Batman thread 2015: There's a new Batman in town....

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Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

# ¿ Nov 8, 2015 14:41

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 12:37

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Teenage Fansub posted:

So, what'd everyone think of DK?

He's the leader of the bunch, I know him well.

# ¿ Nov 25, 2015 21:16

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

I don't even know who that is.

# ¿ Feb 5, 2016 00:20

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

That does seem pretty cool.

# ¿ Feb 5, 2016 00:35

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Squizzle posted:

On the one hand, I'm not a fan of gun culture, and love that the world's most popular street vigilante superhero simply does not use guns. On the other hand, I like to think that Batman's whole thing is taking shadows and fear and uncertainty and isolation—all the things that hurt him in his origin—and using them to protect people. He's there to say "These things are on your side, now. No more children need to be be hurt or scared by them". Batman exists, in part, to make sure no one else has his trauma.

When he adopted Dick Grayson, Bruce Wayne let him live a whole childhood of defeating the sort of people who killed the Flying Graysons. Becoming Robin gave that kid the only sort of therapy a broken-rear end Bat-mind could supply: control, power, and the ability to straight up laugh at everything that might hurt him. Batman raised that kid to have none of the fears and weird compulsions that Bruce Wayne never got over.

On some level, I think that every Batman sidekick who is at least comfortable around guns, is a success story for ol' Bruce. Not that they should want to use them, but, hey. I'm not making the editorial decisions on that stuff.

e: I'm a serious man and no fan of fun culture, either, but I corrected that to gun culture above.

# ¿ Feb 5, 2016 03:46

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Undercuts seem to be the new saggy pants where it makes a lot of people angry for reasons I can't understand.

# ¿ Feb 5, 2016 06:30

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Teenage Fansub posted:

My affection for electricity guns grew at least 500% after Greg Pak's first Action Comics arc.

People like to say DC does dumb things. Actually they've only done one dumb thing in the last two-ish years. That is not publishing a Lana Lang shooting electricity guns series.

I dunno, this seems pretty stupid.

# ¿ Feb 5, 2016 10:17

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

I was under the impression they had already said it hadn't happened to this version of the character. This halfway poo poo makes no sense. What's the point of a reboot if you still have to write in-universe explanations for your retcons?

# ¿ Mar 3, 2016 03:49

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

I can understand someone like Spider-man wondering if what Punisher does is necessary in the end.

I can also understand Captain America begrudgingly allowing Wolverine on his team because being blind to other perspectives cost the Avengers dearly.

But Batman? The ultimate control freak with the most unbreakable rule?

# ¿ Mar 3, 2016 21:40

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Bad movie ideas turned into comics is so great. I love Frank Miller's Robocop 2. It's like a master class in batshit crazy.

# ¿ Mar 4, 2016 06:16

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Those movies have not aged well, and I don't like being reminded of late 80s fashion.

# ¿ Mar 10, 2016 01:06

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

It's down there with that weird robot animal friends version of Batman and Beware The Batman for me.

# ¿ Mar 10, 2016 01:30

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

It's Wednesday.

# ¿ Mar 10, 2016 01:45

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Try and keep a count of how many people Batman murders in the film.

# ¿ Mar 10, 2016 05:55

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

It's fine if you guys like the Batman Burton films, but please don't act like people who don't are somehow joyless or care too much about the source material or whatever.

I just find them to be very stupid movies that waste some excellent performances.

# ¿ Mar 10, 2016 17:03

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 12:37

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Black Mask also appeared in those comics, along with Eel O'Brien and the False Face Society. It wasn't particularly memorable and the design they went with was kinda lame, but he worked well as a character that straddles the line between supervillain and regular old gangster.

# ¿ May 4, 2016 16:41

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