Great Unified Comics Thread

[katmai]

I'm sure there are tons of surgeons who form hundred billion dollar real estate empires.

No wonder you can't past the bar. Idiot.

[jimmy olsen]

Austrian economics.

What's the deal with Bruce Wayne's money, anyway?  He didn't start the company.  His dad didn't start the company, his dad was a surgeon (and surgeons are rich but are they likely to start and run multi-hundred-billion dollar technology/weapons firms?).  Maybe he actually inherited it from Martha.

He created the DC equivalent of Facebook?

I dunno, he invented an AI and shot a constellation of satellites into orbit once.  I hated that.  It's like no one has any idea what things cost, or how supply chains work, or how you can't just build a fucking top-of-the-line stealth airplane in your cave.

In the third episode of Justice League the crew is chilling in the Watch Tower and Super Man asked Batman if his stockholders knew about it.

"It's a line item in the aerospace budget"

Yeah a hundred billion space station that would have taken dozens of launches to assemble even with a Saturn V analogue. No one noticed that.

[Ideologue]

And besides being dumb and easily traced, in that instance it's also criminal and tantamount to theft.

There's a lot of reasons I hate Batman, but his misuse of other people's money (sometimes a more conscientious writer will make sure to add it's from his personal fortune, although it's frankly rather unbelievable, even the richest man in the world cannot afford multiple warplanes, let alone Brother Eye) is a huge one.  Guess what, Joe Shareholder, Bruce Wayne has defrauded you out of your money for the good of Gotham, if by "for the good of Gotham" you mean "for the purpose of beating up crack dealers you've never even seen and not killing the Joker for the thousandth time."

At least when Iron Man does it, it's in the open so shareholders are aware of the issue, represents a testbed for marketable computer technologies, and serves as great marketing for Stark Enterprises, so it's neither fraud nor so egregious that it wouldn't pass the business judgment rule.

[jimmy olsen]

Well, he eventually takes over LexCorp so it's not like the shareholders of Wayne Enterprises are hurting.

[Ideologue]

It doesn't make it not fraud just because a company is still profitable after the fraud, Tim.

[jimmy olsen]

It doesn't make it not fraud just because a company is still profitable after the fraud, Tim.

After that merger the company's probably worth a Trillion dollars, nobody'll miss a billion here or a billion there.

[Kleves]

and not killing the Joker for the thousandth time.

I get that Batman can't kill (apparently viciously beating people unconscious is perfectly safe for their health or maybe it doesn't count if they later die in the hospital) but why can't he cripple the Joker? Why does he always have to return the Joker to prison in such a state that the Joker can heal up and escape within a week? Probably be tougher to escape in a wheelchair with both arms broken. Though then what would Batman do every night?

Here's a Batman story idea for you: Joker hires an army of hemophiliacs and takes over Gotham because Batman really doesn't have any plan B if beating the shit out of people isn't an option.

[Neil]

And besides being dumb and easily traced, in that instance it's also criminal and tantamount to theft.

There's a lot of reasons I hate Batman, but his misuse of other people's money (sometimes a more conscientious writer will make sure to add it's from his personal fortune, although it's frankly rather unbelievable, even the richest man in the world cannot afford multiple warplanes, let alone Brother Eye) is a huge one.  Guess what, Joe Shareholder, Bruce Wayne has defrauded you out of your money for the good of Gotham, if by "for the good of Gotham" you mean "for the purpose of beating up crack dealers you've never even seen and not killing the Joker for the thousandth time."

At least when Iron Man does it, it's in the open so shareholders are aware of the issue, represents a testbed for marketable computer technologies, and serves as great marketing for Stark Enterprises, so it's neither fraud nor so egregious that it wouldn't pass the business judgment rule.

Batman serves justice, which is more important than law.

[Ideologue]

and not killing the Joker for the thousandth time.

I get that Batman can't kill (apparently viciously beating people unconscious is perfectly safe for their health or maybe it doesn't count if they later die in the hospital) but why can't he cripple the Joker? Why does he always have to return the Joker to prison in such a state that the Joker can heal up and escape within a week? Probably be tougher to escape in a wheelchair with both arms broken. Though then what would Batman do every night?

Here's a Batman story idea for you: Joker hires an army of hemophiliacs and takes over Gotham because Batman really doesn't have any plan B if beating the shit out of people isn't an option.

Indeed.  It's always weird that no-kill vigilantes will routinely inflict brutal trauma to people's skulls with no second thoughts.  It's really easy to kill someone that way.

My favorite recent Batman Rule nonsense involves Batwoman, a former West Point student (she got kicked out under DADT) who recently came back to work for the government, in a military/intelligence capacity.  Batman demands she doesn't kill.

So the logical conclusion of that is a story where Batman beats the living shit out of any soldier he finds.  Actually, I like it.  Veterans are a superstitious, cowardly lot.

[jimmy olsen]

Batman serves justice, which is more important than law.

How does that work? Masked vigilante leaves some guy tied up on the station doorstep...then what? Even if he leaves iron clad evidence in a box next to him (video/dna/whatever) how is that admissible?

[jimmy olsen]

I have no idea if this game was any good but this cinematic is badass. That's what the DC movies should be like!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR4s15hlA2U&feature=fvwrel

[katmai]

Game is blah.

[Ideologue]

Just started reading this comic blog linked to from the indefatigable Savage Critics (check those motherfuckers out, Jeff Lester and Graeme McMillan are magic, dudes).

Yesterday was the fifth anniversary of Countdown #51. Hopefully everyone honored the anniversary in the same way as its creators: by trying to forget that Countdown ever existed.

Indeed, what can be said about Countdown that has not already been said about the Vietnam War?

[Ideologue]

Oh, and also:

This past weekend at the Kapow convention in London, DC Entertainment co-publisher Dan DiDio announced that an existing character previously established as straight would be revealed to be gay in an upcoming storyline. Though there's no still word on exactly which character he was talking about, the resulting media coverage has revealed some clues to help narrow down the list.

*fingers crossed* Let it be Hal Jordan, let it be Hal Jordan, let it be Hal Jordan...

If all these indicators prove to be accurate, DC will be revealing that a male character who is both "iconic" and "key," but hasn't yet been seen since last September's New 52 relaunch, is gay

Aw, fuck, nevermind.  Who cares?  Unless it's Wally West, which would just be retarded.

[Syt]

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