{"id":390,"date":"2008-05-05T19:41:49","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T19:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skullcull.wordpress.com\/?p=390"},"modified":"2008-05-05T19:41:49","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T19:41:49","slug":"comicsphere-batman-black-and-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/?p=390","title":{"rendered":"Comicsphere: Batman Black And White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\\\"http:\/\/skullcull.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/batman-bw.jpg\\\"><img class=\\\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-391\\\" src=\\\"http:\/\/skullcull.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/batman-bw.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"batman black and white\\\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Batman and reinvention go together like a horse and carriage or whatever other pair of inseparable ideas you wish to use, hmm, maybe Batman and Robin. I said something similar earlier with works about the character that were operating under the same kind of mission statement: to reimagine the world of Gotham\\&#8217;s Dark Knight.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway this collection gathers together some legendary names from the world of comics including Gaiman, Jim Lee, Chuck Dixon and Simon Bisley to name a few. Everyone wants a stab at the iconic characters and his great cast of villains and this is top notch stuff. Strangely there was only one story that disappointed and that was Gaiman\\&#8217;s &#8212; the whole framing device and post-modern take, deconstruction angle really didn\\&#8217;t work well for me at all &#8230; now that\\&#8217;s either because it just didn\\&#8217;t work or down to personal taste &#8212; I know what i think but you must make up your own mind. In a book of this size one bum note really isn\\&#8217;t going to derail the train.<\/p>\n<p>The art is great &#8212; and the plasticity of the character really comes to the fore. That he can be all these things and still retain an essential quality of \\&#8217;batman-ness\\&#8217;. Ted McKeever for me turned in the most interesting take and covered the investigative side of Batman, kind of Batman CSI, for a look behind the curtain that is sometimes lacking in the pantomime stories or the action blockbuster batman tales.<\/p>\n<p>This is one you can read over again and again and never tire of, each story, even the ones you may be less fond of, adding a different layer to an already multi-layered character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Batman and reinvention go together like a horse and carriage or whatever other pair of inseparable ideas you wish to use, hmm, maybe Batman and Robin. I said something similar earlier with works about the character that were operating under <a href=\"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/?p=390\"> Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,13,14,20,37,40,42,77,116,168,171,181,182,183],"tags":[271,368,405,516,636,988,1044,1059,1134],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-artists","category-batman","category-blogging","category-comic","category-comicsphere","category-culture-vulture","category-ideas","category-papershop","category-turn-the-page","category-updates","category-words","category-writers","category-writing","tag-batman-black-and-white","tag-comics","tag-dc-comics","tag-gaiman","tag-jim-lee","tag-simon-bisley","tag-ted-mckeever","tag-the-dark-knight","tag-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}