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Category Archives: WRITERS OF BATMAN COMICS
Ty Templeton’s playful Batman
Last month/year, I addressed how Ty Templeton wrote what I consider to be a quintessential take on Batman comics. Today, I want to focus on a specific aspect of Templeton’s scripts, namely their sense of humor. Harley Quinn and Batman … Continue reading
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Tagged Howard the Duck, Marie Severin, Plastic Man, Rick Burchett, Ty Templeton
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Ty Templeton’s quintessential Batman
Along with Alan Grant and Denny O’Neil, Ty Templeton is one of the core writers who has defined my platonic ideal of Batman comics. In fact, his work on the Batman Adventures line in the 1990s / early 2000s is … Continue reading
Ed Brubaker’s mature Batman
Ed Brubaker is one of the most critically acclaimed comic book writers of the 21st century. Heavily influenced by crime fiction and by the superhero revisionist turn of the 1980s, he has continually sought to imbue American comics with a … Continue reading
Alan Grant (1949-2022)
Of the many amazing comic-book creators that have died in the past few months, Alan Grant deserves a special mention in this blog. As I’ve written before, his energetic, darkly comedic surrealism is as close as it gets to my … Continue reading
Dennis O’Neil (1939-2020)
One of the greatest figures in comics since the late 1960s, Dennis J. O’Neil (affectionately known as Denny), passed away two days ago. Although he dabbled in all sorts of genres, his specialty as a writer were brazenly pulpy, two-fisted … Continue reading
Chuck Dixon’s mordant Batman
Last week I mentioned that Chuck Dixon is an old-school pro whose work in Batman comics (especially during his most prolific period, in the 1990s), rather than blow up the status quo, was all about gripping narratives that stayed true … Continue reading
Chuck Dixon’s grounded Batman
Chuck Dixon has written hundreds of Batman comics. On top of his lengthy run in Detective Comics (1992-1999), he penned his fair share of Catwoman and Legends of the Dark Knight issues, having also pioneered the ongoing series Robin and … Continue reading
John Ostrander’s expanded Batman
John Ostrander has written more cool comics than most of his peers. Some of them feature Batman and other Gotham citizens, although those projects don’t always play to his strengths, since they tend to be short fill-ins or mini-series. Ostrander … Continue reading
Alan Grant’s in-yer-face Batman
I suppose it is possible to do subtlety in Batman comics. To do it well, even: from Greg Rucka’s nuanced characterization to Grant Morrison’s elliptic narratives; from Dan Slott’s skill at disguising plot points to Ed Brubaker’s occasional flirts with … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Grant, John Wagner, Norm Breyfogle, politics
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Len Wein (1948-2017)
In the same year, we lost Bernie Wrightson and Len Wein, the two creators of Swamp Thing. May you rest in peace and do not come back as a tragic vegetable creature or a patchwork Frankensteinian monster reanimated by Anton Arcane. … Continue reading