Half-Masked

About a week ago, my computer decided it didn’t want to project sound or music anymore. After attempting to fix it in every way short of buying a new sound-card, we decided to buy a new sound-card. Even that offered its own share of trouble. For now though, I am listening to The Dark Knight soundtrack, so all is well.

I never fully realized until this incident just how much I relied on music to get through the day. When I was physically unable to listen to it on the computer, I found myself getting irritable, even adopting a bleaker world-view than I had the week before. Is this what it’s like to quit smoking? Needless to say, it destroyed my willpower to get anything done, which is why I haven’t used the computation machine in a week.

I hope this new sound-card doesn’t turn out like my new tablet(s), where it gives me shit every time for wanting to use it for what it’s fucking supposed to do.

Right. Back to re-uploading comics and Dark Knighting it up.

Actually, speaking of, I caught Batman Begins and Spiderman 2 on tv the other day, in that order. Don’t get me wrong, Spiderman 2 is a good movie, make no mistake about that. But you don’t put it on right after fucking Batman Begins! It makes Spidey 2 look a lot worse than it actually is in comparison. You can’t start out with Batman, you have to build up to Batman.

It’s like if you saw a stand-up comedian for the first time, and the first joke he ever told was the best joke he will ever create. It doesn’t matter how good the rest of his material is.

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~A.H.

Another character I wouldn’t mind seeing in a new Nolan Batman movie.

I wouldn’t mind a black Harley Quinn, actually. For an example of what I was thinking, the latest Subnormality has a great character design that I think would fit a Nolan-esque version of her. Although the white-makeup could be seen as a reverse-Blackface, it would also be just the right amount of unsettling and desperate. This is, after all, a character who would do anything for The Joker, and that could be a way of always being “connected” to him.

For this design, I tried to encompass aspects from as many of the villains we’ve seen so far in the Nolan films. There’s a bit of Scarecrow, some Two-Face, and a lot of Joker in her design. There’s even a touch of Batman in there(in the cowl). She wouldn’t have a “Glasgow Smile” like the Joker does, but I still wanted her look to be that of someone who was inspired by him, so she just does a messy job with lipstick. As a “tribute” to him, of sorts.

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~A.H.