"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?

[mikailborg.livejournal.com]

I knew that Batman quote the moment I saw it. It has to be one of my favorite lines from that tale.

[fuzzyamy.livejournal.com]

Thank God you made that important exception.

Have you read any other Moore? I've looked over a friend's copy of From Hell, but it looked too complicated for my time demands. However, I've heard good things about V for Vendetta that would indicate that I take a second glance.

Props also to Marvels and Kingdom Come.