Insomniac Comic Poster Report

[thehefner]

I was hoping to get more work done today. But apparently, when you're awake till six in the morning thanks to a bastard cough, sleeping on and off till two in the afternoon, you don't operate so well for the rest of the day. Go figure.


First--a most unusual Spider-Man tattoo: awesome or disgusting?



Secondly, while I don't buy use posters anymore, I would seriously consider making exceptions for the following:

I keep going back to stare at Adam Hughes' Women of DC Comics Poster. Hughes is one of those rare artists who does cheesecake well, in my opinion. These don't look like vapid cardboard cutout boobily women with no internal organs. Hell, it looks like a VANITY FAIR spread by Liebowitz. Sexy, strong, and graceful.

A couple complaints, though. Kathy Kane, aka Batwoman (you know she's a lesbian because she's wearing pants!) is hardly on par with the rest of those characters. Not her fault, of course, DC's being bizarrely hesitant to even give her a mini-series, but as things stand, that should really be Huntress or Barda.

Also, much as I seriously adore Oracle here, it has been pointed well that paralyzed legs don't work that way.

Say, seeing them together here, I have to wonder, have Babs and Harley ever met? Because that might be delightfully AWKward.

Someone on scans_daily is considering drawing the male counterpart of this poster, and has been wondering who would go well on there. My dream roster of eleven would be Clark, Wally, Hal, J'onn, Arthur, Ollie, Carter, Lex, Bruce, Harvey, and the Joker.



And speaking of those last three, check out these five brand new DARK KNIGHT posters: first, Batman on his BatPod (a little too Toy Biz action figure-y for my tastes), but more importantly these character headshots of The Joker,, Batsy, and Harvey (methinks I need an icon of that image, stat), plus this long poster combining all three.

On one hand, I suppose it's a little too on-the-nose and obvious in its general theme (gee, do you think they're hinting at something FACE-related here?!), yet someone else pointed out the neat subtle use of Harvey being the only one of the three whose face is in focus and hand is blurry, not the other way around as it is with the Joker and Batman. A nice touch.

Also, I love the slightly pained look in Eckhart's eye there. Haunted and foreboding. God, Harvey, you poor bastard. I've said it before and I'll say it again, July cannot fucking get here soon enough.

Comments

[mirthical.livejournal.com]

remind me sometime to tell you what I thought of The Black Dahlia.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

I'm heading out now, and besides, I'm still zombie-like, but I totally shall.

So out of the loop...

[american-arcane.livejournal.com]

I don't even recognize most of the women of DC. :(

Then again, I was never big into DC outside of the Silver Age stuff of my father's that I read. At least in comic form. Until recently, they were the only ones that could put out a good movie with their characters in it, though. Thankfully, that's changed.

Also, that tattoo? Totally awesome. :)

Re: So out of the loop...

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

You might know a couple more than you think, as they don't all stand out to the casual viewer, methinks.

Little by little, DC's finally catching up. They came close to fucking it all up again with the ill-conceived JUSTICE LEAGUE film, but thankfully, it's dead in the water. Now it's time they seriously pick up the bloody pace. Let's get a FLASH movie and a GL mythos trilogy, stat!

[kiffie.livejournal.com]

That tattoo made me wince. But I had to keep looking. It's just... fascinating. :o

[kali921.livejournal.com]

That tattoo design went out in 1990. Seriously. Any tattoo depicting anything ripping out of skin makes all of the good tattoo artists here in SF laugh and laugh and LAUGH. Ed Hardy has the pictorial proof in every single periodical he published between 1988 and 1993. It's been done.

It's well done, though. I'll give it that. Cliched, but well done.

As for the Adam Hughes poster - well, it's kind of a rip off of the Vanity Fair actress double page spread covers they do every spring. In fact, I'm looking at the VF cover archive now, because it looks like he lifted the placement almost directly from one of the back issues of VF.

As for the content, my first thoughts were "wow, the DC verse is STILL really white bread." The art execution is beautiful, but the content coupled with the skeevy appropriation of a VF cover makes it unappealing.

[lovedatjoker.livejournal.com]

"wow, the DC verse is STILL really white bread"

That occured to me, too. When you line the major characters up, male and female, you REALLY notice it. I was boggling at how many pure aryan blondes in the piece.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Not to mention Dinah, the bottle blond.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Yeah. With Marvel, at least we'd get Misty, Ororo, and Wanda Maximoff for the token sexy Romany/Jewess/ambigous ethnic type. Undoubtedly they'd stick in Tigra or Mamsell Hepzibah for the furries.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

I don't see why it being a "rip" of VF should detract from it, especially as it seems to not trying to hide that fact. Hell, I don't even read VF and I recognized that, if you'll notice above!

And yeah, the lack of diversity is troubling, but that shouldn't detract from the awesomeness of the characters on display. You shouldn't discount that fact, just because they're all white save for one.

Or technically two; I was seriously close to writing an angry diatribe about the lack of diversity, remarking on the one token green woman. MORE GREEN WOMEN IN COMICS!

