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Sep 21, 2005 20:52

Must have gotten some weird looks today, because when I wasn't grinning about Thud! I was grinning about this:

Batman meets The Shadow!!

Written by Denny O'Neil, at that (though the 'unconventional' types in the first story seem to crop up in all his work -- a theme of his, apparently). And the art in the second was done by M.W. Kaluta. I have ( Read more... )

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ladyrazorsharp September 22 2005, 04:47:11 UTC

OMGosh! I completely forgot about Ghost! I loved that one; I think I even have that book.

I know, this was about Batman but I saw that and went "GAH! I remember YOU!"

Did you like the movie with Alec Baldwin? I saw it but my jury is still out...

infiniteviking September 22 2005, 05:52:23 UTC

Don't know much about Ghost. Looks intriguing though. Who is she? What does she do?

As for the Baldwin Movie of '96...

Can I quote the Shadow again? Hahahahahahahaha!

Technically it's not that bad, but some of the stuff they put in -- Margo's telepathy, Cranston's evil past, those weird pneumatic pipes used to transport messages, and the fancified sanctum (a decadent smoking room with drinks and a fire, as opposed to a completely silent dark place where the Shadow pores over his files at a deal table under a blue lamp) -- came completely out of nowhere. But I was first drawn to the character through the opening sequence with its gorgeous, soaring score, so I can't kick the poor thing too badly ( ... )

ladyrazorsharp September 22 2005, 17:32:23 UTC

You can find a little more about Ghost here. As far as I remember, the story is this: Elisa Cameron, a reporter in a large Gotham-like city, gets herself killed. Shortly therafter, a beautiful woman becomes a vigilante in the city, sort of like Catwoman meets Batman meets The Crow. Ghost discovers that she can make herself immaterial or solid at will (though at first she had to learn how to do it--she has periods of 'sleep' and once found herself underground, which really scared her), though she can't 'phase' through jade (you'll sometimes see her sitting on a jade 'throne' in a cemetery, as far as I remember). She can't remember who she was, and part of the storyline has her trying to remember, and finding that people who knew her when she was 'alive' are turning up dead ( ... )