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Rhyno posted:It goes back to Batman punching out Guy in the 80's. It resurfaced in Rebirth and pops up once in a while. As Guy says "Lanterns and Batman don't mix." Batman secretly wonders why he didn't get the ring.
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Avulsion posted:Batman secretly wonders why he didn't get the ring. Batman's been a lantern like three times in Johns' run.
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Rhyno posted:It goes back to Batman punching out Guy in the 80's. It resurfaced in Rebirth and pops up once in a while. As Guy says "Lanterns and Batman don't mix."
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Nov 12, 2012 05:10
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 The fact that DC published this will forever make me giggle. All Star Batman and Robin, #09 I think. Shame Miller went completely bonkers and never finished the thing, so we could see the Goddamn Batman in all its glory.
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Rhyno posted:It goes back to Batman punching out Guy in the 80's. It resurfaced in Rebirth and pops up once in a while. As Guy says "Lanterns and Batman don't mix." Which is really dumb, because Batman's problem wasn't with Green Lanterns. Batman's problem was with Guy, because Guy is an rear end in a top hat.
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Saoshyant posted:The fact that DC published this will forever make me giggle. "drat YOU AND YOUR LEMONADE!"
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Nov 12, 2012 14:32
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Saoshyant posted:The fact that DC published this will forever make me giggle. I've seen that page about a dozen times, but I only just now noticed Robin's yellow ice cream cone. Total dedication to loving with Hal.
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Is it just me, or is Superman doing a smug "yeah, I'm a badass" thing with his face in the first panel? Is that a new-52 thing? I'm not a big Superman fan, but when I do like him, it's when "smug" is the farthest thing from his mind. Senior Woodchuck posted:Which is really dumb, because Batman's problem wasn't with Green Lanterns. Batman's problem was with Guy, because Guy is an rear end in a top hat. Batman was also being pretty rear end in a top hat-ish at the time. Although that might be hindsight speaking, because Guy's Awesomeness Factor has increased pretty dramatically since ye olden dayes.
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Senior Woodchuck posted:Which is really dumb, because Batman's problem wasn't with Green Lanterns. Batman's problem was with Guy, because Guy is an rear end in a top hat. I remember at least one comic mentioning that Batman didn't like Green Lanterns because they're not afraid of anything, and at least part of his effectiveness comes from making people afraid of him. There's a reason a Sinestro Corps ring tried to recruit him.
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Sefer posted:I remember at least one comic mentioning that Batman didn't like Green Lanterns because they're not afraid of anything, and at least part of his effectiveness comes from making people afraid of him. There's a reason a Sinestro Corps ring tried to recruit him. I think Hal tells Bruce to gently caress off during Rebirth and then has an internal monologue about how they never gor along because Batman uses fear as a weapon and greenlanterns overcome fear. This was at the point when they were playing up Batman's paranoia after Identity Crississ.
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Senior Woodchuck posted:Which is really dumb, because Batman's problem wasn't with Green Lanterns. Batman's problem was with Guy, because Guy is an rear end in a top hat. Yeah, Hal and Batman were as chummy as anyone back in the day. Granted, Batman was written as despising any hero who ever made a mistake more than an actual villain for a while, and the whole Parallax thing happened (hence the scadenfreude of Identity Crisis/OMAC). I also seem to recall that there were a few comics back when that implied that Batman preferred Kyle, who he could pretty much boss around in his early days.
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Derek Dominoe posted:I also seem to recall that there were a few comics back when that implied that Batman preferred Kyle, who he could pretty much boss around in his early days. I like to think that's because Batman is secretly a huge anime fan, putting on the costume and fighting crime allows him to cosplay, like, every single night.
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It's at least got to be a treat to have Kyle using the ring to break the monotony of force field, boxing glove, power blast routine. The ability to make Batman think to himself "that's kinda neat" makes Kyle the most powerful lantern.
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prefect posted:Is it just me, or is Superman doing a smug "yeah, I'm a badass" thing with his face in the first panel? Is that a new-52 thing? I'm not a big Superman fan, but when I do like him, it's when "smug" is the farthest thing from his mind. Sizone posted:I like to think that's because Batman is secretly a huge anime fan, putting on the costume and fighting crime allows him to cosplay, like, every single night. 
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Sefer posted:I remember at least one comic mentioning that Batman didn't like Green Lanterns because they're not afraid of anything, and at least part of his effectiveness comes from making people afraid of him. There's a reason a Sinestro Corps ring tried to recruit him. Smells like Johnsian revision to me. Batman never had a problem with Hal that I can think of until he went bonkers, killed a bunch of people and tried to destroy the universe. But a somewhat rational "fool me twice" attitude won't work for Johns; Batman has to not like/trust Hal because he's a dick, because Hal is teh awesomez. (Can you tell I don't think much of Johns's writing on GL?)
