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"You are part of the night, just like me. We're not afraid of the dark — we come alive in it — we're thrilled by it..."I have severe night terrors and, as a result, I have very few dreams (and nightmares) that I will actually remember when I awake the next day. My dreams always have this strange film-like quality. And I had the weirdest dream last night and woke up on the wrong side of the bed, with a terrible back pain and stomach craps, and yet, like most of my intense dreams, it will nag and eat away at me until I draw them out! The product was Rorschach in Gotham. It's a working title, but it really says it all.
Taking place during the passing of Keene Act to illegalise costumed crime-fighting, Nite Owl II has been missing for three days. The Crimebusters (...uh, Watchmen) have broken up and carried on a lacklustre search for their comrade, so Rorschach takes his own line of investigation to find his only true friend and the clues lead him to Gotham City, perhaps with a little help from a costumed cat burglar. (This is a conceptual plot and it's subject to change.)
For those who don't know, I'm a huge Batman fan and Watchmen fan. I may do a short comic on this, a short story, or a full-on fiction; or it could be a collection of vignettes of him fighting Gotham Rogues' Gallery — or Batman himself. I really haven't decided yet. Nonetheless, I certainly love how this drawing came, so I'm going to fix the proportions (majorly!), draw some word balloons (maybe!), sketch in a background (gasp!), clean it up, and colour it — and we'll see how it goes from there. (I'm trying to do this by incorporating the 90s Batman: The Animated Series "dark noir" style, but I don't think I'm succeeding at all. It still looks too much like my own overtly cartoony style.)
Medium - HB and 2B mechanical pencil.
Rorschach in Gotham © Diane N. Tran.
Rorschach and Catwoman © DC Comics.
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God, she's so dead. Inside his head, Rorschach is probably going "SHE TOUCHED ME! EW EW EW EW EW!" This is one tramuatized man. No wonder he's so uptight. He's afraid to get laid.
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It's more...he touched her first, grabbing her wrist and squeezing, and it's not her fault that he can't take a good flirting to.
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That's a really pretty Catwoman. you draw her really well
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Thanks, however I see a lot of mistakes. I'm going to fix it up, so I hope the second time around that she'll look a lot better.
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I hope you've done more with the Rorschach in gotham idea!
Shall look through your galleries.
Congrats on this^^
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I will be doing more on "Rorschach in Gotham" -- it's not leaving me along, actually! I finished the clean-up of this picture, but it looks like I'll have to do it again because I forgot to fix a big mistake the first time around, but it's okay. After this one is all gone, I hope to do something with Man-Bat, Penguin, Poison Ivy, or Zsasz. Joker, Harley, Scarcrow, Two-Face, Ra's al-Ghul, etc. will be later.
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I wait with bated breath.
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I'm going to fix all the mistakes in the clean up hopefully, then colour it, and add a background.
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in my opinion, Rorschach will crackle her neck once a air of seconds...also because he's a sexuophobic.
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Yes, I could see him do that...buuuuut not without a fight on her side!
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Thanks!
I'm working on cleaning this picture up, colouring it, and adding a red-sky cityscape.
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XD <---- For the piece itself. XD <----- For some of these comments.
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Poor Rorschach, I bet he's sort of distrubed by this confrontation. XD
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Great piece.
Batman/Rorschach crossover? Interesting idea, really. Of course, batman would be after Rorschach because of his usually lethal vigilante activities. Could Rorschach evade Batman? Batman has his million-dollar toys to aid him as well as his extensive martial arts training and detective background. Rorschach has none of that except that he's about as street-smart as a person can get. Also, his ruthlessnes and willingness to kill make him very dangerous. I can't see him associating with the likes of catwoman, though. In Rorschach's world you're either good or evil. He won't compromise on that.
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That really depends. Rorschach is wanted by New York police; he's officially killed four people we know of in the entire book -- the dog guy (burned), the multiple rapist (beaten), Captain Carnage (falling from a elevator shaft), and the lunch line guy (burned). Yes, the body count definitely be more, although we're not concretely positive beyond those four; we see him beat a few other criminals, electrocute this guy, we see a lot of bruises and blood, but we don't for sure. Batman himself has associated with people whose have "killed" or supposedly "killed" before -- Question, Huntress, Harley Quinn, Creeper, Vigilante, Green Lantern, Crimson Avenger, Jonah Hex.) Now, if they met, they obviously wouldn't get along -- Rorschach may think Batman's too "soft"; Batman would think Rorschach's too "harsh". I doubt Batman arrest Rorschach immediately after their intentional meeting, but gives him good reason to tail him closely while he's in Gotham -- in case he does too far in HIS city.
Could Rorschach evade Batman? Personally...yes, I think he could. He isn't the easiest guy to catch, but if Catwoman could, among others, so could he. He isn't infallible.
True, evil must be punished. Although, Catwoman's not even considered a villain anymore. Recently, she's gotten into crime-fighting. She's paid her dues in prison already. I'm not exactly sure what Rorschach would do to someone like that. Hurm.
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Rorschach would mostly fidget uncomfortably while Catwoman wrinkled her elegant nose at his "aroma."
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Smells like Nostalgia!
