Dream of the bat

The Bat #1-4

by Josh Simmons

What do we find in this Dream of the Bat? 4 totally creepy, hilarious and transcendent stories which work together to create a complete graphic novel that was 16 years in the making!

Mark of the Bat by Josh Simmons (2007 - out of print until today )
Twilight of the Bat by Josh Simmons and Patrick Keck (2017 )
Birth of Bat by Josh Simmons (2021 - out of print until today)
Death of the Bat by Josh Simmons and Patrick Keck : A BRAND NEW AND EXCLUSIVE STORY!
Unpublished illustrations and bonuses by guest artists!
Dream of the Bat
8.5 x 11.2 inches
144 pages, color and black and white
Green metallic hot stamping on spine
Hardcover book
Cardstock paper slipcase with green metallic hot stamping
Printed on a 150 gram Munken Pure paper

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Batman

148 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2022

Reviews

[Urbon Adamsson]

Josh Simmons convinced me of his immense talent after I read the French edition of "House," so picking up this book was an easy decision.

This is one of the strangest books I've ever read, but the incredible art and pervasive weirdness make it a refreshing experience, completely unlike anything else out there.

It's not a book that tries to be serious or politically correct in any way. Instead, it showcases Simmons' most gruesome, bizarre, dark, and unfiltered imagination.

Really cool.

[Julesreads]

What a handsome edition and what beautiful, deranged drawings. You can see Johnny Ryan (heavy influence), Ed Piskor, comix, queer, and camp in Simmons’ and Keck’s Batman deconstruction. this is a silly (and enjoyably pretentious) po-mo joyride driving over the myth of our beloved Batman. Easy read, which I always love.

[Ryan]

We all know that Batman is, as most superheroes are, a dedicated fascist. Simmons takes that idea to the extreme in this series of comics collected here; The Bat isn't just a violent, twisted sociopath, but his kink is twisted violence and agony, inflicting on others as well as himself. He a lurid, codependent relationship with The Joker, he is an overgrown child narcissist, he eschews enlightenment after surviving the apocalypse, he craves chaos. Amazing stuff, exactly what you want an explicit Batman bootleg series to achieve and the artwork is all insane.

I listened to Krallice's Years Past Matter and AMENRA's De Doorn while reading this.

[Garrett]

Wild stuff. Love it!

[Josh]

Hilarious, disgusting, and sometimes touching Batman commentary.

[Soteralzobooks]

3.1 (softcover deluxe edition)

[Sammy Williams]

An irreverant, explicit, bootleg look at Batman, revealing him as the total psychopath he really is.

[Przemysław Skoczyński]

Jeśli ktoś obawiał się, że będzie rozpierducha dla samej rozpierduchy to muszę rozczarować. Jest nawet ambitnie i cała ta dekonstrukcja superhero, mimo że wcale nie jest czymś nowym, w wydaniu Simmonsa, z racji całkowitego wyzbycia się ograniczeń podczas tworzenia, wypada świeżo. Dwa pierwsze opowiadania znałem z innych zbiorów, gdy właśnie o takim albumie w całości poświęconym Nietoperzowi marzyłem. Dość powiedzieć, że kolejne dwa również trzymają poziom, a ostatni uderza wręcz we wzniosłe tony, dotyczące istoty egzystencji. Choć zniekształcone bluźnierczą satyrą, zawsze coś tam do przemyślenia pozostawią. Nie dla każdego, ale w swej kategorii "4 gackowe kutasy na 5".

[Christian]

Juvenile, psychedelic, morbid. Batman has a breakdown of character and goes on a teenage struggle adventure.

I didn't know at all what to expect when going in, as I've had no experience with the creator. The story is shallow and the punchlines are nudity and sudden ejaculations. The deconstruction of Batman seemed more like a projection from the writer himself. How this has received decent reviews is beyond me. I guess people are starved for something different, no matter what it is.

[Aaron]

The People's Joker is still probably the most batshit (hehe) take I've seen on the Caped Crusader and his rogues gallery but this one has significantly more cum in it. Also that bit where our hero performs surgery on himself in order to more closely resemble a bat is horrifying.

[Turic]

Powinno istnieć prawo fizyki, które zabrania takich publikacji. Jakakolwiek próba powoduje natychmiastową anihilacje wszystkich zaangażowanych.

[Ethan.Levine]

Nothing last forever

[Joshua K]

Not really my bag. I think most of my frustrations come from a place of wanting to know simply “why?” but this isn’t really a comic built for that. I dig the art.

[Reeves]

Extreme and grotesque in every way imaginable and then profound. What the hell even is this? Love it.

[Kuba]

I thought it was a comic for adults because of dicks, but it turned out that it was because of the weight of the answers that these stories give to unsublied questions

[Moon Captain]

How the sweetest boys in the world made one of the most squicky grody art-wise books I've ever seen is a beautiful mystery to me