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Discussion of Buffy and Angel comics, books, and more. Please don't get into spoilery details in the first week of release.


Frankenbuddha - Apr 15, 2004 7:09:11 am PDT #1676 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I seem to recall reading that he only used a gun twice in the normal continuity (of course, I read this was years and years ago.)

Well, I'm thinking of back in the 30s, so not much continuity with present day, at all. I think by the time Robin was introduced, he no longer used guns (although villains still had a way of falling off of high places - permanently).

eta Now is that an archetypal buffista x-post or what?


Bishop - Apr 15, 2004 7:10:07 am PDT #1677 of 10000
Lapsed Lurker

You forgot about the "I believe you" moment with the kid. He hoists a huge gun in his hands and points it at the bad guy.

ETA: Sorry, this was in response to that cool and fairly comprehensive list of "gun moments" in DKR.


sumi - Apr 15, 2004 7:11:02 am PDT #1678 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!

So, you're saying Bats doesn't like guns?


Frankenbuddha - Apr 15, 2004 7:12:18 am PDT #1679 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

So, you're saying Bats doesn't like guns?

But he likes salad shooters. Since they work on carrots.


Steph L. - Apr 15, 2004 7:30:03 am PDT #1680 of 10000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Why is it not part of the main continuity?

There's the whole set-in-an-apocolyptic-future thing.

See, I read comics, and I just assume that what I'm reading is just, well, The Way It Is. I kind of assume that everything is part of continuity.

And then, like I said, it was the first Batman comic I've read, so I had no comparison to realize what it was a departure from.


§ ita § - Apr 15, 2004 7:32:00 am PDT #1681 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I kind of assume that everything is part of continuity

Do not read the X-Comics.

So far, I think there are three or four continuities. I'm more than a little lost, but enjoying much of the wander.


amych - Apr 15, 2004 7:56:18 am PDT #1682 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

So far, I think there are three or four continuities.

You know, a nice bit of Crisis and they could clear that problem right up....


§ ita § - Apr 15, 2004 7:58:42 am PDT #1683 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

But then I might lose the two I like (Ultimate and New Mutants). At least, I think they're both non-standard. I'm a little unsure, because Uncanny and New X-Men both refer to a recent event I can't find, and I'd thought New X-Men was a different continuity anyway.


Tom Scola - Apr 15, 2004 8:00:48 am PDT #1684 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

I just had flashbacks to rec.arts.comics in the 1980's, when they would post an Unresolved Uncanny X-Men Plot Thread List, which ran into the hundreds.


§ ita § - Apr 15, 2004 8:01:36 am PDT #1685 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

an Unresolved Uncanny X-Men Plot Thread List

God, I loved that thing. Now I'm going to have to hunt one down.