Naa naa naa naa naa AFFLECK!!I

I can't speak for others in the CBXF circle, but I for one and on the "Sure, why not!"

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Earth 2 (CBXF debates)

It all started with a an email from Tracie to the gang... Earth 2 and Batman... and this link: http://ifanboy.com/articles/who-is-the-batman-of-earth-2/

Tracie: Is the New 52: Earth-2 actually the Flashpoint earth???  

SNL Batman

DO YOU LIKE ADORABLE BABIES?

This is a comics blog so it's entirely possible adorable babies aren't your thing. Perhaps you prefer babies who have been infected by a techno-organic virus and are then sent into the future to be raised by nuns, only to grow up and travel back into the past to fight alongside the father who gave you up but who secretly got to raise you during his honeymoon with the woman whose clone was your birth mother.

Or maybe you just like when they explode. Right, Demon Knights fans?

Well, if you care to have a look at non-techno, non-explodey babies, BATMAN/SWAMP THING/AMERICAN VAMPIRE writer Scott Snyder tweeted this video of he and his sons dancing to the opening of "The Batman."



Alright, it's no Avengers trailer, but it's nice to see comic creators spreading the love with their family.

College Humor does it again

A New Direction, with the new 52

At the end of Flashpoint, DC showed me something important. What was it?  Let me first tell  you, the old DC Universe (Post-Crisis) had some standards. Batman was a loner, Superman was the guiding light of the heroes community. Hal Jordan is a cocky pilot, Wonder Woman didn't have pants. And Superman cried, more than Charles Ingles on Little House. I can't tell you how many covers and issues contained Superman bawling! So whats new and different about this NEW 52?  Check it out after the jump.

You Have The Ability To Install Great Fear

(art by Cyclopsfan1)

According to IGN, the October 14th Blu-Ray release of Green Lantern will apparently include an access code for a Sinestro Corps Batman Skin for Batman: Arkham City.

Though, content-wise, it would make more sense to include Green Lantern Batman, it's still pretty genius marketing and a nice way to get/trick hardcore gamers into buying a film they might have otherwise blown off.

Team Unicorn Presents: Super.harmony.com

Nebraska Plays Football in Gotham?

Did you know in 1962, Nebraska played in the Gotham Bowl? Its true! Yes, Tracie! Another reason you should like football.

Playing under Coach Bob Devaney, Nebraska won its first bowl game in 3 tries, upsetting Miami & Coach George Mira.

Nebraska 36
Miami 34

In the second and last of New York's now-defunct Gotham Bowl. Playing in Yankee Stadium before only 6,166 fans in freezing weather, the Huskers and Hurricanes put on one of the greatest bowl shows ever, trading scores in every quarter.

If you look in the now classic photo below, you can see Batman and Robin up holding the Nebraska Black Shirt tradition and backing the defense! Go Big Red!

Issue 23: HoHoes, Doom and the Killer Croc too!

NEW Superman/Batman: Apocalypse Clip

From Comic Book Resourses
One question though... how does Superman punch fire?

Batman Inc. Explained

If you haven't heard the NEWS.

Quietly's take on Batman Inc.
(via the New York Post and DC Comics)

Dick Grayson will still be Batman... so will Bruce Wayne. The echoes of Captain America continues as DC announces there will be not one, but two Batmen.

We all saw this coming, much like Bucky, Dick has been doing way to well in his mentor's boots. A lot of fans did not want the Dick Grayson version to go, and now they don't. Instead, Bruce becomes Batman International, taking on crime around the globe while Dick/Batman (Dick-man... uh... Bat-Dick... uhm B2? ) stays home with the flying car and continues to clean up the streets.

What does this mean for Tim (Drake) Wayne? Will he lose the "Red" and just become the International Robin? Or will we just see Batman and Red Robin in the pages of BATMAN Inc. and Dark Knight?

One thing is certain, we are hilariously close to comedy when they both show up at the same spotlight.

Bat-Dick?
Bru-man?

KNOW YOUR BATMEN

Grounded, just won't fly

Disclaimer: The only part of Superman #700 I read was the free digital version of the Grounded prologue

Ahead there be Spoilers.

OK, first things first. The premise is good, Superman decided he needs to reconnect with the American People after abandoning them and running off with the Kryptonians. I am OK with this. It's a great angle for character development and any soul searching that doesn't end in a cape-toga works for me.

The part that first stuck in my craw though is the impetus of the story line. I woman slaps Supes cause he didn't save her husband and he died. Poor guy, was he killed my a rampaging Metallo? Oh was it Intergang? Hmm... Solomon Grundy? Earthquake? Damn? Nuclear Missile Land Grab scheme? Oh brain tumor... wait, WHAT? A brain tumor? She blames Supes because he didn't see the tumor with his x-ray vision, then didn't destroy it with his heat vision.

Did I miss something here? Is Supes in this ladies PPO network? Is it Blue Cross/ Red S in the DCU? That is why she was mad? Lady, don't blame Superman, blame House M.D.

Supes gets all melancholy because he didn't save a guy from a NATURAL CAUSE OF DEATH? Hey Supes, why are you around to keep my Grammy's heart pumping? J. Micheal Straczynski, that is STRIKE ONE.

Next, we find Supes and Dick Grayson up in the Ivory Tower... oh, I am sorry the Watchtower... I guess the metaphor was so see through I got confused. Next we find the Supes bothering the Flash, acting all Emo on him. I am going to assume the Flash was you know... doing something Heroic. So good idea stopping him like that, next time TEXT him the stupid question. STRIKIE TWO

Finally we got a good natured flashback to Pa Kent give some straight up home-spun. Remember folks the Kents are rural farmers from Kansas. I mean come on, you've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.

So Supes lands in front of some kids playing stick ball in the park, (unseen is the apple pie eating contest and the Sara Palin speech) he gets his hands in the dirt and then walks off. You how stupid you look walking in tights and a cape. REALLY Stupid. STRIKE THREE.

Fact is if the set up for a story is this lame how can the rest not be?

Like Father, Like Ward

Having just re-read “Long Halloween” I had a realization on why I am enjoying Dick Grayson as Batman. Doubt.
Bruce Wayne in “Long Halloween” and “Year One” has doubt. He is new to the role of Batman, he hasn't seen it all and made countless contingency plans yet. So early in his career he is a man with a cape and a car... that and his wits and training. No OMAC, no Oracle for help. In the “Long Halloween” Batman is wrong. He makes mistakes, he falters. Bruce Wayne is very much human in those stories.

This brings me back to Dick. He has years more experience than Bruce had, plus he had Bruce. But slipping on the cowl is more than just making sure not to get hat-hair. Dick as Batman has his doubts too. He is finding himself. Much like Bruce in “Long Halloween” he is trying to get Jim Gordon to trust him.

Doubt isn't the only thing keeping Dick Grayson human. His lack of obsession helps. Dick is a return to a much more well rounded Batman, one that smiles but still doesn't have nipples or a dotting aunt.

That's my 2 cents at least.