Here's the second-last image for my second Powerful Women sketchbook.
Batman and the Outsiders was one of those series I knew about, but got on board too late. Fortunately, my cousin has been buying a lot of those Showcase reprints and has been lending them to me when he's done. Now I'm reading the Batman and the Outsiders edition, which features some very solid Mike W. Barr (maybe my favorite Batman writer) stories and some nice Jim Aparo artwork. And lettering. The guy had skills.
People like Jim never get the credit they deserve. To paraphrase Isaac Newton, they were the giants whose shoulders the industry stands upon. Solid, reliable, and able to draw anything.
His original design for Halo’s costume shows that he still had chops after almost twenty years in the business. It’s basic swirly shape design was very graphic and very cool. I don’t know why, but it always reminded me of the shirt that Disney’s Captain Eo wore. Michael Jackson aside, that was a cool design, too.