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MOTW 2-24-10: It's all in the timing
TexiKen
Dammit!That fish really got me!Registered User regular
Dammit!That fish really got me!Registered User regular
Batman & Robin #9 finishes strong, I don't really get the complaints out there that Dick is being mischaracterized, Morrison has a good handle on him throughout the whole series. And he references other series without being super invasive, and I want to see Cameron Stewart on this book again, screw Quitley. Stewart knows how to draw fight scenes that make good on one page. Love this guy's art:
And then they use a lazarus pit to save Batwoman and her dad shows up to get them all out of the tunnel and get back to Gotham:
and then Dick and Batwoman beat up the clone and Damien kills him and then Dick hits on Batwoman and could probably make her switch sides because he's that cool. And Dick points out Tim was right, Batman is still alive somewhere.
And Superman #697, still good, kind of rushing things to tie in with Adventure Comics and all the Legion stories showing up soon, but this was a fun Krypto scene:
I like how you have to play fetch with a Superdog using a steel rod.
And then they use a lazarus pit to save Batwoman and her dad shows up to get them all out of the tunnel and get back to Gotham:
and then Dick and Batwoman beat up the clone and Damien kills him and then Dick hits on Batwoman and could probably make her switch sides because he's that cool. And Dick points out Tim was right, Batman is still alive somewhere.
And Superman #697, still good, kind of rushing things to tie in with Adventure Comics and all the Legion stories showing up soon, but this was a fun Krypto scene:
I like how you have to play fetch with a Superdog using a steel rod.
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Is that not right?
EDIT: Also the general stupidity that
Oh... DW.
I like how you didn't show
What do you mean? Is mine missing a page? All I saw was
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He specifically raises the possibility of becoming a traitor right before then. I don't think he would unless that line of thinking was going to come to fruition later on.
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Even if he does, it's kinda silly for him to just flat out say it. Even if he is drunk on orange light, it comes off as very clumsy.
"You guys wouldn't believe the crazy night we've had!"
*looks around room and sees an angry Nick Fury, and Steve Rogers*
"Ok, you guys win. Your night was crazier."
All I know is, fucker is cool. He was so thrilled when Thor went down and Osborn stole his podium spot.
EDIT: and while I'm not as gay for Ghost.
*Upon looking at Asgard*
"Assessment: I have died and there has been a large clerical error in my afterlife assignment"
People such as me feel that Dick has been mischaracterized in this arc because, well, he has. Back in the Return of Ras Al Ghul storyline, Dick has a rather long fight scene against Tim where he convinces Tim that using the Lazarus pits to bring back people you love from the dead is wrong. Then, during the first Nightwing arc by Tomasi, this is brought up again in a conversation between Dick and Tim about how using the pits that way is wrong.
And in this arc, Morrison has completely ignored that, which sucks. This arc would have been far more believable if, say, Talia had stolen the corpse and tossed it in the pit. The other option for keeping this in character would have been not to rush getting Bruce back in the cowl, and slowly develop Dick breaking down under the pressure until he feels he has no choice. Dick doing it at this point is just out of character for what's been developed over the past few years.
He was wrapped in the lasso of truth, dude.
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It isn't ignored. His prior reluctance to use the pit is referenced in this very issue.
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Also well
A person saying that something is wrong when someone else does it and then trying to do it themselves and then regretting it is kind of really like a completely understandable thing.
But ya, totally in character.
And Dick killing someone, he killed the Joker once. And hitting on redheads, that's what he does, even when the world is falling down around him.
Granted Batman himself would reject the notion for inane moral reasons, not because it's logical but because heroes are supposed to turn down things like this, but Dick wouldn't care so long as Batman was alive. And yeah, if the corpse had been Bruce's, Dick would have Batman back.
As for why Dick is so happy at the end of the arc, I imagine it has something to do with learning that Bruce is indeed still alive. Why wouldn't he be happy, even considering his missteps?
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But how did that thing even get switched with the real one? Its all just so retarded.
There was no real corpse. There was only the fake corpse, the only one to avoid destruction. Bruce didn't leave a corpse behind.
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I feel like this only holds up if you consider the Lazarus Pits inherently evil. Which, I'll be honest, is something I've never understood. If I had a magic pit that would restore dead things to life, I'd be using that shit all the time. Dog gets hit by a car? Lazarus Pit. Forgot to water the ficus tree? Lazarus Pit. Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton? Lazarus Pit!
And really, Batman and Robin has largely been about how Dick isn't Batman. He's going to do things that Bruce's moral inflexibility wouldn't allow him to do, and when he falls on his face, he's not going to wallow in his failure like Bruce would. He's a bit too lackadaisical for that. It may not be entirely consistent with decades of continuity, but it's pretty consistent with how I view the character's personality.
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Yes, please. I am too poor to buy comix this week, so I am came in here hoping to see some awesome stuff.
I liked Sinestro cock-blocking Hal even more.
Giant Sinestro construct is just too perfect.
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I guess my motw is finding out about Hickman and Weaver's Shield thing. Man, that looks awesome as hell.
Science Adventure Hero Leonardo Da Vinci, why did no one think of this sooner!
Weekly Crisis Hype Machine talked about it too.
But that's just a Pool-O-Vision delusion, and Spidey and Wade double-team Hit-Monkey, with little success. Deadpool's momentarily incapacitated, and Spider-Man takes a bullet in the shoulder, prompting a repentant Hit-Monkey to put down his guns and halt the fight. Enter Deadpool.
I'd been waiting for Hit-Monkey to fire guns with his feet, and when it finally happened, I was so happy.
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Hey, remember that awesome time the cop, fireman and paramedic jumped Captain America?
Darkseid left one Batman-clone corpse so that when he hit Batman with the Omega Sanction (which would get rid of the real Batman), they would find "Batman's" corpse
So I need to go back to my LCS and buy Hit-Monkey?