Summer of '94: The Shadow
The weed of schlock bears goofy fruit.
The years after Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman were weird for lovers of big-budget adventures. Burton’s film was a massive blockbuster, and studios wanted to to capitalize on its popularity. Oddly, their solution wasn’t to go after mainstream comic book IP - we didn’t get any other big DC heroes, just more Batman, and Marvel’s output was regulated to schlock …
Keep reading with a 7-day free trial
Subscribe to Chrisicisms to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.