After seeing Jim Lee’s horrendous reimagining of Batman recently, I can’t help but recall how excited I was to see this, Dave Johnson’s 90’s revamp. The short ears and gumsole, Doc Martin style boots were so right then. Lee’s, on the other hand, serves as a prime example of all that’s wrong with DC’s current direction. Of course, they’d say, that was then, this is now. But I can’t help but note that this still looks GOOD. Over a decade later.

May you preach on forever, Reverend.

Edited to add: You have to understand, bigfootrock, that before this was the descended-from-Adams-Lopez-Aparo Breyfogleish version, which was OK, bit was very much descended from what came before. This was a NEW look, and while it may be old hat now, it was fresh then and as far as I’m concerned is still so.