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I was a big fan of Frank Miller's twisted Batman tale THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS and remember eagerly buying all four issues! With me being a big Batman fan it was one of those great comic book moments! It is not the ultimate Batman story to me, but I thought it was really an engaging one. Something about a bitter older Batman trying to work through some of his issues while dealing with a battered Gotham city of the future appealed to me at that time. Yes this Batman tale may seem a bit dated now with some of it's story elements and a bit over the top with other elements, yet I still like the Two-Face/Joker stories and how they wrapped up mixed in with the satire. As for the Batman/Superman conflict it was fun to see those two characters differences played out!
Flash forward to the present an animated adaption of THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS has been produced and the first part was released this week. This image below I had started to create for a contest connected to the release of the DVD. I got side tracked with work and did not make the deadline, but decided to finish it up anyways. The image was created by drawing over a pencil rough in Illustrator. I looked at many pages of THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS comics to get inspired when creating this and decided to create my own take on the scene from the junkyard where Batman and Robin take on some mutant gang members. So that is it in a long winded nutshell and I have heard rumors there was a sequel to THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS. I hope it is a rumor as I think the TDKR story ends just right, but that is just my opinion.
Posted here are my September Sketch Tuesday drawings from a few days back. All but theMasked Wrestler drawings shown below are for sale. They are all ink drawings on card stock the smaller ones are 4.09 x 6.10 and the larger ones are 6.08 x 7 inches. The smaller drawings are $10.00 and the larger ones are $15.00 and that includes postage. So just contact me if you are interested in any of them. ricklucey@sbcglobal.net
It
was twenty years ago today I think one of the better versions of a
televised/motion story version of BATMAN debuted on TV. It was BATMAN
THE ANIMATED SERIES. Creative types like Bruce Timm, Eric Radomski,
Paul Dini, etc. did such a great job in putting this show together! In
addition actor Kevin Conroy really gave us a fully realized BATMAN with
his voice work! Also other actors like Mark Hamill,
etc. did excellent voice acting on characters like the Joker, along
with other classic and new characters in this BATMAN universe! BMTAS had
a perfect mix of crime/film noir style, mood, adventure, drama, and
dark humor all in a kid's show if you can believe that! I could not
resist in creating an image of BATMAN in Illustrator of the style of
Bruce Timm who set the visual look of the show.
Now I think I will go watch an episode or two!
