"Why do you think I wear a target on my chest -- can't armor my head"

[jazzfish]

The 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.

Comments

[mrstickman.livejournal.com]

Um, has there been a much bigger stink made about the du Toit stuff than what I've read on, like, two weblogs?

[idoru.livejournal.com]

apparently it's [was?] really popular among a LOT of really right-wing conservatives, thus causing a rather large stir among, y'know, people with reasoning abilities that aren't pleased by misogynistic drivel with a few decent thoughts buried in there.

so no, i'm pretty sure it wasn't limited to two weblogs and the threads therein.

[jazzfish]

I saw it when idoru linked to one of her friends' incoherent support of it, which spawned some good reading in the comment threads. I've since seen it mentioned in a few other places. *shrug* Anything I see mentioned twice I figure has made a decent splash.

[mrstickman.livejournal.com]

Anything I see mentioned twice I figure has made a decent splash.

It's lines like that that make me wish I had a decent Blacksburg quotefile.