Detective Comics #41

Insert toothy blowjob joke here.

Detective Comics has become a comic book about Harvey Bullock which I am completely for. Batman starring Jim Gordon doesn't work because Jim Gordon is not Batman nor has he put in the time to be Batman. I get that Batman #41 was basically Snyder's essay trying to convince the reader to buy into it. But I'm stubbornly not going to. But this comic book is called Detective Comics and Harvey Bullock is a detective so it's okay for Harvey to be the star of this comic book. Rules. I just love rules! If you're reading my Detective Comic book reviews in order and you just read the Endgame issue, just ignore everything I said in that one about how I love anarchy because today I'm into rules! The more rules the better! Especially if the main punishment for breaking rules is spanking.

This issue begins with Harvey about to have sex while Commissioner Batman battles a guy in a Halloween skeleton costume. At least I think it's Harvey! He's got a bit of a gut and stubble and he's going on a bit about how crazy it is that he's about to have sex with a dead woman. Or a supposedly dead woman because the woman must be Yip. Who else is currently interested in Harvey Bullock? Who else has ever been interested in Harvey Bullock?! He's a slob!

Don't worry! This is sex from the guy's point of view so the comic didn't get a Teen Plus rating.

Commissioner Batman blows up and apparently Harvey does too because he turns on the light and tells Yip their date is over. That's when the comic book flashes back to three weeks ago so readers can get caught up on why Yip would let Harvey put his Bullock in her Nancy.

Three weeks ago Commissioner Maggie Sawyer asked Harvey Bullock to lead the Commissioner Batman team. But Harvey doesn't want to play second fiddle to a guy playing a huge armored fiddle with bunny rabbit ears. Unless that armored fiddle player is Jim Gordon, of course. But Jim has yet to agree to be Commissioner Batman. I guess, three weeks ago, Jim was still on leave after the whole killing two hundred civilians in the line of duty fiasco. Until Jim returns, Harvey wants to keep searching for the real Batman but Commissioner Maggie won't let him. So Harvey goes back to his old job where he pouts, eats danishes, and grumbles a lot.

Two weeks ago, Maggie is pressing Jim to find out if he's decided to be Commissioner Batman yet. The suspense is killing me! Will he accept?! Won't he?! Oh wait. I already read Batman #41 and the first few pages of this comic which reveal that he will eventually accept. Also the Sneak Peeks of Batman and Detective Comics spoiled it. I guess it isn't supposed to be a tense moment at all. Which means what? This is just filler?!

One week ago, Bullock starts a brawl between some bikers and some off-duty cops in a "cop bar." Fuck you with the "cop bar" and keeping non-cops out of it. If I were the owner, I'd...well, since the owner is probably a retired cop, I'd probably allow the cops to run off all of the other customers. Montoya is there as well. Doesn't that lesbian know this is a cop bar?!

I think Montoya eating tacos is a lesbian joke in bad taste? Or is that my bad taste just coloring an innocent taco eating scene?

I hope no civilians come along and try to order tacos off of that Cop Taco Truck!

Zero weeks ago, Harvey and Renee and Yip have all been assigned to Team Batman. They're arrived at the big Commissioner Batman Versus Skeleton Man fight and it's time to end this comic book somehow. I'm not even sure what it's been about so far! Convincing Bullock to be part of the team? Reintroducing Renee Montoya to The New 52? Sorry! To the DCyou? Getting Yip reinstated after shooting that Anarky kid? Oh! That's what it's been about! Forming a team. I guess the final beat will be something about trust or what's gonna work?

Um, teamwork! Teamwork is gonna work!

The final page returns to one week ago so that Renee can reveal to Harvey that Jim will be Batman. The reader is also allowed to overhear a phone call to Yip from somebody telling her to kill them all. I guess that's why Yip has to be "killed" in the Sneak Peek. Because somebody has their hooks in here. But I'm sure by faking her death in the Sneak Peek, it'll allow her to be free of whoever is blackmailing her to kill cops. Probably. Or maybe Harvey, just like every other character in DC Comics, isn't allowed to be in a relationship for very long. He had sex with Yip and that's enough, Harvey. You know what happens next. Somebody get another fridge!

Detective Comics #41 Rating: No change. Nothing really happened in this issue. The Sneak Peek turned this issue into preamble and most of it was preamble that wasn't even needed. I wish Gouverneur Morris had written this preamble! Then it probably would have concentrated on the sex between Harvey and Yip which would have been more exciting than twenty pages of Harvey Bullock refusing to be on Team Batman.

Batman #41

What should I call Commissioner Gordon Batman? Commissioner Batman? BatJim? Twat Batman?

Batman died in Issue #40. Wink, wink. So now we've got Commissioner Gordon in an armored Batsuit developed by some place called Powers International. How long do you think Scott Snyder and DC Comics can keep the fans interested in a Batman title without Batman? Unlike Gotham, they don't even have a young Bruce Wayne masturbating furiously every episode about how his first kiss could have led to something more, like maybe a little over the clothing ass touching, or a bit of shirt-covered boob pressing up against his arm. I hope next season has at least one scene of an obviously disgusted Alfred mentioning having just changed Young Masturbating Bruce's sheets.

