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icy_one
07/27/09

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Who's the artist on the lead-in graphic? And why did he sew Batgirl's mask onto her face?
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Jonn
07/25/09

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"There are waffles in the first issue."

Sold.
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alphanumeric1971
07/25/09

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I want Barbera back!

I was totally pissed off with the way they treated her character for an essentially useless shake-up of the Batman mythos.
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omgwtflolbbqbye
07/25/09

@alphanumeric1971: What are you talking about? Barbra has been awesome as Oracle!

She's contributed more to the DC universe for the past 20 years that way than as Batgirl.
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alphanumeric1971
07/25/09

@omgwtflolbbqbye:Yes and all that was required to take out a quick reflexed vigilante was to just casually walk up to her door and shoot her.

If that's all it took to take her out, she should have died WAY earlier in her career.
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omgwtflolbbqbye
07/25/09

@alphanumeric1971: That was sort of the point though. Barbara and Jim never expected anyone to attack them at home, point blank, while opening the door in plainclothes.
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Gothamite88
07/25/09

@alphanumeric1971: Let's be completely honest, Barbara had much more crime fighting training after she was paralyzed than she did when she was Batgirl.
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sumocat
07/26/09

@alphanumeric1971: She was shot as Barbara Gordon, not as Batgirl. Her being shot had nothing to do with her vigilante career.
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alphanumeric1971
07/26/09

@sumocat: let's see, she's the daughter of the police commissioner. Your telling me that even if she never became batgirl, nobody including her would have thought that they would have tried to get at Gordon through her?

C'mon!!!
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Gothamite88
07/26/09

@alphanumeric1971: By that logic Sirhan Sirhan shouldn't have gotten the drop on RFK
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TheGreat&PowerfulTurtle
07/25/09

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I'm personally of the Stephanie-as-Batgirl bandwagon. She's owed a bigger role in the Family following that ridiculous "death" at the hands of Leslie Thompkins and being robbed of the Robin role.
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tammygarrison
07/25/09

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I LOVE TERRY. I would be so happy to see him back. I may even start reading comics more regularly again, if he were in them :) I hope it's Cassandra Cain batgirl... I miss her :) I liked her when she was cute and quiet and deadly.
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Gothamite88
07/25/09

@Tammy Garrison: Judging by the pics its probably safe to say Batgirl IV isn't Cass; unless she had a reverse-Psylocke thing happen to her.
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ninjajazza
07/25/09

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this whole mixup of who is under which mask isn't going to change much unless the writers can actually come up with decent stories.
also i still find dick playing batman to be a little off, since he's.. not batman. he doesn't have the motivation or the history, just the training. and surely someone's noticed nightwing disappeared?
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Gothamite88
07/25/09

@ninjajazza: He's got a whole nother set of motivation the death of his parents which is was lead to him being Robin in the first place and now the need to carry on for Bruce
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omgwtflolbbqbye
07/25/09

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Misfit? Is that you?
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MSUHitman
07/25/09

@omgwtflolbbqbye: From day 1 that's who I thought it was also.
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Gothamite88
07/25/09

@MSUHitman: It makes sense
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
06/28/09

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Red Robin??!!!??

What does he do, throw hamburgers at his opponents??

He should have taken over the Nightwing mantle..
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Gaambit
06/28/09

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Out of all of this, I'm most bummed by what has become of Tim Drake, who for years became more interesting to me than Dick Grayson. I think he needs a fun team-up with Bart Allen and Connor Kent (does he even know they're back? I've missed a lot).

I'm always willing to give Morrison another try, despite the last two events he helmed. His hit rate is always around .750 with me. Winnick, on the other hand, I have forever sworn off. I seriously want that man back at Marvel and away from some of my favorite DC characters.

