Hispanic Batman

The Collected Archives Vol 1

By Rodriguez, Bernstein and Bradstreet

Royal Flush Magazine

Web: http:// royalflushmagazine.com

Although this is nominally a comic book it has nothing in common with the Superhero comics I remember. It is written in the current dark; socially aware style and the plots, such as they are, deal with lampooning the white American attitudes to Mexicans. It also manages at the same time to lampoon Mexican attitudes to themselves. This is presented in a mass of politically incorrect jokes, homosexual jokes, bodily function jokes, even cannibal jokes. It is a hard mix to understand and won’t be fully appreciated by everyone as it seems designed to be deliberately offensive. It’s rude, crude and very funny.

The artwork is mainly by Rodriguez and Bernstein and I love their badly shaven, overweight superhero in his saggy costume, and his sidekick with the massive overbite. Even their sound effects are parodies of the real Batman – “Fwbap”, “Kablooey” and “Shhklunkt” are meaningless out of context but just seem so right in a cartoon of this style.

I can’t see Hispanic Batman becoming the superhero that the guy in Gotham City ys, but Hispanic Batman is more irreverent and much funnier.

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