This issue begins with some kind of Doom Patrolesque monster robbing Gotham Credit Union. Or just beating up the building for reasons beyond the reader's probable human understanding. It's two stories tall, has see-thru skin, speaks in static, and has a small sun as its heart. The Gotham Police are keeping an eye on it while they wait for Commissioner Batman to arrive. Jim Gordon begins having Batmanesque Narration Box Thoughts because that's what main characters do now, I suppose. I'm not a fan of them because they promote lazy comic book writing but many people seem to like hearing the internal monologue of the main character even when it almost always makes no sense that they would be thinking the things being thought in the current situation. And many of the Narration Box Monologues are voiced in such a way that they're obviously the character talking to the reader from a future point where they've already experienced the story the reader is currently reading. Those are annoying. Also, they're places where the writer gets to explain the great idea they thought up that they want the audience to understand but they're not sure the audience will even notice it. Because, let's face it, if the words weren't there to slow the reader down, they'd consume the comic book in two minutes, set it down, pick up the next comic book in their stack, and never give the writer's story another thought until next month when they spend two minutes with the next part of the story.

Yes, Commissioner Batman. I'm sure that's exactly what Static Throat the Jelly Beast was thinking. Although second best possibility? "I'm going to stick my dick inside this credit union and glaze the fucking walls!"

Last issue began with a bunch of mourners shining Batsignal flashlights into the air where lots and lots of Batsignals appeared. I didn't call bullshit on that last issue because I have a policy not to trash Scott Snyder books because of the handies he gives me at Comic Book Conventions. But Capullo busted in on us last time and punched me in the face while screaming, "Synder's silky soft hands are for me, you punk motherfucker!" So now I can say that the whole shining a flashlight into the air and seeing some kind of light is bullshit. I used to shine a flashlight into the night sky as a kid because I wanted to alert aliens that I was down here on Earth. You couldn't see anything at all! But I would do it for awhile and then I'd begin to get nervous that aliens really would see it and then they'd come down and abduct me and so I'd sprint inside and hide under the covers.

Parts of that last paragraph were true but I won't reveal which parts. You can probably figure it out though.

The voice on the other end of the Bat-Radio is Julia Pennyworth. I guess she's decided to stick around Gotham for awhile, probably still trying to convince her dad to put his hand back on. It's going to be awfully difficult to stitch up Batman with just one hand. Except Batman is dead so I guess that doesn't matter.

You know what I just realized I'm not really interested in? Commissioner Gordon in a Batsuit!

But Geri Powers is going to try to convince me otherwise!

I'm sorry too, Geri. I don't buy it. Except that I did buy it. For $4.99. Dammit. Maybe I can convince myself that I like it.

Commissioner Gordon decides to consult with Harvey Bullock because Harvey is a guy you can bounce ideas off of and never feel threatened that he's going to have anything to say that's smarter than anything you can say. Having stupid friends is the best! You'd never wonder why I think I'm God's Gift to the Internet if you had to listen to Doom Bunny for ten minutes! He's all, "Sports are fun! And the beer is for drinking! I don't need to be entertaining because I have kids who say entertaining things so I can just relate their stories and people will think I'm entertaining too! I go on date-nights with the wife! My best friend is an asshole that writes fucked up shit about me on the internet! Why is he even my friend? Why did I allow him to be my best man at my wedding?! I almost didn't get Honeymoon Poontang because of his stupid toast! He's such an arrogant, self-righteous dickhead!"

Gordon convinces himself to be Batman because he'd be protecting all of the other potential recruits by keeping them out of the suit. I wish Bullock would put on an armored Robinsuit.

Commissioner Gordon continues to battle Static the Bio-Monster between flashbacks of how he came to be wearing the armor. The person in his ear isn't Julia Pennyworth; it's Julia Perry. Of course! I wanted Commissioner Batman to be tied into the Batman character more than he obviously could be. He wouldn't know of Penny-One or Penny-Two or the Giant Penny or anything. I mean, he probably could know about it if he wanted to know about it but since he chooses to ignore the fact that Batman was Bruce Wayne, he doesn't know about Alfred or Julia. Unless he does. But he doesn't acknowledge it! He just plays stupid. So his Julia is some other Julia working for Powers International. He also has some other guy named Daryl also speaking to him over the Bat-Radio. He's also introduced later as the kid who designed the Armored Bunny suit. Maybe I should be calling Batman "Commissioner Bunnyman"?

Geri finishes her "convince the Commissioner to get involved" speech by answering Jim's "none of this is Batman" with "No, Readers, it's not. But if you want to maintain the completeness of your Batman comic book collection, you're going to have to try to accept that." Well, fuck you, Geri! Maybe I don't care about accepting it! Maybe I'll stop reading Batman because not everything that comes out of Scott Snyder's dick is gold! Maybe I don't want to read a Batman book without Batman in it!

Well, the old baseball player accepts the new Batman. But I'm not some old beat-up has-been! My Batman throws Batarangs! He doesn't shoot them out of a gun! I hate Commissioner Batman!

The final page shows a guy sitting on a park bench and some other guy with a briefcase passing by who stops, turns, and asks, "Bruce Wayne?"

Batman #41 Rating: -1 Ranking. This negative ranking isn't because of the quality of the comic book. It's a good book. The drop in rank is because I'm taking a stand against a Batman book without Batman! I refuse to be convinced by Scott Snyder with his story trying to convince the reader to buy into this concept. I'm with the guy at the end asking for Bruce Wayne back!

Twat Lobo #7

The only good thing about these variant covers is that they don't spoil the story inside.

Speaking of variant covers! Did anybody else see the Martian Manhunter Variant with all the Old Portugese [sic] pointing out different aspects of his physical characteristics? They had it in the case at my comic book store last Wednesday and because I can read stupid Old Portugese [sic] without a key now, it made me laugh because the final line points to his midsection and reads, "Thin Waist." That's one of the best super powers! Although he might lose it if New 52 Martian Manhunter discovers Oreos.

