So, has anyone read Batman #663 yet? I hadn't seen any previews for it, and hadn't read anything about it, so I wasn't expecting it to be what it was.
I thought it was fantastic. And disturbing and creepy and oddly funny in places.
I've been poking around the interbunny, and the only place I'm finding any reaction to it is the DC forums, which aren't always the type of discourse I'm looking for. (And, in fact, the thread on #663 degenerated into an argument about whether people who didn't like the issue were lame. Or something like that.)
Anyone?
Huh. I'd given up on Batman -- so, it's good? Is it the beginning of something?
It's not the beginning of a story arc. The Joker returns (which I don't think is spoilery, given that the cover pretty much indicates that, but I'll whitefont it if people want).
The format of the issue is what's so striking (though it's been done before in comics) -- it's mostly
prose, without the standard art format of several panels and word balloons and/or brief thought/narration text.
There IS
art, but it's not traditional panel-style art.
So basically what you have is a
text-heavy
story that allows for an enormous amount of
internal narrative, particularly on the Joker's part.
And, frankly, given the direction the story was taken, I don't think that
a traditional format
would have worked to tell that story.
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If you go to DC.com, you can download the first 6-7 pages of it: [link]
Looks like a modern version of EC's Picto-Fiction comics from the mid 1950s.
Here's something I've never seen before -
Drawergeeks.com
It's a site where a mix of talented artists do their take on a variety of subjects including Harry Potter and a smorgasboard of superheroes. There's some really great stuff tucked away in here.
I suspect Plei will have a blast looking through some of them.
Okay, the Barry Fitzgerald Batman is too precious for this world.
It just rules.
There were a couple of really great ones in the Supergirl section. One involving the Bat.
That Joe Koberstein Viking longship is just beautiful.
There were a couple of really great ones in the Supergirl section. One involving the Bat.
Mmm-hmm. I thought of you when I saw that one.
There were two by the same artist in that section that I really loved. Can't recall his name, though.
There were a couple of really great ones in the Supergirl section. One involving the Bat.
Mmm-hmm. I thought of you when I saw that one.
Wait, when Supergirl is wearing a Bat-tat, you think of ME?!?!!!?
Wuh-huh?
