Thursday, December 21, 2006
Batman questions Santa’s superhero credentials.
Thursday, December 21, 2006
I was going to make a post about Batman #410, an all-time favorite issue of mine, for my Nostalgia Week, but I’ve decided not to on the grounds that I plan reading all the Jason Todd era comics sometime soon. I also plan on blogging about those old stories, so in hopes of reducing redundancy I am canceling the final nostalgic post. Well, postponing it, really.
But before I get into reading old-school Batman, I’m going to be reading through my stacks of What If…? issues. Be ready for fist fulls of hypothetical situations and high body counts, because What If..? However Long I Take Getting Through Them is about to start!
Monday, December 18, 2006
I thought I was brilliant to use a digg-like content management system to create a user-run comic book news site. I called it Pull List and it was going to be teh next big thing. It didn’t matter that no one, including myself, used it.
But now I see that someone has gone and done it better. ComicNe.ws is the very same concept but looks much better. And it has a bunch of passionate users and relevant news.
God, I’m depressed.
Saturday, December 16, 2006
It’s a good thing I’ve been taking my time picking up my comics or else I would have screeched out loud in the middle of the comic shop. Have the editors of DC lost their minds? Behold this great offense that is in 52 #31!
Tim did not wear the green hotpants! I mean, he did once when he first showed up to save Batman from Two-Face, but he wasn’t officially Robin then. When he took down the Scarecrow he was wearing a ski mask! He didn’t put the costume on again until Alfred put pants on it! For shame, DC editors, to forget a vital element of Tim’s origin! In a retelling of his origin at that!
Oh, my God! What if this is one of those retarded changes for the Post-Crisis Post-Infinite Crisis New Earth? I let the Joe Chill thing slide, but this is intolerable!
Monday, December 11, 2006
I wish to go on record that I don’t give a shit about the silhouette of a penis that appears in Spider-Man: Reign #1. Seeing a penis does not scandalize me. I have one of my own.
Now, I would love to see this same kind of outcry* for every time the outline of nipples or labia graces the pages of a superhero comic. Of course if that happened, comic book shops would be burning across the nation.
I also want to go on record as saying I don’t care if the story is just like The Dark Knight Returns. So is almost every other Batman story since 1986. Shit, every plot in a comic released this week is bound to have similarities to a dozen other comics released in the last seventy years. Fanboys, and I use this term in the most derogatory way possible, have a very skewed idea of what constitutes as originality. The differences between Spider-Man and Batman are enough to make Reign interesting in its own right.
And I like the artwork, too.
*Well, it couldn’t exactly be the same kind of outcry since most of the objecting voices come from homophobic fanboys who feel violated at the site of a penis other than their own.
Batman questions Santa’s superhero credentials. 
