B & B
Commentary on the latest animated incarnation of Batman seems to be split right down the middle between people piling on it for being a show aimed at children and people piling on the people doing the piling. I’m of the opinion that Marvel and DC are far past their best by date, so I’m happy to indulge the fantasy that something minor like this could destroy either company.
That said, the promo image they released is the kind of thing that hurts my inner animator. Blue Beetle looks great. Love the fingers. Forward shots are rarely flattering, but rules are made to be broken and Batman pulls it off with some dynamic foreshortening. But what’s up with Green Arrow? Is he ditching his friends? I probably would too if all I had was a quiver full of arrows. And why is there so much nice negative space between Batman and Blue Beetle, but none between Batman and Green Arrow? Does he just take bad pictures?
April 7th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
Not that this fixes the problem of GA running away from his problems, but it almost looks like some exec asked the artist or whoever to move him closer to Bats.
Batman’s hand looks aweful over GA where it is (colours especially in my opinion), but if you moved GA over to the left a few nudges it problably would looks tons better.
The kids don’t dig Ted Kord or what? Now I’m the old man.