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Post by MDG on Sept 5, 2015 19:30:54 GMT -5
I still think off the Superfriends' Batman, and still hear Olan Soule's voice in my head when I read my golden/silver age books.   Who unfortunately looks like someone my Mom could take out with one punch ( but a familiar guy from NXNW, Slaughterhouse Five and about a hundred other things). |
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Post by Gene on Sept 5, 2015 20:44:02 GMT -5
The DCAU versions of most DC characters are "my" versions. Dini, Timm and co. had a real knack for boiling 60+ years of stories into timeless, iconic representations of the DC characters that still feel as current today as they did 20 years ago.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2015 9:48:43 GMT -5
Also really like Snyder's Batman in Batman New 52.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2015 15:37:28 GMT -5
3 interpretations come to mind for me....The versions drawn by Marshall Rogers, Neal Adams, and Jim Aparo. My first Batman comic was one pencilled by Marshall Rogers and that has stuck with me as the definitive Batman. I remember the giant sized tabloid collecting the Neal Adams Ra's Al Ghul stories and that is one of my favorite versions of Batman. Also enjoyed Jim Aparo's Batman. But, my definitive version is the Marshall Rogers Batman.
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Post by Nowhere Man on Sept 8, 2015 20:44:29 GMT -5
I'll echo the sentiments of those saying that Batman the Animated Series is their definitive Batman. That show was tonally perfect for me on all counts, not just with Batman, but with the villains as well. It's one of the select cases I can think of where a comic book adaptation "got it right" in a way that the comics never did. Of course, being that it was an adaptation not tied to any kind of continuity, it was able to trim the fat in a way that the comics really couldn't. It also had the benefit of using all the good stuff and ignore all the missteps. I think the key was the perfect balance of Pre and Post Crisis Batman themes. The tone of BTAS would have worked as well in 1970 as it did in the early 90's. I was also a HUGE fan of the quasi-1940's approach and wish that modern comics were open to using anachronisms so freely.
Visually, it's a tie for me between Neal Adams, Jim Aparo and Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2015 19:52:31 GMT -5
Carmine Infantino for definitive Batman comic book look, first time Bats was depicted more visually realistic.  |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Sept 25, 2015 21:53:39 GMT -5
I started to read comics in the late eighties, heavily in te early 90ies. Batman was probably the first character I remmebered and somehow cared for. I went back up to the mid 60ies and even the early Bob Kane & co days. Yet, maybe it's the european in me, but nothing really matters to me unil the mid 80ies Batman, the Miller/Moore and co take. Then, some Matt Wagner and mostly everything since and including No Mans Land .
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Sept 27, 2015 2:13:54 GMT -5
I'll echo the sentiments of those saying that Batman the Animated Series is their definitive Batman. That show was tonally perfect for me on all counts, not just with Batman, but with the villains as well. It's one of the select cases I can think of where a comic book adaptation "got it right" in a way that the comics never did. Of course, being that it was an adaptation not tied to any kind of continuity, it was able to trim the fat in a way that the comics really couldn't. It also had the benefit of using all the good stuff and ignore all the missteps. I think the key was the perfect balance of Pre and Post Crisis Batman themes. The tone of BTAS would have worked as well in 1970 as it did in the early 90's. I was also a HUGE fan of the quasi-1940's approach and wish that modern comics were open to using anachronisms so freely. Visually, it's a tie for me between Neal Adams, Jim Aparo and Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez. Agree with everything you said. I can already hear Shirley Walker's music in my head. |
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