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Eric Jansen
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Posted: 24 December 2023 at 10:11pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply
DC continuity is so fractured, I can't imagine that anything one artist/team does has any bearing on the next.
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Vinny Valenti
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Posted: 24 December 2023 at 11:02pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply
It's funny how whether or not Batman knows about Joe Chill is dependent on multiple Earths fusing, or the timestream changing. This has gone back and forth a few times, now.
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Vinny Valenti
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Posted: 24 December 2023 at 11:47pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply
What I hate about that DETECTIVE COMICS alteration is that though I know nothing about guns, I can tell that the originally drawn gun was unusual, providing an immediate clue that Batman is holding it for a REASON. Turning it into a generic pistol negated that completely (I can vouch for myself at least when I first saw it as a kid. I saw it as significant that Batman's holding up a gun, but that was it. The original would have had me asking "Why is he holding up THAT gun?"
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Rodrigo castellanos
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Posted: 25 December 2023 at 8:16am | IP Logged | 4 post reply
The Batman animated movie Mask of the Phantasm is heavily based on it. (And is far superior!)

Yeah, YEAR TWO was terrible. I think all Batman fans collectively tried to ignore it.

The Animated Series guys took the logline and turned it good, as they usually did.

The 65 episodes of the original series (before "New Adventures") is on Netflix now in my region and since I cancelled my HBO Max subscription a couple of years ago, I've took on the habit of leaving it in the background when I'm around working or doing chores. 

Still brilliant, the best distilled Batman ever.

     
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Raj Dhami
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Posted: 25 December 2023 at 3:43pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply
Thanks for the prompt Rodrigo - I just checked Netflix UK and it's on there too.  Love the art deco feel of those cartoons!  Think I've just found my next series to binge :)
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Derek Rogers
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Posted: 04 January 2024 at 6:13pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply
Wished they used JB's cover for FF 293 than what was published.
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Colin Ian Campbell
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Posted: 04 January 2024 at 6:55pm | IP Logged | 7 post reply
Frank Miller drew a cover for the tenth anniversary issue of Judge Dredd Megazine which went unused, perhaps because the shading made it look as though Dredd had grown a beard.
http://viciousimagery.blogspot.com/2010/09/that-frank-miller -judge-dredd-cover.html
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John Byrne

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Posted: 04 January 2024 at 7:04pm | IP Logged | 8 post reply
Or perhaps it was deemed too cartoony for Dredd.
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Gundars Berzins
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Posted: 04 January 2024 at 7:09pm | IP Logged | 9 post reply
In this thread, I'm just stunned with the choice to not use some of these unused covers.
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Jim Petersman
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Posted: 04 January 2024 at 11:53pm | IP Logged | 10 post reply
I rather suspect that the FF cover had less to do with artistic reasons and more to do with sour grapes.
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Jonathan A. Dowdell
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Posted: 05 January 2024 at 12:30am | IP Logged | 11 post reply
Wow, never knew Mr. Byrne did a cover for FF293. I remember Being disappointed & confused when I bought the issue. 
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Brian Miller
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Posted: 05 January 2024 at 12:49am | IP Logged | 12 post reply
Why were you disappointed and confused?
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