I've enjoyed Rucka immensely in the past, but for some reason his Crime Bible stuff just never caught on with me. Sad to hear he's still using it in Detective now (and with Batwoman again! That characters whole existence/appearance seems to be tied up with Crime Bible thus far. Expand!).
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Alasdair Wilkins
06/28/09

@Gaambit: You'll definitely want to check out Adventure Comics #3 in a few months, as I'm pretty sure the cover promises a Red Robin/Superboy team-up.
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DocSeuss
06/27/09

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Hey, Williams wasn't the book's colorist, so you can't blame him for how pale she looks.
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Alasdair Wilkins
06/27/09

@DocSeuss: True - it's more a problem with the art in general. It's a little like whatever you see on the screen is the responsibility of the director, one could argue. Either way, I should have been clearer.
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SnehalMarten
06/27/09

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@ Graeme: You LUUUVVVVV Batman: Brave and the Bold and you're criticizing Grant Morrison use of outlandish characters? Not that I'm directly comparing the two - Grant Morrison is a genius - Batman Brave and the Bold is one of the most retarded cartoons I've ever seen. One clearly has questionable taste if they prefer the hideous Cartoon Series over the wonderful BATMAN RIP and FINAL CRISIS.

However, given that Grant Morrison is the ONLY reason I've deigned to buy a Batman comic book in like FOREVER, Clearly, Grant Morrison's Batman is the best BATMAN HAS EVER BEEN.
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Alasdair Wilkins
06/27/09

@SnehalMarten: You might want to double-check the byline, although I can understand the confusion (it's because I write in a Scottish accent, isn't it?).

Either way, I've got no issue with Grant Morrison's outlandish characters. I love most everything he's done from Animal Man to Doom Patrol to the Invisibles, and I'm generally well disposed to Final Crisis and (especially) Batman: RIP. I'm just saying that this new book will appeal even to those left cold by his last two works.
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Alasdair Wilkins
06/27/09

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There's one panel where she looks more like V from V from Vendetta than anything else, and that was a guy wearing a mask.

"Guy wearing a mask" - for the record, the pun there is only very, very slightly intended. But I was aware of it!
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Alasdair Wilkins
06/27/09

@Alasdair Wilkins: That first bit was meant to be in italics, by the way. I really do need to learn how to do formatting in these comments.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
06/23/09

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A quick Google Images search reveals that the rest of the Gotham City Sirens pic shows considerable junk in the trunk on Harley. I... I'm going to go sit down for a moment.
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Smeagol92055
06/23/09

@crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: You whore.
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OMG! Ponies!
06/23/09

@crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: Hush your mouth! That's my girl you're talking about!
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crashedpc - Haifisch
06/23/09

@Smeagol92055: R.O.A.C.H.:

@OMG! Ponies!: Yeah, well, she didn't seem to have any problems putting out with me.
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Obrysii
12/07/08

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Next week's preview looked nice, though I'm distracted by Kit Fisto's voice actor, as he doesn't sound too much different from Hermes from Futurama.
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Pessimippopotamus
12/07/08

@Obrysii: Seth Green?
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Pope John Peeps II
12/06/08

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Aaaah yes. Asokha does everything right, and proves how much better than each and every one of her teachers she actually is.

Got I hate that little shit. If I were a jedi, I'd turn evil just for the chance to murder her.
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Laffinboy
12/06/08

@Pope John Peeps II: Thank you. Totally agree. Moreover, I was perturbed by Asokha's ready use of terror and potential torture against a political prisoner, more bothered by her flippant rationale behind said tactics, and flat out angered that the actions were ultimately excused when the Luminara apologized to her at the episode's end with that lame "you were right" speech.
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Pessimippopotamus
12/07/08

@Pope John Peeps II: Well, that explains Darth Vader.
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Pope John Peeps II
12/07/08

@Laffinboy: Yah no frigging kidding! It's the ultimate insult. First, the extremely well trained and perfectly spiritually tuned jedi general can't handle Ventress's "unorthodox" tactics, and somehow gets beat. How and why? What? That's just stupid. And then somehow this mystical little girl can tip the scales.

And you're right about that terror rationalization. Oh, now that it worked, everything's fine? Well great. Welcome to the definition of evil.
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