Jayson

i was just reading up on this also.  Sorry, but I am still clueless about the situation.
 
I guess it will be nice having an entire reboot where you can get in on the ground floor on a series.  I'm still not sure that it will break my habit of waiting for the TPB's though, and a half dozen bat-books to keep track of still...

#124 I finally got it.  I can't believe I brainfarted on the #1 seeing the deadpools.

I wish I could have gone...  maybe this year

good stuff!

I think that there would be very little that could be done against a full scale invasion force.  Our military is spread very thin and deployed all over.  National Guardsmen and State Militia and police wouldn't be enough so we are looking at occupation.  Plus there aren't any real beach defenses anywhere to prevent it and the Navy/Coast Guard ships would take time to react if they came in the form of shipping vessels or something like that.  I don't think that there would be a problem fighting off the occupation though, it would just take time.
 
I think that we would be closer to another Civil War than another country invading us.  Now another country stepping in and joining one side or another though...

I originally started collecting in high school during the late 80's. (god I'm getting old) After reading a friend's copy of The Killing Joke, I went and bought a copy for myself and giggled like a schoolgirl when the value of the book went up.  I continued buying books for their prospective values and as a side effect, I really got into some of the stories.  After getting out of collecting sometime in the 90's, I sold off some books over the years and while I ended up making some money off them, there were a bunch that I ended up missing.
 
I recently getting back into reading them again on a whim, and discovered some old favorites that I thought had been sold.  Needless to say, I was hooked again and for the first time in almost 20 years, made my way back into a comic book shop once again and picked up a stack of my previous favorites (WOW how some have changed!) to slowly find out what I now enjoy.  
 
I feel like a kid again (in a good way).  I found that I still love Batman as much as I used to.  I find myself always looking forward to the next trip to the store every Wednesday.  I am even starting to introduce my children to comics.  My 13 year old Daughter loves Lenore, my 4 year old Son loves for me to read him the latest Iron Man and Batman, and while my 6 year old Daughter doesn't seem to be interested in them too much yet, I still think she just needs to find the right book =P.
 
I try not to worry about them wrecking the books too much, but I am still teaching them the proper way to handle and store them and we try to read everything we buy (even the stinkers).  I still find myself buying a #1 of a book, but only if it looks interesting, not for it's prospective value this time.  I also don't bother with any of the variant covers, especially if they are priced higher.  I still prefer "floppies" to TPBs, though the latter seems to be the cheapest way to cach back up with some of the stuff I missed out on during my hiatus.  I don't think I will ever buy into the whole digital comic thing, there are just too many things missing from that experience.  The way the book smells and feels when its new, the way that same book smells when you pull it out 20 years later to read it again to your kids, you can't put a value on that.

I think that Batman can kill the Joker anytime he wants to, and by restraining himself he holds onto one of the last straws of humanity that he still has.  By crossing that line, he would be no better than the Joker himself.  
 
That said, I really love any storyline that includes the Joker and while I would be sad to see him go, it would really make one hell of a story.

To me, the idea of Batman, the fear of Batman, is the only superpower he needs. The idea of Batman just being a regular person fighting crime always appealed to me growing up, though I have always preferred Batman solo.  He seemed scarier and more of a vigilante that way.  More-so than when he has a Robin or with the McBatman franchise idea that is currently so popular right now, but I am giving it a chance.