TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
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But that makes the case then that the half-asian girl gets taken out of the book at the last minute for the white girl who will inevitably hang herself in Thailand.
I'd so buy a series about Cassandra just wandering the world, and punching things in the face what need punched in the face.
They could call it Bat-Fu: The Legend Continues.
That sounds freaking amazing.
Cass as White Canary on the other hand, sounds terrible and I doubt it'll happen. She's met Black Canary, what, twice? So why would she suddenly become White Canary? Doesn't make sense.
i still say Cassandra should show up and Damian should be mouthing off at how he is the best fighter blah blah blah and then Cass kicks like 10 dudes asses and never gets touched and that's the first time Damian gets a boner
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i still say Cassandra should show up and Damian should be mouthing off at how he is the best fighter blah blah blah and then Cass kicks like 10 dudes asses and never gets touched and that's the first time Damian gets a boner
um.
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143999Tellin' yanot askin' ya, not pleadin' with yaRegistered Userregular
i still say Cassandra should show up and Damian should be mouthing off at how he is the best fighter blah blah blah and then Cass kicks like 10 dudes asses and never gets touched and that's the first time Damian gets a boner
"MOOOOOM, Deathstroke's controlling me again!"
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i still say Cassandra should show up and Damian should be mouthing off at how he is the best fighter blah blah blah and then Cass kicks like 10 dudes asses and never gets touched and that's the first time Damian gets a boner
I want a Bat-family book. Bruce, Dick, Barbara, Cass, Tim, Jason, Damian, etc, they could really make a dent in crime and stuff in a big part of the world.
Also, those Bat-punk vigilantes from DKSA. Bat-army.
I always loved the DKSA's Batboys, and have long thought that'd be a great name for Damian, if he ever had to stop being Robin. With the way he insisted that he should be Batman rather than Dick, I always thought it'd be awesome if he started dressing like a little mini-Batman, and everyone would just be all, "Oh hey, it's Batboy!" "BatMAN!" "Sure thing, Batboy."
You would think a Bat-Fact would be the highest honour bestowed upon a fact.
Superman is sometimes wrong.
Even when he's wrong, Batman is right.
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TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
edited June 2010
Superman is wrong 1% of the time but has good intentions.
Batman breaks an innocent GCPD officer's nose because she told him to freeze while he was hovering above the Penguin and had the gall to point a gun at him because she's a cop.
Superman goes to Africa to help villagers and children, I never see Batman do that.
Every time anything needs to be rebuilt or someone needs expensive medical care or an orphanage needs funding or whatever, Wayne Industries foots the bill. He also offers secretarial work to illiterate child prostitutes!
He's not teaching them to fish, he's giving them a fish because he has a billion other fishes to sleep with.
that's more of a Superman issue than a batman issue. Superman regularly faces the question of whether or not his protection discourages humanity from learning to protect itself.
TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
edited June 2010
This was answered in Camelot Falls.
Superman basically said "I'll lift the people up and they'll be better."
And seeing as how everyone in the government seems to plan against Superman, he's helping them protect themselves. Frankenstein cut a Kryptonian in half during the War!
-- In the "Today" part in the Frank Quitely section, did anyone else catch the resemblance of the thugs in Crime Alley to the thugs from Dark Knight Returns?
-- In the Batman Gallery towards the back, that first Dustin Nguyen page in all red was way sinister. Totally awesome though, but holy crap that's really dark for Nguyen.
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-- In the "Today" part in the Frank Quitely section, did anyone else catch the resemblance of the thugs in Crime Alley to the thugs from Dark Knight Returns?
Batman called them The Mutants. They're inspired by the DKR thugs
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FencingsaxIt is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understandingGNU Terry PratchettRegistered Userregular
Superman is wrong 1% of the time but has good intentions.
Batman breaks an innocent GCPD officer's nose because she told him to freeze while he was hovering above the Penguin and had the gall to point a gun at him because she's a cop.
Superman goes to Africa to help villagers and children, I never see Batman do that.
I always thought it was because she shot him. Granted, his bulletproof stuff stopped the bullet, but still, How shitty a Gotham cop do you have to be to shoot Batman? My biggest problem with the Gotham Central series is that it was basically 90% of the cops were corrupt/incompetent, and yet they whined all the time about Batman doing their job for them. Still a great series, though.
