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CCI: Batman: No Rest for the Dark Knight Panel
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Location: Blogs Atomic Fallout |
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| Posted by: Jake Bell |
Friday, July 25, 2008 3:06 PM |
 DC's Batman panel Friday afternoon at Comic Con International in San Diego finds writers Grant Morrison, Brian Azzarello, and Paul Dini, along with artist Dustin Nguyen and editor Michael Marts, talking about all aspects of Batman's life.
"Has anybody seen this move, 'The Dark Knight?'" Marts asked to open. He then introduced members of the panel, which included a surprise appearance by classic "Batman" creator Jerry Robinson.
"Bruce is in trouble," Morrison said of the "Batman RIP" finale, which he has just completed.
"I was supposed to be visiting the set in Chicago" for the "Dark Knight," Robinson said, but instead he visited a comic convention in China. He eventually had a chance to see the London set of "Dark Knight." On the magic of movies, Robinson said that the scene in which the Joker throws Rachel out of a window was filmed in Chicago, but Batman's rescue was filmed in London. "So he threw her out a window in Chicago, and she landed in London."
Robinson said he is working on "a secret project" involving the Joker.
Azzarello mentioned his segment on the "Gotham Knight" DVD and upcoming "Joker" graphic novel.
"Detective Comics" #850 will be a double-sized issue and conclude the Hush storyline, Dini said. "Dustin, did you just learn you're doing a double sized issue," Marts asked. "Yeah, I did," Nguyen confessed.
Marts then opened the floor to fan questions.
Robinson said he enjoyed Heath Ledger's "very different" performance in the "Dark Knight," noting how the character has changed through the years. But "I thought that [the movie] could have been cut maybe ten or fifteen minutes." Robinson also marveled at Two-Face's CGI makeup, though joked he was "disappointed" that it didn't take hours of makeup.
"What's the most twisted bad guy we could put up against Batman," Morrison said of the inspiration for RIP. "Nobody's guessed it yet."
Morrison said that Rainbow Batman will not appear in his run, but joked that "he's kind of implicit."
Azzarello said that "Joker" is the "the most violent thing I've ever written," and that "it's just an ugly story."
"The Joker's great to write," Morrison said, "because he changes all the time." The writer noted that in early stories "he never smiles, and when he does it's really bad." He also compared the character to "the guy on the subway looking over your shoulder, reading your book. You just want him to go away."
"Joker's kind of this European, David Bowie, 1970s type of character, you can see him stripped to suspenders, and he thinks he's beautiful," Morrison continued. "But he's horrible!" The writer said that, on the opposite side, Batman was "a specimen of the American man."
Nguyen expressed support for the animated Joker's black lips in lieu of lipstick, an opinion which was unpopular with fans.
"We never even explained why he was there, or his color," Robinson said of Joker's origins. "I took his look, originally, from a playing card, then thought wouldn't it be interesting if we didn't color him, if we left him white. Make that part of the mystery."
"He a mask," Morrsion jumped in. "He doesn't have to be a human being." Dini added that "we know what makes Batman tick; we don't know what drives the Joker."
A fan asked about the one villain each creator "can not wait" to write or draw.
"It's the Joker for me, sorry to be so obvious," Morrison said. Dini agreed. "I'd write a Joker comic that had nothing to do with Batman," he said.
An episode of "Batman: Brave and the Bold" will see Batman squariing off against Bat-mite, Dini said,
On the current mystery Batman villain: "I can't believe it, nobody's guesed it--it's so up front, right there in every issue we tell you who we're dealing with. And it's a villain everybody knows." |
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