Batman: Arkham Titty

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Or, more accurately, Arkham Unhinged, the prologue comic for videogame Arkham City. I haven't played the game yet, but I have been following the Catwoman Bitch story, the DLC nonsense and the Harley Quinn based queer panic of the game, so when the prologue appeared on Comixology for 99c an issue, I was interested enough to hand over my money.

All together, it's 60 pages of story for $2.97, which is a decent return. The comic itself isn't that great. Two Face does lots of things in twos. Batman sneaks up on people, and punches other people. Hugo Strange menaces in the background. And Catwoman...

is the main character of this series.
3 scans from #1 and 2 from #2
Handily, there's a news report on Arkham City to set the scene for the story. Like many people, writer Derek Fridolfs possibly thinks that news reports make for boring and artificial exposition. how to jazz that up?






Strange's goons steal Catwoman's stuff and Batman rescues her. After a drive in the Batmobile, she hits the ejector seat. Then they fight.



The editor is listed as Jim Chadwick, but I'm not convinced that there wasn't editorial interference from Titfish.

The art is passable, and the story is decent. To be honest, it's what you'd expect from a book that's $2.97 for 60 pages.

Did we ditch the cheesecake and boobs tags?


I've not played the game, but I'll probably pick it up once I've finished Assassin's Creed Revelations, Bioshock Infinite, Tomb Raider and it's come down to a platinum price

Comments

[shadowpsykie]

you know, i hadn't noticed it until the final catwoman mission, by that point i was like... okay, i get it you are bad guys but SERIOUSLY you can't think of a better word than that?

[filthysize]

It was distracting from the get-go for me, since Two-Face calls her a bitch like four times in a single cutscene.

Actually, while I understand other people complaining about the demeaning and misogynist use of the word, as a profane man myself, I was more bothered by the redundancy. If it was a few well-placed use of bitches in the dialogue, I can totally get behind the "bad guys use bad words so this in context is clearly indicative of the use of the word being wrong" argument, but when all I did was show up on a rooftop ledge and suddenly twenty thugs in the vicinity go "THE CAT BITCH IS HERE!" "BITCH WHAAAAT?" "OH BITCHETY BITCH BITCH!" You have to wonder if they put any thought into the recorded dialogue at all. It seems dismissive, and therefore sexist.

[shadowpsykie]

oh i only heard it once or twice before the final mission, up until then i was like, eh bad guys. but during the final mission that's all i heard. it was like OH JEEZ! think of something else! ANYTHING else... i mean really! that said... it made me beat up the bad guys soooo much harder....

[biod]

You WOULD think such a superstitious and cowerdly lot would have a more expanded vocabulary for the profane. What about "Trollop"? Do people still say that?

[mrstatham]

For me, it got tiresome since I tended to ignore the main mission sometimes and go after trophies, and that way, you heard loads more 'bitchbitchbitch' and the inmates yammering about her.

On the flipside, though, Penguin calls Batman a wanker on repeat and that got equally tiresome, frankly.

[shadowpsykie]

playing DCU online has made me annoyed of the Penguin long ago...s tupid robot pengins.... force fields and tk don't work on you.... rassfrassa....

[mrstatham]

Did DCUonline reimagine him as a farcical British-gangster wannabe who the developers have shoved into an unfortunate gritty incarnation by making him tough, spouting curses and having a glass bottle shoved into his eye socket in place of the classic monocle? If not, this incarnation is far, far more annoying.

[saralakali]

Well, they can hardly call her a "c*nt" in a rated-T-for-teen product. And you know that they wanted to.