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It's been years since I've closely followed superhero comics—I haven't even been able to get around to looking at the trade paperbacks collecting Grant Morrison's highly-lauded and conceptually-interesting work on New X-Men and Justice League. That said, I'm looking forward to Paul Pope's upcoming Batman: Year 100, if only because Pope does one of the best versions of Robin I've ever seen— Actually, it's more than that: as much as I like Pope's art, I'm especially interested in his whole kooky theoretical take on how comics work as an iconographic language (developed spottily through the years in strange little essays which have popped up here and there). I'm not sure I grasp the exact particulars of the theory, but I'm certain that Pope is nothing if not alert to the storied weight that superheroes carry as visual icons: this knowledge all but guarantees that he'll do something interesting now that he has one of the most famous icons from all of comics (arguably one of the most famous visual icons of the entire 20th century) to play with. Labels: comics
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
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