A Word From One of the Creators
From the desk of Eric Ratcliffe
If anyone is as surprised about Batman showing up here as I am, well awesome! That means that Chad has done his job successfully and managed to improve on a strip with a very weak punchline. So much changed from the original concept on this one.
First: I was having dinner with a certain blond batgirl, A Ms. Brown, who I flat out love as a character, but she’s another victim of the reboot. (For the record, that was literally one of the best books DC was publishing for 2 years.)
Second: This Barbara Gordon is very much still in a wheelchair and referencing something that happened during the “One Year Later” stuff. Her and Dick always made a great couple. And the proposal is still one of the funnest things that has happened to those characters the last few years. I don’t remember the specific issue numbers, but it’s definitely something to look up and read.
Third: Coloring wise, I suggested the classic stuff for Batman. Alyssa, of course, did 2 different amazing versions. (We just couldn’t have gone with the Batman of Zur-En-Arrh, just didn’t make sense as comic me would just laugh it off.)*
Speaking of, though, my original idea for Batman was to have him show up on the third anniversary strip and really have this start as an epic teaser/countdown to that happening (Doctor Who style), but I honestly like what Chad went with here instead. Not to mention Brant tweaked the second panel to have things flow just a bit better.
Speaking of NCD, though, it came up in my conversation with John Siuntres who I had on the Why I Love Comics podcast this week. It was towards the end of the interview and I had apologized for never getting him a review pdf of volume 1. Of course, he asked why and I explained that the team had been extremely busy and that Brant was awesome (actually said in the podcast, mind you) and that we were still working on getting volume 2 out. So if John’s reading this: hello, sir! Hope you’re enjoying the strip if you got the chance to read it at all!
Alright folks, I’m heading back to fight the reapers in Mass Effect 3.
Next week…if I remember right, we learn a shocking secret about Eric and find out about a book that he digs more than Deadpool?! Find out in 7!
*The alternate version of the Batman panel referenced above for your viewing pleasure. – Bestowing Brant
Oh, Eric, Karma is always gonna catch up to you. Another winner team, and loved that alternate panel. Cool.
Thanks, Ron. Good to see it seems to be taken pretty well. It was mostly a joke on my part. lol I understand it’s a different planet, but really? Pink, purple and orange? >.< I understand the whole Robin and showing confidence thing, but you'd think they'd at least pick something that fit a little better than that and still looked bat-like.
Awesome strip! I was totally digging on it. It made me laugh. I hope we see more stuff like this soon.