B'wana Beast? B'WANA BEAST?!?
I'm not sure buying me off by including Dr. Fate is going to work...
This is not funny. This... this is a morality tale about the evils of sake.
Simon ,'Objects In Space'
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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.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 02, 2004 2:59:11 pm PDT #5169 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Polter-Cow - Aug 02, 2004 3:24:49 pm PDT #5170 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Is this animated Batman any relation to the earlier one? Or something brand new?
According to the article, it's brand new, and called The Batman. The art style, from those bad pictures, doesn't look too different from the original, though. The Penguin looks just like I remember him.
Michele T. - Aug 02, 2004 7:47:18 pm PDT #5171 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
It is different creators, and therefore a different continuity.
Hayden - Aug 03, 2004 6:35:40 am PDT #5172 of 10000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Wasn't The Question the proto-fascist guy that Rorschach was based on?
Frankenbuddha - Aug 03, 2004 6:40:52 am PDT #5173 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Wasn't The Question the proto-fascist guy that Rorschach was based on?
That's what the original Steve Ditko Question was like. The DC version (it was penned by Denny O'Neil, I think - I have a big run of those but it's been years since I read any) toned down the Ayn Randian philosophy quite a bit.
Tom Scola - Aug 03, 2004 6:42:56 am PDT #5174 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Rorschach, was based on The Question, and The Question was created by Ditko, who inserted his Ayn Rand/Objectivist ideology into the character.
While I certainly don't agree with those beliefs, I don't necessarily believe that "facist" is a particularly accurate label either.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 03, 2004 6:46:51 am PDT #5175 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
While I certainly don't agree with those beliefs, I don't necessarily believe that "facist" is a particularly accurate label either.
Well, but I think it was accurate to how the Ditko character was rather blase about taking out bad guys a la very early Batman.
Hayden - Aug 03, 2004 6:46:51 am PDT #5176 of 10000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Thanks! I've never read any of the Question comics, but I've read references to the guy in several essays about The Watchmen (and the Flex Montello mini-series, which features a Question-like guy). I didn't realize that there was a post-Randian Question.
amych - Aug 03, 2004 6:52:06 am PDT #5177 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
but I think it was accurate to how the Ditko character was rather blase about taking out bad guys a la very early Batman
!= fascist
Frankenbuddha - Aug 03, 2004 7:01:59 am PDT #5178 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
!= fascist
I'd say the little-f definition of "fascism" from the Miriam-Webster would fit:
2 : a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control