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Tweak says, "croissant moon?"

volksjager (volksjager) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-09-25 09:33:00

Current music:	clubfoot kitty "my mother was inverted'
Entry tags:	char: batman/bruce wayne, char: batman/terry mcginnis, publisher: dc comics, theme: dcau, title: batman beyond

Another Batman Beyond for DCAU week...
I also think this post fits in nicely with the "rich superheroes beat up poor criminals" debate currently going on :)

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	retro_nouveau 2009-09-25 02:23 pm UTC (link)
	Yay, Gray Ghost. Harley's costume looks really pissed at Bruce. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	volksjager 2009-09-25 02:27 pm UTC (link)
	I think Brice is looking pretty cranky in that panel. He should have got laid more in his younger days... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cmdr_zoom 2009-09-25 02:57 pm UTC (link)
	Old Man Wayne is always cranky. The bitterness keeps him going. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ex_stig213 2009-09-25 03:11 pm UTC (link)
	He's just annoyed that Terry is late to his cosplay training. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	retro_nouveau 2009-09-25 03:49 pm UTC (link)
	He was never the same after Selina called it quits for good and sailed out to the Caribbean on her Catamaran ~~after stopping by eight jewelry stores the night before~~. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	magus_69 2009-09-25 11:39 pm UTC (link)
	What do you mean? He left his DNA all over town! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jelly_ace 2009-09-25 02:46 pm UTC (link)
	Bruce looks like he got a bib. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	icon_uk 2009-09-25 03:27 pm UTC (link)
	Considering what Harley was doing the last time she wore it, I'm surprised he's left it there at all. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	galateus 2009-09-25 03:32 pm UTC (link)
	How did he get it anyway? Did she donate one during one of her reform phases? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	volksjager 2009-09-25 04:21 pm UTC (link)
	Perhaps there was more than one outfit ? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	galateus 2009-09-25 04:31 pm UTC (link)
	Well yeah, hence how she could hypothetically donate one and still make another for after she went bad again. How did he get any of them? Does he steal the outfits off of all the villains before he sends them off to Arkham? Inquiring minds want to know. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	volksjager 2009-09-25 04:33 pm UTC (link)
	He's Batman............... (Reply to this) (Parent)

	timemonkey 2009-09-26 02:59 am UTC (link)
	Better to confiscate such things himself than leave them where others can get into them. Never know what surprised might be hidden in Harley or Joker's costume. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	psychop_rex 2009-09-26 07:04 am UTC (link)
	It's quite possible that he discreetly nabbed a spare outfit of hers when he was in one of her or the Joker's hideouts. I mean, it's not like there would be just one of them - Batman himself has racks and racks of Bat-costumes, as we've seen, so it only makes sense that his villains would do the same with their costumes. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	icon_uk 2009-09-25 05:48 pm UTC (link)
	Police evidence locker? Arkham storage facility? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	retro_nouveau 2009-09-25 03:44 pm UTC (link)
	Considering what Harley was doing the last time she wore it, I'm surprised he's left it there at all. Falling? :D (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-09-25 05:47 pm UTC (link)
	Well... I don't think he actually saw that... :) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lbd_nytetrayn 2009-09-26 07:54 am UTC (link)
	Would that not be further proof? --LBD "Nytetrayn" (Reply to this) (Parent)

