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Norm Breyfogle - Detective 606 - Batman, Robin / Clayface IV

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Title:	Norm Breyfogle - Detective 606 - Batman, Robin / Clayface IV
Artist:	None Specified
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	744
Likes on CAF:	0 1
Comments:	2
Added to Site:	8/21/2012
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From the terrific "Mud Pack" arc by Alan Grant, which reunited all the beings who had used the name "Clayface", here Clayface IV discovers that morphing into the Jason Todd Robin to try and take Batman by surprise wasn't her best idea ever, since she wasn't to know he'd been dead for some months (Oh if she knew then what we know now).

Norm Breyfogle gives this scene incredible energy, you can FEEL the impact that Batman feels (Even pixie boots pack a wallop) and the motion of "Robin's" spin kicks seems almost animated.

Great, concise dialogue too, as Batman overcomes his initial shock and horror to realise the truth in four panels and take appropriate action by the fifth. That's Batman for you, and yet, though it's hard to see when the image is this size, there's a look of anguish and sadness in Batman's eyes in the last panel, as he realises he referred to Robin in the wrong tense, and corrects himself. Breyfogle was a master at making the simplest eye shapes create meaningful expressions via a sort of facial shorthand.

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Gal Schwartz
Member Since 2005

Posted on 8/21/2012

All kinds of awesome, even with the Elf boots !

Icon UK
Member Since 2005

Posted on 8/21/2012

I think you mean BECAUSE of the elf shoes? :) (One reason I was never able to take Jason Todd's Red Hood as any sort of badass is that whenever I saw him I thought "You may think you look tough now, but YOU WORE THE ELF SHOES!" ;) )

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