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batcookies (batcookies) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-04-21 00:01:00

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char: batman/bruce wayne, char: black mask/roman sionis, char: catwoman/selina kyle

Help Me Find Some Batman/Black Mask: Idiot from the start
I'm trying to make a list of all my favorite Batman stories for someone, and I'm looking for two Batman stories I used to love... I'm after completely forgetting the writers and issues. I know they were on the old site.

One had Batman fighting ninjas with pots and pans in a kitchen

and the other was a classic with Batman hounding a group of bank robbers, that had killed a bystander, chasing them relentlessly, even dragging one of them underwater

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

In return, I give you: idiocy.

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	mysteryfan 2009-04-21 09:17 am UTC (link)
	Ha ha:) A Gotham Costume Party! Those always work out well! Batman 431 for the Ninjas and pots and pans. Nicely done fight scene, Aparo art... is nice. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	zhinxy 2009-04-21 09:27 am UTC (link)
	Ahhh, you hit post while my comment was being written. I see you too studied with Master Kirigi... ;) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	mysteryfan 2009-04-21 10:00 am UTC (link)
	We had a 'thing'. It got awkward. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	zhinxy 2009-04-21 10:10 am UTC (link)
	We had a 'thing'. It got awkward. Oh, God, you too? Well, you live and you learn and all that... Sigh. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	mysteryfan 2009-04-21 10:26 am UTC (link)
	He's a cad, that Kirigi. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	batcookies 2009-04-21 02:12 pm UTC (link)
	Oh DUH! I already HAD that on my list, along with the annual he did. Must've looked at the list and gone "Oh, Priest's issues, those were good" without thinking about what happened in them. Jeez, I'm a ditz. Thanks! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	mysteryfan 2009-04-21 03:46 pm UTC (link)
	I know in the past we've both liked certain Batman by O'Neil stories. (like the awesome way Batman is written in 'Into the Den of the Death Dealers'; and a Batman Christmas story I can't think of what it's called right now) I'd be curious to know some of what made your list, if you felt like sharing. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

batcookies
2009-04-21 04:27 pm UTC (link)

The list is a long way from done, right now... I might post it when I'm done.

And I think you're talking about "Silent Night, Deadly Night" which I love, but not as much as I love "Wanted: Santa Claus-Dead or Alive," which O'Neil did with Frank Miller.

(Of course part of why I love the latter is the knowledge that Miller hates it so much. The thought of him getting enraged because someone reprinted the time he drew a "Batman/Santa Claus" story... it just makes me grin from ear to ear!)

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	zhinxy 2009-04-21 09:25 am UTC (link)
	The ninjas in the kitchen is Batman # 431 (Reply to this) (Thread)

	zhinxy 2009-04-21 12:10 pm UTC (link)
	Title: "The Wall" Writer: James Owsley, Artist: Jim Aparo. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	sistermagpie 2009-04-21 10:01 am UTC (link)
	LOL! I love it when things work out like that. (Reply to this)

	interrobamf 2009-04-21 10:42 am UTC (link)
	Repost the Black Mask origin, please! I need BITTEN BY A RABID RACCOON to cheer up my day. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	tilly_stratford 2009-04-21 01:05 pm UTC (link)
	I second this. With the ferocity of a rabid racoon. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	killermoth1 2009-04-22 01:29 am UTC (link)
	Don't you mean the MASKED rabid raccoon? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jkcarrier 2009-04-21 11:41 am UTC (link)
	Batman terrorizing the bank robbers & dragging the dude underwater is "Night of the Stalker" from Detective Comics #439. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	batcookies 2009-04-21 02:05 pm UTC (link)
	That's the one, by Steve Englehart. Thank you. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	xdoop 2009-04-21 10:39 pm UTC (link)
	I'm the one who posted the ninja one; I'll try reposting it. (Reply to this)

psychop_rex
2009-04-22 02:53 am UTC (link)

This is an interesting sequence, actually - it kind of reverses the usual order of things. Normally, it's the villain who lays a trap for the hero, and who says something like 'I've got it! He'll never be able to resist THIS!', and then we cut to the hero going 'Clearly, it's a trap - but I must do it anyway, for I am the defender of good and righteousness, and as such I am no sissy.' (Or words to that effect.) Generally, when the situation is reversed and the HERO lays a trap, the villain is completely unaware of it. Here, however, it's the villain saying 'this must be a trap, but I'm going anyway'. It plays on our expectations.

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