Because: "Western author Peter Brandvold will be teaming up with co-writer
Sergio Aragonés and illustrator
John Severin for a new Bat Lash series for DC Comics." From
Journalista; click
here for more info.
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 2 February 2007 15:26 (eighteen years ago)
!!
So weird to think of Sergio co-writing with someone other than Mark Evanier.
― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 2 February 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)
Wow, John Severin be old school.
― chap (chap), Friday, 2 February 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)
Isn't Bat Lash sort of, um, fancy?
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)
Less fancy than spats, fancier than spurs. I don't think I knew before that Aragones co-created him:
Joe Orlando and Carmine Infantino came up with the name and basic premise of the loner whose family had been wiped out by murderous thugs, and then brought in Sheldon Mayer (former DC editor and creator of Sugar and Spike) and Sergio Aragonés to further flesh out the concept. Shelly Mayer would write the first appearance (Showcase #76). Infantino claimed to have greatly rewritten it. The assignment was then handed to Aragonés, with Denny O'Neil doing the dialog over Aragonés' plots, and Nick Cardy providing the art.
“ They called me and said 'Sergio, we need a western, we need a cowboy, called Bat Lash. Think about it'. So I did, I thought the character. The way I work, things pop in my head pretty fast, so as I was sitting with them in the restaurant, I was describing how the character was. So Bat Lash was born right there, in the restaurant...one of the things they wanted, they wanted to be 'different' a different western, but they didn't know how, so I came up with a guy that had good taste for food, and music, and loved flowers and nature. And was a crack shot.
But he was no clown. The idea when I wrote it was that he was man with a sense of humor, but he was not a clown. He would do things that will (make) other people become the butt of humor, but not him. The humor should be the result of (Bat Lash's') action.
Sergio Aragonés ”
― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:12 (eighteen years ago)
Sorry, that formatted funny.
― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:12 (eighteen years ago)
Sergio has never drawn Batlash before, so I think it's unlikely he will now (he wrote lots of straightish mystery stories for Orlando, in addition to the outright funny strips he also illustrated - he's got something like twenty years of comics work prior to ever hooking up w/ Evanier). More to the point, Batlash is/was 'light-hearted' (ie Maverick) rather than an out-and-out gagfest, so I don't think Aragones covers wld be totally appropriate
also, john severin is one of the greatest cross-hatch renderers ever to draw comics, fuck 'old fashioned' or whatnot
― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 23:46 (eighteen years ago)
The Cardy covers included in the article are AWESOME.
Ladronn doing Moebius (or, um, Moebius doing Moebius) = my cover choice!
― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 00:54 (eighteen years ago)