Green Bat

BJ Wanlund bj_wanlund at yahoo.com
Fri Jul 6 01:28:58 CEST 2007


--- dcml-request at nafsk.se wrote:
> From: "Arthur" <afaria at projesom.com.br>
> To: "DcML" <dcml at nafsk.se>
> Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 10:56:14 -0300
> Subject: Jose Carioca's "Killing Joke"
> 
> Maciek:
> 
> > http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=BC+ZC+2017
> >
> > "A Piada sem Sal"
> >
> > Aperently this story is parody of Alan Moore's
> "The Killing Joke" (which
> > is as my favorite Batman story, one of moust dark
> and voilent comics I
> > ever read... and propably the last thing I would
> suspect to be spoof in
> > Disney comics... Which is actualy a postive
> suprise)
> >
> > Can somebody give me more info on this Carioca
> story?
> > How's the plot of this story is close to the
> orginal Alan Moore story?
> 
> 
> Maciek, in 1994 Editora Abril wanted to improve Joe
> Carioca's hero identity
> "Morcego Verde" (Green Bat) and then creator Marcelo
> Cassaro wrote 4
> stories:
> 
> 1) B 940063 "O Cavaleiro das Dívidas" (writer:
> Marcelo Cassaro. Artist:
> Paulo Borges).
> http://coa.inducks.org/s.php/x/B+940063
> Something like "The Debts Knight" - It's a spoof of
> Frank Miller's "The Dark
> Knight", where Morcego Verde's origin is re-told
> following Moore's vision
> (very softened of course). Joe Carioca becomes the
> Green Bat after a
> "psychological shock" (including slow motion marbles
> falling on the ground),
> when a debt collector succeeds to make him pay a
> debt. Then he puts on the
> bat costume and starts "punishing" any debt
> collector he finds (including
> soccer referees). Chief O'Hara has to call Super
> Goof to try to stop him. In
> the end he agrees to stop the punishments, but goes
> on as the Green Bat.
> Good artist Paulo Borges made a nice job using
> Miller's art as reference,
> and got the 1995's Abril Journalism Award-1995 for
> the best comic art.
> 
> 2) B 940098 "O Morcegomóvel" (Marcelo Cassaro/Paulo
> Borges)
> http://coa.inducks.org/s.php/x/B+940098
> Green Bat tests his new "batmobile" built by Pedrão
> and Nestor.
> 
> 3) B 940104 "A Piada sem Sal" (Marcelo Cassaro/Paulo
> Borges)
> http://coa.inducks.org/s.php/x/B+940104
> Yes, a spoof of "The Killing Joke" by Moore and
> Bolland (something like "The
> Unsalted Joke"), where the mad villain "Moringa"
> (spoof of the Joker)
> kidnapped Joe's girlfriend Rosinha and hidden her in
> an amusement park in an
> attempt to catch Green Bat. Of course it's a very
> softened version of
> Moore's story.
> Again, Paulo Borges made a nice job using references
> of Moore's art
> (including rain drops on puddles in the beginning
> and in the end)
> 
> 4) B 940166 "A Mulher-Gatinha" (Marcelo
> Cassaro/Paulo Borges)
> http://coa.inducks.org/s.php/x/B+940166
> Something like "The Pussycat-woman". Rosinha, fed up
> with Joe being the
> Green Bat all the time and giving no attention to
> their relationship (yes,
> people know Joe is the Green Bat, but he always
> pretends they don't), buys a
> "cat-woman" costume and gives Joe a lesson in the
> top of Rio's Christ
> statue.
> And again, nice job of artist Paulo Borges,
> especially depicting Rosinha as
> a gorgeous cat-woman (see
> http://coa.inducks.org/s.php/x/BC+ZC+2024).
> He was nominated for the 1996's Abril Journalism
> Award for the best comic 
> art.
> 
> After those stories, regular Green Bat stories
> follows up with the new
> visual and concept.
> 
> -- Arthur.
Arthur--

Thank you SO much for telling us about these Jose
Carioca comics.  I'm an American Jose Carioca fan, and
I would love to be able to read these Green Bat
stories at some point.  Even if they were only
digitally released, it might be kinda cool.

BTW, does Gemstone/DPW have any plans for a Disney
Comics DVD on the lines of what other comic companies
have released (i.e. a DVD comic collection)?

BJ


       
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