I'm sure there are vast vistas of uncharted technological territory still to discover thanks to the advent of cellphones but I think Periscope is the logical conclusion of social media and texting. Most people's lives are full of vast stretches of boredom punctuated by brief moments where survival instincts kick in and flood us with adrenaline, after which we proclaim we will no longer take anything for granted and will live every day as if it is our last and jump up on our desk and recite a fairly average poem. But soon enough, the long stretches of boredom will erode the feeling of living and we're forced to live vicariously through somebody else's life. Periscope is the perfect application for that! Now you never have to experience life through your own boring eyes! You can watch other people living life from the comfort of your own home! And the second best thing to viewing somebody else's experience through Periscope is Periscoping your own mundane existence so that it seems more exciting! "Look at me!" you say to all the viewers that missed you saying that because they were busy doing something else while you were Periscoping your profound experience feeding ducks.

Social media is just a place where we're all wasting our lives desperately trying to prove to everybody else that we're not wasting our lives.

Fuck you. This blog is different! Assholes.

I think that's enough words for looking down my nose and judging other people for this commentary. I should move on to judging Cullen Bunn's writing. How many comic books is he writing for DC now? Half of them? Plus about a dozen at Marvel and a few at Image? I don't usually trust aphorisms but I'm going to trust that "quality over quantity" is probably correct and most of what Cullen Bunn writes is hastily written garbage that even Hemingway wouldn't find worthy to shove into a short story.

This issue begins by proving that Twat Lobo is the manliest man in the universe because he just had sex with a vagina with two women attached to it.

Also, the women's right arms seem to be attached to their nipples.

The previous six issues have convinced readers that Twat Lobo is actually a pretty decent guy who wouldn't just blow up his own planet if he hadn't had his heart broken. Also it might not have been his fault but the fault of some Xrexian (ptui!) named The Pariah. Twat Lobo has no weaknesses at all, if you don't count his obsession with making up "rules" to follow based on the contracts he takes. My theory about Twat Lobo is overly complicated so I won't go into it. Also it's at the end of my review of Twat Lobo #6 if you're interested enough in reading even more words on the screen that you can be using right now to look at pornography or funny cat pictures. I would have used two other examples so that it seemed like I was making up a new joke there but, come on, we all know what the internet is really used for. The only things being read are headlines and the word "Submit" so that you know which button to click on after typing up an angry and poorly thought out rant in the comments section of the headline you just read. Do kids today even understand that headlines aren't the whole story? There are actually more words to read after the headline! It's called an article.

Twat Lobo's first Narration Box is this: "Typically, Geology is not a get-rich-quick science." Are you starting to see the value of the plot of land I've chosen for the Anti-Cullen Bunn Encampment? That's not a thought anybody but a lazy writer would ever have for any reason. Which means it's probably only ever been typed by Cullen Bunn and Ernest Hemingway. So, Geology isn't a get-rich-quick science, eh?! How about signing me up for one of them that is then! Woo-ee! We gonna git rich on one a dem sciences, boys! At first I uz all, "Yer crazy! Geology?! Dat ain't one of dem get-rich-quick sciences! We should maybe try dat dere Biology! Or Ornithology! But Geology?! I thought fer sure you'd gone round the bend! But when I read yer plan, I was all, 'Geology? More like OMGeology, amirite?!"

Now, maybe you're still over there stroking your genitals and hugging your Cullen Bunn comic books. Maybe you just figure I'm biased and an awful critic. Maybe you're Cullen Bunn's mom. What do I care? Like the guy! You can like whomever you want! I'm too busy hanging out in Powell's knocking Ernest Hemingway books out of people's hands and yelling, "NO! BAD READER! BAD!" I don't have a stake in whether Cullen Bunn makes a living off of comic books or not. But let me give you the second Twat Lobo Narration Box. And I'm going to repeat the first one so you get the flow. If it makes sense to you, good luck with you. We can part company now.

"Typically, geology is not a get-rich-quick science. Varnu Vain's the exception to that rule."

Before I move on, may I also point out that Geology is probably a pretty good science to go into if you want to make some bucks? I figure some major billion dollar corporations have a lot of well paid geologists on staff. Now imagine that we're not just talking about the resources that can be found on Earth but across the entire universe? Probably a lot of money to be made for scientists who know their mineral makeups of asteroids!

Maybe Cullen Bunn ends the Narration Boxing much better than he began it but that just shows he had a thought he wanted to write down but had no idea how to get to that thought. So he just began by typing whatever came to mind. Like that stupid line about geology, or some nonsensical bit about a variant cover to a comic book.

Twat Lobo has killed a bunch of people in the VIP Room at the club while waiting for Varnu.

The cartoon papers in the air due to the bodyguards fleeing so quickly pulls me right out of the story! Okay, fine. I was never really committed to the story due to my initial bias against Twat Lobo and Cullen Bunn anyway!

Twat Lobo wants Varnu because he's investigating the person who put out the contract on Earth and Czarnia. I thought Twat Lobo was going after the banker at the end of Issue #6 but since that was two months ago, DC assumes I'll just remember that he was going after the geologist hired to, I don't know, assess the makeup of the planet and mark it for demolition? I suppose it can be fixed in the Trade or else it'll read weird. Or maybe I should just assume that the banker didn't pay up (for the Czarnia job which Twat Lobo believes he's owed for because he destroyed it and not The Pariah) so now Twat Lobo is searching for other means to find the Contractor. Whatever the case, somebody doesn't want Twat Lobo to continue on this path because they blow the brains out of the head of the geologist. But they do it from the dance floor which will make it next to impossible for Twat Lobo to discover them!

