Originally Posted By: THE Bastard
What...? You don't like the ears?


kelley jones and scott beatty were a pretty damn good team. not anywhere near my favorite, or anything i'd call a "definitive" look, but i really quite liked their approach.

they were working the batman title around the time when DC finally used the good paper and computer coloring (i'm thinkin... batman 519?). the two of them would make some super high-contrasted splash scenes, where the colors (sorry bastie) and their digital might would run wild to separate from (sorry bastie) the blacks.

for example:

always a favorite of mine.

plus, his "back asplode!" image depicting the fateful bane vs batman moment is one of the more iconic comic images of the past, oh, 25 years



which, by comparison, makes jim aparo's in-book scene look like ... fucking clown shoes:


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