Knight of the Mirrors isn’t the only conversation about Hollywood’s killer Superman.
For those not on Twitter, the Superman kills/Batman kills/Batman uses a gun issue came up again a few weeks ago, and Marvel’s Tom Brevoort broke down the history and social landscape with nothing short of frank 140-character genius. Here his lecture is compiled via Storify:
From one professional to another, pick a better spot, because from this height a fall won’t kill me
I know we’ve already had one spotlight today, but then, well, there was an ass hat, as one is apt to encounter on the Internet. And rather than responding to trollish asshattery in kind, Gail Simone put a wonderfully positive spin on the whole thing by declaring it
#cosplayappreciationday is trending
#CosplayAppreciationDay. Head on over to twitter and see the feed, it’s amazing. (It’s also trending!)
So I returned to the gallery to dig out the best darn Batman Cosplayer I know: I wish I could shout out to him properly, but, uh, I only know him as Matches Malone.
Yes, really. But he made every bit of that costume himself, and the love shows in every pixel of every pic.
Joker Revisited by Ramesese
Joker Revisited – because it’s really hard to take tanks, mercenaries, exploding concrete and reactors mysteriously turned into bombs all that seriously after the guy who kills your bodyguard with a pencil.
Batman Utility Belt by Ramesese
This little gem from the sculpture gallery has perfect lines. Based on the design from the Nolan films, it’s not my favorite version of the costume, not by a mile, but this particular piece has perfect lines. Just look at the way it follows, frames and leads the eye around the waist. Perfect. Absolutely f-ing perfect.
The only downside to presenting a Dark Knight character portrait is The Dark Thumbnail.
Batman in front of Wayne Enterprise
This is a beautiful piece, the Cat-Tales Batman, right down to the lip twitch, posed in front of Wayne Enterprises, beautiful coloring on -grunt- My City -grunt-. But the detail just doesn’t come through. You simply have to click through and see it full size in the Cat-Tales gallery.
It’s February 2nd, or 2/2, the day that FriendsofHarveyDent.org launched to kick off the Harvey Dent campaign for District Attorney. If you Believed in Harvey Dent, head on over to the remade In Memoriam site to remember Gotham’s White Knight.
The night is darkest just before the dawn. And I promise you, the dawn is coming.
If you still believe in Gotham City, if you believe in Hope and Heroes, if you refuse to let Gotham be defined by those who know only ugliness and despair, honor Harvey by passing this message along.
Chris Dee
catwoman-cattales.com
Okay, so, Cat-Tales is pleased, proud and thrilled to have sparked the imagination of one Wanders Nowhere, and some time back he wrote a blood-chilling little tale set in the CTU called Capes and Bats. Making a trailer for this cheery little epic about the Lord of the Undead hitting town at the same time as Christopher Nolan arrives for location shooting on The Dark Knight was my first attempt at this video stuff. It’s not bad for a first effort, but the music was maybe a little… Draccy. Did Batman go to Transylvania and start fighting crime around Vlad’s castle? No. Vlad came to Gotham in search of snacks and Brides! So I would now like to represent the Capes and Bats trailer with more suitable musical accompaniment for the clash of batty-caped titans:
We knew this was coming since Comedy of Errors…
Carmine Falcone liked to think of himself as The Godfather, and nothing said Godfather like a big mob wedding. Bane liked to think of himself as ‘The Man Who Broke Batman,’ entitled to all the respect and homage of that achievement. You don’t trash their dreams without consequences, even if you’re Joker, even if you’re Two-Face, even if you’re The Gotham Rogues.
The Color of is a fascinating new website “to find the colour of anything.” Give it a word or a phrase and it searches through Flickr, selects its best matches, and ingeniously manages to combine them without making mud.
The result are some lovely canvases that would look right at home on the wall of an art museum, and that’s exactly what we’ve done at The Gotham Museum of Modern Art at The Cat-Tales Visitor Center in Second Life. The Color of Gotham exhibit gives The Color of treatment to many familiar names associated with Batman, as well as items like the Batsignal, Batarangs and the city itself. Those who cannot visit the museum in digitized person can enjoy this slideshow.
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While the Color of Gotham exhibit at the MoMA will run through the summer, the Rogues Gallery Masks will be on display at the Visitor Center itself only for the duration of the current Cat-Tale: Comedy of Errors.
Comic books and fairy tales. Stories we revere from childhood that fired our imaginations and at the same time slipped in some principles on how to live our lives, what we can become, what we can achieve. Some of our parents thought we had to put that aside when we grew up, but since the Baby Boomers came of age, we’ve embraced the idea that this doesn’t have to be kid’s stuff. From Disney’s Beauty and the Beast to Star Wars, Lord of the Rings to Nolan’s The Dark Knight, we’ve seen that fantasy, science fiction, and comic book stories can be told for adults. Of course, every good story is grounded in a battle between Good and Evil. There’s a reason for that. We tell these stories to prepare us for life, and in real life, that battle between Light and Darkness rages.
ABC’s Once Upon a Time has the potential to bring that battle elegantly and beautifully into the mainstream. From the writers of Lost, the world begins as we might expect: with a tantalizing mystery. 28-year old Emma Swan finds herself in Storybrook, a mysterious place where some strange rules seem to apply – rules that don’t quite seem to jibe with the laws of nature. In the First Look video…
Okay, a young boy tells Emma it’s all the work of a wicked queen, “She sent everyone from the Enchanted Forest here” and they don’t know that they’re characters from fairy tales. Sounds kinda cool, I liked The Sixth Sense and Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods. But none of that is what made me sit up and take notice. What did it was that moment after the screen went black and those 4 gleaming words appeared:
THERE ARE
TWO SIDES
And so there are in every genre that touches on those cherished childhood memories. From comic books to movies, there are those who claim writing for an adult audience means a nihilist and cynical world in which there are no real heroes and no real hope. Those who cannot dream will always try to destroy yours. They have been trying to poison our childhood memories and destroy our heroes for years. Until Geoff Johns’s Infinite Crisis and Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, that divide in the comics world was confined to the non-fictional arenas. Nolan’s Dark Knight fictionalized it in a battle for Gotham’s soul. Joker’s view being the cynic’s “When the chips are down, all these civilized people will eat each other” and Batman believing in the people of Gotham City. When his faith is proven right, when the people of Gotham decine to “eat each other” as Joker predicted, he asks pointedly “What was your point, that everyone is as ugly as you?”
Will Once Upon a Time take that battle to the next level? Is this a tale of Darkness and Cynicism versus Light and Hope?
I give you two moments from that FIRST LOOK:
Trollish man in a cage:
Everything we love will be ripped from
us while we suffer for all eternity.
v.
Girl:
Believing in even the possibility of a
happy ending is a very powerful thing
FIGHT!
Once upon a time Hope fought Despair. Once upon a time Light fought Darkness. Once upon a time Good fought Evil.
Once upon a time… Damn, I’m there.
Chris Dee
www.catwoman-cattales.com
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