It turns out to be a whole army of goggle wearing freaks in catcher's pads! Some of them have swords which is weird when the other ones have lasers. Why bother? If you don't have enough lasers for everybody, don't hire so many people! An electric sword is small consolation when you could have been given a Big Fucking Laser.

Twat Lobo spends the next couple of pages disemboweling and beheading and despleeninating the army of goons. Is this what DC Comics thinks made Real Deal Lobo so popular? The gruesome, gory, over-the-top murder of lots and lots of people without any sense of black humor, irony, or satire? I feel dirty just reading this book because it's obvious DC Comics wanted to make sure Lobo was cool for the current generation (which is how he became a Twat) which means they must think murder and gore for murder and gore's sake is what the kids today are really into. Who am I to argue? I'm a fucking dinosaur! This dope is whack!

Is Twat Lobo acknowledging that Real Deal Lobo is just his future self?! Am I reading this wrong (in much the same way I read everything incorrectly?! (Fuck you! Harvest is so Tim Drake!))!?

Twat Lobo finishes his Narration Boxing with "...or I'll get myself fragged right this very moment." See?! He says "fragged"! And he acknowledges that if he dies at this moment, he'll never become muscular and hairy. Which means he's eventually killed by himself but he probably didn't want to be old and hairy and not a Twat anyway. See? New Twat Lobo Theory!

Twat Lobo heads back to his motel room where he finds some spotty alien named Kadra and more goggle eyed army men waiting for him. She works for the top assassin's guild in the universe, The Void Whisper. They're the guild who all the assassins trying to destroy Earth worked for.

So the greatest assassin's guild in the universe takes on anonymous clients? As Twat Lobo said earlier, "That's a good way to make enemies!"

Obviously Kadra is lying because even Twat Lobo knows that you don't take contracts from unknown clients for unknown reasons simply for the money. You do your own research. So Kadra knows the person responsible for the Earth contract. She may not have learned that it was a game until later but she knows the person for whom her people were working. This is just another way to deal with Twat Lobo! And maybe get him to deal with a troublesome client. Let's not forget that it could also just be a lazy piece of writing to move Twat Lobo into position for Cullen Bunn's next story beat.

Maybe with this new information, Twat Lobo could even go back to Rhialla to find out who hired him to protect Earth. Maybe, with this information, I could even go back to Issue #1 and see if Rhialla mentioned the client! Probably not though since that would be confidential and the main reason why assassins would work through a middleman to do jobs for clients. Can't have the butcherers knowing the identities of the money men!

Twat Lobo figures that the Two-Torso'd Woman he was fucking sold him out to Kadra, so he plants a bomb in one of their mouths in his farewell kiss.

That's one good way to ensure that nobody will ever want to fuck rat on you again.

To get the information Twat Lobo needs, he isn't just going to work with Kadra to find out who hired the assassins. No, he's going to become her personal assistant. So basically he'll continue to be a bounty hunter but for a different employer. And he's got a quest to find out who wanted Czarnia destroyed. Oh! I know who! It was Real Deal Lobo and he did it because of low self-esteem problems and taking the whole "unique snowflake" culture to its extremely illogical end!

But I guess DC Comics has heard that genocide is bad and if they're going to have a palatable anti-hero, he's got to have not committed any genocide at all. At least not on purpose, I mean. Whew! Good thing because the only reason I could find not to like Twat Lobo was if he was a purposeful committer of genocide! Take that out of his back story and, BINGO!, likeable dude!

On Twat Lobo's first job for The Void Whisper, he tries to kill a guy that passes on warnings to The Void Whisper's marks for a price. An Alien Scorpion Space Tracker climbs out of the guy's eyeball before Twat Lobo can kill him. And then the issue ends with a Thanagarian, a Daemonite, and a Martian entering a church. Cullen Bunn doesn't even give us the punchline!

Twat Lobo #7 Rating: -1 Ranking. It has no personality. It's just a bad-ass guy that murders using bad-assery and then moves on to do more bad ass bad-assery. It's not bad ass. It's just bad.

Green Arrow #41

This should be a poster for a Green Arrow movie where he needs to take a second job as a stripper. It can be called Quiver.

According to the Sneak Peek, we're going to be getting yet another take on Green Arrow. But how different can it actually be? Issue #40 saddled him with Felicity and Diggle and Emiko and Mia. My hope is that he becomes an urban ghost hunter and his new sidekick is a teenaged girl named Ouija who rolls her eyes a lot and blames being possessed by ghosts to excuse her constant backtalk. She'll have to deal with people constantly making fun of her for being named after a Parker Brothers game. Then she'll have to tell them in a serious voice, "It's not a game; it's a tool."

Or we'll probably just get another version of Oliver Queen trying to keep the streets of Seattle safe from thugs and no-goodniks!

The issue begins with Oliver Queen telling the reader how every morning his mother would ask him what he dreamed about and every morning Ollie would reply, "The moon!" You know what that story tells me? Oliver Queen is an unimaginative bastard with an obsessive compulsive mother. Oliver seems to think he dreamt about the moon because he was already done with all the trouble here on Earth. But I've heard that earth is the right place for love and that it's not likely to go better anywhere else! Although love generally sucks ass so fuck you, Robert Frost!

Really, Oliver? Those are the thoughts you were having as a child? No wonder you're fucked up.

Why is Green Arrow telling the reader this story? Is he going to be battling Eclipso soon?! I bet he turns around and comes up with that whole thing about Earth being the right place for shooting assholes in the face with boxing glove arrows. There's probably nowhere that that's likely to go better!