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FencingsaxIt is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understandingGNU Terry PratchettRegistered Userregular
He's not teaching them to fish, he's giving them a fish because he has a billion other fishes to sleep with. Bruce Wayne is Troy McClure.
Luthor Corp is so much better, he rebuilt Gotham and asked for nothing in return. The man's a saint.
Nothing except he was trying to take ownership over the whole city.
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TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
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Fencingsax, the sarcasm, the sarcasm
And I think you're right about the officer shooting Batman first, although he asked for it when he didn't stop (I basically remember him punching her in the nose ala JLI)
edit: The best part of Batman #700 was Dick using the batons again and saying he needs to have them on his batsuit.
It also felt like DC gave Finch and Kolins some pages to draw in the issue because it was a bargaining chip to get them as exclusives.
That was awesome, yes. As were the Batman Beyond and 1,000,000 nods.
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Linespider5ALL HAIL KING KILLMONGERRegistered Userregular
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I'm honestly not sure how I feel about 700-mainly because I hate backmatter stuff. The galleries are cool, no doubt, but I like reading comics cover to cover, it always annoys me when there's stuff at the end, making me think it's a bigger book. Mentally I'm not at the end of the story yet when I've got ten pages left in my right hand.
I wish I could say it was the ideal Batman from the Planetary crossover, but that's just based on the cityscape. The costume has the yellow emblem, and futuristic utopias all kinda of look the same.
-- In the "Today" part in the Frank Quitely section, did anyone else catch the resemblance of the thugs in Crime Alley to the thugs from Dark Knight Returns?
Dick straight up refers to them as "the Mutants"
As for the issue? I thought it was uneven, yet there was still a lot to love. The first story was a little muddy, but that may have just been because of Tony Daniel; it felt muddy in the same way that RIP did, And it was never really clear until the second story that the maybe machine actually manipulated time. The Second story was just golden, despite the art change. The story was strongest here: the premise was consistent yet charming, the banter genuinely funny, and I loved the little things like Dick taking the time to shave while in the most Batman pose possible while on top of a gargoyle. In the third, the art was strongest, and the story was cool and consistent with 666. But I had 2 incredibly irrelevant nitpicks: One, the Joker venom was never before explained as the chemical bath that bleached his skin. Two, I don't like that Damian left Max to die like that. I know I know, he's still arrogant and he does kill, but the way I read 666 is that he only kills when he sees no alternative, and each time he does, he considers it a personal failure and a mark that's he's not as good as Bruce or Dick because he couldn't do it WITHOUT killing. You could easily handwave it saying he just did not have time, or I could just be misreading how he acted in 666. Either way, still an enjoyable chapter. And I would complain about the Gallery, but I loved every single one. The preview for Batman Odyssey annoyed me more than that did.
-- In the "Today" part in the Frank Quitely section, did anyone else catch the resemblance of the thugs in Crime Alley to the thugs from Dark Knight Returns?
Dick straight up refers to them as "the Mutants"
As for the issue? I thought it was uneven, yet there was still a lot to love. The first story was a little muddy, but that may have just been because of Tony Daniel; it felt muddy in the same way that RIP did, And it was never really clear until the second story that the maybe machine actually manipulated time. The Second story was just golden, despite the art change. The story was strongest here: the premise was consistent yet charming, the banter genuinely funny, and I loved the little things like Dick taking the time to shave while in the most Batman pose possible while on top of a gargoyle. In the third, the art was strongest, and the story was cool and consistent with 666.
Man, this was one story, not four separate ones.
And do you think, perhaps, the first story was a bit "muddy" because Batman was tied up and out of his mind on trippy science experiments while his worst enemies were blowing hallucinogenic drugs everywhere (and into Robin's face!) and cackling and screaming like complete maniacs? That the chaos of all of that might also have come across in the storytelling? Like R.I.P., also? That if things weren't completely explained in that first scene, that's cool, because they were later on in this very issue?
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That sounds freaking amazing.
Cass as White Canary on the other hand, sounds terrible and I doubt it'll happen. She's met Black Canary, what, twice? So why would she suddenly become White Canary? Doesn't make sense.
