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Oh, Grant. Thou hast cleft my heart in twain.

January 5th, 2010 by | Tags: ,

Greame McMillan at Io9, has quoted Grant Morrison as revealing that the Pirate Batman we saw was only concept art, and not the center of a story. 

I’m heartbroken.  That art was incredible.  Batman, staring out of the page, daring you to make fun of his puffy shirt-cuffs and tri-corner hat.

bruce-wayne-pirate

But I can let that go.  I can let everything go.  It’s funny, the persistence of hope.  Even now that I know there’s no chance, some part of me cradles the flickering hope that Batmanderthal will be in the comics.  I don’t know how he would go about serving justice pre-bronze age, but I know it would be fantastic.

Just concept art?  Say it ain’t so, DC.  Say it ain’t so.

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7 comments to “Oh, Grant. Thou hast cleft my heart in twain.”

  1. at least you can buy the action figure.
    from 1995.

         by edc January 6th, 2010 at 00:04 --replyReply to this comment

  2. @edc: *sniff*

         by Esther Inglis-Arkell January 6th, 2010 at 11:26 --replyReply to this comment

  3. well Morrison is the kind of guy who adds stuff to his story to match the artist he’s working with

    so all hope isn’t lost.

         by Nathan January 6th, 2010 at 12:16 --replyReply to this comment

  4. I still want to see my vision of a powdered wig-wearing Batman come to pass.

         by Munch January 7th, 2010 at 20:59 --replyReply to this comment

  5. @Munch: That’s beautiful and terrifying.

         by Esther Inglis-Arkell January 8th, 2010 at 00:27 --replyReply to this comment

  6. @Esther Inglis-Arkell:
    oh, it gets better.
    http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff156/circustense/FreaksCon/FreaksConEntries048.jpg

         by edc January 8th, 2010 at 03:52 --replyReply to this comment

  7. @edc: Modern Batman actually did Pirate Batman one better by *punching* a shark, once.

         by Esther Inglis-Arkell January 9th, 2010 at 11:40 --replyReply to this comment