Nov 16 2011
Gotham in 1459
Behold, a new art concept that imagines what it might have been like had Batman and his villains existed in 1459. It took me a minute, and without prompting from the “Gotham” I might not have guessed that this was super old school Two Face. Below are Batman and Catwoman. She kind of looks like a nun in tight pants.
I can see Batman being pretty awesome in the 15th century. My history isn’t so good, so I’m not sure exactly what was going on back then. The Crusades? Witch hunting? Chris Columbus was thirty years later in 1492, I know that much. I’ll never forget that song from school.
Check out the other two below, and if artist Igor Kieryluk makes any more, I’ll return to feature them.
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That would actually be pretty awesome :O
Oh and btw: The Crusades happened waaay earlier. 11th, 12th century. Correct me if I’m wrong.
It actually looks like the artist is going for the Crusades era but he got his year wrong. For example half of two-face is wearing templar armour. The templar order was wiped out in 1314. The other half appears to be barbarian attire which would have been from before then even. 1459 is right in the middle of the Renaissance. Picture what people were wearing in Assassin’s Creed II and you’d be pretty close (that game starts in 1499).
Marvel did an actual comic series like this titled “Marvel 1602.” Which I’m sure was ripped off from something else, but I’m not sure what.
Neil Gaimen came up with the idea for Marvel 1602 while on vacation in Venice… he was asked to write something, but had no ideas, and then was like “Hey, now… this city has an old timey feel! How cool would that be!”
1602 was written almost 9 years ago; it was pretty original at the time.
Well, if you think about it, the animated series Gotham still has a lot of that art deco style, which was prominent in the 1930s and 1940s, with villains dressing like prohibition era gangsters and such, so adopting a fashion from the *relative* past doesn’t seem too far fetched for the Batman style.
The Batman reminds me A LOT of Guts in his Berserk armor, especially the helmet with tiny wing attachments: http://download.minitokyo.net/Berserk.Wallpaper.109664.jpg
I am so retarded…did not get who was the first image until I read the comments. I kept thinking “Deer Man?!? Who the fuck is Deer man?”
Who’s the woman?
how about some crazy court jester type for joker? that’d be good, no?