It’s Batman
Shaenon: Batman: The Definitive History of the Dark Knight, by my husband Andrew Farago, is out this week from Insight Editions! Chris Baldwin, my collaborator on our upcoming graphic novel Willowweep Manor, drew this for Andrew while he was entrenched in grueling Batman research. Anyway, check out the book!
Channing: New Batman headcanon accepted, Chris.
“I’m Gumby, damnit!” —Eddie Murphy.
So can anyone tell me where I can find Smithson? Shannon doessn’t have a link to it anymore and all of the historical references that she made on her Narbonic commentary lead to automobile ads.
Smithson is, sadly, no longer online, and doesn’t exist in a complete form anywhere.
That is something that should go on your List, I think: to correct those two unfortunate conditions. Those were some good stories.
I apologize for the lateness of my reply. I didn’t realize I had this link.
http://web.archive.org/web/20100105013905/http://webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/smithson/toc.php
The “First”, “Previous” and so on links don’t work. Navigate using the drop-down menu below those links.
The irony: the other pane is missing…
Around ’75 my school library had one book that *stayed* checked out- a red HB history of Superman, title and author unknown. All I recall is they reprinted the BW line work for Superman comics through the years. It had one whole comic at least- Superman and Orson Welles on Mars, dealing with Martian Nazis. Welles tried to warn Earth by radio, but he was the only person alive no one would believe, for obvious reasons…
I hope your book is twice as popular as that one, whatever it was!
Andrew loves those collections and keeps talking about trying to convince DC to let him edit an updated version.
I think I just figured out where your son’s name came from…
“grueling Batman research”… Now there’s a phrase I never imagined that I would hear. I was in first grade when Adam West was Batman and I didn’t know if he and Robin would survive the weekly death-trap. (These were the original runs.) I thought I understood Batman, Then I read the original Batman story in the Smithsonian book, and thought I understood Batman. Then Frank Miller and Alan Moore wrote stories, and I finally knew that I didn’t understand Batman at all. You and Andrew are living charmed lives.
Batman is all things to all people.
And his edits are the best. Because he’s Batman.
I’ve looked at bats from both sides now….
It was a dark and lonely knight…
People might be reluctant to open the door for Batman because of rumors about inviting in people who can turn into bats.