Batman #92

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"I got permission to post [Punchline's] design online, and everything went nuts. Books started selling out, and I made the dumb comment that I was excited for her REAL first appearance in 92 (by which I only meant her entering the story and interacting with the other characters), and then folks were saying I was trying to say Hell Arisen wasn't her first appearance, so on and so forth.

The real truth is that new characters don't always equal buzz. I think it's the power of the design, the power of a dark new rival for Harley, and the excitement for a Joker story where readers don't know what's going to happen, because now there are new elements in the mix with the potential to change everything. We weren't expecting it, but we're thrilled it's captured folks attention and interest.

And now the responsibility is on US to make her matter, to make her a character worthy of all that attention." -- James Tynion IV

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The Joker 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular

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"All throughout comics and Batman and Joker history, the Joker is really pushing the idea that Batman needs the Joker, you know, 'you're nothing without me, you need the other side of the coin.' The idea that there is this symbiotic relationship. I liked the idea of flipping that around: What is Joker without the Batman like? He's been trying to kill the Batman for years, but what if he actually succeeded?

So now he's having this existential crisis where he realizes that the only enemy he's ever respected, as he says in the comic, the only audience who ever understood the joke that he was trying to tell is gone. So now he realizes that without Batman, there isn't really anything left for him to do. There's no-one that he respects enough to appreciate what his anarchic criminal comedy routine is all about.

I actually think that one of the better Batman movies in recent recent history is The Lego Batman Movie. It's actually really good, and the idea that the Joker desperately needs to be in this relationship with Batman, — I think throughout comics history, that's been expressed far more as 'Batman needs the Joker,' how much he needs to look like a nemesis to fight against, a worthy adversary, but I don't know to what extent that's really been explored from the Joker's side of it. So that, for me, was the catalyst to the story." -- Gary Whitta

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He-Man and the Masters of the Multiverse #3

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"I feel like that's the hardest part so far. Making this a story and having it have stakes and have character moments and everything but also making sure that fans get to see all the things that they want to see. I think the hardest one was in Issue #3 we go to the 2002 era cartoon and there's a lot of expectations about how that show ended and feeling like I have to at least touch on some of these stories is really hard but also that I have to get everybody in there. You want to see King Hiss. You want to see Hordak. The version of Trap Jaw from that cartoon is the best design, I think, so making sure that's all in there is the hardest part." - Tim Seeley

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Mod Post - Off-Topic Tuesday

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In the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like. Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.

As last week, current affairs are under a cut.

( Current Affairs )

I've been continuing to watch Stargirl and remain impressed. Genuinely shocked by episode 3, normally in these that's the point where the core team of support staff has been built around the hero, but here that was subverted, and Courtney had to deal with failing to save someone, one of the few people whos' actually been nice to her.

(I have to say I'm enjoying the show, but perhaps it's my age that makes me a little uncomfortable with the Courtney/Pat dynamic. I mean, I'm the last person to object to the driven, heroic teenager approach, it's laudable and admirable and as old as the genre, but Pat is Courtney's stepfather first and her sidekick second, so I'm sort of on his side a lot more than her's when it comes to dealing with the bad guys than I am on hers, so far.)

In unexpected news, Hartley "Ralph Dibny/Elongated Man" Sawyer has been fired from The Flash, following the resurfacing of some racist and sexist tweets.

Doctor Who Lockdown had planned to livetweet "World Enough and Time" and "The Doctor Falls" to end their series of events, but cancelled it when it was noted that a story where a black gay woman is killed onscreen, then further dehumanised by being turned into a Cyberman in the most bodyhorror Cyberman story in years, was perhaps NOT something to do in the midst of current events. A wise choice I feel, though the promised extra material of a sequel by Steven Moffatt (Who credits Pearl Mackie with some of the points raised) was released, which even addresses recent events and is, if you'll pardon the pun, just what the doctor ordered.

Daniel Radcliffe has reaffirmed his longstanding support of the trans community following JK Rowlings latest, highly problematic tweets on the subject

Has anyone watched Snowpiercer on Netflix? Worth a watch?

Oh and speaking of Netflix, it appears there's a teensy weensy little problem that the US might have with their Space Force... Netflix got the trademark first in Europe, Australia and Mexico.

And a mere 29 years after their last movie, Bill and Ted Face the Music finally has a trailer!



And a new Theme Week, is upcoming, so stay tuned (Yes, in the middle of Pride Month, but these things are not mutually exclusive)

Harley Quinn #73

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Nightwing #71

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