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Batman and all them belong to DC/Warner, etc.

Some more Bat-goodness here now.

First up, up top you see a close-up of my take on one Waylon Jones, AKA Killer Croc. Even though I did like the TNBA redesign better than the B:TAS look, here I kept the feeling of staying away from making him look specifically "reptilian" and just making him scaly-looking; i.e. having a skin condition that makes him look like a walking callous. I threw in an earring, too, for some reason - maybe because the way I drew him before flaking his skin up he reminded me of some surly bald sea dog. You'll notice his teeth are sharpened - this I figure he would have done himself (or rather had someone do for him) and with his nails, too, in a bid to make himself seem as sub-human as possible. I kinda picture him positing himself as a sort of "anti-Batman" - propagating a sort of urban-mythic quality about him to instill fear in others, which in this case would come from him taking advantage of a deformity he already has.

On the bottom left, we have one Oswald Cobblepot. Again, for this take on ' Pengy' I took inspiration from Edward G. Robinson's performance in "Little Caesar". I've always been of the mentality that Danny DeVito would have been utterly perfect as the Penguin if Tim Burton hadn't gothed him up to the point of irredeemable weirdness (y'know, making him a mutant raised by penguins). I mean, I liked Burton's Batman films, but I'm also glad those days are over.

On the bottom right, now, we have the late John Grayson and his avenging teenage son. For this, I took a cue from both "Superman: The Movie" and, believe it or not, "Batman Forever", and latched on to the idea of the boy's crime-fightin' duds being derived from his family's fashion sense. However, in this case, since I already installed Babs as Robin and skipped him directly over to the Nightwing identity, I added a more recent touch of nostalgia by deriving the Flying Graysons' newer costumes (replacing the red-and-green ones, as worn by a young Bruce during his overseas 'training' in acrobatics with the Graysons) from the original Nightwing outfit of the '80s (minus that goofy-ass flared collar), from which Dick would generate a darker version, of course. The way I see it, bein' as bent on avenging his parents' deaths as he would be, the teenaged Dick would not be quite so immediately concerned with masking his own identity as he would trying to intimidate the killers - hence, dressing up like his dead dad so as to spook'em.

Description
Batman and all them belong to DC/Warner, etc.

Some more Bat-goodness here now.

First up, up top you see a close-up of my take on one Waylon Jones, AKA Killer Croc. Even though I did like the TNBA redesign better than the B:TAS look, here I kept the feeling of staying away from making him look specifically "reptilian" and just making him scaly-looking; i.e. having a skin condition that makes him look like a walking callous. I threw in an earring, too, for some reason - maybe because the way I drew him before flaking his skin up he reminded me of some surly bald sea dog. You'll notice his teeth are sharpened - this I figure he would have done himself (or rather had someone do for him) and with his nails, too, in a bid to make himself seem as sub-human as possible. I kinda picture him positing himself as a sort of "anti-Batman" - propagating a sort of urban-mythic quality about him to instill fear in others, which in this case would come from him taking advantage of a deformity he already has.

On the bottom left, we have one Oswald Cobblepot. Again, for this take on ' Pengy' I took inspiration from Edward G. Robinson's performance in "Little Caesar". I've always been of the mentality that Danny DeVito would have been utterly perfect as the Penguin if Tim Burton hadn't gothed him up to the point of irredeemable weirdness (y'know, making him a mutant raised by penguins). I mean, I liked Burton's Batman films, but I'm also glad those days are over.

On the bottom right, now, we have the late John Grayson and his avenging teenage son. For this, I took a cue from both "Superman: The Movie" and, believe it or not, "Batman Forever", and latched on to the idea of the boy's crime-fightin' duds being derived from his family's fashion sense. However, in this case, since I already installed Babs as Robin and skipped him directly over to the Nightwing identity, I added a more recent touch of nostalgia by deriving the Flying Graysons' newer costumes (replacing the red-and-green ones, as worn by a young Bruce during his overseas 'training' in acrobatics with the Graysons) from the original Nightwing outfit of the '80s (minus that goofy-ass flared collar), from which Dick would generate a darker version, of course. The way I see it, bein' as bent on avenging his parents' deaths as he would be, the teenaged Dick would not be quite so immediately concerned with masking his own identity as he would trying to intimidate the killers - hence, dressing up like his dead dad so as to spook'em.