Alex Jaffe “Alex Jaffe” Alex Jaffe
@alexjaffe
(he/him) | Friend of Jughead | Professional DC Comics Expert and host of Insert Credit. Never stop reading comics.
Green Lantern: Emerald Knights. The Laira story has some of the best action animation in the DC library, the Kilowog story brilliantly uses Fullmetal Jacket’s R. Lee Ermey, and the Mogo story is hands down my favorite adaptation of any work by Alan Moore. #ngl
I think DARK KNIGHT RETURNS: THE GOLDEN CHILD is some of both Miller and Grampa’s best work, and serves as a perfect final chapter to Miller’s whole Batman output. Similarly, and as hesitant as I am to admit this, RORSCHACH might actually be Tom King’s best work. #ngl
One of my favorite Batman runs of all time. The only thematic conversation I’ve ever seen with Morrison’s run that has something to say about it more than simply fawning. #ngl
I’d take the Andrea Romano approach and not look for big names, but for upcoming talent from unexpected locations to foster a relationship that can last for decades. To find the next Kevin Conroy, I’d check out the experimental theater scene. #ngl
No, I think it’s just that the gears of modern Hollywood are not very equipped to understand how to successfully adapt female heroes in general. We need a sea change away from a boys’ club culture. #ngl
I think HARLEEN is the best version of Harley Quinn’s origin story ever told, and the essential text for the history for the Amazon people should be WONDER WOMAN HISTORIA.
“Why?” I think you can guess why. And yes, of course they should. #ngl
I’d put The Penguin pretty high up there. I also loved Band of Brothers, John Adams, Dinotopia, and Ripley. #ngl
It’s a stretch to call it the best when BTAS exists, but I’d say it is deeply underrated. It was done a huge disservice by its marketing, and a visual style that really only works when you see it in motion. #ngl
I can’t imagine it does. Comic book movies do hundreds of millions of dollars worth of business each; a comic isn’t in the same league. #ngl
I’d say the greatest sufferers are half their Justice League. The DCAU Diana permanently shifted the character towards a love of violence, their John moved him from an architect to a generic marine, and their Shiera is a half-measure stuck between Hawkgirl and Hawkwoman that can never be recaptured.
The most important thing to enjoying Grant Morrison’s Batman run is the ability to overlook the villainization of women and non-white characters #ngl
I really liked the anime when it first aired, but I never read the original manga. Maybe I will... #ngl
I do not, and that’s by design. My system is that if I forget whether or not I have read something, that’s a sign to read it again. However, your tracking needs are likely best served by League of Comics Geeks. #ngl
I’d recommend Gotham Central, Crime Bible: Five Books of Blood, The Question: Pipeline, and the current ongoing Batwoman series. #ngl
The one-two punch of Kingdom Come and Justice League Unlimited, the main two ways a semi-casual fan are exposed to him. The DCAU has done as much damage to some characters as it has good for many others. #ngl
I have pitches for every character you could imagine. DC has never asked me though. #ngl
Letter columns have always been kind of a blindspot for me. I don’t really care what guys who wrote into comics had to say. I do like the letter columns for the Question series, though. #ngl
For the most part, they were invented for Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, and haven’t appeared elsewhere. You can see more of Lobo in various Lobo comics, and the raiders from the bus scene are from Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #233. The green sun was based on a story in Superman #155. #ngl
Gene Luen Yang, Kurt Busiek, Scott McCloud, Dan Jurgens, Elliot S. Maggin, Mark Waid, Jerry Siegel, Alan Moore #ngl
My fat ass thinking every day that these disinfectant wipe packs at the office are an Oreos box on top of a Golden Oreos box
Using @planetx.bsky.social’s DC BOOK OF PRIDE as a sample size, I count 45 heroes, 3 villains, and 9 ambiguous. I’d say when introducing a new overtly queer character, it’s usually less complicated to make them heroic. However, when accounting for queer *coding*, those numbers probably shift. #ngl
In the main canon, this one’s a gray area. There’s an anthology story which suggests he may have had male love interests in the past, but the language is ambiguous enough as to the nature of their relationship to maintain plausible deniability. He has never verbally identified as bisexual. #ngl
With Superman, Luthor is an all-time hater. There’s no getting around him. I don’t think anyone in Wonder Woman’s rogues gallery actually hates her? They either see her as a nuisance or an obstacle to their own designs, or they’re obsessed with her for more complicated reasons. #ngl
It’s all right so far. Undeniably overshadowed entirely by Absolute Batman being a generational text. #ngl