Everyone: "Pfft."
Icon: "No. Bruce won't learn anything, regardless. We might as well mess with him for it."
J'onn: "I dunno..."
Orion: "He sets you on fire eternally in yours."
J'onn: "What do you have in mind?"
Later...
Superman: "So? What do you think?"
Icon: "...It's Batman. Y'know? World's greatest detective?"
Orion: "You're right...Martian! Do you think you could bring down the Bat's IQ?"
J'onn: "Lobotomize him?"
Orion: "I never said that."
J'onn: "...Okay I can, theoretically, make his intelligence lower than it usually would be. But I need a point of reference so he's not a vegetable. But it can't be high enough that he'll notice."
Superman: "Anyone have any suggestions?"
Booster Gold busts through door: "Hey, do you guys have Wifi yet? I need the password."
Superman: "Perfect."
Perfect
This is perfect
I think this is my favorite episode of ComicPop. The concept of the comic is just so absurd.
The sensory deprivation tank tangent was hilarious 😂
Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle are the Bat issues dream team. Whenever you hear their names you know it's gonna be a great episode!
Alan Grant's work on _2000 AD_ was excellent. His American comics were extremely hit and miss (although his hits aren't very well remembered).
@@architeuthis3476 oh brotha I meant no disrespect by this. I'm a Lobo fan from the 90s. I love Alan Grants DC work!
@@kazual6149 He definitely did a lot of good stuff for _DC!_
Check out the stuff he did for _2000 AD_ some time!
Seriously I love it every time they bring this team up it’s amazing
I think Alan had a ton of inference from Mike Carlin editorially and Alan was majorly censor even having an issue of Arnarky banned.
I found this at Half Price Books and bought it on principle.
Batman walks into the hall of justice.
"Aliens are real. Prepare yourselves."
"Bruce, most of us have met aliens to get powers"
Arthur: "Spoilers: So is Atlantis."
Diana: "And pretty much all Greek mythology."
Batman: :o
"Bruce, you know an IMORTAL "INTELLIGENT" Cave-man! How is this shocking?!"
Superman and Martian Manhunter: 😑
I can just see Batman running into Titans Tower telling Dick “Aliens are real!” Only for Dick and Kory to look at him like “no shit dude”
@@bZman Raven is technically also an alien since she's from another dimension
Having Alfred hypnotize you- Batman just call J'onn! He's a Martian telepath and he's been earth for like a century if there's anyone who can tell what's going on it's him!
This is my all time favourite Batman story ever, and I am beyond excited to see these three react to the absolute and utter madness of Batman The Abduction.
Who hurt you ?
@@PhsycoRed Aliens
"All time favorite"? I haven't read it but, based on the review, I have to ask why?
@@architeuthis3476 Because of its pure madness and deranged nature. It's a perfect distillation of one of my favourite eras of science fiction, the 90's. Weird nonsensical conspiracies, a bafflingly wrong understanding of computers and how the internet works. I live for that, I just love how absurd this is and I desperately need them to see the sequel to this because it's even more bizarre.
Also Bruce Lee fights Batman is one of the stupidest things ever put to page and I adore it for that.
@@PhsycoRed The Greys.
What is a tougher than a fight than Bruce Lee? 4 Bruce Lees!
The sensory deprivation discussion killed me. What breaks comicpop makes our day!
I appreciate how not a single soul on the couch has any patience for the premise.
It hit me with the art that this would have made a great BTAS episode simply because it wouldn’t have the baggage of the fact aliens are absolutely real in the dc universe
Except for the fact that it's part of the DCAU. Which includes Superman and Justice League
@@davidspring4003 that stuff wasn’t around during the BTAS era and most of the more DC focused stuff came about during the TNBA time
Sal's laughter at 30:48 is so infectious that it got me.
Quite possibly my favourite backissues of all time. The bit about the sensory deprivation box kills me.
the real takeaway here is that Bruce Lee was DC's Marvel's Iron Fist, and THAT... is enough comic books for me tonight.
