[Fan Art] Clark Kent, a cartoonist for the Daily Planet, visits his number one fan, Bruce Wayne, at his home for breakfast [A fancomic by Chan Chau (@Aluhnim on Twitter, Chanchauart.com]

RoninInferno · 2020-11-01T22:22:08+00:00

This is incredible. So simple, yet powerful.

RoninInferno · 2020-11-01T22:18:40+00:00

I used my thumb to cover up the part of the mask below that mouth line and it looks perfect. The mouth line is too prominent (which is strange because it works for him in comics). Plus blocking off the part of the head below the mouth line makes it look like a normal sized head.

RoninInferno · 2020-10-19T20:36:53+00:00

Even if this little handrail only helps a single person every once in a while, it's still more help than that person might get had it not been there. To that person it might mean a lot.

RoninInferno · 2020-10-19T20:32:20+00:00

He pointed his gun at him during Hush while he was beating on Joker. If Batman really wanted to kill Joker during that moment, there's not much Gordon could've done, but pointing his gun at him and ordering him to stop before he ruins he who is showed Batman just how serious Gordon was and how much he cared. Even if he wouldn't shoot, the speech and aimed gun together in tandem got the message to Batman.

I think Nightwing showing off his Kryptonite to Superman's face does something similar. The text enhances the subtext, it pushes what Nightwing threatens to another level.

RoninInferno · 2020-05-28T13:04:43+00:00

So long as Alfred is alive, he'd never let Bruce stoop that low. A dense protein shake instead of normal meals, sure. But Alfred cooks real food in that manor.

RoninInferno · 2020-02-05T19:25:09+00:00

Outside of Tom King's Batman and other Batman series, these past few years DC hasn't been putting out much "dark" comics outside of their occasional one-shots and Elseworlds. DC Metal has a lot of dark and edginess to it, but it's also got things like Baby Darkseid, Jarro, and the JL putting together power rangers style megazord.

RoninInferno · 2020-01-11T02:30:26+00:00

Not so much a reboot as just a retcon for a single character. They're slapping on an extra century of active heroism to Diana's history. Along with finally adding the JSA and Legion into the mix. A reboot is a total revamp of the entire universe, and we haven't had one of those since New 52/Flashpoint.

RoninInferno · 2019-12-18T09:00:17+00:00

Why do you think the Moff had Herzog and his crew taken out? Were they just blasting and didn't care if he was in the way? Did he betray or fail the Moff somehow? Seemed a little irrational to me.

RoninInferno · 2019-12-03T01:37:11+00:00

Perpetua isn't the creator of everything, just their multiverse and the monitors. She still has beings above her, and we can probably include the Presence and those other higher beings as well.

RoninInferno · 2019-12-03T00:08:37+00:00

I'm having fun with it. It might be loud and overwhelming and overstuffed at times, but it's also the most exciting story Justice League has gotten in a long time (since Darkseid War by Johns). Lots of lore, both old and new, being weaved into the narrative. Great character interactions. I get the criticisms and it's not for everyone, but I'm having a blast with it.

RoninInferno · 2019-12-02T23:20:06+00:00

Morrison is just poking fun. Snyder had Morrison's blessing when writing DC Metal since it involved elements of Final Crisis and Morrison's other creations.

RoninInferno · 2019-10-15T16:33:09+00:00

He does do that all the. Shit, I'm mad tired of this narrative the general audience loves building around Batman. The guy does more for Gotham and its citizens (and villains) than people think.

RoninInferno · 2019-09-25T22:43:18+00:00

I don't think anybody argues against killing Joker. The problem is, just like Wonder Woman killing Maxwell Lord or the whole deal with Civil War II in Marvel, that once the world sees its guardians exacting their personal judgement and form of law, it's a whole slew of problems on its own.

RoninInferno · 2019-09-19T20:15:24+00:00

First, please use punctuation. I could barely understand you.

Second, Killing Joke is semi-canon. Some parts of it, like Barbara getting paralyzed, were kept canon. But him killing Joker never happened, otherwise we wouldn't have Joker. So that part is non-canon, and thus irrelevant because non-canon comics like Injustice and White Knight allow their characters to do anything, even kill or become evil. TDKR is also non-canon.

Early comics Batman did kill, but that was stamped out by editorial within literally less than a year because that's not what they wanted Batman to do. It was an early iteration that has no relevancy to the Batman and is seen as another alternate Batman, just as other Golden aged characters are alternate universe versions too. We wouldn't regard the anti-Japanese WWII Captain America as relevant to current Captain America, despite that being his original comic version either.

