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Batman and Robin #21

2013-06-19T20:20:05Z

Posted by: superfangirl1

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Fanart ...Wednesdays? - Cass Cain edition

2013-06-12T22:28:00Z

Posted by: atom_punk

Dedicated to my personal favorite Batgirl....nuff said...

(Oh and I'm posting this early because I fully expect to be swamped tomorrow and unable to post :P)

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The Joker meets Nightwing

2013-06-11T15:35:13Z

Posted by: lego_joker

Out of the three Dixon/Beatty Year One storylines, I think that I might like Nightwing: Year One best.

Now, general consensus is that this is the least liked of the three - but more often than not, those complaints tend to be about elements that I can't really bring myself to care about (the Teen Titans, Kory vs. Babs, Jason, etc.). Plus, there's the art - in my mind, Scott McDaniel is the Nightwing artist, and though the loss of his usual Nightwing inker Karl Story is regrettable, I still consider it leaps and bounds over the art of the other two.

(That's not to say I hated the art on the other two - but often, it struck me as a poor man's Bruce Timm or Darwyn Cooke. Still, there's a really nice scene from Batgirl: Year One that I need to post here sometime, that really shows off the benefits of minimalism.)

Chapter four, in particular, is probably my favorite. Dick's back in Gotham, going out and about and getting in the faces of every lowlife he can find - gotta spread the new Nightwing identity somehow. Throw in a date with Babs-as-Batgirl, plus a slew of appearances from villains that Dixon always writes beautifully (in other words, Two-Face and Freeze are nowhere in sight), and you've got one gem of an issue.

Sadly, since this issue is so popular here on scans_daily, I will not be able to post the awesomesauce Penguin sequence. It's somewhere on the Internet, though - you'll have to find it yourself. Instead, let's skip forward to Arkham Asylum, where a certain green-haired clown is about to join in on the fun.

( Everything old is new again... )

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Batgirl 21 has another Nightwing cameo

2013-06-07T21:45:02Z

Posted by: icon_uk

A page and bit from Newsarama's preview of Batgirl 21

( In which Dick points out something that anyone who knows a dancer will agree with )

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Because homicidal clowns should have a voice in international politics, too...

2013-06-02T19:37:09Z

Posted by: lego_joker

It has just occurred to me that there is precious, precious little documentation of the Joker's two tenures as a Middle Eastern delegate. Well, little documentation by my standards, anyways.

For quite a while, the aforementioned subject was one of the biggest reasons that I thought "A Death in the Family" was an overrated pile of garbage. But now... well, I still think it's an overrated pile of garbage, but I'm a bit less vitriolic toward people who continue to tout it as "one of the best Batman/Robin/Joker stories of all time!". For one thing, those people seem to have developed selective amnesia when it comes to the fact that over half the story is tangled up in 80s-era hot-button political issues, coupled with copious amounts of grimdark that just might constitute the most desperate attempt to ride on Frank Miller's coattails in the history of Batman comics.

Seriously: we've got Arab terrorists, we've got nuclear trafficking, we've got allusions to The Troubles, we've got (implications of) underground abortion, we've got references to Reaganomics, we've got the Ethiopian famine, we've got an opening sequence that features Bruce and Jason crashing a child pornography ring, and, of course, we've got all those "Joker gets appointed Iran's ambassador and the UN, Washington, and Superman idly stand by and order Batman to play along" shenanigans.

Two or three of these things would merely drag down an otherwise-serious (if overly self-important and crassly-promoted) tale about the death of Robin. I've come to believe, though, that all of them put together vastly overshadows the rest of the story, turning it into a bizarre, comedic, and oftentimes surreal romp that feels like the Adam West show stuck through a dozen looking glasses, dipped in LSD, and genetically spliced with an 80s action movie.

(Credit, of course, must go to Jim Aparo's art as well as Jim Starlin's script. I must confess that Aparo was never one of my top Bat-artists - his style always struck me as childish, and characters often seemed too cheesy and trying-to-be-dramatic-instead-of-being-dramatic for my tastes. But in that vein, he was a perfect fit for the effect described above: such bright, innocent art and coloring is hardly appropriate for such dark themes, and the result, in my opinion, is sweet, surreal dissonance.)

In short: this story upstaged the sheer nuttiness of All-Star Batman and Robin, the Boy Wonder - and by extension, latter-day Frank Miller - twenty years ahead of time. And for that, I can no longer hate it with the passion of a thousand fiery suns. Perhaps only a hundred.

Were scans_daily's post limits to allow me, I would eagerly dissect every inch of this wonderful, horrible storyline. But since that is not the case, I would like to focus on (what is probably) the most infamous: Joker as Iran's ambassador. As well as the far less well-known sequel it spawned in the early 2000s.

