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A friend of mine just posted to Facebook that she's watching the 60s Batman show and that she feels that it's a truer representation of the character. She feels the Nolan movies tried to hard to modernize him.
Excuse me while I pick up the pieces of my detonated head off the floor.
Well, the comics in the 60s were pretty wacky, so a case could be made that the show reflected the source material of the time.
She's never heard of Frank Miller, I'm assuming? Or maybe the comics at all?
Yeah, I don't know. She's fairly geeky, but I don't think she reads comics.
My comment on her post was "Batman's whole concept is that of a child driven to revenge after watching his parents brutally murdered. I really don't think the old 60s TV show matches that at all." Which comes across harsher than intended in retrospect, but I was dealing with an exploding head at the time.
I'll ask her if she's familiar with the comics at all, or if her only conception of the character comes from the assorted TV and movie appearances.
I want to say TV and movies have been more whacky than not, but thinking about it, the only whacky modern incarnations have been "Batman Forever", "Batman and Robin" and (sort of) "Batman: The Brave and the Bold". Everything else has been varying degrees of the Dark Knight-concept.
Burton's movies featured a Batwing equipped with giant scissors and an army of penguins wearing rockets on their backs.
And Burton also admitted he never read the comics either.
Burton's movies featured a Batwing equipped with giant scissors and an army of penguins wearing rockets on their backs.
Point. I haven't watched those movies in ages. I just remember everyone being shocked at how "dark" they were because most non-comic folks were used to the 60's TV/Super Friends Batman.
Gail Simone has been fired from Batgirl: [link]
Which adds one more to the tally of JUST HOW MANY FUCKING TIMES ARE YOU GOING TO GUT ME, DC?
edit: on the plus side, I apparently just introduced several of my non-fan twitter friends to the word "cockpunch". Go me?
By email, even:
As of Wednesday of last week, I was informed by an email from my new editor that I am no longer the writer of Batgirl.
There should be a rule about that. Phones, people!
Srsly. Possibly worse than an email breakup.