The Greatest (or at least, My Favorite) Comics of the Decade: Part 1-the complete works

( Lots of awesome comic covers and ranting geekery behind the cut! )

In Part Two: the best stories still in progress, the best compilations of older material, and even a couple honorable mentions!




*A month ago, I wrote most of an epic rant about Grant Morrison's BATMAN, but I keep putting off posting it because, well, what's the point? It's not like I'm going to change any opinions.

WANT. Or at least, an icon of it! (EDIT: aaaand now I have it!)

EDIT: huge props to kmousie for the poifect icon!



I keep putting off getting this, even though the price has steadily gone down over the past couple months. Maybe I should resist until it's at least half off, hurr hurr hurr.

( Of course, now look what's coming out from DC Direct next year: the ultimate pointless expense for Heffie )

I saw this a few months ago, but dismissed it for two (HURR) reasons. First, I'm prejudiced against green scarring, it just looks silly. And second, it's three hundred fucking dollars. The most I ever paid for a piece of comic memorabilia was my Green Lantern Power Battery ten years ago, which was $250 (my employee discount at the comic shop helped). So I didn't actually go "WANT" when I first saw it.

But today, I checked out the amazon.com page, where it allowed you to zoom in for a high-def look at the details. Wow, the scarring is wonderfully done. I mean, if I had it my way, I would have preferred reddish-pink-black scarring, or even purple, rather than campy comics-green, but based on other images, it's less neon-pronounced as it is above. It works, really. Looks almost gangrenous. Most importantly, it's not a clean division, but rather has gradation like real acid scarring would have.

Plus, while I dislike the split suit, it's actually quite tasteful here, rather than half a used-car salesman, which is Harvey's poor preference most of the time. I'm gonna say it yet again: if I had my way, the only thing split on Harvey's costume would be his tie. Everything else would be a suit and maybe trenchcoat, with subtle plays on symmetry and asymmetry throughout. The idea is to take the emphasis away from the body and bring it right on the face where it belongs. He looks normal and average everywhere else, which makes the scars all the more jarring.

... Why yes, I really do give these things too much thought, why do you ask?

What's really impressive is how his pose actually gives him a decidedly different expression depending on which way you look at it:

( Arrooo? )

I just want an "O RLY?"-"YA RLY" icon of those (going back and forth between close-ups of the faces). I wish I had the ability to make animated icons (or even good static icons).* But not as much as I wish I could afford to blow three hundred smackers on something as awesomely useless as this. Shit, who does?

Maybe if I wait long enough, it'll go down to two hundred, which would give me enough flimsy justification to finally buy the damn thing.




*damn, I need photoshop