Batman Vs. Bigby! A Wolf In Gotham #2

[cyberghostface]

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[mazway_75]

Bruce? The "my nose is twitching" bit is cute with Ralph Dibny. It comes off creepy from you.

[armycat23]

Lol I almost think the writing for Bruce has got to be a joke. It seems very similar to some bad fanfic stuff I've read. The "oh no, my city" XD.

It's like somebody writing this book who never read or watched batman, but knows the basic principles of the character.

[zachbeacon]

The writer's previous work on Bat-books wasn't exactly a high point either. Fables was great and Bigby and Batman could potentially work as a buddy cop team but while Willingham is the best person to write one of them, he's not very well suited to write the other.

I mean, War Games alone ...

[armycat23]

Yea, bigby is written fine. I wasn't even sure that was supposed to be Bruce untill bigby called him "detective".....thats how out of character he is.

[tinygaylaura]

"I haven't spent a lifetime in the game without learning how to spot someone thoroughly guilty"

Thomas Elliot, Lincoln March, Harvey Dent, Dr Hurt: We beg to differ on this

Also in current continuity like a good quarter of his rogues are all people who were employed by his company at one point

Sorry but someone who didn't think Jervis Tetch had any red flags doesn't get to claim they have some bullshit Sherlock-O-Vision

[cyberghostface]

Harvey Dent at least was a decent guy before he got the acid.

[zachbeacon]

I suppose it depends on the incarnation. Upon rewatching, the Harvey from the Dark Knight is kind of an asshole and the one from tAS is a violent psycho.

But Two-Face is still capable of being a decent person. He was through most of No Man's Land and he protected Gotham during the One Year Later time skip. I don't normally buy into the "Batman creates his villains" thing but Harvey does seem to be a better person when Batman isn't around.

[cyberghostface]

TAS Harvey was struggling with mental illness and was being provoked by Thorne but I wouldn’t call him a violent psycho.

[cainofdreaming]

He wasn't a violent *psycho* in Long Halloween either, but they did hint that one of the Holiday Killer murders was committed by him.

[lego_joker]

Tetch working for Wayne Enterprises was unique to BTAS, I believe - though that doesn't lessen the WTF factor one bit. What was Bruce doing funding mind control research?!

[tinygaylaura]

Snyder made it canon in the comics as well a little while ago.

Which means Mad Hatter, Mr Freeze, Poison Ivy, Dr Death and the Riddler are all ex Wayne Enterprises employees

I really think they need to look at their hiring policies

[cainofdreaming]

Those hires that happened under Bruce were probably so that he could keep tabs on them. Control freak that he is he probably keeps tabs on the science community for those most likely to turn supervillain.

Which is actually kinda rational, in a comics universe. Seems like you can't throw a stone without hitting an academically educated villain.

[tinygaylaura]

That sounds suspiciously like the superhero version of The Light constantly claiming that even when they lose it was all part of their plan

Which seems like a pretty convenient way to cover your ass for when you fuck up

"No the whole time I was employing these clearly deranged future supervillains I was actually keeping tabs on them to make it easier to stop them"

[gnarll]

I had thought Batman had some sort of Worlds Greatest Detective reasoning indicating that Bigby was a wolfman/thing. Because the alternative is that Batman attacked a man for the crime of being able to sneak up on him, beat him up while he was trying to talk Batman down, and then dragged him off to chain him up in the Batcave. It sounds like a pretty big overreaction from Bruce.

[agent8]

well TBF, for the crime of being able to sneak up on him, and for the cardinal sins of not instantly explaining who he was, and what his business in Gotham was. Someday I'd just love to see Batman try that on some stranger and get his @$$ handed to him for it.

[cainofdreaming]

"So, *cough*, who are you anyway?" "Saitama."

[tinygaylaura]

Honestly "It's totally fine for me to drag people to my insane manbat-cave after I abducted them because my brain tells me they did a crime" isn't exactly a slam dunk for justice in Gotham either

[beyondthefringe]

Not pictured: the scene where Dick, on Batman's behalf, is apparently running an entire training program of Robins, who start off as Eggs before becoming chicks before becoming Robins. Dozens of kids in this sidekick boot camp.

[deh_tommy]

To play the Devil’s Advocate for a minute, if people are gonna be part of that whole “We Are Robin” social movement and Batman, Inc. is presumably a thing, might as well keep them safe, vetted and properly trained. Sherlock Holmes has his homeless network, Batman has his birdwatching catalogue.

[tinygaylaura]

The Joker: *Walking into this camp* I FEEL LIKE A KID IN A CANDY STORE