Instead, Oliver ends his little moon fantasy by saying that he's given up on the moon. Also, the sun. Also, light. Also, days that aren't overcast and full of rain. Dude, I get that. Fucking Pacific Northwest. Eat a dick already and give me some Vitamin D!

The actual station in Seattle is KOMO. I like KOMA better. So apt! Side note: who names their fucking high school "Dark Water High"?! Is this a pilot for a teen drama? Is this the setting for a Goosebumps story?

Emiko isn't like any of the people in her high school. Who is?! We're all better than those other sheep, amirite?! Give me a high five! I mean, that's not cool so just look at me with a knowing look and maybe a slight nod and an eye roll and is it okay to do hand jerk-off motions? Yeah? Okay! We'll do those whenever anybody else in high school says anything! I bet Emiko is such a unique snowflake that it's hard to feel comfortable around all of the sheep-shaped snowflakes! It's really hard when she Snapchats people intensely profound and interesting things like, I don't know, stupid plastic bags floating in the breeze but then they just send her back dick and clit shots. It's like, grow up already, you adolescents full of hormones with incomplete brains! Get a clue!

I don't know what it is about Percy's writing on Green Arrow, but I get it. He keeps bringing up moments that I don't just understand because he's competent at his job; they're moments I've lived. So in the Sneak Peek, we have Ollie's need to abandon his old life and become nobody for awhile. I did that at about the same age Oliver is here. And now he encounters a woman the locals call The Wart Lady. And he tells a little story in the Narration Boxes that is as close to an experience I had in China as it could possibly be.

I'll just be discussing the Narration Boxes in the next paragraph. I haven't even yet read what the Wart Lady is saying here.

I took a picture of a man without a lower torso who got around on a platform balanced in the middle of an axle between two wheels which he manipulated with his hands. I didn't feel embarrassed about taking the photo even though he waved the camera away when he saw me getting it out. Although he did wind up posing for the picture and I paid him for it, I didn't take the picture to exploit him and so I won't be scanning it for the internet to see. I also didn't take the picture because he was a monster, or a victim, or an amusement. I took the picture because I was awed by him. Yes, ultimately, one can argue it was objectifying and technically no different than a tourist's picture of a Golden Pagoda or the Great Wall. You could say it was dehumanizing and paying him was just a way to assuage any guilt that I might have felt for invading this man's privacy. I can't say those are not aspects of the experience. But those are aspects of the situation that dehumanize the man whose picture I took. He was begging outside of a well-known tourist attraction which tour guides brought foreigners through on a constant daily basis. He probably manipulated me. I'm free to take whatever pictures I want in a slightly-Communist public space! I didn't have to give him any money at all! And he probably knew fucking Americans suck at figuring out the conversion rate between dollars and yuan! I probably slipped him one hundred dollars American! Fuck that guy!

I just finished reading that page. How dare you, Oliver! If Wart Lady doesn't want her picture taken, maybe she should wear Picture Resistant Clothing!

The night after the couple were killed on the Great Wheel, a Seahawks linebacker is killed by the Nightbird guy as well. Oliver needs to do some detective work to figure out what's going on! That can only mean going to see one person: Henry Fyff!

Well I'm glad Henry is back after Kreisberg made a point of bringing back everybody in Ollie's life except Henry last issue. I thought maybe Naomi murdered him! I wonder if this means Felicity is out on her ass? Or maybe she and Henry will get together?! I ship Smyff! Or Fyoaks! Or Felicenry? Henricity? How about just Nerdz²?

KOMA reports that six victims have been found and all but one were African-American males. That means Nightbird must be hunting them for their melanin. Wasn't this an episode of The X-files? Where some albino black guy was going around sticking straws in the pituitary glands of other black guys?

Meanwhile on the Queen Industries side of the storytelling which has mostly been ignored, Oliver falls asleep during a meeting with some guy from Panopticon. There's a note about seeing Batman #41 because they're probably working with Wayne Industries or Power Whatever Inc (or both of them if they merged. I don't remember details very well!). Who is stupid and doesn't think Panopticon is going to be some kind of super villain shell corporation?

Oh no! Panopticon is working with The Nightbird! They must be developing camera technology that sucks blood!

Later Oliver finally puts on the hoodie so Green Arrow fans don't feel like they've wasted their money. Although if they've been wasting their money on the last forty issues of this comic book, I can't see how they'd have any problem throwing away another $2.99!

As Green Arrow, Ollie gets to do ridiculous things that prove his real super power is negating the laws of physics within a forty yard sphere around his body.

Oh comic books! Fuck you!

Green Arrow saves a woman from some muggers and then lectures her for being out at night trying to make a living. She tells him all the black men are disappearing and nobody seems to care. Oliver is all, "Yeah, yeah. But have you heard about this Nightbird guy?" And she's all, "Go talk to Big Dog about Nightbird!" So he does!

Green Arrow gets to the dog fight (of course Big Dog runs dog fights!) a few seconds after Big Dog is kidnapped by Nightbird. Big Dog's half-wolf ringer in the dog fight gets his neck ripped open from the distraction but Ollie is there to save him. Because what Green Arrow needs is his own Ace the Bathound or Krypto the Superdog or Aquadog the Abandoned Dog! I bet he names him Streaky!

Nightbird takes Big Dog to a warehouse in the woods where he ties him up and douses him with bleach. Um. Because...um...well...he's crazy?