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Ghostlight posted:Steel is doing the exact same eyebrow lift and smirk so either they've all zoned out of the conversation and Wonder Woman is doing something entertainingly distracting that we can't see or he's piggybacking on the "I used to be kind-of Superman once". That's Cyborg, not Steel. And yeah, they're all  as hell that this newbie Lantern loving knows he can't take any of them except maybe Batman. It's not often someone that the top tier of DC heroes is after just says "gently caress it, there's absolutely no way I am gonna fight you guys because you'll each tear me a dozen new assholes."
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Nov 13, 2012 11:47
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 (Titans #15) Panels like this are why I miss the old Teen Titans.
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Sizone posted:I like to think that's because Batman is secretly a huge anime fan, putting on the costume and fighting crime allows him to cosplay, like, every single night. Wasn't there a panel where Batman detects the Martian Manhunter's disguise because he used a character name from Sailor Moon? The subtext, of course, being that Batman prepares for all situations by sitting around and watching anime all day.
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theflyingorc posted:Wasn't there a panel where Batman detects the Martian Manhunter's disguise because he used a character name from Sailor Moon? whatsabattle in the last thread posted:
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In case anyone was wondering, it's a giveaway because Rei Hino is secretly Sailor Mars.
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Igiari posted:In case anyone was wondering, it's a giveaway because Rei Hino is secretly Sailor Mars. Thanks. I never got what he was talking about. 
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I was just thinking how great it would be if that actually was just some Japanese newspaper editor and Bruce Wayne is actually a bit racist.
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I didn't know the Sailor Moon thing, but there's another give away. Hino is a surname and Rei is a feminine forename, and while it's in the correct order when speaking in Japanese, they always switch them around when they're speaking English. It would be like going around pretending to be French and telling people your name is Dubois Phillipe.
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Yeah, but Clark is the one giving the introduction, and he is assuredly not a Japanese citizen.
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What? Why would someone flip the names back around again to the Japanese-style order when that person would have introduced themselves in the Western-style order? Unless the conversation is supposed to be in Japanese, it would sound weird to anyone familiar with Japanese names. Literally no one in Japan uses the Japanese-style order when speaking English, it's drilled into them repeatedly in standardized English curriculum in junior high school.
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Because Clark Kent is not a native Japanese speaker
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CapnAndy posted:Because Clark Kent is not a native Japanese speaker Why does that matter at all? "Hello, Clark Kent, my name is Rei Hino" "Nice to meet you Hino Rei, you see I am switching your name around because that's what you Japanese do, isn't it? Boy I sure do love speaking in English this whole conversation." <It's a good thing this Clark Kent fellow can't understand Japanese or he'd know I am muttering about how racist he is in Japanese>
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J'onn is hardly a native Japanese speaker either. And he obviously took the name from some anime he watched anyway.
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I remember Millar - who wrote that scene - mentioning that he'd asked a Japanese speaking friend for a name that translated to "Poet of Mars," which was J'onn's old profession. Apparently his friend played a prank on him.
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The other thing is that "post funny panels" is also "post funny panels" in Japanese.
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To get things back on track here is a panel from Wolverine and the X-Men #20 without context.
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Cassa posted:Scarlet Spider is great and you should all maybe check it out because I think you might like it? This man speaks truth.  Scarlet Spider #6
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Today's The Amazing Spider-man strip.
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JediTalentAgent posted:Then you get Peter going around and using his powers to become the greatest chef in New York City to live up to the lesson she taught him before her death: "With wheat flour comes wheatcake recipes..." I would loving read this.
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Cassa posted:
Did he straight up kill that driver?
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The MSJ posted:Today's The Amazing Spider-man strip. God, I love Newspaper Spider-Man more than any other Spider-Man.
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ImpAtom posted:God, I love Newspaper Spider-Man more than any other Spider-Man. They need to have Peter excel at this janitor job. Like, after being a shutterbug and lab geek and TA, he finds his life's calling. "Parker, great work! It's so clean in here I'd swear you even cleaned the ceilings!"
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Avengers Assemble #9 Hulk and Tony try their hand at recruiting fellow Avengers to help them win a bet.  
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Terror Sweat posted:Did he straight up kill that driver? Just really badly injured him. But Houston loves him anyway.
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Waterhaul posted:Avengers Assemble #9
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