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#1  Edited By JonesDeini
@Spellca2:  
I actually dislike the concept itself, and not just because it goes against the Ideology of Batman. Green Lantern Corpse works because it plays into the fundamental nature of the entity. The GL's are a intergalactic military/police force. Same with the Nova Corps and other such entities. But the idea of a solitary hero (be it Batman, Sups, Flash, Wolverine, Dare Devil, Spider-Man, Iron Man) doing this is just utterly daft to me. I'm sure this won't last, so I won't complain all that much about it. Instead I'll just chill, read the other Bat books and avoid reading Inc until the series is inevitably canceled. 
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Let's hope you're right, honestly in the past two years I've seen Bats jerked around A LOT. Being easily my favorite character of all time, that wasn't easy to sit through and point blank, I'm past sick of it. I hate this Inc. idea but I would've been more willing to give it a shot had it not been in the hands of Morrison. I love Grant, really do. But can't cosign his mainstream comic works since his initial JLA days. And this guy I've been reading, for me, just isn't Bruce Wayne/Batman. You want a "heroic" Batman, cool. I'm all for that, keep the Brave & The Bold issues coming but leave the "Real" Batman out of it.
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Green Goblin/Iron patriot, Blade, Elektra, Black Widow, Dominio, Daken (long as he's not a clone), Dimitri, RIVAL SCHOOLS Characters!!!, Jin, Tech Romancer Characters, Power Stone Characters (seriously Capcom comin' slack, folk), Sagat, Rolento, Hellion, Cyclops, Cable, PROTOMAN, Thanos, Nova, James Barnes as Cap/Winter Soldier, War Machine (and keep making him different from Starks), Drax, Loki, Odin, Akuma, Gouken, Urien, Q, Sakura, Colossus, Juggernaught, Luke Cage, Hawkeye, Bullseye, Task Master, The Kool-Aid man (Look it up, Marvel had the rights to Kool-Aid comics....), X-Man, Apocalypse, Mr. Sinister, Cloak & Dagger, Psylocke, Angel/Arch-Angel.  

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#4  Edited By JonesDeini
@Dr. Detfink:  
AGREE ON POINT TWO!!! 
Honestly this was a down issue for me for multiple reasons. First, I don't  like Johns' inane portrayal of  Barry in this Book. I could've swore JT Krull's accursed name was no where on my cover. part of why I'm not reading current GA stories is because of his gross mis-characterizations of some of my favorite characters (Roy Harper especially) but NOTHING has been worse than his bastardization of Barry Allen. Since when was Barry such a judgmental, sanctimonious prick?! Pretty sure he MURDERED reverse Flash, never had such a negative (nearly hateful) view of GA, and the deciding vote to allow him to remain in the League was cast by... guess who?! Oliver mo' Flushin' Queen!!! It's  shame to see Johns' present Barry in the same way as that hack in this issue. Reading his dialog in this issue was just, well, painful for me. This IS NOT the Barry Allen I grew up with or the Barry Allen I've been reading since his return. I swear this guy is from the same universe as Miller's All Star Batman...honestly I've never seen a writer have two such disparate takes on the same character, in the same week.  
 
Also, honestly NOTHING HAPPENED IN THIS ISSUE, aside from the last page which I won't spoil. G-Man, that "big reveal" on the Indigo tribe has been painfully obvious to me for a while. It's even strongly hinted at toward the end of Blackest Night, folk.  And that little "Clash" of the Corps toward the end of the issue had about as much tension to it as a Saturday night sissy fight. Ultimately this is the worst Green Lantern Issue I've read during this Run. What's so great about Johns' writing is his ability to take "traditional" heroes and add the right amount of pathos to them to make them relate and appeal to a modern audience without being deconstructionist. But in this issue, none of that is present to me. I honestly think that this issue (and a few Brightest Day Issues) serve as proof that DC's having him mass produce titles is having an adverse effect on him.  
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Neeope!!!! Not at all, was never necessary in the first place, just a way to juice fans.

