I'd love for you to tell me about Spider-Man's Dick Grayson, his Tim Drake, his Alfred, even his Jason Todd. We know who his Catwoman is, I suppose, since she's kind of an embarrassingly straightforward ripoff of Catwoman.
Which he does, but part of what makes him interesting is the concept that he might be entirely wrong. Morrison just told a hell of a story about that very thing in Batman RIP that nobody got for the exact same reasons that the same people don't get Final Crisis.
You don't like rich white men who try to be vigilantes, but you love the guy who revels in his rich-white-guyness? You are a puzzle, my friend.
Yeah, if you call Frank Castle sane, you need to read the Ennis Punisher and the Grant Punisher. There's nothing remotely sane about Frank Castle. But there's a lot awesome about Frank Castle. And what's awesome about him is that he's a little bit nutty.
Because that's what functional means! Functional means never airing your grievances and letting them give you an ulcer and slowly make you so ****ing crazy that you get dangerously enmeshed and sell your marriage to save the life of this awful old ****-and-piss-factory ****e of a woman.
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So he's less pimpin' than Batman. Thought you liked the billionaire playboy thing.
Creepy, sicko, ****ed-up love. But I will say that the more I think about it, the more it totally fits with his character and the years of sublimated emotion that never showed itself good God his relationship with his aunt isn't right.
Batman, meanwhile, hangs out with Superman so often they have an ongoing comic together that I think has breached the 50-issue mark or will soon, and they had another one back in the day called World's Finest that was like 200 issues. They've also got a comic book going with Wonder Woman that transcends the very icy grip of death to keep Batman hanging out with his buddies a little bit longer.
Do yourself a favor and start reading new DC comics
I've all but stopped reading Dynamite. They have a licensed property or two that I'm still reading because I'm one of those guys that reads everything my favorite characters appear in and the creative team is pretty good, but other than that, the whole debacle over the Phantom just smacked of the kind of wicked business practices that I can't stand. No more Dynamite for me, other than Man With No Name.
The Phantom property was licensed to Moonstone, as it has been for quite some time. When comics and superheroes were in the fiction ghetto, the licensor, King Features, didn't care that Moonstone wasn't making huge bank for them. Pop trends have changed, and superheroes are cool again. Dynamite basically exists as a shell company for Hollywood proposals, so they figured they could probably get a sweet deal out of King for the Phantom license, and essentially just bought the license without even consulting the current sub-licensor, Moonstone! Dynamite announced that it would begin publishing Phantom comics, counting on two things to bully Moonstone: 1) if Moonstone put up a fight, the larger publisher with the larger fanbase (Dynamite) would automatically win the PR War. 2) Moonstone wouldn't know its rights and wouldn't fight Dynamite's new Phantom comics, which would then take up valuable Phantom-buying dollars away from Moonstone. 3) Most fans (like you, presumably) wouldn't even know that Moonstone was publishing Phantom comics. Only the hardest-core of Phantom fans have been buying that book, because it's really good, but it doesn't have Dynamite's distribution and financial backing and Hollywood seed money. 4) Ideally, Dynamite even seemed to plan to try and get Moonstone to stop publishing! They seemed to be positioning themselves for some kind of legal attack to that effect, which Moonstone couldn't have funded a defense against.
You're a good man. Moonstone, and their much more faithful vision of the Phantom, need all the support they can get from the market.I just put the Moonstone Phantom series on my pull list at my shop earlier this week when I saw they were publishing a #0 issue to catch new readers up.
Wouldn't surprise me if they didn't list Moonstone. They're that ground-level. These guys are in it for the love, and you can tell that by what characters they've licenses, and how well they've treated them. They do great stuff with Kolchak, for example. Some fun Sherlock Holmes as well.
Because that's what functional means! Functional means never airing your grievances and letting them give you an ulcer and slowly make you so ****ing crazy that you get dangerously enmeshed and sell your marriage to save the life of this awful old ****-and-piss-factory ****e of a woman.
OK, I didn't realize you'd never actually read Batman. We can't really go much farther until you read some Batman.
...I don't...I'm not...what?
Again, you don't read Batman! You never did!
I did. And that is the point. To me, at any rate.
They're driven by similar events to similar actions, with one very marked difference (lethality.) Resources and wealth don't come into it. Wealth just allows Bruce Wayne to have more gadgets and tech.
I don't know what you're talking about. You said you don't like the rich-white-guy motif of Batman, but you love Iron Man, who is just an unashamed rich-white-guy who doesn't even care that he's a rich white guy.
The Punisher has been psychotic since his first miniseries under Steven Grant. That's the mini that defines the character. So yes, he was crazy, you just didn't see it because you need your characters to line up perfectly with how you want them presented. Also, strapping a few guns and going to war with the entire mob? That's ****in' crazy.
Yeah, I don't know how you could possibly interpret what Peter did as "healthy."
No I'm NOT. Are you dense or something? I'm comparing marriage to pimping, and I'm not comparing it to literal pimping. I'm comparing it to the pop-culture concept of "pimpin'," which means "ladies' man."
Yeah, well, Batman never did it.
Some people would say yes. Some people would say you only need a few friends. I know a few people who, whenever I try to get them to come out of their shells, tell me that they don't need more than a few friends. I don't get it, but whatever. To each their own. Batman is not the kind of guy who seems to want a lot of friends. He wants to get his job done. Again, Frank Castle doesn't have friends. At all. None. Not even that little **** who used to help him out with tech in the 90s--that guy betrayed him. But I don't hear you talking **** on Frank.