Green Arrow #41 Rating: +1 Ranking. I appreciate the way this super hero story happens organically. A villain is doing something villainous that has nothing to do with Green Arrow. The villain seems to have both large plans that involve a group and smaller, more personal plans that the group would probably frown upon if they knew about them. Green Arrow takes it upon himself to search out trouble in Seattle once he gets wind of something odd happening. One thing that remains true though is how Ollie takes his lead from the ever present news reports on the televisions around him. Between KOMA and the Wart Lady (mostly KOMA!), he figures out something odd is going on, straps on the quiver, and heads into the night to do unspeakable things to evil!

Green Lantern #41

I can see those idiot Guardians choosing The Joker as a Lantern.

Are y'all ready for tough guy, on-the-run Hal Jordan?! I hope he has a leather vest and a bad attitude! He should take up smoking and dealing space meth! And he should answer every questioned posed to him with, "Whattya got?" Also he should bang loads and loads of space broads! Unless that's sexist and then he should tenderly make love to consenting space women. Not that the space broads in my first example weren't consenting! But as a tough guy, you don't wait for a woman to say yes because she's practically already tearing your jeans off right when she meets you. At that point you're going to ruin the moment if you lean down and say, "Are you sure you want to suck my fat cock?"

This issue begins at yet another Space Gladiatorium. Bets are being wagered on the battle about to be fought. Some prince or something is about to face off against a Kreeak which is a creature that goes, "KREEAK!" Hal Jordan is probably in the crowd somewhere. He might be the human looking guy in the green robe. Or he might be somewhere else.

Speaking of Gladiatoriums, is everybody going to watch Battlebots on Sunday night? Barbarians. As soon as the ATMs and Electronic Grocery Store Checkout Machines and CoinStars hear about what we're doing to their brethren, we're fucked. Start building your homemade EMP bombs now because after Sunday night, the machines are going to come looking for vengeance!

The guy in the robe is Hal Jordan and he saves the princely guy in the arena by making a sword appear on the prince's arm. This pisses everybody off because I guess this wasn't so much a battle as an execution. Some guy named Trap notices the Krona Gauntlet on Hal and drags his friends off to a later scene to confront Jordan.

Speaking of whispers, I still need to watch last Monday's episode.

Hal Jordan creates a Giant Light Squid to defeat two out of the three bad guys. The third bad guy, Trap, he leaves conscious so he can explain to him that he's not with the Green Lantern Corps because they're good guys who didn't disappoint the universe at all and they really should be given a fifteenth chance. Hal also tells Trap that he's going to jail for a long time but not because Hal is arresting him. Hal's just this guy, you know? No, Hal will leave Trap where he can be found by the Green Lantern Corps but don't think that means Hal has any ties to them! That would be completely wrong to think that.

Hey DC Comics! Notice how I'm ignoring the weirdness in your continuity between this comic book and Justice League #41! See how I'm just enjoying each story as they're being presented without too much editorial control? See how I love that you're letting the writers write whatever they want to write? It's not causing me to grind my teeth at all! You've done it! You've let go! It's all downhill and blown up Death Stars from here!

I meant "downhill" in it gets easier and not in sales!

Before Hal can smash Trap's face into a wall and knock him out while still maintaining the upper hand, Trap tells Hal a secret.

The secret is in Old Portugese [sic]! It reads, "We're too far away to hear it." It was almost too far away to read it too! Stupid old person eyes! I wonder if there are some homeless youths in the area with great vision?

Here we get the time honored tradition of a comic book character discovering something while the reader is left in the dark. It's bullshit, Venditti! Take your Mystery MacGuffin and enjoy it in the other room where I don't have to watch. At least Trap gives us a clue that he told Hal about something rare and mysterious, perhaps even legendary and mythological! I bet Trap told him that he recently saw a fabled Magenta Lantern!

Hal decides Trapper's information is worth taking him along, so he knocks him out and throws him over his shoulder as he and the Prince make their escape. They head back to Darlene, climb inside of her, and they're off to Sector 0000! I don't think the Prince is from there so Hal's probably going to check out the information he received from Trapsie.

Aha! Trapper sure does know a lot! Which is why he must know the reason for the Green Lantern Corps disappearing. That's why he was prompted to tell Hal his secret when Hal mentioned the Green Lantern Corps. Then he asked Hal when he last saw one (meaning a Green Lantern) which lead to Hal flying through Sector 0000 for a quick peek.

Hal Jordan discovers that Mogo and the Green Lantern Corps are gone. Hopefully the destroyed planet he finds at the center of the universe is Oa and not Mogo. Although given John Stewart's history, my guess is he tried to make breakfast and destroyed the entire Corps except for the handful that wound up in a secret breakfast dimension.

Green Lantern #41 Rating: +1 Ranking. Competently written with an ability to write comic book tropes in a way that works within the context of the story and dialogue. Also Hal is casually building a Serenityesque crew for Darlene. I have a feeling the Prince and Trapper might be around for awhile.

Justice League #41

I can't believe DC Comics sells enough extra comics every month to make these Variant Covers worthwhile.

This comic book is the Justice League, bitches! If you think they're going to battle anybody less than Gods, you're a fucking dimwitted motherfucker! I hope this aggressive introduction with all the cursing draws in more readers! Here's another saying the kids apparently come for: "Go big or go home!"

The issue begins with Kanto and Lashina invading the house of somebody they believe is Myrina Black. They're wrong because they're not into doing research. It's easier to just kill everybody in the vicinity of Myrina Black's last known location. She must be somebody so important that DC Comics hasn't published a comic book in which she appeared for over three decades. Geoff Johns probably obsessively dug through old copies of Green Lantern and Adventures Into Mystery and Batman and Justice League of America until he found just the right obscure person that next to nobody would remember. Now he's going to make her the most important person in this current Cosmic Crisis. He'll sell a lot of comic books and the fans will gush and rave about how they love Geoff Johns and I'll just be sitting here waiting to pounce on Geoff when he makes a mathematical mistake in one of his character's calculations. Oh, sir, I cannot wait! I am frothing at the wherever people froth just thinking about it!

