I'm sure by now everyone has heard of the passing of comic great Joe Kubert. Here are some of the articles that I found to represent his passing the "best".
Monday, 13 August 2012
Friday, 10 August 2012
Batman Comics that everyone should read
http://io9.com/5928142/rare-batman-comics-that-everyone-should-read/
"To help compile this list, we turned to the indispensable Will Brooker, aka Dr. Batman — the author of Batman Unmasked and the newly released book Hunting the Dark Knight: Twenty-First Century Batman. (Brooker also wrote two Batman articles ... which you can read here and here.) "
"To help compile this list, we turned to the indispensable Will Brooker, aka Dr. Batman — the author of Batman Unmasked and the newly released book Hunting the Dark Knight: Twenty-First Century Batman. (Brooker also wrote two Batman articles ... which you can read here and here.) "
Wednesday, 8 August 2012
Details on a Deleted Scene From The Dark Knight Rises
"...there's a whole early section for Tom Hardy where he's fighting and being taunted by people. He's got chains on him, and he's standing on a wooden thing while people are attacking him. And in that scene, he's wearing a much more ragged, primitive version of the mask."
Wednesday, 1 August 2012
Batman's Gun
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/07/gun-laws-and-batman.html
In a story published in October of 1939, Batman used a handgun to shoot a vampire—silver bullets to the heart. He used a gun again in the next episode, to fire some shots at two evil henchmen.
At the time, Detective Comics had just hired a new editorial director, a guy from Brooklyn named Whitney Ellsworth. (Not long after hiring Ellsworth, Detective Comics established an editorial advisory board, consisting of people like psychologists and English professors.) When Kane submitted his next story, Batman was shooting again. “Ellsworth said to take the gun out,” Kane remembered.
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/07/gun-laws-and-batman.html#ixzz22JnWXO56
In a story published in October of 1939, Batman used a handgun to shoot a vampire—silver bullets to the heart. He used a gun again in the next episode, to fire some shots at two evil henchmen.
At the time, Detective Comics had just hired a new editorial director, a guy from Brooklyn named Whitney Ellsworth. (Not long after hiring Ellsworth, Detective Comics established an editorial advisory board, consisting of people like psychologists and English professors.) When Kane submitted his next story, Batman was shooting again. “Ellsworth said to take the gun out,” Kane remembered.
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/07/gun-laws-and-batman.html#ixzz22JnWXO56
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