Let your freak flag fly, Bruce. Without the villain, where would you be?
Reading the Supes/Bats Generations crap (Byrne used to be good, right? Can someone remind me when?) he's just so damned chipper the whole time (I think he mentions offhand that having a Robin took the edge off, so it's pink puppies for everyone). He quite casually hallucinates/is visited by the ghost of Alfred. And they completely don't go into that. I mean, if it's not a hallucination, the implication is that Alfred will serve Bruce forever, beyond death. Which is awful. None of the other dead people appear to him, just poor Alfred who probably thought he could finally get a vacation.
Let your freak flag fly, Bruce.
I think I'd like to tag this, if I may.
Let me go grab my copy of it. . . did you think they drew Tim so v. child-like because of the Jason-hallucination?. I'm not very familiar with how Jason was drawn -- before -- was he always more adult looking?
Byrne used to be good, right? Can someone remind me when?
His art was good til the mid-90s (and still could be if he'd get a decent finisher who could complete his current 40 minutes to draw 22 pages style). His writing was good when he co-plotted X-men with Claremont, and on Fantastic Four, Superman, and She-Hulk.
He'd be a great writer if he exclusively wrote a series with Niles Caulder vs. Darkseid and no other speaking parts.
Sumi
Jason is being drawn in this in the way Clayface-as-Jason looked in Hush, for the most part. An adult Jason that never was, basically, with a side order of issues.
Byrne used to be good, right? Can someone remind me when?
That's what I've heard. Not sure when. All I know is nowadays he's not only lousy but an asshat as well.
Plei, this fear that Jason will go on to be a worse criminal than any that Batman faced previously was that an actual fear that Batman faced about Jason? -- I've ONLY ever read Jason in the story where he is killed.
His art was good til the mid-90s (and still could be if he'd get a decent finisher who could complete his current 40 minutes to draw 22 pages style).
He has a nice, clean line, but a *very* distinctive facial style (I think it's the cheekbones) and that bugs me. He also seems to have five expressions. But his bodies are great (except in Generations, Robin, Batman and Superman all canonically have the same physique -- also irritating) and he has a pretty decent sense of space.
His writing was good when he co-plotted X-men with Claremont, and on Fantastic Four, Superman, and She-Hulk.
Aha! I'm wont to give all the X-credit to Claremont, so thanks for reminding me. Did he reboot Superman a bit? Change some stuff around? I have that vague memory. And I read a little bit of his She-Hulk -- that was kind of fun.
