Tag Archive | "Batman"

Bruce’s Scottish holiday

Thursday, March 18, 2010

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On the racks today is the Batman International collection, which includes Batman: the Scottish connection by Alan Grant and Frank Quitely. I like Frank’s artwork normally, but glancing inside at his depiction of Edinburgh Castle as viewed from the Grassmarket I can’t help but wonder why he didn’t render a more accurate depiction of the [...]

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Batman, Great White Shark and a lightsabre = silly but awesome

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

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Slash Film (via BoingBoing) has this fab pic of the Dark Knight armed with a lightsabre tackling a huge Great White Shark. It doesn’t say who created the image but although it’s a bit daft it’s also all kinds of awesome!

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Queen Joker the first?

Sunday, March 14, 2010

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Now that’s just scary. Found on the Threadless T-shirt site by Robot 6.

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Batman times 2…

Sunday, February 28, 2010

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Have a couple of really lovely Batman pics on us. Okay, maybe not on us, but definitely from John Porcellino whose version of Batman and Robin (colours by Noah Van Sciver) was drawn for Denver Comics Fest sketchbook; And then enjoy Cameron Stewart’s definitely not a cover for Batman and Robin 9 as announced on [...]

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DIY Batman….

Saturday, February 20, 2010

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You too can make your own Batman panel, just as I did. Three to choose from. Silly, a time-waster, but lots of fun.

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Judging a book by it’s cover….. another Spirit series

Saturday, February 20, 2010

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Sometimes there’s some stunningly good cover artwork coming out from the big boys and girls, and the new Spirit series issues 1 & 2 by artist Ladronn are truly great: The last time DC tried to do something with Will Eisner’s Spirit character they hired Darwyn Cooke & J. Bone to create a staggeringly good [...]

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Batman on skis

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

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Batman on skis! Actually multiple Batmen on skis! Holy winter sports! Sadly this is not a scene from some new and delightfully twisted Grant Morrison take on the Dark Knight and the Winter Olympics, it is actually from Rio’s Carnaval (via SFX’s Twitter, pic Reuters/Ricardo Moraes; Boston.com, where this came from, has some fabulous Carnival [...]

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SFX Weekender – awards and news of Gaiman writing for Who (at last!)

Monday, February 8, 2010

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The SFX Weekender was held over the weekend (well, duh!) and among the panels and cosplay and discussions and drinking there were, of course, the annual SFX awards. The Geek Syndicate boys were live-Tweeting them as they happened (thanks, Nuge) and SF Awards Watch has handily compiled them all. Neil Gaiman won the Best Novel [...]

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The Batman Villain Project

Sunday, January 10, 2010

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Another artist with a knack for stealing away your time of a weekend; WanderingBert has spent a loooong time documenting every Batman villain he can possibly draw over on his Flickr page.(via BuzzFeed) Now, can you name them all? Answers in the comments.

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Paul Pope’s unused Batman Year 100 cover designs

Sunday, December 20, 2009

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Ooooh. Pretty. But then again I’ve rarely seen anything Pope draws that I don’t have that response to. See his Flickrstream for more chances to go ooooh.

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Aquaman & Batman – it’s not any team up DC would recognise….

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

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Fabio Moon (via hisTwitter) points out this great bit of unauthorised team up action featuring Batman and Aquaman from Brazilian artist Eduardo Medeiros. Someone let Mark Chiarello know we’ve got a perfect strip for next year’s Wednesday Comics. (link via Robot 6)

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Real life actors as comics characters

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

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El Pais had five actors from Spain made up especially as real life versions of well known comics characters, including Popeye, Tintin, Batman/Bruce Wayne, Flash Gordon (although he appeared to be in the 80s movie costume rather than comic style) and a disturbingly cute girly ‘Donald Duck’ (just go and look and see what I [...]

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Real superheroes car-pool

Monday, August 10, 2009

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Yes, that is Captain American and Batman sharing a ride in a Mini; with petroleum prices increasing and supplies dwindling, not to mention the pollution caused by cars our superheroes are teaming up to fight crime by carpooling. Meanwhile Peter Parker, the Amazing Spider-Man, enjoys a well earned vacation driving around Scottish beauty spots. Mind you, I [...]

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Top 10 Comic Book Cities….

Saturday, August 1, 2009

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From the Architects Journal of all places, this is a top 10 run down of the wonderous, nightmarish and plain bizarre places comic book heroes and villains call home: Top 10 Comic Book Cities. Running through some obvious ones: Gotham, Metropolis, Daredevil’s New York (actually it’s really Miller and Mazzecchelli’s New York featuring DD, but that’s [...]

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Neil Gaiman talks Batman on NPR

Thursday, July 16, 2009

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“A new graphic novel from DC Comics is “part coda, love letter and summation of Batman’s raison d’etre,” says writer Neil Gaiman. Gaiman’s take on the Batman mystique — Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? — was published in two parts as the final editions of the long-running Batman and Detective Comics series.” “Now it’s a [...]

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