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Stumpage Reports
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Friday, May 09, 2003 :::
The Dork Knight
Its been a comic book couple a days. I mentioned buying a couple comics in yesterday's blog and heard from Hopper on that and had a little comic book exchange with him. Then today, Big Ed emails me talking about some comics he just read and he posts about comics today too.
What I wanted to say, this is probably pretty obvious, but Batman is just the coolest comic book character there is. I've read everything from stupid superhero comics, to Robert Crumb, Peter Bagge, and Italian sex comics, but Batman still rules.
The comics I bought the other day were two issues of some thing called "Batman: Nevermore." Its a DC imprint called "Elseworlds" or something like that, I guess maybe thats where they do weird Batman stories that don't fit in the canon or something. I bought them because they had covers painted by Berni Wrightson.
I just kind of flipped through them, looks like they take place in the 1840's and some Batman type guy and Edgar Allan Poe. It got me thinking about how Batman could work in almost any time period. I know they've done stuff with him with Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper before. He just really fits in the nineteenth century for some reason. In this series I just bought, Batman is a little different looking, not so hi-tech, his costume looks more homemade and he has on a long duster kinda coat. I could even see Batman cavorting around witch-haunted Salem in the 1700's. I just don't see Spiderman or Superman working in another time period. I think it is because Batman is such a primal character, and so damn cool when he's done right.
It felt good to go on a comic-book rant.
Quote of the Day:
Nearly two and a half centuries had passed since twenty black men and women were landed in Virginia from a Dutch ship. From this tiny seed had grown the poisoned fruit of plantation slavery, which, in profound and contradictory ways, shaped the course of American development. Even as slavery mocked the ideals of a nation supposedly dedicated to liberty and equality, slave labor played an indispensable part in its rapid growth, expanding westward with the young republic, producing the cotton that fueled the early industrial revolution.
--- Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unifinished Revolution 1863 - 1877.
::: posted by tom at 12:07 AM
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