History of the Batmobile - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)

kingbenny 05 May 05

Wow, a very cool site… although it is sorta difficult to tell much about each design by looking at the graphics they provide.

jk 05 May 05

I liked the monster truck one—a real crime-fighting machine.

Adam Thody 05 May 05

The first one from 1989 will always be the real Batmobile in my mind.

The thing I noticed is that the only one of them that even remotely attempts to try a new, creative approach to the theme is Frank Miller’s tank from Dark Knight. It’s a reminder of how the best comic books are always the ones that don’t pay slavish respect to the traditions or conventions of the characters (or their accessories).

When Dark Knight and The Watchmen came out in the late 1980’s, I remember anticipating a new golden age, where comic book writers would toss aside the old ways, and use the 50 year tradition behind them to explode in new, postmodern directions, to reinvent and reinvent perpetually. On the other hand, this is the same time period of Marvel Universe and Crisis on Infinite Earths, where tight continuity was paramount.

Ironically the cheesy campy comics of the 1950s (in which Superman fights Bizarro or where Batman travels back to Ancient Rome) seem far more inventive and less uptight than any of what I’ve seen in superhero comics in the past decade or more.

And is it just me, or does the new Batman movie, allegedly a “reinvention of the character”, look like just another pressing from the same ongoing series of Hollywood tech-fetishist crap? I mean, can’t they make one in which he’s just a weird guy wearing a weird suit beating people up with his fists? I thought it was supposed to be based on Batman: Year One, but if you look at what Miller/Mazzuchelli’s Batman actually looked like, you’ll see that Hollywood once again has gotten it all wrong, opting for slick over visceral.

Finally, I love Adam’s comment, above. 1989 being the “first” Batmobile. Should I feel old or something?

Adam Thody 06 May 05

I didn’t say “first”…I said “real”. It’s the one of the few that is original, and in my mind, personifies what the Batmobile should be - dark, mysterious, fast, and clean.

The rest more or less looked like production automobiles with some gaudy snap on accessories.

And yes, you should feel old. :D

Adam Thody 06 May 05

Oh sorry, I see what you were getting at now…I said first because there were two in 1989, meaning first of the pair in the list.

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