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Title:	TRDL - Iron Man vs Dark Knight
Artist:	thom chiaramonte (All)
Media Type:	Mixed Media
Art Type:	Pin Up
For Sale Status:	NFS
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Added to Site:	5/1/2011
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TRDL 2011 Series, No. 35 - Iron Man vs. Batman [DKR]

Two foes meet spontaneously for the first time. Tony Stark recognizes the killing instinct in his desperate. battle-scarred adversary. Taking no chances, he binds the brute in his own awkward cape and launches him into orbit. The man in the bat costume tries to say something in the first few seconds of acceleration, but the comment is inaudible as veins in his face explode. "Now, what was I thinking about? Ah. Dinner reservations."

This piece was done for an epic Art Battle at Outcast Studios, a Battle Royale competition featuring 32 artists. Round 01, 16 pairings, with the winners moving on to the next round, and so on. The battles are judged on both concept and execution. My character for the series: Iron Man [Current Resilient Armor]. My Round 01 foe: Batman [Dark Knight Returns version]

Lots of ways of going about this battle. Does Stark know Wayne's coing for him, or vice versa? Have either gathered intelligence on each other? was it an ambush or chance encounter? Both men are brilliant, with Bruce Wayne being more cunning, and Tony Stark being smarter. Tony plans chess moves upon chess moves. Wayne does his homework. Also, how realistic do we take this? Like my old supers RPG campaigns, is it slugfests or does each of them wait outside the other's penthouses with a sniper rifle? For the purposes of this exercise, I chose to make it a spontaneous, no-holds-barred confrontation. I decided that if Stark is as smart as I believe he is, he'd know not to underestimate Batman. Better to take him out as fast as possible. I thought about him punching hole in Batman's chest, or repulsoring his face off, but there was something satisfying about the humiliation of tying him up and then CARRYING him into space. Of course, we can debate how these confrontations would go for days... if Batman was my character, of course he'd lure Stark into a false sense of security and then figure out some way to trick him into curling back the armor at the helm and then kill him with a nose punch. But anyway.

UPDATE: The battle is going on now, here:
http://outcaststudios.com/forums/index.php/topic/10460-danny2069-vs-thirdraildesignlabs-round-one/
If you are an Outcast member, go vote! (This means you, Tulio!)

You can read process notes here:reahttp://www.thirdraildesignlab.com/blog/2011/04/29/trdl-2011-series-no-35-iron-man-vs-batman/

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