"Cat"?
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You know what? I'm going to tell myself that since Bats is so anal about prep-time he has that feature in the Batmobile because he once rescued an injured infant and saw that he didn't have an adequate place to put him and rush him to the hospital. It has nothing to do with Helena, Trop, nothing to do with Helena.
I'm still waiting for the title of that series to change to "The Goddamn Batman."Nothing, if it were the All-Star Batman.
Yes, that's kind of the whole point. The display case is a symptom of a deeper disease.
Funny, I didn't actually remember Dan DiDio's name in the credits as Writer on the War Crimes crossover.
Prep time.
It's like I always say, the dysfunctional family is the most functional. It's the neat and tidy suburban ones you gotta really watch.
Not on the face of it, no, but Batman and Catwoman could have a pretty healthy, mature relationship and still retain what makes them who they are.
I'm pretty sure the resolution to War Crimes, and in fact War Crimes in general, was editorially mandated. All roads lead to Didio, especially the bad ones with shoddy pavement and dead bodies on the sides.
I know we all like to blame DiDio for some of the shadier **** going on in the DCU over the past few years, but I think guys like Johns and Morrison are just as influential on the direction the DCU has taken. And while Johns and Morrison have done a lot of great stuff (Darthphere be damned), some of the blame for these things should go in their direction as well. Obviously, DiDio has to sign off on it, but I think that it's Johns and Morrison who have really steered this back-to-the-Silver-Age movement (not that I disapprove of it) from Day One. Morrison's feelings on this were made clear way back in Animal Man, and I think you can see his work move in that arc ever since that time. And as one of the most influential men in comics, it's easy to see how that spills over to other creators, and to the entire editorial direction of DC Comics.
You probably know this, but I kind of meant that a lot of their recent work has been good too. I loved Morrison's Seven Soldiers. Johns is unstoppable on this new Booster Gold series. They've made some recent missteps, although I disagree with you on the number of missteps. But the overall arc of the DCU is pretty solid, to me.
I don't think people give Morrison enough ****. If the general DCU trend pisses you off, Morrison deserves the lion's share of the blame. I really do believe that his Animal Man run is the original catalyst for all of it, and that he is the biggest driving force behind it.Darthphere said:
Wow. I'm genuinely impressed. You're more open-minded than I thought.
True, he's not an editor, but he doesn't write ****-around bull**** titles. He writes 52, Batman, JLA, etc. What he writes is BIG ****. Bigger, even, than Infinite Crisis, because who gives a **** about just one more crossover, really? But 52 set the tone for the DCU for a good while to come. His JLA accomplished more character development for its characters than any of them were getting in their solo books at the time. And Batman is always a top seller, because of the name. He's an incredibly influential writer who, with rare exceptions, writes for influential titles.Darthphere said:
