APARO!
And now, from an eleven-page story in Detective Comics #444, the ISB proudly presents...
Jim Aparo, ladies and gentlemen.
posted by Chris Sims at 11/17/2006 11:50:00 PM
Friday, November 17, 2006
Jim Aparo, ladies and gentlemen.
I'm unleashing every horrible thing your mind can imagine! CAN YOU TAKE IT?!
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15 Comments:
Maybe he just doesn't know how to draw people's faces gettind kicked/punched/hurt so he just figured "Well let's make 'em explode".
Only in the silver age...
11/18/2006 1:30 AM
You know those Clint Eastwood orangutan movies? Where he was this semi-pro fighter/trucker and people would fly in from all over the country to watch him brawl? I think every reader of the ISB should ask themselves how far they would go to see a 60's/70's Batman in a bare-chested,bare-knuckle, no-weapons steel cage match against Conan the Barbarian.
11/18/2006 1:46 AM
I had to double check that third picture as I couldnt tell what the hell was going on, it was just a maelstrom of awesome
word verification zmakxl...also awesome
11/18/2006 3:37 AM
Aparo's Batman is one of the scariest.
11/18/2006 5:21 AM
Jim Aparo does not get enough credit as a Batman artist. I've always liked his Batman better than Neal Adams.
11/18/2006 8:33 AM
Hey, Superboy-Prime has the "retcon punch", why can't Batman have the "spontaneous combustion punch"?
11/18/2006 10:06 AM
sometimes my faith wavers and I think, how can chris sims possibly blow my mind any more? but then I see three panels of batman rocking people in the face so hard their heads explode, and lord, I believe.
11/18/2006 10:28 AM
Ahhhhh...violence. Lovely lovely violence.
11/18/2006 10:38 AM
I didn't realize Aparo died last year until I looked him up on Wikipedia. His stuff on Brave & Bold was the best. I've always wanted to read his "Wander" stories with Denny O'Neil for Charlton in the '60s. Those are supposed to be pretty great.
11/18/2006 12:44 PM
"I didn't realize Aparo died last year until I looked him up on Wikipedia. His stuff on Brave & Bold was the best."
Wait, he's DEAD?! I thought he was still doing stuff :S
Oh well. Anyone who uses "PWAN!" as a sound effect is truly awesome. I'd even argue the vaguely tenuous case that its an early prototype of PWNED.
Such forward thinking.
11/18/2006 4:22 PM
I suspect that one of the reasons Aparo's Batman art is often overlooked relates to his work in the late '80s. Stuff like A Death In The Family and his contributions to Knightfall, while a long, long way from his best work (his style seemed to become rather more unappealingly crude and cartoonish in that era, to me at least), are probably the most widely-read instances of his Bat-art. His Brave & The Bold art is immeasurably superior to that (some of the best Batman ever, as everyone here seems to agree), but is probably far less familiar to modern readers.
11/18/2006 5:16 PM
"Wait, he's DEAD?! I thought he was still doing stuff"
I know, man! He was always good, even when he was being inked by Mike DeCarlo (yeccchh).
11/19/2006 2:22 AM
Batman is the best comic in the history, I love all the characters in the storie such as Robin and The Huntress also I like the bad boy Catwoman, the Penguin,and Poison Ivy!22DD
2/16/2011 12:02 PM
One of the best comics in the history, since Dark knight , batman is my favorite comic!Great post, bookmarked, will be back later.
9/28/2011 5:02 PM
This will not succeed in fact, that's what I suppose.
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