Also, while I realize the Jossverse isn't exactly fair and equitable about what happens to people in earthly life, it has established that there are benevolent higher powers, and that the afterlife at least seems to be just. I don't see Wolfram & Hart being able to drag several million unwilling people (many of them innocent or virtuous) into hell all in a flash. We saw in "Reprise" that they're all about encouraging people to give in to their darker instincts with the eventual goal of hell on earth.

Interview excerpt with Brian K. Vaughan: [link]

Interesting! I didn't know there was a possibility of an Ex Machina movie. I don't know how any of those are going to turn out. I hope they're good?

Sounds like Runaways will be good - or at least the script will be since he's owning it. Y and Ex Machina not so much.

Uh. I think DC just killed Batman. For real.

(For all values of "real" in the DC universe, where Superboy-Prime could PUNCH A HOLE IN REALITY and bring Jason Todd back from the dead.)

(Which means that Batman won't stay dead -- they brought back Superman; hell, they even brought back Barry Allen, whose death was supposed to be sacrosanct -- because there's no way DC will keep one of its Big Three, in the original incarnation (Bruce Wayne), dead.

The question is just -- how long until he comes back?

t edit Oh, and -- how DC did it? Pretty fucking KICKASS.

Tep, did you see IO9's thread about Batman RIP?

First comments:

I'd love to see the Joker go on a detective crusade to unravel the truth about Batman's "death." No one gets to kill Batman except the Joker, and certainly not a Superman villain!

I would buy that series in a heartbeat.

Seconded. I'd love to see the Joker's interrogation of suspects.

Obama Disappointed Cabinet Failed To Understand His Reference To 'Savage Sword Of Conan' #24

That's awesome, Tom.

I think our country will be in very good shape if the best Obama ends up giving the Onion to make fun of during his presidency is how big of a geek he is.

Obama Disappointed Cabinet Failed To Understand His Reference To 'Savage Sword Of Conan' #24

Oh man, it's funny because I do that shit all the time! (Only Batman-y, not Conan-y.)

"When I tell my cabinet that getting bipartisan support is exactly like the time Conan got Taurus to help him steal Yara's jewel, they need to understand what I mean."

After receiving no reaction from the assembled reporters, Obama added, "Because a giant spider is protecting this chamber full of precious jewels, just like Congress is protecting its…. God, how are you people not seeing this?"

Ahahahaha!!! I have seriously had the same conversation with people, only swap out Conan for Batman, and "giant spider" for "punched a hole in reality," and I have totally had that conversation.

Gates told reporters he may have gotten off on the wrong foot with the new president, citing an occasion when Obama asked him what he knew about 1984's Secret Wars, a 12-issue limited Marvel release. Gates then handed a visibly confused Obama 1,400 classified pages on covert CIA operations in El Salvador.

::snerk::

Being almost exactly the same age as our president, I actually had issue #24 of The Savage Sword of Conan. (Indeed I had the run from #1 to #175somethingish).