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espanolbot (espanolbot) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-09-24 22:05:00

Entry tags:

char: batman/bruce wayne, char: funland, publisher: dc comics

Batman: the Widening Gyre 2 Preview

http://dcu.blog.dccomics.com/2009/09/24/kevin-smiths-batman-story-continues-in-the-widening-gyre-2/

This is the second reference to Sandman that I'm aware of in Kevin Smith's DCU work, Morpheus both appears and is important to the plot of Green Arrow: Hollow.

And, yeah, great City to start molesting and murdering kids in Funland. Especially considering Batman's overprotective stance towards children.

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	nagaoka 2009-09-24 09:30 pm UTC (link)
	NOT THAT GUY O-O so this was the special place he was talking about... (Reply to this) (Thread)

	nagaoka 2009-09-24 09:32 pm UTC (link)
	I like the touch of him having the (red) wolf on his shirt (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nagaoka 2009-09-24 09:42 pm UTC (link)
	I regret the wording in that previous sentence (Reply to this) (Parent)

	kijikun 2009-09-24 09:36 pm UTC (link)
	Please tell me he catches her. Please tell me he catches her. I really need to know this. Lie if you have to. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	espanolbot 2009-09-24 09:41 pm UTC (link)
	Well it doesn't come out until next week, but I'll say that: Yes, he does catch her. Because he's Batman. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kijikun 2009-09-24 09:42 pm UTC (link)
	tries to not to think of the times when Batman has screwed up (Reply to this) (Parent)

	neuhallidae 2009-09-24 09:50 pm UTC (link)
	Fuck, of all people they had to bring over from that series, why Funland? John Dee may have been high octane nightmare fuel, but he had the freaking ruby to make it work, which, for me, mitigated things. Funland was the kind of nightmare fuel you actually think could happen, which just makes him all the scarier. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	espanolbot 2009-09-24 09:53 pm UTC (link)
	John Dee IS in the DCU though. Just not the bony version. He was in the Legion/JLA/JSA crossover with Dream Girl and Sandman ages back. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	neuhallidae 2009-09-24 09:55 pm UTC (link)
	I know he's in the DCU, that's not my point. My point is that the fact that, horrifying as his Vertigo incarnate was, John Dee was more of a "comic book"y type villain and that made him less scary to me, whereas Funland gave twelve-year-old me nightmares, and seeing him again was not a welcome surprise. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	artnouveauho.livejournal.com 2009-10-03 12:44 am UTC (link)
	boggles Legion and Sandman?? Together?? These are a few of my favourite things! ...Scans, please? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	endis_ni 2009-09-24 10:24 pm UTC (link)
	I contend that Funland was far more terrifying. Oh gods. Since I first read Sandman I've now got a small niece. I'm not sure why, but that adds an extra layer of horror on, right there. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ex_stig213 2009-09-24 10:01 pm UTC (link)
	Why is it that no-one can ever handle a concept as well as Gaiman once Gaiman has left it? Also, why would anyone want to mess with Nate Kreskin/Fun Land again? I was perfectly happy with the idea of him stuck in a dreaming coma until Morpheus died, and then give himself up to the authorities peacefully. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-09-24 10:13 pm UTC (link)
	Funland wasn't stuck in a dreaming coma though, like all the attendees of the serial killer convention, Morpheus did the opposite, he removed their ability to see themselves as the heroes of their dreams, they would always be aware of what they were, and how petty a thing that was. Or did he show up in Sandman anywhere else? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lissa_quon 2009-09-24 11:01 pm UTC (link)
	I don't think he appeared anywhere else in the series. But I was under the impression that the whole thing Morpheus did to him would put the kabosh on him continuing his...being Funland. The dream sequence he had at the end of that arc seemed to suggest that. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-09-24 11:17 pm UTC (link)
	I think it was left a little vague on purpose. It might be as you say, or it might be that they CAN still kill, and may well have the drive to, but if they do, they'll always be aware that they are killing because they choose to kill and are monsters, not because of some self delusion about their reasons. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lissa_quon 2009-09-25 12:06 am UTC (link)
	They specifically show Funland's dream and he asks the kids for forgiveness for hurting them. Not saying he couldn't revert back to being Funland but yea... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-09-25 12:12 am UTC (link)
	Doesn't the dream Funland has happen when Dream puts him to sleep whilst rescuing Rose, and therefore before Dream issue his punishment to the assembled killers? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	damar148 2009-09-24 10:05 pm UTC (link)
	The girl appears to have mixed reactions on falling to her death. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	aaron_bourque 2009-09-24 11:58 pm UTC (link)
	"Well, on the one hand, I'm falling to my death. On the other hand, the fat, stinky man isn't touching me anymore . . ." (Reply to this) (Parent)

	deepspaceartist 2009-09-25 12:01 am UTC (link)
	She may be falling to her death, but at least she is away from the guy who was holding her up by her ankle. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	dejadrew 2009-09-25 05:32 am UTC (link)
	"Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee!" (Reply to this) (Parent)

	icon_uk 2009-09-24 10:16 pm UTC (link)
	I instantly dislike the idea of Funland being in Gotham. He is a magnificently, sink-crawlingly appalling bit of nightmare fuel, precisely because he wouldn't be anywhere in the DCU where a hero would find him. He'd be somewhere out in the "real" world (so to speak)... being a REAL nightmare. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ashtoreth 2009-09-24 11:32 pm UTC (link)
	I think being in GOTHAM mitigates the horror. I mean, he's kind of the pedophiliac murderer in a crowd there. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-09-24 11:50 pm UTC (link)
	Agreed. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	nagaoka 2009-09-25 12:28 am UTC (link)
	I'll go for it anyways. Hey, it's a Sandman homage. I don't have to think about the gritty details of why he's there or even consider this a canon event for the character. If it brings back memories of Funland in Doll's House it's frightening no matter what. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	sianmink 2009-09-25 04:46 am UTC (link)
	Cause he wouldn't last ten minutes in the DCU before a hero saw, thought 'oh hell no' and gave him a permanent handicapped parking pass? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2009-09-24 10:43 pm UTC (link)
	OpenID login is not liking me today. Still hate Walt Flannigan's art, no matter who they get to ~~redraw~~ ink him. -thekamisama (Reply to this)

	darkknightjrk 2009-09-24 11:34 pm UTC (link)
	Smith's interpetation of Batman's been pretty good so far--espicially in Green Arrow--but part of me can't see him using the word "turd." I can see him say "shit" easier then "turd." (Reply to this) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-09-24 11:52 pm UTC (link)
	Neither works for me in this context, something like "greasy, sweaty sack of lard" would be more Batman-ish somehow (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	omgwtflolbbqbye 2009-09-25 12:31 am UTC (link)
	Or "fatty-fatty-fat-fat" (Reply to this) (Parent)

	aaron_bourque 2009-09-25 12:00 am UTC (link)
	Hrmph. Batman calling someone a turd. Even if it's in his own internal monologue. No, Kevin Smith. I know Gotham is most likely in New Jersey, and that's your place and all, but no. (Reply to this)

	mullon 2009-09-25 12:15 am UTC (link)
	Goes off to read Sandman again so I can remember the guy (Reply to this)

	benicio127 2009-09-25 01:12 am UTC (link)
	Wow. Well, at least this comic is so bad in terms of writing, characterization and art it's lulzworthy. But stiiiiill, even for the laughs, not worth it to buy. (Reply to this)

	ex_menagerie993 2009-09-25 02:46 am UTC (link)
	I like this from the notion of seeing Bats beat the snot out of the bastard. That's all. (Reply to this)