Red Hood: Lost Days #6 (Spoilers!!!)
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scans_dailyAKA the final issue of this mini-series and the issue where I was like omgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomg
cuntfucius, levy and whitesycamore will be giddy about this.
Four pages.
Whoa! WHOA! WHOA!! Hotter than I expected. Ahem! He wakes up and she's gone. She leaves him with a note and another very important gift, which I was so, so, so glad to see in this.
Oh hey, look! Jason uses gmail. Mary Borsellino will be pleased to know about the dagger in this.
Here's her entry from evenrobins.net on Jason's dagger. Quoting from the entry:
Red Hood’s weapon of choice is a dagger with a waved blade. This edge design has been popular in numerous cultures throughout history, with a variety of connotations attached to the distinctive shape.
In simple, practical terms, a waved blade allows for a longer overall edge distance than would be present in a straight dagger of the same length. Waved blades in longer weapons, such as Flamberge swords, have the added advantage of causing the other weapon in a duel to vibrate, thereby making one’s opponent uncomfortable. This would not be true to any noticeable degree in a weapon such as Red Hood’s knife, however.
The origin of Red Hood’s knife within the Batman comics themselves is most likely the story “The Lazarus Pit!” from issue #243 in 1972. One of the original Ra’s Al Ghul stories by the O’Neil/Adams/Giordano team, this issue saw Batman forced to duel against a man who owed debts to both Ra’s and Batman. Both opponents weilded waved daggers.
As Judd Winick, the writer responsible for the entire Red Hood arc, utilised the Al Ghul family as a significant plot element, it seems likely that this classic storyline was one of the key inspirations behind Red Hood’s dagger.
Just as with the history of waved daggers in the real world, however, the element of pure aesthetic interest must be taken into account. Placing a waved dagger in a panel is more visually interesting and suggests a greater degree of ritual — whether the reader is aware of the legacy of the Keris blade or not — than a simple knife can.
Whatever the reasons may be, Red Hood’s dagger has developed iconography of its own, and now casts a shadow of specific meaning forward over any future appearances of such weapons in future Batman stories.
I'm so sad to see this mini-series end.
cuntfucius, levy and whitesycamore will be giddy about this. Four pages.
Whoa! WHOA! WHOA!! Hotter than I expected. Ahem! He wakes up and she's gone. She leaves him with a note and another very important gift, which I was so, so, so glad to see in this.
Oh hey, look! Jason uses gmail. Mary Borsellino will be pleased to know about the dagger in this.
Here's her entry from evenrobins.net on Jason's dagger. Quoting from the entry:
Red Hood’s weapon of choice is a dagger with a waved blade. This edge design has been popular in numerous cultures throughout history, with a variety of connotations attached to the distinctive shape.
In simple, practical terms, a waved blade allows for a longer overall edge distance than would be present in a straight dagger of the same length. Waved blades in longer weapons, such as Flamberge swords, have the added advantage of causing the other weapon in a duel to vibrate, thereby making one’s opponent uncomfortable. This would not be true to any noticeable degree in a weapon such as Red Hood’s knife, however.
The origin of Red Hood’s knife within the Batman comics themselves is most likely the story “The Lazarus Pit!” from issue #243 in 1972. One of the original Ra’s Al Ghul stories by the O’Neil/Adams/Giordano team, this issue saw Batman forced to duel against a man who owed debts to both Ra’s and Batman. Both opponents weilded waved daggers.
As Judd Winick, the writer responsible for the entire Red Hood arc, utilised the Al Ghul family as a significant plot element, it seems likely that this classic storyline was one of the key inspirations behind Red Hood’s dagger.
Just as with the history of waved daggers in the real world, however, the element of pure aesthetic interest must be taken into account. Placing a waved dagger in a panel is more visually interesting and suggests a greater degree of ritual — whether the reader is aware of the legacy of the Keris blade or not — than a simple knife can.
Whatever the reasons may be, Red Hood’s dagger has developed iconography of its own, and now casts a shadow of specific meaning forward over any future appearances of such weapons in future Batman stories.
I'm so sad to see this mini-series end.
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Date: 2010-11-04 12:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-04 12:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-04 09:14 am (UTC)yeah, maybe a normal guy would but Bruce keep on falling for women that are threatening his safety - going against him and his will and that's probably rooted in his incapability of commitment and handling close human relationships that are not with him in total controll or with him completely unable to control the other element of the pair. Alfred is maybe the only exception.
Remeber Jezebel? as much as I hated that plot it still happened.
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Date: 2010-11-04 10:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-04 02:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-04 02:51 pm (UTC)Surely not, but that's what is done by both the writers and the audience on a regular base, and that's one of the top depressing thing in this thread, her actions being judged on the reaction Bruce might have to that first and foremost.
pffff like he'd have any right to complain....
In my dreamworld, all of his robins fuck all of his ladies happily and he is left alone to age in solitude with the bats in the cave :D!no subject
Date: 2010-11-04 07:12 pm (UTC)Don't get me wrong, I would love her to be written as strong and independent as I'm from Middle East, too. It irritates me that one of the most famous female middle eastern characters in comic books is all about men. The way she's been portrayed though... It presses all my hot buttons.
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Date: 2010-11-04 11:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-04 07:33 pm (UTC)Talia sleeping with other men is not the problem but her sleeping with Bruce's son?! That will knock her out if Morrison induced rape didn't.
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Date: 2010-11-06 08:51 am (UTC)Has no one here seen The Graduate? Something's Gotta Give? No?
Young about to enter college student played by Dustin Hoffman sleeps with both biological mom and daughter? Much older man played by Jack Nicholson sleeps with much younger daughter and biological mother?
Or is that more socially acceptable than a woman doing the same thing with non-related father and son?