Monday, November 29, 2010

Entry 103: BATMAN-DIABOLIK

 

Here's a page from the ol' sketch book that I decided to through some quick colors on. I think it would be cool to do a crossover between Batman and the Italian comic character Diabolik and set it in the 60's. I've never read a Diabolik comic so my idea of him is completely based off the movie Danger Diabolik. He seems to me to be a lot like Batman, but he's a bad guy, and his sidekick is his hot girlfriend, Eva. I would want Batman to be a "cool version" of the Adam West Batman. Think the Adam West kind of look with a animated series kind of attitude.

Another DC comic, European comic crossover that will never happen, but that I think would be really cool: Superman-Metabaron

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13 comments:

  1. I love DANGER DIABOLIK so much! They both have their own batcaves, too.

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  2. Diabolik is more like the French supervillain Fantomas, who could be considered one of the proto-Batmen.
    If you want to see a Japanese Fantomas/Diabolik riff, watch the movie K-20. That one's a ton of fun.

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  3. Man, I really find cool adam west there super-appealing. I'd totally want to read a book about him.

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  4. Except Batman's cave doesn't have a rotating bed with a pillar of tv's in the middle. Dude, you might enjoy this. Here's a sight where you can download the Danger Diabolik soundtrack for free along with a lot of other great 60's 70's Italian soundtracks. http://sleazy-listening.blogspot.com/

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  5. Thanks for the info. I didn't know anything about Fantomas. I looked him up to see what I could learn. I found that there was at least one Fantomas-Sherlock Holmes crossover. This would be kind of like that I imagine.
    I'll have to check out K-20.

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  6. I actually have the soundtrack already! That link looks awesome though.

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  7. Oooh... Thanks for the link. I love movie scores.

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  8. I don't read X-Men books, but from what I gather the X-villain Fantomex that Grant Morrison created is also a Fantomas riff.
    I was introduced to Fantomas through the series of French action comedies from the 1960s/early 1970s. I had no idea he had originally been a French pulp character.
    BTW, I have some English Diabolik comics, published in the 1990s by Scorpion Press. I don't know if they're still available, but you could, if you want, keep an eye out for them at cons.

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  9. And yeah, of course the Danger Diabolik score rocks. It's Morricone.

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  10. cool
    Love the idea. Keep us up to date as to when it will be published.

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  11. Must remember I just got the Danger Diabolik movie on DVD - this looks particularly cool!

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  12. Just to say that i just loveeeeee this idea hahaha, I would read this!

    I'm a huge Diabolik fan and Batman definitely is my favorite comic heroe :).

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    1. I still haven't read any Diabolic comics. If I ever had an opportunity to create a book like this (not going to happen, by the way) I'd have to get my hands on those comics.
      Thanks for the comment.

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