"I am... the goddamned Batman... and I can do anything..." (plus an intro to AKOTAS!)

[athelind]

Over in his journal, scarfman observed:

Just because a character can do anything, just because he has no physical limits, doesn't mean he's an uninteresting character. It just means you have to do stories about what he won't let himself do ... or, about the circumstances when he will let himself do that.

You just have to be a good writer

Comments

[normanrafferty]

I've been listening to old radio serials. A recurring plot in the Superman ones is (1) a dire fate threatens people we like; (2) Superman is in a remote location, pretending to be Clark Kent, and not easily reachable. Will he make it in time?

[athelind]

Oooh! Links! Links! I haven't heard Bud Collyer do that three-octave Clark-To-Supes voice-drop in way too long!

"This looks like a job... for Superman!"

I grew up with that on the old Filmation cartoons. It's still the way the character plays in my head, even after a long succession of actors who change nary a tone when they don and doff the glasses.

Yay!

[animakitty]

Another comic with rather sub-par art but great content is Schlockmercenary, but I bet everyone knows about that one already.

Re: Yay!

[athelind]

Another of my top five.

Re: Yay!

[r_caton]

and the arts gettin' better all the time, too!

[scarfman]

Thanks for reading, and for recommending. And thanks for facilitating my finding the link to Girls Read Comics (And They're Pissed) with your friends' page.

[edhyena]

Just because I think Batman is the man, I can think of two counterexamples; times where he had to get help because he just couldn't do it alone : Knightfall and No Man's Land. (Hell, even Alfred was lending a hand in NML)
Although granted, I've heard that some of the recent "crossover" storylines for Bats were particularly bad, especially War Games.

[ceruleanst]

Well, that's the whole day gone. And now, instead of doing the urgent work I've been neglecting, I want to be figuring out character designs for the corporate Macbeth that's long been knocking around the back of my head.

[athelind]

Whoa. Dude. Did that ever go anywhere? What a great concept.

[ceruleanst]

Someday it will. It's low on the list. It's an ambitious concept - rampant analogies in a Macbeth where nobody actually dies, while all dialogue remains a sly fillet of the original words - but the tough part for me, I think, will be bringing visual interest to a bunch of men in suits standing in offices and boardrooms.