	thanekos 2009-09-25 03:48 pm UTC (link)
	if the man was going to keep Victor Fries' head in the fridge, his storage motives are clearly things of terrible mystery. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cmdr_zoom 2009-09-26 03:42 am UTC (link)
	I've always loved that image, silly and non-canon though it is. Freeze cursing him every time he goes to get something out of the crisper. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	damar148 2009-09-25 03:53 pm UTC (link)
	What messed up Terry's suit? Never saw him take damage like that. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	volksjager 2009-09-25 04:22 pm UTC (link)
	He gets the crap beat out of him by over 50 jokerz to try and get his friend to see reason. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jcbaggee 2009-09-25 05:07 pm UTC (link)
	He fell off a skyscraper in one episode of the series and got messed up like that. Can't remember the name right off hand, but I do enjoy it when the suit's messed up enough to see the workings. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	vignettelante 2009-09-25 05:31 pm UTC (link)
	It's never looked the way it does here though: all the times it took damage in the cartoon it was uniformly red-and-black underneath. So it's an art error or reinterpretation or maybe a different form of the costume. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jedd_the_jedi 2009-09-26 05:02 am UTC (link)
	it's actually pretty nice to see the inner workings of Terry's Batsuit for once. I've always preferred Batsuits where you can see how the thing works, like the Batman Begins or TDK suits. Sure Terry's outfit is high-tech, but it's nice to see it take a little damage too. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	idreading 2009-09-25 10:25 pm UTC (link)
	This is one of the things I liked about Terry. If you smiled at the boy once, he'd go through hell for you. Probably if you didn't smile, too. (Reply to this) (Thread)

joysweeper
2009-09-26 12:32 am UTC (link)

He's a good guy. There's a book completely unrelated to any of this where thinking of the main hero's disappointment keeps a secondary hero from just shooting thirty mindcontrolled enemies. He thinks that the main hero would give up his life for the chance to save thirty innocents. Or ten. Or one. Or one not-so-innocent; because that's exactly what he'd done to save the secondary.

I honestly like that. I sympathize so much more readily with good people trying to do good, or at least regular people doing what they think is right, than with nearly any other character type.

OT: *squints at icon* Cruller?

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	idreading 2009-09-26 12:41 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, "hopelessly heroic" is a type I'll for every time. Yup! From the supplementary comics. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	joysweeper 2009-09-26 12:59 am UTC (link)
	There are supplementary comics? I didn't know that. What were they about? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	idreading 2009-09-26 01:12 am UTC (link)
	They're not really stories or anything, just little extras. Here: http://www.psychonauts.com/developer.htm They also have a nice Psychonauts wiki now. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	joysweeper 2009-09-26 01:23 am UTC (link)
	I see. I've seen the wiki before, but I hadn't seen those. Thanks! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	hiratsu 2009-09-26 04:34 pm UTC (link)
	Icon love. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	starwolf_oakley 2009-09-26 02:39 am UTC (link)
	I wonder how you pronounce "July." Like the month, or like "Hoo-lie." (Reply to this)

psychop_rex
2009-09-26 07:17 am UTC (link)

Y'know, I think the Jokerz are one of the main reasons that 'Batman Beyond' worked as well as it did. I mean, yes, there are strong central characters and a continuation of themes originated in earlier shows and all that, but it's a truism that a hero is only as good as his villains - and without some hint of the Joker, the Batman is lessened somewhat. The Jokerz give us that hint, while at the same time exploiting the clownlike image of the Joker in ways that the original couldn't really do.
What I mean by this is that the original Joker may exploit the image of an evil clown, but he's been around so long that you don't think 'clown' when you see him, you think 'Joker'. His image is ingrained on our minds, and while that gives it a punch that newer images don't have, it has lost some of its freshness over the years.
The Jokerz, on the other hand, take 'evil clown' as a basic starting point, and run with it in increasingly bizarre ways. I mean, look at that gathering of them on the second-to-last page. It runs the gamut from traditional clownish attire to skull-faces, weird masks, what looks like futuristic football gear... Basically, whatever bizarre permutation of clownish mannerisms you can think of, there's probably one of the Jokerz wearin' them. They work very well that way.

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	volksjager 2009-09-26 01:25 pm UTC (link)
	If you want to know just how close they creators came to wreaking the show and bizarre stories of how the whole project came about ,get the dvd's and listen yo the commentaries. You really wouldn't believe much if it. :) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	psychop_rex 2009-09-26 09:14 pm UTC (link)
	I'm sure I wouldn't - those sorts of behind-the-scenes things are always fascinating. I plan on getting the series one day, all right - just as I plan to get B:TAS, and both 'Justice League' series, and 'Teen Titans', and... (Reply to this) (Parent)