Darkseid Omega Sanctioned her into her late teens
i still say Cassandra should show up and Damian should be mouthing off at how he is the best fighter blah blah blah and then Cass kicks like 10 dudes asses and never gets touched and that's the first time Damian gets a boner
um.
"MOOOOOM, Deathstroke's controlling me again!"
what
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Also, those Bat-punk vigilantes from DKSA. Bat-army.
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Fact.
Superman is sometimes wrong.
Even when he's wrong, Batman is right.
Batman breaks an innocent GCPD officer's nose because she told him to freeze while he was hovering above the Penguin and had the gall to point a gun at him because she's a cop.
Superman goes to Africa to help villagers and children, I never see Batman do that.
https://twitter.com/Hooraydiation
Luthor Corp is so much better, he rebuilt Gotham and asked for nothing in return. The man's a saint.
that's more of a Superman issue than a batman issue. Superman regularly faces the question of whether or not his protection discourages humanity from learning to protect itself.
https://twitter.com/Hooraydiation
Superman basically said "I'll lift the people up and they'll be better."
And seeing as how everyone in the government seems to plan against Superman, he's helping them protect themselves. Frankenstein cut a Kryptonian in half during the War!
-- In the "Today" part in the Frank Quitely section, did anyone else catch the resemblance of the thugs in Crime Alley to the thugs from Dark Knight Returns?
-- In the Batman Gallery towards the back, that first Dustin Nguyen page in all red was way sinister. Totally awesome though, but holy crap that's really dark for Nguyen.
Batman called them The Mutants. They're inspired by the DKR thugs
I always thought it was because she shot him. Granted, his bulletproof stuff stopped the bullet, but still, How shitty a Gotham cop do you have to be to shoot Batman? My biggest problem with the Gotham Central series is that it was basically 90% of the cops were corrupt/incompetent, and yet they whined all the time about Batman doing their job for them. Still a great series, though.
Nothing except he was trying to take ownership over the whole city.
And I think you're right about the officer shooting Batman first, although he asked for it when he didn't stop (I basically remember him punching her in the nose ala JLI)
edit: The best part of Batman #700 was Dick using the batons again and saying he needs to have them on his batsuit.
It also felt like DC gave Finch and Kolins some pages to draw in the issue because it was a bargaining chip to get them as exclusives.
So damn good
Loved the Damian-Batman setting in a Gotham terrorized by Joker Venom falling in the rain
Still, more Bat-Damien is all right by me.
Then again, it's hard to get pissed about paying $5 for a comic that was so damn good otherwise
Was the one I missed a new improvisation, or was it based on something I'm unaware of?
Dick straight up refers to them as "the Mutants"
As for the issue? I thought it was uneven, yet there was still a lot to love. The first story was a little muddy, but that may have just been because of Tony Daniel; it felt muddy in the same way that RIP did, And it was never really clear until the second story that the maybe machine actually manipulated time. The Second story was just golden, despite the art change. The story was strongest here: the premise was consistent yet charming, the banter genuinely funny, and I loved the little things like Dick taking the time to shave while in the most Batman pose possible while on top of a gargoyle. In the third, the art was strongest, and the story was cool and consistent with 666. But I had 2 incredibly irrelevant nitpicks: One, the Joker venom was never before explained as the chemical bath that bleached his skin. Two, I don't like that Damian left Max to die like that. I know I know, he's still arrogant and he does kill, but the way I read 666 is that he only kills when he sees no alternative, and each time he does, he considers it a personal failure and a mark that's he's not as good as Bruce or Dick because he couldn't do it WITHOUT killing. You could easily handwave it saying he just did not have time, or I could just be misreading how he acted in 666. Either way, still an enjoyable chapter. And I would complain about the Gallery, but I loved every single one. The preview for Batman Odyssey annoyed me more than that did.
Man, this was one story, not four separate ones.
And do you think, perhaps, the first story was a bit "muddy" because Batman was tied up and out of his mind on trippy science experiments while his worst enemies were blowing hallucinogenic drugs everywhere (and into Robin's face!) and cackling and screaming like complete maniacs? That the chaos of all of that might also have come across in the storytelling? Like R.I.P., also? That if things weren't completely explained in that first scene, that's cool, because they were later on in this very issue?
Just sayin'