Batman: Killing Time #3 - "Every Man Has His Flaws"

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I modeled him in my mind after when Cable came on to the X-Men back in the early 90s. He was an old guy who'd just been in every fight already when he arrived. I remember that just blowing my brain. I was like, "I've never seen this guy and he already knows everybody and he's already beat them up??" -- Tom King

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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.

The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.

Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.

It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.

The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than me.

In the UK, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II celebrates an unprecedented seventy years on the throne and as Head of State. Opinions differ on the Monarchy, but her staying power is impressive. 

Also in the UK, our esteemed Prime Minister reacted to the release of papers saying that he and his Ministers had behaved improperly... by proposing to rewrite the rules so that Ministers who had behaved improperly would not be expected to be fired if caught and it is deemed a minor case by... the Prime Minister.... Not sure that's the lesson we were hoping he might learn, but the lack of surrpise is palpable.

Oh, and touting the suggestion that Brexit means the UK would not triumphantly "allow" imperial measurements to be used in shops... despite the fact we were never banned from using imperial measurements, it's just most people have now grown up with metric (or are able to handle both systems) making this perhaps the most blatant bit of nostalgia power distraction in... well, weeks days for this bunch.

The Star Wars Celebration happened over the past weekend, with many a tit-bit dropped, but most of the trailers and panels not being released to the general public. I can see the desire to make the events there exclusive, but given the past couple of years, one might have hoped they'd embrace the more open approach. Oh well... at least we had the first two episodes of "Obi-Wan Kenobi"! and a trailer for Rogue One prequel "Andor"

The Simpsons had Hugh Jackman as guest star in their season finale "Poorhouse Rock", which is basically a deconstruction of late stage Western capitalism and the demise of the middle class in musical form.

Batman Annual 2022

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( Scans under the cut... )

NoScans - Gotham Knights TV series trailer has dropped

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And... it's a thing

( It's definitely a CW thing )