Now I want to see Superman doing the history channel “aliens” meme, with the crazy hair and everything… this story takes place in the 90’s, Superman wasn’t above crazy hairstyles lol
I'd love if there was a story where a second batman appears and any of the alien character where just like "Wait you were abducted by the gradiens? Their like Facebook of the galaxy. They sell people's data to the highest bidder. Why didn't you say anything?!". And batman just shouts "I knew I was abducted! Wait what?".
I usually listen to this at the gym and laugh a bit, but this episode made me have an absolute break down and I almost died! I love you guys, thanks.
"Here's a book..."
3 words that tell you this episode is gonna be goooooooood!
I'm always down for some batshit insane goofy stories. Even more so when it's the incredible Sal explaining them, LOL.
The sensory deprivation tangent is bloody hilarious.
Starts at 39:23
Great episode😂😂 so many funny comments from all of you about a ridiculous book. A few of my favorite moments:
13:36-14:52 all of Ethan’s comments
20:41 *insert aliens meme*
32:43 Ben’s comment made me laugh out loud in the airport🤣
41:06 “too afraid to do drugs”
56:25 😂
"Franklin Selly" seems to be a reference to Frank Scully - a writer who promoted the original UFO crash stories in the 50s, and also Dana Scully's namesake.
Great
I keep coming back to this video because it's so ridiculous and your reactions to it are the best. Any time I need a good chuckle, I make my way back
Here's a book.......that we're doing.
You know its going to be a good one when that's the opening gambit of a video 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I've seen all of the Back Issues videos there are. You enjoyed yourself the most in this one - and it totally transfers. Thanks for that one, keep on enjoying making more episodes.
Yes, my father took me to see Fire in the Sky when I was a kid...pretty good flick imo. I like how it's based on a true story and Sal's like "that's a good idea" 🤣
The Kook needs to be the main antagonist of the next crisis event lol.
Etahn "Oh no".
Me "Oh yes!"
I’m literally dying of laughter after they got to the Anti-Life Equation part.
Also I hope in the future they cover Alex Ross’ Justice and JLA:The Nail
PLEASE do the sequel in the future. I need more of this Batman on Crack story
I don't think I've heard anything more shocking than Sal revealing that there is in fact a sequel to this fever dream of a book.
Cue the X-Files theme. THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE!
Edit: oh my God my sides. I have laughed harder at this episode than I have anything in a while. This is a gold tier episode
I hope you guys do the sequel! This was a stupid rollercoaster and I couldn't ask for a better Comic Pop episode!
Always love the "THINGS ARE WORSE THAN EVER" drop
It’s funny I haven’t thought about this for awhile but my older sister used to be a huge fan of the Xfiles and had a ton of issues of the comics series collected. There were a lot of twists and surprises in this episode but that memory was a pleasant addition.
That evil laugh in the beginning made me cancel my plans for the next hour
Great vid fr but from 39:00 forward ? ... I cried real life tears, that sensory deprivation bit really got me
there's also Superman: The Kansas Sighting, by J.M.DeMatteis, perfect for a follow up episode
Oh, this episode was awesome!! I love the silly stories from the 90s on back issue. Great work!
I haven't laughed so hard in forever, thanks for this whole episode, guys!
Thinking about it, Back Issues fan animations like Drunk History would actually be pretty dope.
One of the many signs that it’s gonna be a good episode: Ethan being scared in the first 10 seconds
35:51 There are incidents of people believing they had been shot, when they hadn't. Yet they started bleeding somehow. I think something along the lines of that would make for an interesting NOPE! episode.
*scoffs in science* probably the best part.
This episode is already one of the greatest you have ever done 😂😂😂
You know Dick Grayson can't be in this story cause if Batman told him he was abducted and probed by aliens the response would be "Yeah and I probe an alien every other night."
“Only every other night though, have to make time for Barbara”
This was great! People need to know this exists. So unexpected and I loved it
Urhm... I do believe the updated proper term now is UAPologist.
Ooooh
Man that one scene in fire in the sky just really haunted my entire childhood. I watched that entirely too young.
My God , I love this channel. Another gem of an episode .
