Comics have that snake-eating-its-tail sorta incestuous relationship with nostalgia. Count off the number of homages to the Batman: A Death in the Family Pietà image. The swinging Spider-Man composition from Amazing Fantasy #15. Or Bullseye stabbing Elektra. Run out of fingers yet? As fun as those homages can be on occasion, one element they sometimes lack is a totally divergent sense of style. It's often the same in-house look with a juxtaposed character or situation. Here's where sites like Repaneled come in. Classic images as interpreted by artists, with an alt flourish.
Here's Brendan Sullivan Tobin's reinterpretation of Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns in the style of…not Frank Miller.
I wonder if he'd be on a carousel for the famous horse-riding image..
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I absolutely love everything about this Repaneled page. It looks great. If someone could make an entire modern comic, complete with the the occasional splash page in the middle of the issue, with Dick Sprang’s art style, I may just be in heaven.
Can we also just talk about how great a name Dick Sprang truly is. It is up there with Nascar’s Dick Trickle.
That’s….that is awesome.
There’s also Covered which redoes classic comic covers!
http://coveredblog.blogspot.com/
And Cornered which re-designs comic cover corners…!
http://corneredblog.blogspot.com/
Both of them have some really neat stuff.
(Also this is really funny and I miss that old Robin mask.)
When I was a kid, before I’d ever read DKR, I went to a comics exhibit at the Portland Museum of Art (in Maine), and they had that page on display with one other (the one with Batman rolling over the rood of the police car). Anyway, I’ve always loved it.
@josh That and the swinging over the city with Robin from DKR are the two most iconic for me.
Superman gettin Gil Kane punch’d is pretty damn good too.
Looks like Rob Granito is at it again!
-What? Too soon?
I feel like batman’s about to throw a hostess fruit pie at me.
I was in fourth grade and my buddy had a recolored version of this poster on his wall. I redrew it. Probably one of the first images outside of the TV show I watched that showed the badassery of Batman and got me to look at him more as a menacing vigilante than a cartoonish deputy.