Oh God… they’re videotaping me while I’m not watching! They have tape of the inside of my head, dude!
See video of the inside of my head – not my bathroom, dick – after the jump.
Oh God… they’re videotaping me while I’m not watching! They have tape of the inside of my head, dude!
See video of the inside of my head – not my bathroom, dick – after the jump.
Howard Chaykin’s reboot of The Shadow for DC Comics back in 1987 tends to be overshadowed (Get it?) by other stuff around the same time period, including The Dark Knight Returns, Watchmen, and Chaykin’s own American Flagg! and Black Kiss. Partially because all those books are so damn good, and partically because DC lost the Shadow license a long while ago, preventing the book from staying in print. Turns out that maybe the Conde Nast guys who own the character didn’t think there was a long-term future in letting Chaykin’s successor, Andy Helfer, graft The Shadow’s head onto a robot… although in retrospect, it was probably a more realistic take on the character than Alec Baldwin.
But Chaykin’s original miniseries, Blood & Judgment, is some of the best comics from the 1980s that you could find. Excellent art with a logical and interesting way of bringing Lamont Cranston from the 30s to the 80s… although it felt more like the 70s what with the way Chaykin wrote Cranston as banging anything that walked, moved or crawled in a skirt, usually without even bothering to check for an adam’s apple first. Plus, the book contained splash pages that you could put against anything from Dark Knight you, if you’re anything like me, xeroxed and tacked to your wall in high school.
We’re performing some much-overdue site maintenance today, and since we’re a two-person operation, that means that the editorial staff is also the IT staff. Purely by coincidence, we’re also the janitorial staff, the joy division and the town drunks. We’re truly a full-service comics operation here at Crisis On Infinite Midlives.
The point is that, not only might you see some weird-ass shit today (Dogs and cats, living together… mass hysteria!), but updates might be sporadic. Or at least more sporadic than usual.
Please bear with us, and we’ll be back to full operation as soon as possible..
Awesomeness. That’s what.
Over on The Mary Sue, Jill Pantozzi, who you may know as @TheNerdyBird on Twitter, recently shared this video mash up of Batman: The Animated Series and the sound footage of The Dark Knight Rises trailer (via Geek Tyrant):
It’s weird, but I somehow understand Bane better in this version. Maybe because I don’t have to look at the weird face mask/grill thing he wears in the movie:
The Dark Knight Rises is set to be released in US theaters on July 20, 2012.