While these clowns search for whomever, Mister Miracle is infiltrating Apokolips on his own mission. Hey! Did you know I once wrote a sonnet about Mister Miracle?! I did and I'm going to copy and paste it here because it's a fucking sonnet and I wrote it and you'll fucking read it, you pseudo intellectual scumbags!

Sonnet #WE11: "Father's Day"

Visage of stone which taught me how to act,
Ignoring all that I desired to be.
Imagination rectified to fact.
A miracle turned into pure fury.
A dream of God, a father far away,
Reminded me that I was not of stone
Nor flesh nor blood but love and spirit made,
Which merely left me feeling more alone.
Each voice commanded me to be like him.
And though a moth attracted to each flame,
I could not bow to each and every whim,
So chose escape and neither of their game.
And so a voice I'd known yet hardly heard,
Whispered, "God and Father are both absurd."

It's not actually about Mister Miracle even though it is also about Mister Miracle! It also uses turns of phrase I normally would stay away from because they're bits and pieces of dialogue directly from World's End #11 because the sonnet was the review of that comic book.

Hey! That was easy! I should copy and paste old reviews into new reviews more often! Who would notice?!

What can't be possible? Just tell me already!

Come on, Geoff Johns! You're such a hotshot writer, prove it! Stop fucking around with this bullshit false tension where you allow the character to see the big surprise MacGuffin but not the reader! If your MacGuffin were really that interesting, the reader would be propelled forward with the story on the excitement of finding out just how the MacGuffin will be used or how the heroes will stop it. Lousy writers do this cheap shocked character non-reveal crap! I guess I have to conclude that you're a lousy writer!

You know who else pulls shit like this, Johns?! Clickbait websites! Don't you feel dirty now?

Here's another sonnet!

Sonnet #GeoffJohnsSpellsHisNameWrong

Geoff. That's the name of a kid in boys chorus.
Geoff Johns' parents must have been huge douchebags.
Or they were really into Toys R Us!
Maybe they just loved jerking to sploosh mags?
God! The pretentiousness of the spelling
Makes my fucking God-damned teeth fucking ache!
How do I spell my same name? Not telling!
My hippie parents really took the cake.
Whatever! Fuck you! Just get off my ass!
Iambic pentafuckingwhatever!
This sonnet mayn't have any fucking class,
Cause "fucking" is a good meter filler.
Fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you!
Fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you!

Maybe I wasn't in the right mood to write a sonnet! I probably should have used the couplet at the end to subtly portray how I'm angry at the spelling of Johns' first name because I'm actually envious that his name was spelled like the giraffe's while mine simply caused me to be called a Deaf Chef throughout elementary school. Maybe that came out in the rest of the poem and it would have just been redundant! In that case, the way I wrote it is just fine.

Oh! Oh! Let me guess! Is this the part where you explain that what you had in common is that you were all lost outsiders? FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU RIGHT IN YOUR FUCKING ASS, WONDER WOMAN! YOU DON'T KNOW FROM OUTSIDER OR HOW TO CORRECTLY PHRASE THIS SENTENCE WITH THE WORD "FROM"! Unless that "from" part is the part I don't know. But I know I got the FUCK YOU part right!

Remember that song by that pretentious guy that was in The Police? The one about the message in the bottle and how he discovers that he's not alone in being alone? Here's a little secret about how everybody feels alone: some people feel way more fucking alone than other people and the main reason is because lonely people treat lonelier people like assholes so they feel better.

Sorry! I let my feelings get ahead of the story! It turns out Wonder Woman says they all share the need for justice and searching. Although she does mention that they share a need for finding their place in the world which is just another way of saying they're lonely. But they're all good looking and have super powers (or money), so forgive me if I don't feel any sympathy for their not fitting in.

The Justice League head on over to Myrina Black's place to investigate the murder because it's tied to a BOOOM Tube opening inside the house. Plus Barry is the fastest CSI guy ever! He can contaminate a crime scene before the police tape can even be pulled out of the police tape box where it's kept for safe keeping.

Oh. I didn't realize everything goes faster in the vicinity of Barry Allen. DNA tests? No problem! Done in nanoseconds! My guess is Barry time traveled to get the results! Prepare for the next Crisis because of it!

Meanwhile Superman is visiting Lexcorps where everybody talks as if they're a robot or on the radio. I understand Lex has the weird staticky speech bubbles because he's in his super suit and his head is contained in a glass dome. But why is Captain Cold's voice all robotic and tingly?! Why do I even ask those questions? Oh! I know why! So I can point out that somebody at DC Comics fucked up without actually pointing my finger and yelling, "Nyah nyah! You fucked up!"

No wait. I fucked up. Captain Cold's face is apparently behind a plastic hazmat facemask thing as well except Jason Fabok only makes it apparent in one panel. Sorry for jumping the gun! Again!

Superman is visiting Lexcorps so he can see how Lex is taking care of Neutron, the assassin that tried to kill Lex which caused the Amazo Virus to break loose. Neutron is dying but Lex wants to keep him alive long enough to find out who has put a hit on Luthor. Luthor says the man is dying so they should wake him up to ask him who put the hit on Luthor even though that will kill the guy faster. Superman is all, "Unh-unh! No you didn't! Or won't!" He then says, "You can't cure cancer, can you, you stupid S.O.B!" And Lex is all, "What?! How dare you challenge my skills! Of course I can cure cancer! I just haven't tried yet because I didn't want to become incredibly wealthy off of the patents! But now that you've issued an elementary school dare, Superman, you better believe I'll cure cancer! I'll cure all of the cancers right now! In your face!" Geoff Johns, I mean Superman smiles smugly in the knowledge that he tricked Lex Luthor into helping humanity.

