Name the best batman writer of the past who’s not Frank Miller or Alan Moore. And if she wasn’t going to be a girl, we were going to call him Charley Quinn. And my wife, I asked even if we have a boy, can we name him Batman Smith and she wasn’t going for that. I’m such a Batman fan that my daughter, my one and only begotten child, is named Harley Quinn Smith. Now you’ve got a daughter named Harley don’t you? I was like 17 or 18 years old and I was suddenly rebaptized into Batman fandom.” And he was validating Batman and he was all, “Batman’s a badass” and he was like, “You don’t ever have to be ashamed of reading it.” And that’s when I got into it hardcore. Here’s a guy two years older than me, way cooler me, a kid into metal and whatnot, and denim jackets with paintings on the back of them, when we were kids. … Meeting Walter Flanagan kind of opened that up. Like, this is grown up.” You didn’t have to be ashamed being into Batman or talking about Batman. Suddenly I was like: “This is Batman now? This is crazy. …īut it wasn’t until Walter Flanagan (now best known for “Comic Book Men”) gave me Frank Miller’s “Dark Knight Returns” graphic novel … when I was rebaptized in the Bat, if you will, or “Bat-tized.”
So that was my first exposure, then comic books came after that. That was in heavy rotation on PIX, on Channel 11, where I lived growing up, you know, in Jersey.
Kevin Smith: The earliest memory I have of him was of course was the Bill Dozier TV Show (Ed.: starring Adam West) when I was, I guess, 4 or 5 or whatever. Kevin, take it all the way back, as you like to say on the podcast, and tell us how you got into Batman. Well, as promised, we’ve got more from the guy whose podcast “Fat Man on Batman” has become the prime Batman destination in the world of podcasting.Īnd, let’s not forget, the dude owns the comic shop Jay and Silent Bob’s Secret Stash in Red Bank, N.J., home of the AMC show “Comic Book Men.” Waaaaay back in June, filmmaker Kevin Smith popped in for our second GOTHAM POST column to give details about his upcoming miniseries “Batman: Bellicosity.”
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