Moe Lane

This is a true thing.

The world doesn’t end until the Batman says it does.

— The Batman (@God_Damn_Batman) December 21, 2012

I find this… disturbing.

In a cute sort of way. (more…)

It’s pretty clear from the narration of events that he and his team (this story is from the 1980s, when O’Brien was a member of the infamous Harvard Lampoon) succeeded. I don’t think that they were planning to keep Burt Ward’s Robin costume; in fact, I’m getting the impression that Ward thought that this entire thing was both hysterical, and flattering (I’d say that it was both, myself).

I have no idea why I wanted to get this on the record, either.  It’s just been kind of bugging me.

Batman and Evil, Ben Domenech.

The Man Who Shot Joseph Curwin, Ken Hite.

Postulate: If HP Lovecraft had lived and gotten a job with DC he would have been one Hell of a writer of Batman comics*.

Discuss.

Moe Lane

*Admittedly, I’m kind of stealing at least the skeleton of that postulate from Ken.  Hopefully, he won’t mind.

H/T Pejman.

“CONDOR GRIP!”

This is an old story – one that Jim Geraghty (via the Morning Jolt) reminisced about while noting the time that Mitt Romney saved a bunch of people* from drowning – that relates the time that Mitt Romney had somebody take a swing at him on a flight.  Supposedly, Romney had asked the guy in front of him to put his seat up before takeoff (Romney and his wife flew economy class, by the way**), the guy swung on him, situation resolved by local security forces.  Nothing unusual, right? …No, that’s just what THEY want you to think. There’s a conflicting report. (more…)

Apparently it’s going to be Geek Friday here at Chez MoeLane.com.

Via Do Gooder Press.  I have a complex reaction to Batman: The Dark Knight Returns.  On the one hand, it’s brilliant.  On the other hand… well, the Internet has had many the discussion about whether this and/or Watchmen permanently sent the comic book genre spiraling down into an existential pit of horror, despair, and absurd poses.

On the gripping hand, The Dark Knight Strikes Again frankly sucked.

“Yes, sir, I’m sure that you are.  You also don’t have tags on your car.”

That’s… fair, by the way.  Admittedly, a license plate on your Lamborghini quasi-Batmobile detracts from the general image, but we all must accept that there will be restrictions to our art in this fallen world.

Although I can’t get the damned DLC to download properly. Aside from that: it really is totally freaking sweet.

Gimme a break, they don’t quite make these things for kids anymore anyway.  Anyway, I keep seeing clips like this, which tells me that there are depths to the show:

I mean, seriously.  They usually don’t let Batman be surprised at anything.   Because he’s Batman.  I love the character – he’s my favorite in the DC universe, except for possibly Plastic Man – but seeing him get blindsided like that was kind of endearing.

Via Nodwick.

President Obama isn’t the Joker, after all.

He’s Two-Face.

Speaking into a microphone which he may not have realized was still relaying his remarks to the White House press room — where Knoller had been listening to earlier remarks that were open to the press — Mr. Obama bemoaned GOP leaders’ attempts to attach a measure to the budget bill which would have cut funding for Planned Parenthood.

“Put it in a separate bill,” the president said he told Boehner and his staff. “We’ll call it up. And if you think you can overturn my veto, try it. But don’t try to sneak this through.”

Apparently, the opposition’s publicly trying to fulfill promises to their political base is ‘sneaking,’ while privately pandering to (via some slandering) to one’s own political base is not.  Hot Air’s right: it’s striking how President Obama apparently loves the very thing that Senator Obama hated; a strong Presidency.  I guess it looks different from the inside?

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…is kind of goofball, right?  I mean, I got no quarrel with Randy’s take on the French Muslim Batman of Paris (sounds like a modern art painting title), but the idea of franchising the Caped Crusader seems a bit… weird.

Mind you, I don’t currently buy Batman comics, so I can probably be safely ignored anyway. (more…)