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?
Moe Lane Continue reading #rsrh Picking the wrong Batman villain.
…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. Continue reading I can still think that “Batman, Incorporated…”
This… got sent to me, I think. Anyway, I actually thought about not posting this for natsec reasons, but I figure that the bat is out of the bag.
Besides, it’s kind of hard to argue that someone is trying to hide something when they happened to have painted A BIG WHITE BAT SILHOUETTE on the roof.
More here.
From Cracked.com, of course:
[The villains of Gotham] keep charging at Batman one at a time, even with 13 of their cohorts lying on the ground with broken collar bones. We’re not suggesting they just walk away and give up their life of crime–we understand that anybody who’s signed up to be a henchman for The Joker probably isn’t qualified to do anything else. But maybe you should fall back and try a new strategy. You’re not going to be the first guy in history to punch Batman into submission. Leave until you can come back with some dogs.
Of course, Batman will have a plan for that.
Because he’s Batman.
In some ways, this frame from Cracked.com’s 6 Insane Batman Comics Courtesy of Tasty Hostess Cupcakes says it all. Or about Hostess
Sweet God, but the pre-Reagan era purely sucked.
So I will. If you are a geek, this is going to make you feel a whole hell of a lot better about life.
I promise.
Via AoSHQ Headlines. Continue reading #rsrh I’d rather blog about this than Eric Holder.
