Greetings Comics fans and welcome back to casually comics I’m Sasha and we’ve got
an odd one today.
Comics tend to be remembered for their extreme highs or their really low lows but sometimes
odd happenings slip through the cracks.
Like today’s comic Batman Abduction which if you’re thinking as in aliens you’re
100% on the right track in this comic Batman gets abducted by aliens.
If you’re always down for an obscure or forgotten comic hit that like button.
So I actually stumbled upon this through it’s kinda sequel Batman Dreamland and I was so
i the mindframe of why is this happened/who greenlit this that I had to know more which
lead me back here to Batman Abduction.
A solo clearly non canonical story from 1998 written by alan Grant and illustrated by Norm
Breyfogel a dc duo who would work together often.
Grant has a good Batman track record introducing characters like the ventriloquist, victor
zsasz and Anarky which I personally am the least excited about but that’s just me.
But this book has none of those characters and the villain it introduced never left these
stories.
Enough build up let’s get to the aliens.
The comic starts off with Batman in hot pursuit of some criminals members of a chemical gang
but before that it starts off with some melodramatic narration.
By page 5 he’s been abducted and we’re talking classic abduction bright light ascending.
I want to believe the whole nine yards.
Shaken Bruce drives home only to be informed by alfred he’s been gone for hours.
For awhile bruce isn’t sure what happened having cryptic dreams and flashes that are
impacting him out in the field so he tells alfred something must be wrong with him.
And alfred does what any good father would do he goes and gets his hypnosis coin.
Also aside from jumping straight to hypnosis the coin is also a bat coin I want to know
why bruce has that and where he got it commissioned.
Through hypnosis bruce recounts a pitch perfect traditional alien encounter one that leaves
Alfred skeptical but he;s never stopped bruce from doing anything out of the box before
so what investigating his alien abduction i the grand scheme of things really.
Bruce proceeds to go full conspiracy theorist and research alien sightings throughout history,
and I’m pretty convinced he binged ancient aliens.
With all of that groundwork and a confused slightly willing to believe Batman, Bruce
decides to go under cover to a ufo convention with the masterful disguise of David Jason,
a name that in no way sounds made up.
Oh look it’s david jason and his best friend john smith right next to jane joe.
What a bunch of rapscalions.
So David Jason is there to see renowned UFO expert Dr. Franklin Selly.
Who he gets in to see and tell about his experience upon which point he has a bizarre halucination
featured pretty much every theory about why aliens would be watching us ever.
Also Selly takes him on an astral projection trip up to a greys space ship cause of course
they’re greys.
So at this point you may be wondering doesn’t Bruce know a lot of aliens.
Clark’s an alien John J’onzz is an alien.
Hal Jordan works with many aliens.
Can;t he just go to them and be like hey seen any greys lately.
Or hey were we seeded by a master race like the go auld or something.
OR hey why’d you jerks let me get abducted this is why we don’t hang out.
Well the story does mention that he knows aliens but that these are unlike them and
then he just never calls them...cause….he’s batman!
Batman continues to be plagued by headaches but he still tries to fight crime cause it’s
gotham and lord knows someone has to.
However he’s accosted by visions that tell him he shouldn’t have talked about his abduction
and that his kids are in danger and then he’s attacked by Bruce Lee.
Multiple bruce lee’s actually it was at this point I knew I had to tell all of you
about this.
I was just reading all this and then these panel happened and I had a moment, Stop everything
the people must know!
Tell the people!
After this he is confronted by a villain named the kook who claims he is the sanest man in
the world.
And that the aliens are a threat he must protect the world from by making sure batman doesn’t
talk about them just go with it.
So now Batman starts thinking like a more canonical version of himself and suspects.
Drugs so he does a blood scan and low and behold drugs and also an alien implant in
his skull so he creates an antidoite lixkity split cause he’s batman and alfred takes
out the implant.
It turns out that Dr. Selly is also the Kook a villain with not only psychic but manifestation
powers who can create tangible illusions until he wills them away.
And he franklin sely believes in aliens he’s also developed a drug called cosmosis that
increases peoples susceptibility and boosts his psychic energy which has created a split
personality the kook who is acting off of his beliefs that aliens are real making that
a reality.
His plan is to cause a mass ufo sighting to make the world believe aliens exist and that
they are evil.
I think Lex beat you to it but ok.
Free of influence Batman goes and confront Selly and his gang which was actually the
chemical gang he was chasing at the very start all of whom have been taken in by his illusions.
Using the antidote Batman is able to separate Selly from his Kook persona and stop the spread
of news of a mass ufo sighting.
Then he gets real pensive about what just happened Listen
Bruce hi reader here...it wasn’t that deep.
So this made more sense than I expected it to.
A lot of what happens follows the stories internal logic, the reason the abduction is
so formulaic is because it’s a projection from the Kook’s mind based on what he believes.
What it comes down to is Batman isn’t the greatest character to have this happen to
just cause of well how he is and also he knows a lot of aliens and people who know aliens
who he should have called.
I know there’s stuff between him and Hal but come on.
It forces a lot of suspension of disbelief because of the already established universe.
Also the Kook as a villain name a mean the ufo enthusiasts are crying and be not the
strongest its no ventriloquist.
On the whole this comic is just pretty forgettable outside of a few moments and it made me go
check if Alan Grant had ever had an alien encounter cause it read at soe point more
like the author talking about stuff than batman.
Many of us have encountered that vibe the feeling that the author has taken over and
is using the character as mouth piece.
All and all I’m not surprised most people forgot abut this one, but now all of you know
about it you’re welcome.
Sie note missed opportunity for an x-files batman crossover, so there; you go now you
know.
What do you think Batman would do if he was legit abducted by aliens?
Had you heard of this one?
What comic made you suspend your sense of disbelief the most.
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