We spotted this over on icanhascheezburger, but it was created by Blair Erickson and it’s an amazing visual representation of what Batman and the various facets of his world have looked like throughout the years. Click to check it out. (Image is very, very big.)
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I like how you have the various eras, and the “Joel Schumacher error”
The visual comparison is fascinating, but mostly makes me want to go back and watch the ’90s cartoon version again. I think that’s always going to be the definitive Batman in my head.
Fascinating. Although I’m a little surprised that it didn’t include Robin along the top row. I know he hasn’t made an appearance in the Nolan films, but you’d think he’d warrant inclusion anyway. Either a look at how Dick Grayson has been portrayed in each specific era, or “Robin” in general, would have been appropriate.
And why a gap between 1997 and 2005? I get that thy’re showing the period between the death of the film franchise and its rebirth, but it’s a pretty significant gap in terms of Batman history. You can’t argue that the infographic is only following the movie/television/media portrayal because it also hits various comic eras.
It’s also a real pity that they chose the godawful Catwoman film to represent her during the Schmuaker period. /shudder
All in all, it’s an interesting piece, but with some odd choices.
The visuals are interesting, but the trivia text is pretty slanted. Christopher Nolan was hardly a “relatively unknown independant film directory” – Batman was his followup to Insomnia, which was a major studio release starring Al Pacino and Robin Williams who were big stars then. And Frank Miller wasn’t the first to portray Batman as a “dark” and “dramatic” figure by a long shot.
At this point the animated Batverse really needs its own giant infographic, given the number and variety of series and direct-to-video features that have appeared since Batman: the Animated Series concluded (arguably including at least some of the Justice League material, the startlingly good Batman Beyond, and the current Batman: Brave and the Bold. I have been wading into this last since finding season-compilation DVDs for $5 a pop at Best Buy — evidently part of their promotion leading up to the new Nolan premiere. And it’s fascinating — bright and fast-moving enough to skew a bit younger than the extended B:TAS Bat-franchise, chock full of enough obscure DC second- and fourth-stringers to satisfy the most devoted comics geeks (Gentleman Ghost! Kamandi! Bwana Beast!), and at the same time utterly unashamed of its conscious resemblance to the old (dare I say classic?) Adam West series.
As to the present artifact: as I recall, there was no Scarecrow in the ABC/Adam West Bat-series — but that looks to me like Cliff Robertson as Shame in the relevant column of the graphic, which seems like a bizarre choice of substitute. Better picks might have been Victor Buono (King Tut) or Vincent Price (Egghead).
No Jim Aparo era? That ain’t right. And I mean that in all its permutations.