Longbox Heroes Ep. 41: Especially Kelvin
It’s a heavy one. And that’s not a Doc Emmett Brown reference, neither. Todd starts things off discussing the works of Terry Pratchett, who passed away last week. You want talk of Erik Larsen’s opinions on costumes? You got it! You want us to weigh in on THAT Batgirl Joker variant cover? We got one of those too! You want part of a really cool contest? You’ll have to follow the rules for that! You want to know what happened on this week’s AMC’s the Walking Dead? You’ll have to wait until the end. You want to go get me one of these? I’d greatly appreciate it:
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I’m kind of with Todd on this one.
I would have liked to have had the option to buy that book.
I don’t think anyone is arguing or should be that the creative team shouldn’t have control of what appears on the main cover of their book and if that cover was the cover of the main book and put there without their approval we wouldn’t be having this discussion.
But this variant cover like all these themed variant covers have been are chosen by editorial outside of the regular book’s creative control and the cover fits the theme and it makes perfect sense that if you hire an artist known for horror to make a cover and the characters in question have a horrific story that is their well known whether you like it or not and this is Joker’s 75th anniversary…
I think the variant should have stayed to cater to the market of people who have read Killing Joke that way both groups would have something to buy not just the new people coming on board.
At the end of the day though you have to respect the wishes of the artist even though I don’t think he would have asked for it’s removal if people who didn’t know who he was weren’t dragging his name through the mud.
I’m more upset that people online can’t disagree on things in a more calm rational way instead of treating everything as if it’s black and white.
We really need to evolve the way we deal with these things.