I realize that I am staking a lot of my happiness on the Return of Bruce Wayne series, but I just can’t seem to care. Here are some scans from the first issue, via the DCU Source.
It would almost be worth it to be a cave person, even one of those pervy Clan of the Cave Bear cave people, if you got to see Batman take his utility belt to the stone age.
And? And?
-6th Sense’s 4a.m. Instrumental for the theme music.
-A little ditty courtesy of one of the subjects of our show opens this one!
-Four Girlcasts in a row! Eat your heart out, Gloria Steinem!
-This is theoretically a Continuity Off about everyone’s favorite Dynamic Duo, the Femmes Fatale, those Titans of Terror, Harley Quinn & Poison Ivy.
-Really, we’re just reminiscing and talking about how great those two are.
-(Or at least how great Harley is, and how being near Harley makes Ivy also great.)
-I said I’d upload some youtubes, but who knew that Warners would scrub most of Batman TAS off the face of Youtube? I’ll put a couple I found after the jump, anyway.
-If you want legit ones, watch online here or start with Batman – The Animated Series, Volume One
–Harley Quinn: Preludes and Knock-Knock Jokes
-See you, space cowgirl!
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Batman wearing a Bathead. That will never stop being awesome, and I will always be a little bit placated whenever I see it. That’s just how it’s going to be around here.
Look at that art. Look at it!
And oh my god, the clasp on the cape is another bat!
DC, sometimes you are smooth.
Time for another go at trying to portray the comics we’ve read in one singular panel. I was asked to go with the last page of Secret Warriors, which is great in its own right, but a little too weird out of context.
Amazing Spider-Man #622
Fred Van Lente, Joe Quinones, Greg Weisman and Luke Ross
Batman and Robin #9
Grant Morrison and Cameron Stewart
I couldn’t think of what to write for this entry. First I scanned links on When Fangirls Attack, and Scans Daily, and various news sites, but I couldn’t think of anything I really wanted to write about, so I just clicked random links and googled random things for an hour, until I found myself, once again, reading the-blackcat’s Batman and Sons series.
The Black Cat, posting on deviantart and on livejournal (as the_dark_cat) did a series about Bruce, Dick, Jason, Tim, and baby Terry living together as a family and the wacky domestic adventures they get into. It’s syrupy and ridiculous. It runs completely counter to the Batman tone and almost everything that is happening in comics right now, and it is one of my favorite things to read.
I cannot believe how much I love this series and everything in it. It’s not just the silly adventures – it’s the artist themself.
This is an example of someone how knows their comics so well that they have clearly gone nuts with it.
That’s a scene at Chris Kent’s birthday party. Yes, that’s the Creeper handing out balloons to Jade and some kid I don’t recognize because I don’t know comics as well as this person does.
Later Terry gets into a scuffle with the youngest Arrow kid, not only because in the limited number of strips that The Black Cat has created he has been established as a kind of pushy baby, but there has also been established a feud between the Bats and the Arrows, with the Supers acting as peacekeepers.
Let me put this bluntly: This is a person who should be hired. To do this. Because this is freakin’ fantastic.
There are in-jokes, there are sharply delineated characters, there are visual gags, there is a sense of timing and flow to the panels, and every strip tells a story. Some stories are poignant, and some are sweet, and some are mean, and most are funny. I recognize that this is not everyone’s kind of story, and that it has to lean on the Grim Bat Mythos to stand. Still, this artist has it all, and is giving it to us in these strips. I wish they could get paid for it. And I wish that I could pay for an issue every month.
-6th Sense’s 4a.m. Instrumental for the theme music
-Comic book movies!
-We’re talking from Batman to Kick-Ass! Blade to X-Men! Spider-Man to Losers! Spawn Power Pack to The Dark Knight!
–Batsymbol as glyph
-A brief visual aide to prove that I’m a huge TMNT fan:
Judd Winick’s Jason Todd resurrection story, Under the Hood, is coming out in straight-to-dvd animated movie form this fall. So far, they’ve released few details. There’s talk about how the story will be dark. And there is a model of Nightwing.
This angular style seems to be the new trend in animation.
Batman from the The Batman Strikes.
Martian Manhunter from Crisis on Two Earths.
Seriously, every superhero’s head seems to be modeled on Tahmoh Penikett’s skull.
There is also a quote from Judd Winick.
“What I loved best about it is that it had a really amazing beginning and a really strong ending, which pretty much most movies ride on.”
So, Street Fighter II Turbo #11 came out last week, but I’m putting it here anyway. My shop got it late and hermanos’s SF2 Valentine thing means I kind of have to include it. Besides, half of the issue is Akuma showing M. Bison how he ranks. That makes it worth looking at more than anything.
Amazing Spider-Man #620
Dan Slott, Marcos Martin and Javier Pulido
Batman and Robin #8
Grant Morrison, Cameron Stewart
-Gavin read President Evil for some strange reason.
-6th Sense’s 4a.m. Instrumental for the theme music
-I made Esther read the first volume of Yotsuba&!.
-She made me read Devin Grayson’s run on Gotham Knights.
-Then we fought to the death!
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