(No, it's not Boba Fett)
(No, he doesn't want to encase the Commissioner is carbonite)
So why is an alien hunting James Gordon? After Batman saves his bacon a couple of times, Gordon finally gives in and tells a sordid tale from his past:
And now, Great Moments In Rationalization #2,376: it's OK to cover up the crime because of Orson Welles:
Batman proceeds to demonstrate that he doesn't understand the meaning of the word "irony":
Yes, he killed someone, and now someone is seeking to punish him. Uhhh...not seeing the irony, Batman...And then Batman demonstrates a shocking lack of understanding of the legal system:
One wonders if Batman would have been so forgiving if, for example, Joe Chill had claimed that he hadn't meant to kill the Waynes, and had become a doctor or such.Anyway, Batman recruits Hawkman to assist him in protecting Gordon. And again, the forgiveness flows like a river from the Caped Crusader:
"Innocent of any real crime," Batman?? Well, sure, I suppose if you discount criminal trespass, murder, breaking and entering, murder, illegal search, murder, obstruction of justice, murder, evidence tampering, illegal disposal of a body, oh, and MURDER!!! The only crime Gordon commited was caring too much, it seems.MORAL: If you're Batman's buddy and you admit multiple felonies, you get a complete free pass.
SPOILER ALERT: It turns out the dead alien was actually helping Delacorte establish his secret crime empire. So, he deserved to die, I guess. At least, that's how the bounty hunter sees it: "I see now that [Gordon's] crime was fate working its strange way to true justice." Really. So the universe's deadliest bounty hunter forgives Gordon, too.
ANOTHER MORAL: If you see an alien, gun him down--he's probably a crook, anyway.
Oh, Bob Haney...
From The Brave And The Bold #139 (1978)
1 comment:
You crack me up, Snell. And you have repeatedly demonstrated that the universe would have been so much duller without the insanity of Bob Haney's writing.
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