Comic fans: The Dark Knight Rises

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For me, it was Neal Adams, and his Batman look was similar.

Neal's Batman is awesome. Since Aparo was around before him, I think his style influenced Neal somewhat. I can see it in their renditions of Batman.

Neal's work on Green Lantern/Green Arrow was gnarly, too.

Paul Gulacy drew a few Batman's in the '80s, and his was as good as Neal's (in fact, I liked it better). Paul's a great artist, but in the last few years, his art isn't as realistic because he's drawing huge eyes on his women.

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LOL... I have the first Crisis as a single-bound graphic novel. I pretty much never get them when they first come out, span too many different series and cost a ton to follow.

Crisis On Infinite Earths came out in the '80s, before things got out of hand. The '70s and '80s are still my two favorite decades for comics, because of all the horror stuff and undergrounds that circulated. Reading CoIE play-by-play was crazy. It kicked the shit out of Marvel's Secret Wars, and the boys in the Marvel Bullpen knew it.

I know you want to read Ronin after I posted those samples.

Ridiculous... speaking of Neal Adams, I saw an interview where he commented on the industry doing that and how much it hurt comic sales.

Well, he's not wrong. The tendency to collect anything/everything into a single volume within 3-8 months after the regular issues come out seriously lowers the value AND initial sales of the comics. It also fosters an ADD mentality towards serialized stories because people know they can read everything in one shot, rather than enjoy the story's gradual unfolding. It's that, and product overkill. It's like Rush. I love Rush (one of my fave bands ever), but they used to follow a four-studio-album-plus-one-live-album scheme, and now they just put out a new live album and DVD after every funkin' tour. People said the R in R30 stood for Retirement.