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Which is a combination of B.O. and Axe.
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LOL! Do the commercial effects of Axe work when you mix it with B.O?
I've actually thought of drawing him and Harley Quinn who comments on his "stink-a-rooney!"
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I have no idea but I suspect there are a lot of teenage boys locker rooms that reek of this mixture.
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Ewww...that's not attractive. Of course, it's nothing a major shower and a visit to the laundromat won't cure.
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Well, Rorschach would'nt be as frightening to the criminal classes if he smelled nice and had clean clothes.
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You never know. He could snap people's fingers and yet smell like lavender. the minute someone smells lavender and Snuggles, everyone runs! It's a threatening combination! It's Pepe Le Pew on acid!
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I can actually picture Rorschach making such a response to an advance by Cat-Woman. It's a fun picture.
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Thank you. Glad you liked it.
I could have Catwoman flirt as much she wanted and his response would still be the same.
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Cat-love;
Like coke in green bottles.. they don't make it any more...
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Well...be happy it's at least American (love).
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Like coke in Green Glass Bottles, asbestoses insulation, kitchen carpeting, and Beef Jello, it's something that's all American that we just don't make anymore.
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(wrinkles her nose on "Beef Jello")
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Gelatin was originally isolated for gravies. When people refrigerated it, they realized it held its shape, so they made solidified gravy treats.
The worst part is, that's not the most disgusting food stuff I know about. ( [link] Shudders.)
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Now...I'm utterly intrigued by this!
How do you know this tastes like human? Has he actually "devoured" people to find out to compare and contrast? Or do you just go to imprisoned cannibals and say "What's this taste like?" to make sure it authentic enough? And if you give hufu to your dog, do you have to kill it afterward?
Seriously...I want to know.
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I wounder if you can get "Mad-Soy" from it. At least it's better than “man beef.” [link]
Although it's far less fun to think about, they both appear to have been very good scams. It's too bad, Knuckles could have gotten people to volunteer to be biopsied, match the texture, flavor it with pork (which we are surprisingly closely genetically related to) and sold the product. It would've sold, especially on Halloween.
The best part, he doesn't have to worry about it really tasting like flesh, cause who's gonna sue him. “Your honor, this Hufu tastes nothing like the homeless person I have chopped up in my freezer!”
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Well, it is going to be added to my list of Things to Do Before I Die: "Must eat dog, cat, rat, ostrich, squirrel, kangaroo, fugu, and now...hufu!"
Accordingly, an English explorer went to Africa just before the Colonial Wars and offered him a special kind of meat. He enjoyed it! It said it tasted like "suckling pig"...ten hours later, he found out it was human meat and he puked! A convicted-and-released Japanese cannibal, now a kind of minor celebrity in Japan, said human meat tasted like pork rump, but sweeter and more tender, after you removed the fat which he said "looked like yellow corn."
It's good to know that this Japanese ex-cannibal will be able to sue him if he doesn't pull through.
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Rat... fugu?
Remind me to keep you away from my pets...
It is niece to finally meet someone who is as gifted with bizarre information as myself. Fat resembled yellow corn?! (All I have to say is- 2:11-2:38 [link] ).
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I mean field rat, a wild on, a rat that doesn't have weird city diseases. Fugu is that Japanese poisonous blowfish that only has a single part of the body that's edible. I'd like to try that!
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You wish to try rat, but what if it comes from the Orient and caries the plague (It's still there).
I'd much rather have ragu than fugu myself.
I'm only being fresh. In High-School, a kid on the bus told me the story of his grandparents first date. They went to the market together, bought a dog, and she took it back to her families home and cooked it.
You might want to amend the list. Might want to add horse to that list; I hear it tastes like ham, they raise them in some parts of Europe for that purpose. Some people consider certain cockroaches 'good-eats' (some have been domesticated, and their cousin is the lobster); other believe certain tarantulas are tasty; and gator is a delicacy around New Orleans.
I personally want to stay with non-scavenger herbivores (though I make an exception for pigs).
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I like Ragu, too!
My mother told me a story where a friend of hers immigrated from Vietnam to America and he went a supermarket for the first time. He goes down the aisles and stops by the dog food section. He's gets all excited over all the dog food! He buys several cans of it, brings it home, opens it up, and eats it... "Wait, this doesn't taste like dog...." Disappointment burns!
I've had horse actually. When I went to New York, I was walking down the streets near the Metropolitan Museum of Art and got hungry and noticed this hole-in-the-wall cafe where a long line formed! Any place like that must have great food and when I got to the counter and noticed on the menu had "horse burgers". I've never had horse, so I bought it out of curiosity.
I've also eaten earthworms, crickets, roasted moths, honeydew ants, and mealworms. Earthworms were an incident of me teaching my pet frog to eat them. He looked at me weird when I placed earthworms in front of him. So I showed him by eating a few then handed them to him and he ate them all. It became his chocolate after that.
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I still get a slight chuckle out of puppy chow.
All I have to say is:
[link]
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Love that song; I have a ripped copy of “Straight out of Lynwood.”
And I ask this: am I almost this cool: [link]
His music actual seems like it's written for me: [link]
[Insert evil laughter here.]
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