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06/27/2003: it's bad, yet still amusing...
I got The Batman Chronicles #11, an issue with three Elseworlds stories. The best of the three (which isn't saying much) was for me the third, "Curse of the Cat-Woman" written by Kieron Dwyer, art by Lee Loughridge. However, the main point of this entry is that I found entertainment value in the art of the first two, though I didn't like the stories. The first one by Paul Pope puts Batman into Berlin 1938, and it suffers both from lack of research as well as from a weak story, but -- Bruce Wayne looks really, really gay as a Cubist artist wearing some pink house coat with a fluffy collar. In the second one (which isn't really a comic, more one illustration each page with text), "The Bride of Leatherwing" by Chuck Dixon and Quique Alcatena, we get a swashbuckling version of Batman, like what would Batman look like as a pirate. This also looks very, very odd. For your enjoyment I put scans of both behind the cut-tag...
