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jazzfishThe incomparable Teresa Nielsen Hayden has what will, I hope, be the last word on the du Toit nonsense.
Been reading Frank Miller's classic Batman tale The Dark Knight Returns, because I keep hearing that it and Grant Morrison & Dave McKean's Arkham Asylum are the best things ever to come out of superhero comics (Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons's genre-busting Watchmen excepted). I'm maybe a third of the way through DKR and it's quite good. If the American public had any interest in seeing a sixty-year-old Batman, it'd make a great movie.
What really gets me, though, is page 47. A lot of small panels of the Joker behind wiremesh/glass, with short green hair and pale skin, smoking a cigarette. . . the resemblance to David Bowie circa 1980 is frightening. Scary monsters and super creeps, indeed.
Been reading Frank Miller's classic Batman tale The Dark Knight Returns, because I keep hearing that it and Grant Morrison & Dave McKean's Arkham Asylum are the best things ever to come out of superhero comics (Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons's genre-busting Watchmen excepted). I'm maybe a third of the way through DKR and it's quite good. If the American public had any interest in seeing a sixty-year-old Batman, it'd make a great movie.
What really gets me, though, is page 47. A lot of small panels of the Joker behind wiremesh/glass, with short green hair and pale skin, smoking a cigarette. . . the resemblance to David Bowie circa 1980 is frightening. Scary monsters and super creeps, indeed.