Jim Lee does 6 Page Batcave Fold Out

Primal · Feb 24, 2006

"ALL STAR BATMAN" #4 GETS SIX-PAGE JIM LEE FOLD OUT
by Jonah Weiland, Executive Producer
Posted: February 24, 2006

Official Press Release

ALL STAR BATMAN AND ROBIN, THE BOY WONDER #4, the next issue of the blockbuster series written by Frank Miller and illustrated by Jim Lee & Scott Williams, will feature an incredible 6-page foldout of the Batcave. This amazing illustration will give readers a view of Batman's underground lair in unprecedented detail.

"As always, the madness started with Frank Miller's script," says Lee. "Always looking for new and exciting ways to frame sequences, Frank called for a 6-page spread of the Batcave. The trick for me was to top the previous shot of the Batcave I had done in Hush. Simply working on six pages made it a challenge because of the dimensions; when a spread is so much wider than it is tall, the art runs the risk of looking like a mundane police lineup of objects in the Batcave. Flat. Small. Lifeless."

Lee continues, "Luckily, there's always a way of weaving method into the madness. To create depth, I spotted blacks and shadows on the immediate foreground elements to better pop them off the background. Multiple vanishing points helped create the sense of unending vastness that Frank envisioned for the new Batcave while canting the whole windscreen image with a slight upshot. A fisheye-lens angle helped complete the illusion of size and scope. In many ways, you have to compose the piece more as an abstract piece of art to keep it dynamic and interesting as your eye moves left to right, pulling in and out, taking in the individual parts and the whole all at once. And of course, we all prayed that the computer would be robust enough to handle the metafile for coloring this piece."

ALL STAR BATMAN AND ROBIN, THE BOY WONDER #4 (NOV050225) is available for advance reorder and is scheduled to arrive in stores on March 22. Also scheduled to arrive in stores on that date is the ALL STAR BATMAN AND ROBIN, THE BOY WONDER #4 VARIANT EDITION (NOV050226) featuring a cover by Frank Miller.
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LigerPrime · Feb 24, 2006

6 pages, huh? Guess I got to check this out. I'm not exactly a fan of Jim Lee but I got to admit his drawings of the Batman has been impressive.

Primevil · Feb 25, 2006

Neat. I'll be sure to take a look at it in person when it comes out (like when my roommate buys it).

Now for the obligatory joke...

Robin: "Where are we?"
Batman: "What, are you dense? Are you ******ed or something? Where the hell do you think we are? In the goddamn Batcave!"

Switchblade · Feb 25, 2006

I love the collection of Batmobiles and other vehicles from various points in Batman's career, including the tank from Dark Knight Returns.

thefrozenred · Feb 25, 2006

I don't care if it's a hundred page foldout. After the past 3 issues, it's going to take a lot more than pretty art to convince me that I'm not wasting my money on this series.

(It WILL take Frank Miller getting smacked in the back of the head and ordered to stop writing Batman in Sin City. That'll get me interested again. Too bad I highly doubt that'll happen.)

Primal · Feb 25, 2006

How long is Millers run going to be? 12 issues?

Razerwire · Feb 25, 2006

Where's the giant Penny??? And can someone explain the T-Rex???

Dark Magnus · Feb 25, 2006

Razerwire said:

Where's the giant Penny??? And can someone explain the T-Rex???
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Yeah, first thing I noticed was the lack of penny. Then the armors in the tubes. Then I though "Why the hell is he building a t rex?"

Razerwire · Feb 25, 2006

Did a little research on the T-Rex thing and found this by some poster on a Batman board...

Because in the period 1954-1963, Batman could hardly get up in the morning without encountering either:
1) Time Travel
2) Aliens
3) Time Travelling Aliens
4) Dinosaurs
5) Time Travelling Dinosaurs
6) Time Travelling Alien Dinosaurs

The T-Rex is from a story where Batman and Robin go back in time to dinosaur times JUST BECAUSE THEY CAN.

One of my favorite stories of that period, the 'Batman of the Future' has to come back to the past to substitute for Batman after he gets too injured to crime-fight. But BOF is so dependent on high-tech, he keeps screwing up pretending to be Present Day Batman and Robin has to frenziedly try to keep Vicki Vale from figuring out that there's a Bat-Imposter in town. But Vicki's too smart for Robin, so it's only when regular Batman gets back in action that they finally manage to fool her.
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And from Wikipedia:

Three memorabilia items often seen in the cave are a defunct full-size mechanical Tyrannosaurus Rex, and an equally large U.S. penny and a Joker playing card. The origins of these trophies are explained in Batman #256: the T-Rex comes from an adventure on "Dinosaur Island;" the penny is a trophy from Batman's encounter with a penny-obsessed villain named The Penny Plunderer (in World's Finest Comics #30, 1947). Other "keepsakes" in the cave include Two-face's original coin, Deathstroke's sword, the shroud of the Vampiric Monk, and over-sized ten-pins.

In Batman: The Animated Series, the coin was used by Two-Face in an attempt to either crush Batman or kill him from the impact, whichever side the giant coin landed on. Batman managed to free himself from the coin by slicing open the ropes with Two-Face's deciding coins. While telling the story of this to other Batman villians, Two-Face commented that Batman got to keep the giant coin.

There is also a glass case display of Jason Todd's Robin costume as a memorial to him, with the epitaph "A Good Soldier".
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Gears · Feb 25, 2006

That's a nice piece of art.

.SentinelPrime Is Dead. · Feb 25, 2006

Thats awesome. I cant wait for the trade of this book.

OmegaScourge · Feb 25, 2006

JIME LEE is the man...

Switchblade · Feb 25, 2006

Primal said:

How long is Millers run going to be? 12 issues?
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He's said that he'll be on this book for as long as he can be. So at this point it's pretty much a regular, bi-monthly ongoing title.

And if this is in the same continuity as All-Star Superman (which it probably isn't), then the giant penny is in the Fortress of Solitude, not the Batcave (see ASS - wow that is an unfortunate acronym - #2).

RabidYak · Feb 25, 2006

OmegaScourge said:

JIME LEE is the man...
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No idea who Jime Lee is, but I would imagine that his art is probably allot more original then Jim Lee's is thesedays.

Shipley · Feb 25, 2006

JIME LEE is the brother or BILLE LEE from DOUBLE DRAGONE.

The Spider · Feb 25, 2006

Switchblade said:

He's said that he'll be on this book for as long as he can be. So at this point it's pretty much a regular, bi-monthly ongoing title.

And if this is in the same continuity as All-Star Superman (which it probably isn't), then the giant penny is in the Fortress of Solitude, not the Batcave (see ASS - wow that is an unfortunate acronym - #2).
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The penny IS in the scene--it's all the way on the right, hidden in the background (behind the beam).

Also, the penny in All-Star Superman was a Joker version. Batman usually had just an enlarged version of the Lincoln penny.

JunkionExchange · Feb 25, 2006

ive been reading this book lately I loved it when he slaps the bejezus out of Robin to shut him up

Lord Of Tetris · Feb 25, 2006

I can see that the story of ASB is really picking up the pace...

DevilzFan · Feb 25, 2006

Hey look at that. They actually get out of the Batmobile!

flux convoy · Feb 27, 2006

people are still reading, much less buying this book? wow. just wow.

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