tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post5566547127739456392..comments2024-03-27T05:54:38.797-07:00Comments on <i>bare</i>•bones e-zine: Batman in the 1980s Issue 68: May-June 1987John Scolerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14082147756474762000noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-46733405276658241592022-12-12T10:35:06.560-08:002022-12-12T10:35:06.560-08:00The Toth comparison is a good one. There's an ...The Toth comparison is a good one. There's an interesting note on one of the letters pages by O'Neill that says the events of Year One occurred a few years ago and the events of Year Two occurred a year later.Jack Seabrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216640325305820140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-48533932562716813792022-12-12T07:42:27.671-08:002022-12-12T07:42:27.671-08:00For me, the thing that stood out the most about ‘Y...For me, the thing that stood out the most about ‘Year One’ was that it felt more like a Police Procedural than a superhero comic. Every aspect of it felt grounded in the ‘Real World’, in a way that I don’t think had ever been attempted before. It’s like an 87th Precinct/Hill St. Blues story directed by Martin Scorsese. There is just the merest touch of fantasy in it, it’s all just a teeny-tiny bit ‘Larger Than Life’. <br /><br />Even the way Batman himself is drawn — he looks like an honest-to-goodness real human being in a costume made of actual cloth, not an idealized bodybuilder with his clothes spray-painted on. Mazzuchelli’s approach to the art is like a weird mix of Gray Morrow and Alex Toth aesthetics that really shouldn’t work, but totally DOES.<br /><br />‘Year Two’ suffers in comparison ONLY because they slapped that label on it. It’s a perfectly solid, entertaining Batman story, with dynamic Neal Adams-ish art. But the naturalistic dialogue and street level verisimilitude of ‘Year One’ are gone. We’re right back in status quo DC Comics World (which is completely to be expected).<br /><br />b.t.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com