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#6  Edited By JonesDeini
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Bingo, it's all about how you go about being a comic fan. I cringe every time I see a sci-fi, comic, fantasy fan that's just a stereotypical, socially awkward weirdo. I honestly thin the only time I come off as "The Comic Book Guy" is when I go to see comics based movies. I tend to go on full throttle fan boy rants of wrath. I'm pretty sure my cousin/friend/I spent twice the time it took us to watch X3 bashing it after it ended.   
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Everybody around me knows it, especially my ol' lady who I've gotten into reading Y The Last Man. On my book shelf next to my copies of Things Fall Apart, The Beautiful Struggle and the Autobiography of Malcolm X lies Sandman, Preacher, and Watchmen. I go to the shop almost every week with a group of friends/co workers. Atop my cd shelf with 200+ Hip-Hop/R&B/Soul cd's sits A Wing Zero Custom, 1970's Kenner Obi-Wan, Vader, and 90's Kenner ROTJ Luke arranged to mimic the classic Black Power salute from the 1968 Olympics, a Warmachine hero clix, and a Batman Begins batman action figure. I regularly wear a Wolvie/Colossus "Fast Ball Special" 59/50 fitted cap, as well as a Jim Lee Hush era Batman fitted, and a Fantastic Four with Wolvie claw marks through the insignia fitted. Best lapdance I ever got in my life was while I was while wearing a Heath Ledger Joker tee (miss that shirt) at this night club last year...I'm pretty much a loud and proud Geek/Nerd.  

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Jokers evil lies in one simple fact, he just doesn't give a frak, and that's the scariest thing about him. He does what he does because he follows his every whim and inclination with no filter. He is paradoxically chaos incarnate while embodying order, his own since of it that is. Joker seems random to readers and other characters, but in his head it all makes since to him (ex. his activities as Gravedigger). One of the best examples of this is the Joker Fish episode of Batman TAS. Also I think knowing that he's a comic book character made that natural tendency of his exponentially more. 

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Eh, Norman's Evil (much more so without the Goblin suit IMO) but not do to his on and off mental instability. He's always been amoral and egocentric. It's even been hinted in the Marvels project that Norman may've been moonlighting as the goblin as early as the 40's, looong before he ingested the Goblin serum which altered his mind. And I don't think that he was necessarily evil recently. Amoral, yes. Fascistic, yes. "Evil" in that classic comic book sense of term, no. He disagreed with the black/white status quo and did what he felt was necessary to change it. He saw an opportunity to fix what he saw as a dated, approach to holding together a broken society during the Skrull invasion and seized it. Basically everything Ms. Hand said to Luke Cage about why she followed Norman before he cracked was true. 

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1) Batman Inc. fundamentally goes against Batman's essence as a character and Grant Morrison's run on Batman was a bust and proved all the negative things I've ever thought about his writing. I reserved my judgement to the very end of it and when I saw the last page of Batman/Robin 16 that sealed it. He failed, plain and simple. That's not to say I didn't enjoy some of his work in the past two years, but more often than not he missed vastly more targets than he hit with me. And to all Morrison's baby gravy gargling fan boys, save it. It's not that I'm too lazy to piece together the story, or didn't get it because it was over my head. I got it, ALL OF IT. This Batman run was more or less the culmination of all of his works at DC. The bookending of his on DCU if you will. The problem is the philosophy at the core of this overly complex mess of a narrative doesn't justify the execution.  The character to use as the vehicles for these ideas was most certainly NOT Batman. I'll admit that this is my personal bias but Batman first and foremost is a detective. I feel that his best stories are the ones where he's taking on the Gotham crime families and the corrupt officials that facilitate their ill doings. At his core his stories should be about him solving mysteries and crimes and going toe to toe with the more grounded members of his Rogues gallery. I also cringe a bit inside when I see Bats going toe to toe aliens, demons, wizards, gods, etc. because that's not his element to me. I honestly don't like him being in the JLA, folk. But that's just me.  
2) The only thing worse than Batman Inc. for the character would be a Bat Academy...Bruce has his Bat Family (which I think is in need of trimming) and The Outsiders, that's more than enough.