Monsters in the Closet: page three

These pencils are incomplete. After inking the lettering, I inked the portions of the art that looked okay, then finished up the background, pencilling and inking in more or less one step. It would have been better to finish all the pencils at once but I often resort to this tentative, wishy washy approach to keep things moving and avoid getting hung up on the details that I'm not sure about.

Monsters in the Closet: page seven

Here's what the pencils looked like when about half of the details were still unresolved. You can see quite a few changes that were made between these two steps; the mermaid's face, left arm, etc.

Monsters in the Closet: Animated?

How'd I miss this?  I really gotta get out more often.  Click on the link to see the Batman Black and White Motion Comics "Monsters in the Closet" episode. My favorite part is when Batman pokes the little reject with his finger.  That shriek is very close to the sound I heard in my head when I drew that panel. Update: Now the video is embedded below, thanks to a helpful hand from Scott Peterson (the talented writer and editor, not the bad fellow who looks like Dean Cain).

Monsters in the Closet: page four

This isn't the most interesting page in the story but I like the mechanical stuff in the last panel.  And it looks like I almost forgot the "CLICK" sound effect in the bottom left panel.

Monsters in the Closet: page one

The pencils were really tight on this page. I was nervous and didn't want to leave anything to chance.

It's a favorite page of mine, even though it's almost all buildings and we don't see much of Batman. It created the effect I was aiming for; a slow pan shot of Gotham City, zooming in on one window, then following the muck down to the street.

You're not supposed to notice Batman when you first look at the next-to-last panel. You see him in the last panel and then go back and see him standing in the shadow in the previous shot. Sneaky...

In spite of my efforts to create a cinematic effect here, this is comics, not film... so I think going backwards like that is allowed.