Note: Four pages from Batman #428, seven from Batman #429, two from Birds of Prey #15, seven from Birds of Prey #16, a third of a page from Birds of Prey #17, and three pages from Action Comics #765.

( Wacky, politically-incorrect fun behind the cut! )

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The Universe Hates Mr Freeze, Part 2

2013-05-29T13:52:35Z

Posted by: espanolbot

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Batgirl - Recent Events Made This Even More Sad For Me

2013-05-21T11:53:26Z

Posted by: espanolbot

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Batgirl #20: The Ventriloquist

2013-05-17T20:19:42Z

Posted by: superfangirl1

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An "Accentuate the Positive" post - Batman Family #16

2013-04-28T15:23:56Z

Posted by: icon_uk

It strikes me I've been getting back into bad ways recently, getting all cynical and snarky about a hobby I still enjoy and the DCnU in particular, and so I'm going to focus on posting from a couple of DCnU titles I HAVE enjoyed lately, in particular, Talon and Amethyst, but to tide you over until I can get off my backside and sort that out, here's a little blast from the past, from 1977 in fact, from the page of Batman Family, Robin and Batgirl (and a surprise friend or two) face off against;

( The Five-in-One Foe! )

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Superboy's Bat-Romance

2013-04-21T16:38:11Z

Posted by: auggie18

Guess Kon has a thing for girls named Cassandra, eh?

I'm joking. In the DC universe, all girls are named Cassandra.
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auggie18's Collection of Random: Deathcorn, Batgirl's unexpected surprise, Magneto's eyebrows, etc!

2013-04-20T17:13:23Z

Posted by: auggie18

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Fanart Thursday - A rather fun take on Star Wars.

2013-04-18T21:21:00Z

Posted by: icon_uk

Denis Medri is an artist on DeviantArt who gained praise for his innovative reworkings of pop culture classics

These are the first work of his I found;

( Rockabilly Batman )

But just today, I found these and they are AWESOME. In light of Disney buying LucasFilm, we may not want to let them know these exist, but just imagine...

( What if Star Wars was a 80's High School flick? )

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Batgirl #19: Batgirl Wanted Outlaw

2013-04-11T06:32:32Z

Posted by: superfangirl1

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Spoilers for Batgirl 19 (2 pages)

2013-04-10T17:10:59Z

Posted by: shadowpsykie

Hey Guys,

I know i have been lurking for a while, havent posted anything in a long time between work and school and the ocassional fun bouts of depression RL and the like just got in the way, but quite frankly i needed adistraction, and i saw this article and these images over at Newsarama. Thought they pertained to us so i thought you'd like to see it.

( Secrets Revealed )

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Fanart Thursday, atom_punk edition 3/14/13

2013-03-14T19:23:37Z

Posted by: atom_punk

Well exams are over and my spring break is imminent! Time for sleep, video games and comics! :D

And speaking of comics, another bunch of fanart for people's viewing pleasure.

( Fanart ahoy! )

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Batgirl #18: Barbara Finds Out About Damian Death

2013-03-14T18:54:15Z

Posted by: superfangirl1

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Nightwing #17

2013-02-28T20:06:24Z

Posted by: superfangirl1

( Good bye little Robin )

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New Batfamily preview covers released by DC

2013-02-28T19:46:00Z

Posted by: icon_uk

As the various members deal with recent events in Batman Inc #8

( Spoilers if you haven't read Batman Inc #8 )

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Fanart Thursday - Some Rule 63 costumes..

2013-02-21T19:46:36Z

Posted by: icon_uk

For those who follow such things, "Rule 63" states that "For any given male character, there is a female version of that character" and vice versa...

( and Joe Phillips clearly believes that the vice should be just as sexy as the versa.... )

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Too late for Fanart Thursday, too late for Valentines Day

2013-02-15T12:09:20Z

Posted by: icon_uk

But you know what, it's not been a fun week and I just don't care! :)

( Cute, fluffy, adorable... Lord, but I needed this )

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DC's next gimmick cover theme may be a gimmick, but that doesn't mean it can't be pretty!

2013-01-11T23:23:16Z

Posted by: icon_uk

Bleeding Cool has some pictures up which appear to be some April covers for DC.

( But not the WHOLE cover... so to speak )

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Cringeworthy Comicbook Moments - Robin: Wanted

2012-12-27T15:05:54Z

Posted by: espanolbot

I come armed with canon, so yeah, kind of a lot of scans behind the cut.
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In the absence of SBFF's - Mike Maihack provides...

2012-12-20T11:51:48Z

Posted by: icon_uk

( Supergirl and Batgirl cuteness! )

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Batgirl #15

2012-12-15T19:10:46Z

Posted by: superfangirl1

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Azrael and Batgirl discover the meaning of Christmas

2012-12-09T23:43:42Z

Posted by: skemono

Per request.

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From Azrael 61; seven pages of 22.

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