One of my big problems with many modern day interpretations of Batman is that he no longer has time for common crime. He's to busy fighting city-wide--if not global--apocalypses, trotting around the globe seeking clues to millennia-old conspiracies, and putting together teams to invade foreign countries to actual stop a mugger or a bank robber.
So for this Friday Night Fights, let's hop into the Wayback Machine, to a hot summer night in Gotham City...
KRAK!!!
And the moral of our story?
"That's why I'm around--to give them a reason not to."
The sad fact is, if the Snyder/King version of Batman had been around when Bruce was a child, his parents still would have been killed, because their Batman has no time for mere street crime and muggers like Joe Chill...
Spacebooger thinks Jim Aparo should draw everything.
A crime-fighter actually fighting crime is from The Brave And The Bold #168 (1980), by Cary Burkett and Jim Aparo.
Now is the time for you to go and vote for my fight. Why? Because if you don't, Batman will go on a 14-month arc hunting some foreign menace and 258 people left behind in Gotham will die. So go and vote!!
6 comments:
Man - that last panel should be framed on the wall of DC Comics as a reminder.
(Of course, they still wouldn't get it. We need a new crew.)
Jim Aparo SHOULD draw everything!
I concur, also.
Snell, did you win? I voted for this fight, for all the reasons you list. I think you should crow about your victories and bemoan your losses to us -- possibly in the overwrought style of Shakespearean soliloquies.
Oh, I just realized voting's still ongoing and saw that you're in the lead! Well, my recommendation stands, regardless.
I am far too Midwestern to crow about my victories...except, of course, for being the number one result on Google for "man-on-animal action." That's something to be proud of.
Congratulations on your victory, Snell!!! And I refuse to check the Google thing.
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