Friday Night Fights: Strike Three
June 29, 2007 | Posted by Chris Sims
All images from the classic Batman #232, reprinted awesomely in Batman Illustrated by Neal Adams v.3
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Batman must be talking pretty fast to fit that monologue in between his moves.
Weren’t you reading, Sean? Ubu is slow. Bats had all day to deliver his repartee. :)
Denny O’Neil was Chris Claremont before Chris Claremont was cool.
Sit, Ubu, sit! Good dog.
Oh, Pere Ubu, why did you have to mess with the bat?
Speaking is a free action; you can fit in a full paragraph or more each round!
Crap, Bully beat me to the joke. Damn you, lil’ stuffed bull!
I bet he sits around, between crimes and ponders things to say during fights. I mean, he has to do something and we all know that something isn’t “doing real work”.
I miss the days when every line of comic book dialogue ended in either an exclamation point or ellipses…
It was a simpler time!
I love how that last panel of Ubu going down reveals another set of feet. C’mon Ubu, didn’t you see the first guy? What’re you, new?
And that is why Batman is The Beloved.
That is one of the most beautiful sequences of panels I’ve ever seen.
You know, I like the dark-hued Batman, I think blacks and greys work well on the character and it’s an appropriate and logical choice… but Batman in the radiant blue cape and cowl is both awesome and bad-ass.
panel one: and by “prove” he means “rub.”
panel two: do you dare to challenge batman’s uncoventional sense of what the word “item” means? i don’t think so!
panel four: fun fact: soap bubbles are indeed fragile! who said comics aren’t educational?
Neal Adams. The man. Sure, he may be bugfuck insane when it comes to things like whether the Earth is hollow, but he still draws an ass-kicking like no one else.
What happens in the next panel? Does Batman rip off Ubu’s shirt and set it on fire? Cause someone needs to.
No, but three panels later, Batman’s making out with Talia.
It’s just how he rolls.
You know, some women think a soft, pillow-like gut is very sexy on a man.
That’s what they told me, anyway.