I wish Twitter was on the verge of implosion every day so I could log in to weebly and have my metrics say views are up 400%. (I also had someone follow me on LiveJournal, and the thrill of having someone follow me on LJ in 2022 cannot be overstated.)
I finished a sketchbook!
Kevin Conroy, the voice of Batman, passed away November 10th, which is why I have been on the Batman kick I've been on. I really loved Batman: The Animated Series, and have been watching/re-watching those episodes (there are some that I haven't seen yet). Mask of the Phantasm was a fun time; I had never seen that one before, either, which is kind of hard to believe, but it's one of those movies I never got around to.
Catwoman is a pretty solid book all around. Every time I pick it up, it's good or even great. I remembered reading this series as it was coming out, because I liked Darwyn Cooke's art - now, on the re-read, I realize this run was written by Ed Brubaker. It's really terrific, down to the lettering. There's an issue where Selina sends her roommate, Holly, out to collect some information, and Holly is looking at the East End of Gotham through a recovering addict's eyes - her thoughts are presented as captions in what I'm assuming is a handwriting font that really pulls the reader in to her point of view. I don't know if it would have been as successful, honestly, without that handwritten element:
Ed Brubaker is great at telling a crime story and he's currently doing Friday, which is a book I talked about back in this post. This particular arc was a sticky situation for everyone involved, especially Holly, and I'm looking forward to reading the rest of this run. I think there's on more issue with Brubaker writing it, though. I'll have to see what else he's done; I had never paid too much attention to or followed comic book writers until I started reading The Department of Truth. The art has to be good before I can focus on the storyline.
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