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Jenny-Lynn is also green, don't forget. So were J'onn's wife and daughter, but of course, they're dead.

[lovedatjoker.livejournal.com]

I WANT THAT ADAM HUGHES POSTER!

How do I get one? It's gorgeous!!

Babs' legs could work that if they'd been posed. The pants-thing - lol, how cliche!

I love classic cheesecake - 50s pin up art. :)

It would be so awkward for Barbs and Harley to meet. OMG, that has to be done!

I'd love me some classy pinups of Mistah J! :)

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

They were free give-aways at last week's New York Comic Con, with the lettering "The REAL power of the DCU." Wish I'd have gone, I would have gotten one for each of us!

It's got a nice classic cheesecake feel, with a dash of even more retro something-something, like an old absinthe poster I've seen before...

[lovedatjoker.livejournal.com]

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah :(

yes it's very olde worlde, I really dig! Love Ivy and Harley the best, naturally ;)

oh and on the whole Babs and Harley meeting... just remembered a super-short fanfic written by a fan which kind of 'touches' on that... or at least on the events of TKJ and Harley... worth a read...
http://www.jokerxharley.net/efiction/viewstory.php?sid=28&chapter=1

[little-dinosaur.livejournal.com]

I like Hughes. So pinup.
But I was thinking the same thing about Oracle's legs, and where's my Barda?

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Dead, next to a fridge. The most inglorious death since Steve Irwin.

[beatzo.livejournal.com]

Totally dug the Women of DC poster. The DK posters are really cool, too!

[lairdofdarkness.livejournal.com]

You really need to make with the clicky on this
NOW before its taken down
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqzL7Fc1gqM

WOW!!
Awful quality but I am still stunned

And new bat posters are looking really good too
I am away to build a time machine

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Caught it!

God. DAMN. And thank god, we'll be getting it in HD official trailer mode this Sunday.

That one line of Harvey's... man. The poor, poor bastard.

[nymphgalatea.livejournal.com]

The Women of the DCU is very lovely. And yes, I'd have used Barda in place of Batwoman (or even Starfire or Talia, both of whom have had heaps of exposure in the past year and both of whom I would love to see drawn by Adam Hughes).

Can't wait for July either, and neither can the rest of the world. I was in Paris over the weekend, on the Metro and watching two teenagers gibber happily over a picture of the Joker. Sadly they did not say "Il est sacré Batman!", nor "Je crois au Harvey Dent". Perhaps some things don't translate.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Also good suggestions. Yeah, TDK is shaping up to asplode, it really is.

Also, oh my god, speaking of asploding, this is one of those rare cases where I'd just like to smack the vast majority of scans_daily. Everyone's freaking out/facepalming/sighing/grumbling over the "big news" today (major spoilers that you probably won't be able to avoid if you're trying, as with Cap's Death), and while I'm not totally a cheerleader for this particular news, these people are making me want to be more and more.

I just... ugh! People. Stop and think. I... can't go into any more detail than that, or I will be here all day.

[nymphgalatea.livejournal.com]

Seriously, I love scans_daily to bits, but sometimes I want to give them all a collective smack and tell them to stop going into "hivemind freakout" mode. Sometimes I get the feeling they don't understand the concept of "cliffhangers". They reacted to stuff like Kyle getting Parallaxed as if it was some entirely irreversible and stupid stunt that Didio had done to upset them personally, when in fact it was just part of a larger storyline that made perfect sense in wider context.

I am avoiding spoilers like they're wasps. I imagine it's to do with DC Universe Zero and I really, really want to be able to pick it up and yelp in surprise over it's contents when I get it tomorrow. Even though a horrible part of me wants to wade into the sea of hyperbole and furore and start being all relentlessly optimistic at people.

(It's something to do with The Flash isn't it? Just give me that. We're heading into a Crisis, the hysteria *must* be regarding a Flash)

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

God, you're right, I'd forgotten about the Kyllax fallout. Good sweet lord, people. I'm torn between leaving them be so I can focus on my writing, which is what today is for, and trying to be the lone voice of reason. I think I've already answered my own conundrum, but I imagine I'll still be picking at it all day.

Good luck continuing your avoidance, as it's hit the major news outlets. And indeed, it's Flash related, and while it's not spelled out per se, you should be able to figure things out.

[nymphgalatea.livejournal.com]

I'm torn between leaving them be so I can focus on my writing, which is what today is for, and trying to be the lone voice of reason

Ahahahaha, trying to be the lone voice of reason on a comics community is not unlike King Canute trying to halt the tides: it's an impossibility on a global scale. Bless you for trying, though I would be inclined to advise you to go focus on your writing, as it'll be more productive & less frustrating!

I'll go and have a look on the comms for your efforts tomorrow, once I've bought all my tasty unspoiled comics. There's been nothing about it on the British news, so I'll be safe until then.

(Bloody hell, I want my comics *now*. Where's all the illegal download sites when you need them?)