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Date: 2012-01-12 01:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-12 01:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-13 04:20 pm (UTC)When you have Bruce's speech in Snyder's first issue, in the real world, the issue of gentrification would definitely be hotly debated. I listened to a few meetings by people with the same POV as the protesters years back, when it was a rising issue in San Francisco. It's very similar to this, actually: it comes from an initiative to "clean up" the city by advancing it, making it nicer, etc, but what these shiny new buildings attract are middleclass (and usually white) people; whereas the disenfranchised minorities and counterculture people get pushed out to the fringes and eventually driven out of the city completely. "Get rid of crime" initiatives are too often synonymous or at least simultaneous with "get rid of poor people ghettoes." And that's always the most uncomfortable subtext of Batman, isn't it? That when he's not saving the world and just prowling the slums, he's essentially a rich guy beating up poor people at night and sending them to an overcrowded prison system (something I really loved about Batman Begins was their version of Joe Chill not being a career criminal or mob lackey, but a repentant guy driven to an uncharacteristic act by poverty).
In any case, this is a shared universe done right. Not crossovers or major events, but ripple effects and points of views. Gail's taking something that is noble in Snyder's book and showing a different side to the coin. That's good universe building.
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Date: 2012-01-12 01:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-12 02:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-12 07:15 am (UTC)Reaching out is nice, but she's asking a whole hell of a lot if she expects forgiveness and acceptance over the space of a cup of coffee. Babs has every right to be not just angry, but betrayed and bloody furious.
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Date: 2012-01-12 01:30 am (UTC)Another art thing I noticed--anyone got a Dodson vibe from the way Syaf drew the faces here? I really felt it in the second panel of the second scan.
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Date: 2012-01-12 03:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-12 02:11 am (UTC)Yes, it sounds weird that I think the Joker should kill someone "important" to characters and the readers. But if they're going to sell the idea of how dangerous the Joker is in the DCnU, he should kill someone somewhat important.
Most Dangerous Villain
Date: 2012-01-12 02:38 am (UTC)The Joker IS Anarchy, he's an insane clown that lives in a world that makes schizophrenics seem normal.
To me Bane and Ra'as Al Ghul were written to be the most dangerous Batman foes.
After all, Lex Luthor isn't Superman's most dangerous foe - DARKSEID IS.
But we focus more on the Superman-LL dynamic because it's a more personal relationship, LL is intimate in his hate of Superman and is Obsessed with the B "S".
It's the Joker's obsession with Batman that makes him an iconic villain. Sure the Joker has poison gas, but so do a lot of people. The Joker's more than just an "urban terrorist" as he himself stated. He's outsmarted the police and shown that despite all the odds, he always seems to find a way...
Re: Most Dangerous Villain
Date: 2012-01-12 06:38 am (UTC)Re: Most Dangerous Villain
Date: 2012-01-12 10:47 am (UTC)Return of the Joker > A Death in the Family
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Date: 2012-01-12 05:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-14 04:52 am (UTC)Surely Harley would have mentioned it, at least.
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Date: 2012-01-12 06:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-12 07:22 am (UTC)It's not unrealistic for a mother and daughter to look that much alike, and there may be a message in it (like, you will never escape being her child -- look at how similar you look, blah blah blah). But it's a bad execution. I'm really not interested in having to strain to see who's who.
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Date: 2012-01-12 08:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-12 12:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-12 11:45 am (UTC)Wayne: People, please! No one has lived in these buildings for at least thirty years! They are actually falling down by themselves at the moment! And... Wait a minute, Ollie is that you?!?
Queen: Boo! Down with the self entitled rich!
Wayne: Ollie, you are aware that I'm actually trying to create jobs here by stimulating the economy, right?
Queen: Bah, you're rich, you probably have ulterior motives!
Wayne: Ollie, you're only slightly less rich than me. And besides, it's not like I'm knocking down the building because it's associated with a centuries old secret society with an owl motiff or something...
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Date: 2012-01-12 12:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-12 12:34 pm (UTC)Ok. Who is this?
Date: 2012-01-13 10:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-13 10:38 pm (UTC)LOOK IN THE MIRROR MUCH??
Geezos cripes. Barbara's mother looks younger than she does.
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Date: 2012-01-13 10:45 pm (UTC)"Alysia, I'd like you to meet my mother. We have the exact same features and we're about the same age."
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Date: 2012-01-14 06:04 pm (UTC)