I’m still surfing the strange and cool cars on eBay, and have just found a Batmobile. It’s one of three based upon the TV series car, produced for promo work. £23,000 will buy you the right to say “Atomic batteries to speed” every time you go for a drive.
This trailer is completely safe. The film won’t be.
via Bleeding Cool
Citizens of Warrington, or anybody else with access to a trailer, you can own your own Batmobile. Okay, it’s only the body, you’ll need to supply your own chassis and running gear. It’s from the Tim Burton movies and whilst that’s still cool as, it’s not a Tumbler.
My surfing of the Ebay classic car pages also turned up this Daimler Conquest/Century which is also a star car, having been in Heartbeat.
Over the weekend I received two comic collections that make me want to slap Frank Miller, then go and read some of his stuff from back when he was good.
The Best of The Spirit collects 22 episodes of the newspaper strip that made Will Eisner’s name and influenced so many other comics, including Miller’s. The 7 page tales are almost always self contained and often experimental. Most of all, they’re light. Even the darkest of subjects is addressed with, but never undermined by, humour. Miller’s recent film based upon The Spirit replaced the humour with overblown attempts at wackiness and buried the rest under Sin City style grim and uberviolence. After watching the film I merely thought Miller had made a disappointing movie. Now I’ve read the originals I agree with the other Spirit fans who think he’s massacred something special.
The other book I received was All Star Batman and Robin: The Boy Wonder, which collects the first eight issues of Miller and Jim Lee’s series about the boy sidekick’s origin. Will Eisner could have achieved more in 7 pages than Miller and Lee manage in any two issues of this comic. Miller’s writing, and- judging by the cover gallery- his art, has become a bad pastiche of the great work he did on Dark Knight Returns and tears apart the well balanced characters established in his Batman: Year One. The only thing I can say in favour of All Star is that Miller’s only tarnishing his own reputation with it, rather than dragging down one of comics’ greats.
The Australian actor – who plays The Joker in the upcoming Dark Knight- was found dead in his Manhattan apartment earlier today.
Comparing Batman Begins to various comic book incarnations of the character and his supporting cast. As I thought, a lot of elements were taken from Frank Miller’s Batman: Year One and there’s a little bit of The Dark Knight Returns in there as well.
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Digital lego Batman! With the voices of Adam West, Mark Hamill and Dick Van Dyke.
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Warren Ellis has a picture of a Batman squirt gun from a more innocent age. Whilst it’s technically work safe I wouldn’t recommend clicking in the office. Ten minutes after seeing it I still can’t look at the image without cracking up. Favorite comment: “Funny, I always pictured Bats as being more of a top.”
Who?
Chances are this is the first mention you’ve heard of this character. So, who is this Queen of Diamonds? Bevis Musson is the Queen’s creator and he describes the character as an all around nice chap who fights crime who happens to be an unapologetically “great big screaming queen”.
Actually, the city’s a bit generic in the first three issues, but the fourth has some very recognisable Mancunian landmarks in it.
Super sex discussed. Just don’t click on the “Wertham was right” link.
Families ine the English Scottish borders could be descended from Moorish and Nubian troops stationed on Hadrian’s wall.
The Batman TV series theme tune lyrics.
Yes, there were lyrics.
Divine Inteventions sells religiously themed sex toys. No, really.
Oh boy, we are all going to hell!
via On The Fritz
Ok, the question comes down to this, was/is Batman a superhero? I get the distinct feeling of treading ground thoroughly trampled on before by others. He didn’t have any superpowers and that’s what started it. Since that revelation, I’ve been trying to think of other relatively mainstream superheroes from the major comics such as DC or Marvel. I can’t think of any, the nearest I’ve got so far is the Shadow, but I believe he had some mental abilities. Mind you, on that page I see the statement from Amazon that “[…]Customers who wear clothes also shop for:
Clean Underwear[…]”. I’d generally hope that was the case.
Anyway, whatever Batman was he was cool. Looking around, I see indeed that the ground was thoroughly trampled by others. To the point that some just didn’t get on with Batman at all. Mind you when superheroes get transfered so badly to cartoons, you can’t really them.
I hate cyclists. Having been one in the past (and still hope to be again when I get by bike out), I can see their point in that it’s a cleaner way of transport. But that assumes that the world is full of bicycles, pedestrians and dinghies. Mix cars into that and you end up with 6 cars, billowing out lots of nasty gases due to being stuck in first or second gear behind the cyclist who’s too frightened to pedal downhill around a country lane. Therefore cyclists are bad for the health – they also scratch the paintwork when they bounce off the bonnet.