Thursday 1 May 2014

The Men of Bronze Black Bat, by way of Moonstone Books

You'll have to pardon any inaccuracies on my part. Most of the sites from which I did my research were written in Spanish and I don't have a good grasp of that language.

I located the image below from the Men of Bronze Studios Facebook page.  "Los Hombres De Bronze" describe themselves as...
...a group of new talent artists (pencillers, inkers, colorist...) with the goal of working -mainly- for the american comic book industry. 

I believe that both pencils and inks are by Antonio Rojo and that colours are by Christian Castellanos.

This is basically the Moonstone Books version of the The Black Bat.  I didn't think much of it initially, assuming that the artists simply appreciated that version of the character.  However, looking through the albums on the Facebook page and finding complete pages gave me a bit of a charge.


For a moment I believed that we were finally going to get something solid out of the "Originals" event that Moonstone hyped years ago.  It did lead to a few books, mostly featuring Domino Lady, but by and large the whole thing fizzled, unfortunately.

Closer inspection revealed it to be little more than a page in someone's submission portfolio, but if Men of Bronze ever decide to publish their own books involving The Black Bat, I'll be happy to support it.