MORE PSYCHEDELIC BATMAN

[TODD TAMANEND CLARK]

"It's very much the 'real' world overlapping with the world of
schizophrenia, paranoia, and heavy drug use, which is of
course a world just as real as anything else we can experience.
That's the world that Batman and Robin are dealing with - the
eerie, creepy, mentally-ill dark corners of life. I think that gives
us the sense of the supernatural in the story even if these guys
aren't supernatural. Professor Pyg isn't from another world;
he's from here, but he's very, very sick. He sees the world as
almost supernatural in that it's unnatural and threatening in
every way. It's more of that sort of thing. I think people will be
surprised, because these are very realistic, bones-will-break
kinds of stories, too. Although there's a lot of color and UV and
sound effects, these are not fantastical stories in that kind of
Joel Schumacher 90s Batman way. It's quite gritty. It's quite
hardcore. It's noir, but it's a psychedelic noir. I've talked to you
about this sort of thing before. This is the Batman version of
that dark, psychedelic noir."

- - Grant Morrison

http://comics.ign.com/articles/986/986031p1.html

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TODD TAMANEND CLARK
Poet/Composer/Multi-Instrumentalist/Cultural Historian

Nova Psychedelia (2-CD: Vocal, 1975-1985)
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/ttc4
Owls In Obsidian (CD: Instrumental, 2000)
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/ttc
Staff, Mask, Rattle (2-CD: Instrumental, 2002)
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/ttc2
Monongahela Riverrun (CD: Instrumental, 2004)
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/ttc3

[Daibhid Ceanaideach]

Post by TODD TAMANEND CLARK
"It's very much the 'real' world overlapping with the world of
schizophrenia, paranoia, and heavy drug use, which is of
course a world just as real as anything else we can experience.
That's the world that Batman and Robin are dealing with - the
eerie, creepy, mentally-ill dark corners of life. I think that gives
us the sense of the supernatural in the story even if these guys
aren't supernatural. Professor Pyg isn't from another world;
he's from here, but he's very, very sick. He sees the world as
almost supernatural in that it's unnatural and threatening in
every way. It's more of that sort of thing. I think people will be
surprised, because these are very realistic, bones-will-break
kinds of stories, too. Although there's a lot of color and UV and
sound effects, these are not fantastical stories in that kind of
Joel Schumacher 90s Batman way. It's quite gritty. It's quite
hardcore. It's noir, but it's a psychedelic noir. I've talked to you
about this sort of thing before. This is the Batman version of
that dark, psychedelic noir."
- - Grant Morrison
http://comics.ign.com/articles/986/986031p1.html

Yeah, that sounds very Grant Morrison...

But it also sounds very Batman. I mean, *most* Batman villains are
characters whose "superpower" is a mental illness so strong it almost
changes the way the world works to suit it. It sounds like Morrison's
just bringing this front-and-centre, rather than it being a wacky schtick
and a reason for them to end up in Arkham rather than Blackgate.