Bruce and Clark have a disagreement, and Billy Batson's Funeral

[espanolbot]

This is a Dark Knight Strikes Again parody... I think,


And biting satire! With Boobs!

Comments

[worldwillshout]

The art makes me want to vomit...and then eat it all back up so I can vomit it up again.

[schala_kid]

The art style is primarily cartoony and kind of nice looking with the occasional exagerated ugly face Plas made.

I guess Kyle Baker gave ugly faces to Clark, Bruce and Diana to try and get a comedic effect, just look at Ra's, the backgrounds characters and Diana's profile shots and you'll see they look more simplified and not as horrible.

[worldwillshout]

See I really like Bakers art work but I think his stuff works better with clean line work and flatter colors.

but you do make some fine points.

[roxrox]

Especially that very last panel, SHEESH. I never thought it possible to make SUPERMAN look hideous. I stand corrected.

[icon_uk]

Well, Mary's eulogy for Billy is really rather sweet and touching... but the rest of this is just... ummm.. insane? And Light moved on from rapist, to... what? Necrophiliac pederast?

What IS this from?

[espanolbot]

Plastic Man, the most recent run.

I think that it is a parody of how dark and overly sexualised comics were getting at the time. As shown with having such a Golden Age character like Billy getting killed and molested, and Mary's touching eulogy getting overshadowed by the considerably... unfunerally way Huntress, Peeg, Catwoman etc. are presented.

That and the "superheroes are role models" message being implied to be inappropriate because of how the superheroines dress and are drawn or something, I don't know.

[ian_karkull]

Kyle Baker's short-lived Plastic Man run played it fast and loose and was largely satire.

[icon_uk]

I'd guessed it had to be! :)

[zordboy]

Okay. The sarcasm and parody is so strong I can't even imagine how people have missed it. A big "Children look up to us" speech accompanied by big-busted women in skimpy outfits? "Because that's what Light does now" and "Clark, here we go again", and Batman's sorrow at the light coffin accompanied by wanting to scratch himself.

Not to mention the lover's tiff between Kal and Diana. "Yesterday you put the milk carton back with only one drop of milk left in it!" I'm sorry, but this was hilarious.

[bluefall]

Kyle Baker <3

[darkblade]

Ugly Ugly Ugly art but surprisingly good satirical writing.

[mullon]

Is this the thing with the shirtless fighting? I have been wanting to see that.

[autumn_lily]

I love that bit!

[autumn_lily]

I miss this series so frickin much.

Bruce's "I'll slap you so hard your grandchildren will look like me." to Clark is just priceless.

[3goodtimes]

The art style reminds me of Ren and Stimpy, especially on the first page. :)

random

[3goodtimes]

Batman will make your grandmother suck eggs!

Re: random

[leikomgwtfbbq]

As long as he doesn't show off his magic nose goblins or his yar of spit.

[iskander]

did you get free breast implants if you attended the funeral ?

[schala_kid]

The best parts where with Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman. The IC parody, the "carefree weekends at Bruce's ski cabin" comment, Batman saying "I'll slap you so hard your grabdchildren will look like me" to Clark (for some reason activated my slash meter), and last but not least "YOU AND BRUCE NEVER VALIDATE MY FEELINGS! AND THAT HURTS ME!" fucking made me lol! I swear it's like the three of them are married.

Anyway, I loved Kyle Baker's Plastic Man run and I so want Morgan and Edwina to be in continuity.

[randyripoff]

Or better still, Rey El Rey!

[lamashtar]

It's funny, but the bit about the heroine's attire is kind of hypocritical. I mean, you might as well start bitching cuz the superheroes wore their tights. Those clothes are inappropriate all the time! For everything! Those of us who like superheroes enjoy the costumes because they're pretty, not because they make sense.

[hurricane-jam.livejournal.com]

It's partly ripping on the attire, but also about how women are drawn with ridiculous proportions in comics, having huge bosoms and tiny, tiny waists.

[redstar]

At least the boys get tights- Batman doesn't have to break out the Bat-Home-Bikini-Wax-Kit every time he wants to appear in public in his outfit.

He still does anyway, of course, he just doesn't have to. But look, little bat-shaped wax strips! How could any self-respecting Batperson pass up the chance to use them?

[lamashtar]

Also, Clark likes him smooth. :)

[retro_nouveau]

Whatever happened to those carefree weekends at Bruce's ski cabin, playing Motown records?

Yeah, whatever happened to those? I'm forming a concept for my next commission...

I also like how Diana crashed through the wall with the jet. XD