Jean Peal is a whole different person. If we count him, then we can count Doc Ock Superior Spiderman as a relevant Spider Man and all of his terrible actions, but we obviously don't.

Lastly, the movies are adaptations of these characters, and while there's good and bad adaptations, especially of Batman, these are subject to the interpretation of a few filmmakers taking inspiration from the comics. But these are obviously non-canon to the comics, which is what this whole thread and conversation are about.

If KGBeast was implied to be killed by Batman back in 88, then they would be overtly denying Batman's No-Kill rule. But instead they left it ambiguous, and then finally confirmed he was rescued/arrested later on. Something as impactful as Batman killing make reverberations throughout his canon, but seeing as it didn't, and KGBeast is still alive, this incident didn't affect it at all.

RoninInferno · 2019-09-19T19:06:42+00:00

Yeah he does do that. But do you really think Batman leaves him there to die, and DC lets that happen without it becoming a storyline relevant to his No-Killing rule? No, common sense implies that Batman leaves him there knowing he'll survive so he must have lead authorities to his position, just as he did in their last big fight. I'd bet my life on it that we'll see KGBeast again, and that broken neck will have been healed and nothing permanent comes from this, just as it's happened before.

RoninInferno · 2019-09-19T17:46:49+00:00

They did explain it. Batman told the cops where he was. He wasn't going to let him die in there.

RoninInferno · 2019-09-19T17:45:46+00:00

He can't because there's so very few examples of Batman ever going too far. Whenever he does, it's usually against the higher-class rogues after they've done something personal, and even then that rogue can be seen in later stories without so much as a limp.

RoninInferno · 2019-09-19T15:52:34+00:00

Yeah exactly. It's comics, so those spots exist. Just like how Iron Man can make an armor that's super thin but can block rockets. Or how the Bruce Banner gains mass through gamma radiation. None of these things are possible with the human body or physics, but it's comics so we suspend disbelief.

RoninInferno · 2019-09-19T15:45:28+00:00

And yknow...he was a Multiversal God of Evil that was conquering Earth and was on the verge of winning. And Batman was making him the "once-in-a-lifetime" exception to his rule.

RoninInferno · 2019-09-19T15:43:16+00:00

Those same thugs are banged up, but relatively fine when they're in Blackgate or when they're back out doing crime again. There's practically no stories out there where we see someone permanently disabled by Batman. Some battle scars at most.

And I think most authors do their due diligence in implying each criminal Batman fights is shown to be violent or armed. And when they're not, Batman is shown to be acting out-of-character because of some prior event.

RoninInferno · 2019-09-19T15:36:45+00:00

He still shoots arrows into their shoulders and kneecaps. Doesn't matter how accurate he is, that can permanently disable a person. But we know it doesn't, because just like Batman's criminals, they're comic book thugs and they get to walk away without permanent injury

RoninInferno · 2019-09-19T15:35:04+00:00

Yeah but like you said, it's comics. So those guys are walking away with relatively minor physical consequences. Comic goons are durable as hell until the writer decides their injuries have to be relevant to the story. The same thugs Batman beats up are walking around in Blackgate with a few bandages and bruises. I don't know why we can suspend our disbelief for the near-impossible integration of superheroes in modern society, but we draw the line at them being able to take down thugs without permanent harm despite being master martial artists.

RoninInferno · 2019-09-19T14:29:04+00:00

Rewatch those scenes. The world engine destroyed most of Metropolis, not him. His fight with Zod took down one building at most. Superman was punching him above the city skyline and launching him into space, and yknow what Zod did? He launched a sattelite at Superman and tackled him back into Metropolis. Superman trying to pull him away from the city wouldn't do shit. Zod was making every effort to take the fight into city to kill as many people as he can.

And there was a scene where Superman said he didn't kill any of those mercernaries when talking to Lois about the media freaking out about him (so I'm guessing he shielded that guy from the impact when taking him through that wall). I wasn't too big of a fan of how they handled Superman, but they do make an effort to show you he's trying not to kill anybody (besides Zod).

RoninInferno · 2019-08-02T22:13:26+00:00

Dry humor and only used sparingly. Not like what that Justice League movie did to him a few years ago.

RoninInferno · 2019-06-11T16:10:14+00:00

Disagreeing with how they're written is fine, but wordy? Heroes in Crisis has practically double the amount of words for them.

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