I can't remember what Willingham did that made me stop reading him. Time to go look at Wikipedia, I guess.

Ugh. The bullshit with Leslie Tompkins letting Stephanie Brown die to teach Batman a lesson. (Which has since been retconned like crazy.)

Ah, thank you. I remember him being a prick about it, and basically daring people to stop reading him, so I decided why not? It was remarkably easy. He's good, but he's not special.

Under whose hand was it retconned?

Under whose hand was it retconned?

Man, I cannot remember. It was post-One Year Later; that's about all I remember.

I was surprised you hadn't read any of his other IM stuff.

I may try it in trades at some point, I dunno. He's in the Ellis category where... I love them, but not quite enough to dive into ongoing books. I think only Morrison can get me to do that. 'Cause obviously he's a wizard.

Batman started to go downhill once Denny O'Neil retired as the editor of the Batman titles, at the end of the Bruce Wayne: Murderer arc. The dude knows his Batman.

I honestly don't think that Objectivists would consider risking one's life (or risk of any kind, for that matter) to be inherently irrational if its done in the pursuit of something you value. In its own nutty way it's actually an ends-justify-the-means approach, not a cost/benefit check.

I'm fairly sure it happened in at least one or two Ayn Rand books, but it's been 20 years since my obsession with the crazy lady and my brief period of Objectivist Identification Syndrome. (Mind you, this does not stop me from wanting to scream at certain political people that Ayn Rand was a pro-choice atheist who couldn't support Ronald Reagan because of his stand on abortion, so she'd be rolling in her grave at them.)

Mind you, this does not stop me from wanting to scream at certain political people that Ayn Rand was a pro-choice atheist who couldn't support Ronald Reagan because of his stand on abortion, so she'd be rolling in her grave at them.

I'm betting those are the same ones who pick and choose which parts of the Bible they want to and ignore the stuff that doesn't push their agenda, so it doesn't surprise me in the least that they'd do the same thing with Rand.

I'm betting those are the same ones who pick and choose which parts of the Bible they want to and ignore the stuff that doesn't push their agenda, so it doesn't surprise me in the least that they'd do the same thing with Rand.

There *is* a similar missing of the point! Yeah, you're right.

10 Craziest Superman/Batman Stories.

I like IO9 because they'll give a hat tip to slash, even if most of their audience thinks it's icky. It's a sci fi nerd site run by fangirls.