This story was absolutely wild and Batman didn't call one of his friends is crazy but at least they did it once ...wait this got a sequel, why does this have a sequel?!
Ohhhhhhh I NEED to see them cover this sequel
I gotta say. I didn’t expect this to be the origin of the infamous Batman Vs Bruce Lee image I’ve seen online for over a decade now.
The first 15 seconds already made it a classic😭😭
This is easily one of the most hilarious and bat-shit insane plots I've listened to on this channel. And the shame of it is that every ten minutes, Sal and Company would come up with a much better plot off the cuff. The idea of Batman being abducted by aliens isn't bad by itself---the first third of this was admittedly pretty interesting. It's just that this should've been the beginning of a much grander plot; one that should've involved the Justice League. But instead, we're given a random X-Files episode, but with Batman. But even the more comedic episodes of the X-Files were more dignified than this. The second Bruce Lee showed up, that's where I gave up.
Drugs, aliens, Batman acting like a lunatic…
Are we sure grant Morrison didn’t write this?
The power of dollar bins at comic book stores remains unmatched.
Wow at 56:19 you guys are in such unison that actually sounded good
32:56 I’m dying 😂
This was a WACKY book and a FANTASTIC episode. I hope you guys do the sequel!!!
I'm a long time Batman fan and I did not know this book existed
This story is a fever dream, and I love it.
Man, an episode about Batman: Harvest Breed would be sooo cool, the story is WILD
I’ve already seen this like 3 times, it’s already a favorite of mine 😂 👾
43:52 We all said this at the same time
Best birthday present ever. Thanks guys for this crazy tale!
My only complaint is I can only click thumbs up once. Would love to see you do the sequel someday too!
That's two fever dream weeks in a row. This is the gift that keeps on giving.
34:47 So that's Grant Morrison
I love this. Also heads up, in your video editor, put a limiter on the audio, set the ceiling to -1db and add 10-11 dB of gain. I'm an audio engineer and your levels are usually kind of low and I tend to do that on my system when watching the show.
Real YT Shorts potenital for the Claustrophobia bit at the 39th minute
I loved this episode, it was very fun. Would love for you too cover the sequel XD.
I can't wait for them to review Neal Adams Batman Odessy
Aliens.... one step closer to the sleepwalker review!
Nice!! This is the first Batman comic I ever bought as a kid.
Man I already thought this video had went off the rails when I heard the premise that Batman got abducted by gray aliens but at 28 minutes there were rails I didn't know I could be flung off of at high speeds!! We are off the rails now boys!!
Couldn’t get 15 seconds in before my sides were in shreds😂😂😂😂
This is a top tier episode for me. Holy shit I've been laughing the entire time.
This is very weird Batman story especially him fighting aliens 👽.
Somehow I had never heard of this before,
and the idea seemed so lame that I was on the fence about clicking on this video,
but OMG am I glad I did!
This is one of the funniest videos ComicPop has ever done.
I can't recommend this enough!
This is one of your best episodes
Around the same era, Batman also ended up with the Holy Grail. Take a look at The Chalice also!
Batman vs hallucinations. This was very enjoyable
11:01 “Oh shit, you know J’onn too? Oh yeah I play poker with the guy!”
The sensory deprivation tank has to be one of comic pop's greatest tangents
Already one of the greatest episodes right off the rip!😂
The Batmobile we see in the issue was designed (by I wanna say J.H. Williams III?) years prior, and was THE official Batmobile of the mid to late '90s. If you look through Batman comics of the era, you'll see it time and again. It wasn't until the mid 2000s that the Bat office stopped giving a shit and completely gave in to nostalgia and just let the artists draw their favorite Batmobiles.
This maybe..just maybe....be a top 5 back issues episode. Holy shit every single time you guys made fun of all the issues with it being batman going through this I laughed my ass off. We HAVE TO get an episode on the sequel. Well done guys.
Batman trying to find Bigfoot is a book I didn't know I needed until it was mentioned. DC give me that book!
Thanks to Stargate, everytime I see grey aliens, I think they're Asgardians.
(1:11) But we *do* have the best next thing, Shaggy Man!