Here’s a clip from The Dark Knight Returns Part 2, out on the archaic physical media of your choice next Tuesday (it’s up on iTunes now, but i’m waiting for the Best Buy blu-ray, which should come with a Joker figure.) Features the iconic bit from the book where The Joker goes on David Letterman (or David Endochrine, for legal reasons), and does something interesting.
Not at all how i heard any of this when i first read it; Conan is particularly jarring. Michael Emerson’s voice is different, but interesting different. Can’t wait to hear him say, “Batman…darling.” (edit: apparently he already did that at the end of Part 1…haven’t watched yet, waiting to watch it all together), and it’s nice to have an animated Joker that doesn’t sound like an old woman, for a change. Also, mentally adding “…,Mr. Reese.” to the end of each of his line readings will probably be entertaining for the first couple views.
Totally unrelated: new cosplay set up later, and the book is done, expect something on that shortly. Also i’m crazy behind on emails, going to deal with those now.
7 Responses to “That sounded a lot different in my head…”
Don’t know what the best news is: New Cosplay set, or that the book is done! can’t wait to see the book. Glad you made it through it.
Never did care for The Dark Knight Returns, in fact, i downright hated it. Dont think the 2 films will change my mind either.
Miguel, your comment made my balls chap up and bleed.
You hated The Dark Knight Returns? Well, okay, that’s all well and good — everyone has their own opinion. I know when I was younger I hated reading the news segment panels in that book; fucking words were everywhere I CAN’T FOLLOW THIS SHIT. *throws book*
But if you enjoy Batman, you should go back and try reading it again. Battle through the distaste and anger. You’re missing out on the fun. We’re having fun dammit.
Eh, i have tried, as recently as this past summer when Rises was coming out. I absolutely despise Millers visuals.
Dark Knight Returns kind of opened me up to the wider possibilities of comic books. That, Watchmen, and Cerebus took me from somebody that collected Spider-Man and Spawn and whatever random Rob Liefeld comic was on the shelf to somebody that really gives a damn about the medium as a platform for telling stories. It hasn’t aged especially well, but it holds a very special place in my heart.
And I’m rather nonplussed that they’ve taken one of the most seminal miniseries in all of comics and turned it into… yet another mediocre direct-to-dvd thing. With very, very generic animation and badly miscast voices. It’s amazing that Timm and company did a much better job adapting DKR for the Gotham Knights series back on Kids!WB. Miller’s art is perfectly suited for animation, for pete’s sake.
I hate the horrible art job Frank Miller did for the Joker, I just utterly hate it. Joker should never be rendered as a muscular guy, he should be a scrawny, average guy imo and a different VA would have been better, someone who knows the character maybe.
Not to mention the horrible job he did with Batman by making him look practically fat and his overall horribly amateur panelling.
Miller, make sure you stick with writing.
Really wish they went with Tim Curry on The Joker for DKR. The man will be in ANYTHING if you pay him, how the hell has Tim Curry not once played The Joker (except for one episode before he was replaced and overdubbed with Mark Hamill on Batman TAS)? The hell, I say.