‘Bat To The Future’ Appears on BuffaloComedy.com
January 5, 2015
2015 marks the end of DC’s year-long celebration of the 75th Anniversary of Batman.
Since we’re on to a new month and a new year, I’ve got a brand new essay up on BuffaloComedy.com. It’s on a topic I’ve covered before and most likely will cover again: Batman. I couldn’t resist the urge to comment on DC’s ‘Batman75’ celebration, so I punched up ‘Bat To The Future‘ a longer essay about the comics, the films, the cartoons and the games with next to no accuracy where chronology is concerned and proudly so. You can check it out right here, gang:
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When I punched up the first draft I considered putting in the research and including citations along with writing the piece in chronological order. That notion went out the window pretty quickly. Much like ‘Reg Soldiers On’ (my essay from the 2009 book Slapstick & Superego) I opted for a free-association format instead. This may invite immediate attacks from the sort of comic fanboys who quote chapter, verse and issue number, but so be it. I thought the piece might be more approachable to the casual reader by not taking that route.
I’m pretty proud of the four essays that have run so far with BuffaloComedy.com and hope that the next eight will follow suit. Editor Kristy Rock and I have settled into a comfortable routine of submitting two pieces so that she can select one. That way half of the new material can go live in a timely manner and the other half can be saved for the manuscript of the upcoming book Travesty.
There’s another great announcement to make, but I’ll save that for tomorrow. Best not to give everything away all at once…
See you in the funny papers,
Tom
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