: |> >Just reacting to your attack on Jim Aparo --  it wasn't always thus.
: |> >His 70's work on Batman in Detective is adequate, and in mid-70's
: |> >Brave and Bold work is rich and detailed, it a pity about his frozen
: |> >faces, but these represent to me one of the classic faces of Batman.
: |> >By no means the best, but classic.  You want to see terrible Batman,
: |> >I reckon Infantino is as bad as it gets, and you can spot it a mile off
: |> >like Aparo's.

: Well, I guess beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.  I love Infantino's
: work on Batman in the 60's.  It wasn't the Dark Knight we're used to now, but

I'll agree to disagree on this.  The sameness of Infantino's heads really distracts
me (so does Aparo's).

: My votes for lackluster Batman would be most of the current stable and Irv
: Novick who seemed far superior in his war comics.  I wish Gene Day had more
: time (for more reasons than this!) He brought such intelligence to his short
:
I could only find 1 Day comic listed in my Batman: Detective 527 (?).  I have to
agree that Novick is drab, but I like the O'Neil writing in that period more than
what came before or what followed .  I think Ernie Chua is much drabber than Novick
though, and the stories don't hold up as well.  

 tenure.  Do others agree that the Swamp Thing Issue Number 5 qualifies Wrightson
: as one of the great Batman artists.  Adams is the classic, I guess, and I think
: Aparo's best work seemed heavily Adams-influenced.

Yes, I like Swamp Thing 7 very much.  One of my favorite longer runs was the Colan
run that took place during Moench's complicated mid-80s thread.  After reading that,
I'd had such high hopes for Moench coming back to Batman, but there's none of
the plot density.  Ah well.  I could really do with a long stretch of Bruce (Batman)
doing some DETECTING while life goes on around him.  Think we'll get that?

Oh, the other totally forgetable Batman, IMO, is the stuff that occurred in World's
Finest, from about issue 200 on.  What I've read of it.  Lethal boring plots, too.

My apologies for not getting on too well with VI.