Rhapsodies

I just finished reading the first fifteen issues of the New Batman Rebirth title, and while Tom King is certainly an excellent writer, in an effort to make it clear the Batman setting is part of the DC universe, stuck in a lot of fantastic elements that were

so blatant they didn’t even pretend to be science fiction. This drew attention for me the necessity, at least for this sketch challenge, to keep Batman as realistic as possible. But today, for the first time* the magic Tupperware told me to draw one of the more problematic characters, Killer Croc.

Waylon Jones aka Killer Croc has been all over the place from bruiser with a skin condition to a ten-foot tall walking reptile. These days the writers and artists seem to lean towards the superstrong reptile-man. For the purposes, I’m going back to basics, where he’s a legbreaker with Ichthyosis.

Jones kept the moniker “Killer Croc” from his wrestling days partially from his distinct skin condition and partially from his habit of using Gotham City’s extensive sewer system as a bolt hole. While never really a “master criminal” he’s many master criminal’s first choice for a caper’s security, or if a few heads need to be banged together. For the most part, I’m thinking Maurice Oboukhoff from The Killing (though I can’t imagine Croc playing chess in his spare time.)

At the moment I’m seeing him played by Dave Bautista.

*Okay technically it’s the second time but there is no way I could squeeze Man-Bat into my version of the setting.