Huh. I'd given up on Batman -- so, it's good? Is it the beginning of something?
This is my boat. They're part of my crew. No one's getting left. Best you get used to that.
Mal ,'Ariel'
Other Media 2: It's Astounishing!
Discussion of comics, graphic novels, and more. Except for capes. No capes!
Please use spoiler font for new releases until after the weekend following release.
sumi - Feb 17, 2007 7:58:49 am PST #168 of 5059
Art Crawl!!!
Steph L. - Feb 17, 2007 8:05:21 am PST #169 of 5059
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
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.
t edit If you go to DC.com, you can download the first 6-7 pages of it: [link]
Jon B. - Feb 17, 2007 8:18:37 am PST #170 of 5059
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Looks like a modern version of EC's Picto-Fiction comics from the mid 1950s.
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Feb 18, 2007 9:54:19 am PST #171 of 5059
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
Here's something I've never seen before -
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.
P.M. Marc - Feb 18, 2007 7:00:57 pm PST #172 of 5059
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Okay, the Barry Fitzgerald Batman is too precious for this world.
It just rules.
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Feb 18, 2007 9:07:56 pm PST #173 of 5059
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
There were a couple of really great ones in the Supergirl section. One involving the Bat.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 18, 2007 10:23:07 pm PST #174 of 5059
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
That Joe Koberstein Viking longship is just beautiful.
P.M. Marc - Feb 19, 2007 7:40:27 am PST #175 of 5059
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
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.
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Feb 19, 2007 11:08:11 am PST #176 of 5059
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
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?
P.M. Marc - Feb 19, 2007 11:28:47 am PST #177 of 5059
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Wait, when Supergirl is wearing a Bat-tat, you think of ME?!?!!!?
Peev's only a letter removed from Perv, mister.