Rob Schamberger Makes Comix: Inspiration Sunday: Batman Movie Adaptation (1989)

May 21, 2006

Inspiration Sunday: Batman Movie Adaptation (1989)

I've been meaning to start up this feature for awhile now, after seeing the fantastic Inspiration Grab-Bag.

So, here is what was probably one of my most influential comics I read as a kid, being a 9 year old firmly swept up by Batmania II, the adaptation of the smash hit Batman movie, by Denny O'Neil, Jerry Ordway, and Steve Oliff. I just dug this out of my parents' basement a couple weeks back, and was pleasantly surprised to discover that it was illustrated by Da Ordster. For some reason, that never clicked in my brain before.

And god damn, but Ordway illustrated the hell out of this book, as the following pages show. This may be the best movie adaptation comic ever. The storytelling, the panel layouts, the draftsmanship, the inking, the coloring...yeah, looking at it now, this book totally set me on my way to being the comix creator I am today. Looking at the state of wear my copy's in, I can easily say I've gone through this book over a hundred times.

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Posted by Schamberger at May 21, 2006 10:23 AM