

This one came about when Nate was looking to draw up some new pin-up style pieces for his portfolio and asked me if I had any commission ideas for him so he could kill two birds with one stone. And after I sent him A LOT of ideas, he narrowed them down to two pieces, and this is the second one: a big bunch of Bat-Villains! When I first saw the scan of this, I was looking at it on my phone, and didn't quite grasp the layout until I started zooming in and moving it around, but then I saw the genius quality of it: that the whole layout is the alley where Batman's first enemy, Joe Chill, murdered his parents. That's when I knew I loved this piece! It's strange that out of all of Batman's villains, it's a small-time crook that dealt him his biggest defeat, and he's never recovered from it. But hey, he became the ultimate crime fighter because of that defeat, so it's still a win! Oh yeah, there are a few other villains in this commission as well! Nate gives them all some personality here, from the creepiness of Scarecrow and Freeze to the goofiness of Harley and the Riddler. I also love the details like Joker's deadly hand buzzer and Zsasz's blade. As usual, a huge thanks to Nate for all of the thinking and hard work he puts into these commissions!





If you like this piece, then by all means go buy some of Nate's comics and/or commission him yourself.