Collage: No one else will do...

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

Title: No one else will do
Form/Wordcount: Art/collage
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, Batman (yes, that Batman), some bees
Rating: G
Warnings/Content: N/A
Author’s Notes: Bees by EH Shepard and Arabia Finland (Pomona honey jar).  And the Batman panel is an actual find.

Comments

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Wow. Yes and yes. This is brilliant. I am waiting for the fic that goes with immortal!Holmes who lives forever on royal jelly and Tibetan air.

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

I've only seen the one page from the initial comic (it's the 50th anniversary of Batman book), but apparently, the descendants of Moriarty do evil in Gotham city. Bother.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

The comm's first crossover! ^__^

Great idea and beautifully executed. The colours work so well together.

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you like it!

I was a bit worried about including Batman, but he's just rather, well, Batmanish.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

In the brilliant BBC Radio One's version of "Lion's Mane" they pay tribute to all the fiction that's been inspired by Holmes - Star Trek, Man From UNCLE, Batman, The Shadow, many others.

That wasn't the first time Batman referred to Sherlock Holmes (I'm a big old Batman fan too).

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

Really? I don't know the Batman comics all that well, myself.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

More than once they alluded to the Great Sleuth when Batman would do his criminal deductions based on tiny bits of evidence left at the scene.

Batman is owned by DC - aka "Detective Comics" from the 30s (they specialized in hardboiled crime stories while Marvel had Superman and other superheroes going on).

And I once had the great good fortune to meet a 70something Bob Kane in the late 80s at a Hollywood party - the man who'd created Batman.

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

Squeee! I once saw Stan Lee eating breakfast (I was at the hotel next door to a comicon)....

While I know who belongs to DC and who belongs to Marvel, I never understood that distinction. Which is embarrassing since I do scholarly work on comics (obviously not these ones, of course). Thanks for teaching me something so useful for IRL as well as fanlife

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

This is gorgeous and really imaginative.

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

Thanks.... although I'm not sure it's as imaginative as a weasel-like mammal in a snakeskin suit.