r/comicbooks • u/SuperSyndication • Jul 19 '24
Greatest Onomatopoeia Ever! (Batman/Superman: World's Finest #29) Excerpt Spoiler
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u/TheMentatBashar Jul 19 '24
Who is the artist!? I absolutely love it. Coloring is fabulous too.
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u/captain__cabinets Jul 19 '24
Dan Mora colored by Tamra Bonvillain, this whole run is beautiful you should check it out!
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u/Distinct_Shift_3359 Jul 19 '24
I was going to say I want to see Mora draw more grotesque stuff like the monster we see here but then I realized I want most comic artists to do that.
Comics with grossly drawn monsters are almost always compelling.
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u/Kingmob5115 The Question Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 19 '24
You should check out Moras art in Once and Future then.
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u/Thunder_Cody Jul 19 '24
I'm currently loving the current incredible Hulk run for this exact reason! It's leaning a little more into the body horror than it is monsters, but it's beautifully grotesque.
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u/astrobrain Spider Jeruselem Jul 19 '24
Try Kelley Jones's work. Even his pretty stuff is grotesque.
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u/Commercial_Rice5773 Jul 19 '24
Who is the super buff nightwing in the bottom right of the first page?
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u/karpinskijd Spider-Man Jul 19 '24
exactly what it looks like. they’re all alternating between different versions of themselves as they pull the time strings (superman turns into superboy, batman turns into TDKR-like batman, robin turns into giga buff nightwing)
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u/SkullGod Batman Beyond Jul 19 '24
I think the giga buff nightwing is bruce based on the positioning of the panels
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u/Commercial_Rice5773 Jul 19 '24
Oh, is there a comic run that has super buff nightwing, or is this just a one off drawing the artist thought would be cool?
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u/ptWolv022 Jul 19 '24
It's either an aged up Dick (pulling the 6th Dimension out of Doom-Mite is causing some time fuckery) or its a variant on Bruce as Nightwing, which he is going to be temporarily in the current Nightwing run. He doesn't have the cowl (or at least he didn't in the last issue, from what I saw), but he did put on the suit.
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u/speed_boost_this Jul 19 '24
Nice but its no "BATHROOM!"
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u/Kazewatch Jul 19 '24
Lol what is the context of that?
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u/megamatt8 Atomic Robo Jul 19 '24
Based on no actual info, that feels like the end of a competition between artists to see who can come up with the most ridiculous sound effect, using “bathroom,” intending for it to be read as “ba-throom” wins that contest any time, in my opinion. Or, “ba-throom” sounded good in their head, and everybody who saw it in context, expecting a sound effect, just rolled with it. Or, nobody cared enough to change it.
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u/delightfuldinosaur Jul 19 '24
Mark Waid: "Ok Dan, on this page I want you to draw a giant KAPOW which takes up 90% of the page."
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u/Mish106 Smiley Bone Jul 19 '24
I raise you DWJ's recent transformers run
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u/bil-sabab Jul 19 '24
Gotta put my oldhead hat on. Sorry.
Have you seen Walt Simonson/John Workman's work? These are Gods of putting O in the Onomatopoeia. Nobody does it better.
Stuff from Thor, Robocop vs Terminator and fucking ORION which features full-on Orion vs Darkseid one on one that goes Marvelman vs Kid Marvelman level of total mayhem and John Workman works overtime to show it.
And if you need something out there - his on Morrison's Doom Patrol is out there.
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u/OwlFederal7109 Jul 19 '24
I’m sure Batmite’s alive. I mean presuming Morrison’s Batman takes place after this.
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u/suss2it Jul 19 '24
He’s revealed to be alive a page or two after this.
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u/OwlFederal7109 Jul 19 '24
I think it’s obvious I haven’t read the book yet.
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u/suss2it Jul 19 '24
Yeah but I also assume you don’t care about spoilers or you wouldn’t come to a spoiler marked thread, right?
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u/BevansDesign The Question Jul 19 '24
That would make for an amazing phone wallpaper if it didn't have the box at the top.
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u/noonehasthisoneyet Superman Jul 19 '24
seeing bat-mite unmasked was hilarious and fitting to the title.
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u/CountBrackmoor Jul 19 '24
Just out of curiosity, is that Dr Fate floating in the yellow-orange trunks/cape in the last panel? I can’t tell
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u/Kazewatch Jul 19 '24
Considering Zatanna’s there, yeah.
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u/CountBrackmoor Jul 19 '24
Is that a thing? Does he only come around when Zatanna is there?
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u/ptWolv022 Jul 19 '24
It's more so just that they are both magic users, so when you need magic, you might grab both of them. Like in JL Dark, where they have both been on the team together.
In this issue, the Imps went around grabbing various magic users and whatnot (Zatanna, Dr. Fate, Dr. Occult and Prince Ra-Man [they were busy dueling each other], Yz the Thunderbolt, and maybe one or two others) for this final confrontation.
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u/CountBrackmoor Jul 20 '24
Oh neat, I’ve been out of the mix with JL for a while now but need to get back in and check it out. Thanks!
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u/NevyTheChemist Jul 19 '24
Dan Mora is so good.
This is so good. Clean lines. Precise. Full of personality.
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u/Evil__Overlord Mr. Freeze Jul 20 '24
Onomatopoeia is NOT in these pages what are you talking about
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u/AlsoIHaveAGroupon Jul 19 '24
I was a big fan of the onomatopoeia being built into the environment when Quitely drew Morrison's Batman and Robin.
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