Detective Comics #5

[superfangirl1]

After his battle with the Dollmaker, Batman is trying to keep peace in an increasingly restless Gotham City. With the flesh from Joker’s face hanging in the Gotham City Police Department, many people believe that Batman has killed the Joker. This causes a lot of anti-Batman and even pro-Joker sentiment.









Meanwhile, news reporter Charlotte Rivers investigating a story on Gotham’s newly opened Iceberg Casino, runs afoul of the club’s villainous owner.

Comments

GET OFF MY LAWN

[jlroberson]

DC: continuing its long tradition of completely misunderstanding the nature of protest activism, and having Batman punch hippies.

Re: GET OFF MY LAWN

[espanolbot]

Eh, considering the Manson thing not all hippies are undeserving of their punches. Though the most direct Manson homage in the DCU is technically Ragdoll from his time in Starman, and he used bums instead of out of work dancers and out of work musicians.

Re: GET OFF MY LAWN

[jlroberson]

This is all true, and yet Batman also really, really likes punching hippies.

Re: GET OFF MY LAWN

[icon_uk]

Don't we all?

Re: GET OFF MY LAWN

[janegray]

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I like hippie music

Re: GET OFF MY LAWN

[icon_uk]

Oh some of the music is fine, it's just the hippies that come with it.

(As so often happens, I'm reminded of Lord Vetinari, Patrician of Ankh-Morpork;

Lord Vetinari, the supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork, rather liked music.
People wondered what sort of music would appeal to such a man.
Highly formalized chamber music, possibly, or thunder-and-lightening opera scores.
In fact the kind of music he really liked was the kind that never got played. It ruined music, in his opinion, to torment it by involving it on dried skins, bits of dead cat and lumps of metal hammered into wires and tubes. It ought to stay written down, on the page, in rows of little dots and crotchets, all neatly caught between lines. Only there was it pure. It was when people started doing things with it that the rot set in. Much better to sit quietly in a room and read the sheets, with nothing between yourself and the mind of the composer but a scribble of ink. Having it played by sweaty fat men and people with hair in their ears and spit dribbling out of the end of their oboe...well, the idea made him shudder. Although not much, because he never did anything to extremes.

In Which I Lose My Own Point Before Your Eyes

[jlroberson]

I like gothish types of music(usually by bands like Bauhaus who goths claim but who reject the term themselves), and find the way goth girls dress to be quite attractive, and yet want to kick most actual goths so they can know what there actually is to mope about. So I can relate.

I'm just sayin', Batman's always about the hippie-punching. Surely emo chins are even more satisfying.

Then again, here he's punching clowns. What am I saying?

I cannot be against any form of brutality to clowns. It's the sign of a healthy society to repudiate and loathe the clown in all its forms. And kick them.

Some may think I am extreme, but will all come to see my view in the end.

Re: In Which I Lose My Own Point Before Your Eyes

[icon_uk]

Again, Lord Vetinari is the despot for YOU then

Despite being technically a dictator, Lord Vetinari does not exercise the despotic rule that characterised some of his predecessors. He is, in fact, the archetype of a benevolent dictator, in a chilly, inscrutable way. In The Truth, he permits the emergence of a free press, and has rarely, if ever, been known to have innocent people just dragged off to dungeons without a trial: The notable exception to this rule are mime artists, whom Vetinari despises. Vetinari banned all mime performances from Ankh-Morpork shortly after taking power. Mime artists who violate the ban usually find themselves hanging upside down in Vetinari's scorpion pit while reading a sign saying 'learn the words.'

Re: In Which I Lose My Own Point Before Your Eyes

[jlroberson]

So, not just FREE speech but OBLIGATORY speech.

"Yew dressed just like a clown, boy, but I don' see ya makin' me laugh. I better hear some jokin' or there's gonna be a hangin'."

"Let's give him a REAL box to try to get out of, Sarge."

'Yeah, 'cept ours ain't glass and we put a hungry rat in with 'im."

Re: In Which I Lose My Own Point Before Your Eyes

[icon_uk]

You really should try the Discworld books, I think you'd like them! The City Watch does indeed include a couple of folks who might well think it fun to suggest such a thing, though would be easily bribed not to.

Lord Vetinari did not administer a reign of terror, more an occasional light shower.