Comments on: Comics Should Be Good Mailbag for 12/3

By: Clayton

Clayton — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:01:55 +0000

I like the art style in those sample pages. It's Don Bluth-meets-Adrian Alphona, or something.

By: Chris Jones

Chris Jones — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:09:22 +0000

If you liked this stuff then you should definitely check out the blog. More great artwork and the script to give it context.

I don't mean to pimp this too aggressively, but as long as I've got you all here I'm gonna milk it for all it's worth

By: Omar Karindu

Omar Karindu — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:04:37 +0000

That's some of the Batmanest comics art I've seen: strong layout sense and great storytelling skill!

By: Patrick Rennie

Patrick Rennie — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:10:41 +0000

The pages look good. Without words on them, it looks like Cat in the Hat gone horribly wrong.

By: Chris Jones

Chris Jones — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:48:40 +0000

Thanks for the kind words, everyone!

You can see more art and script for the story at:

http://comixbycj.blogspot.com/

Hope to hear more feedback from you guys!

By: jazzbo

jazzbo — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:00:32 +0000

A Super-Loogie to the junk would be a horrible way to go.

By: eD! Thomas

eD! Thomas — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:18:27 +0000

In my defense, I only thought it was your list because I had been awake for something like a gajillion hours, leaving me about as literate as a drunken goldfish. Thanksgiving in retail, good times had by all.

Thanks for the link, though!

By: Jeff Ryan

Jeff Ryan — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:12:34 +0000

The point of Dark Knight Returns, for me, was that if the Joker is a guest on David Letterman, and someone offers you tickets to go see it, say no.

By: Blackjak

Blackjak — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:58:14 +0000

Plus in TDKR, Superman doesn't really want the fight, so his heart's not really in it...

By: Omar Karindu

Omar Karindu — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:56:04 +0000

Also, "best" in the above post should read "Batmanest." In fact, that's probably true of all my posts.

By: Omar Karindu

Omar Karindu — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:55:11 +0000

At the risk of falling into painful fanwank -- oops, too late! -- I'm not sure that the idea in The Dark Knight Returns is "Batman can beat Supermanw ith prep." I'd say it's more like "Batman, with lots of allies, years of planning, and a battlefield he's rigged to ridiculous levels, can just barely beat a Superman who's recovering from taking a nuke to the face." It's still a testament to Batman's grit and brains -- he staggers a virtual god and has him at his mercy by plotting and scheming and, best of all, taking advantage of outside circumstances -- but Superman still gets to be Superman afterwards. The various writers and fans who've turned TDKR into "Batman can whup Superman with some Green K and a week of forethought" seem to have missed exactly how damn hard Miller made Batman work to pull out his win in the original sequence. Of course, The Dark Knight Strikes Again seems to have tried to do the wilder moments from TDKR with the volume turned up to 11, and I think even most of the readers who received it positively can agree that it and ASBAR are going for something quite different than Miller's 1980s work at either company.

By: Blackjak

Blackjak — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:54:46 +0000

I just adore Serena Guerra's artwork... Any relation to Pia Guerra of "Y: The Last Man" fame?

By: Nick Marino

Nick Marino — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:13:00 +0000

awesome pages, Chris! Serena's stuff is terrific.

btw Brian i love this weekly mailbag.

By: Greg Burgas

Greg Burgas — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:54:18 +0000

Well, that's just mean. Now I have to go into hiding.