For being the smartest guy on Earth, Lex is actually pretty dumb. He apparently fell for this same trick when Superman dared him to build a prison that even Lex couldn't escape from. And so Lex did. And then Lex was put into it. Although that story really shows how dumb Superman is because obviously Lex would have a built a prison that seemed like he couldn't escape from but from which he could easily escape if he had wanted to. Instead he treated it like a vacation spa. I wonder if Superman really believed the daily Happy Ending Massage Treatments for the patients were necessary for the Unescapable Prison System to work?

Back on Apokolips, Mister Miracle runs afoul of Darkseid.

"A chair! Anything for a chair! Maybe I wouldn't be so angry if I could...just...sit...down!"

Mister Miracle gets away with help from his Mother Box. He's off to find the Justice League and tell them why they need to help him. Also, they're going to have to deal with Darkseid who wants revenge against them for stopping his conquest of Earth. And they're going to have to deal with the Anti-Monitor who followed the Crime Syndicate over from Earth-3. Or they're just going to sit back and try to protect Earth while Darkseid and the Anti-Monitor compare dick sizes.

Back in Myrina Black's house, Cyborg points out Myrina Blacks are being killed all over America (he doesn't care about any in other parts of the world). They'll need protection. But first, the Justice League has to be nearly obliterated by Omega as she crawls out of Barry Allen's mouth followed by lots of explosions. It's all very Michael Bay by way of Japanese horror films. Then she pulls some Wachowski Brothers shit before she pulls some old school psycho barbarian licking blood off of her axe moves. It's Batman's blood she licks, by the way. The other heroes are busy not being allowed on panel while Batman gets beat up.

Before Omega can kill Batman, Cyborg blasts her with, probably, a white noise cannon. So she turns her attention to Victor. Before she can kill Victor, Shazam throws her into a van (more explosions and fist pumps and high fives!) so she turns her attention to Shazam. Before she can kill Shazam, Wonder Woman gets her in a bear hug and wraps her Lasso around Omega's wrists so she can ask her a question: "Who are you?" The lasso doesn't work though for plot reasons. So Wonder Woman calls Superman so that Superman can save her before Omega kills her because that's probably the next step in the pattern.

Lex isn't just the smartest man in the world, he's also the most emotionally stunted.

I guess Superman's plan of waiting Lex out and constantly nitpicking him and calling him a criminal finally worked! He knew Lex would eventually blow up and show his true nature! If only Lex Luthor's genius weren't crippled by his constant emotional outbursts!

As for Lex's Kryptonite-as-Fuel plan, isn't that bound to fail? Didn't Ultraman snort most of the Kryptonite on Earth? So even if the Kryptonite could power Metropolis for a year (and how much would that take, Lex? Try being more scientific in your proclamations, enh?), isn't most of the Kryptonite (if not all but Metallo's heart) gone? Although I forget that, in comic books, whatever is currently happening or being said trumps anything done or said in the past. Plus Geoff Johns gets to make up all the rules. Plus I really have no evidence that all the Kryptonite is gone. I just remember Ultraman desperately searching for every Kryptonite Crumb he could find to stick up his nose.

Lex's sister, Lena, puts three bullets through Lex's super armor. I guess his armor isn't as super as he'd like people to believe. So was she the one hiring everybody in the world to kill him? Seems like she decided the better plan was to save her money and kill him herself. Although an even betterer plan would have been to enact her better plan when Superman wasn't around!

Back at the battle, it seems Green Lantern, not Superman, has come to keep Omega from killing Wonder Woman only to become her next victim.

Is free will like free energy?

Omega can break free will? That doesn't even fucking make sense! This is a thing that we as comic book fans have put up with for long enough! I'm tired of super powerful heroes suddenly meeting their match for poorly explained reasons other than "this villain is so bad ass you can't even!"

Meanwhile Omega has come to Jessica Cruz to say that she's the one Omega really wants! Not the other five or six or whatever number she just beat down while saying that they're the most dangerous or the one that needs to be dealt with first or the one with the most succulent sphincter. No, it was Jessica Cruz all along and her tether to Earth-3! By using Power Ring's ring, Omega summons the Anti-Monitor to Earth-Main-Earth! And I bet he's super pissed off that he failed to destroy infinite universes thirty years ago!

Lena Luthor has her own Mother Box and she uses it to BOOOM Tube Superman and Lex somewhere else. For Darkseid, of course. Mister Miracle also BOOOM Tubes somewhere else to escape from Lashina and Kanto. He winds up in Myrina Black's apartment where she lives with her pet Griffon unimaginatively called Griff. She's been planning a war against Darkseid because she heard it should sell a lot of issues of Justice League. If her name is Black and she owns a Griffon, does that mean she's from Gemworld?

Justice League #41 Rating: +1 Ranking. It's a blockbuster, all right. I get the feeling Geoff Johns is a bit of a Michael Bay but for comic books. It's a pretty spectacular story with lots of explosions and big villains and punching and kicking and robots! But if you don't ratchet your thinking power down a few notches, it kind of falls apart in multiple ways, and you notice all the cracks where you can slide in your +5 Crowbar of Criticism to tear it all down. But even though I can be critical, I'm also up for a fun super hero story with lots and lots of guest stars. I just hope the Universe isn't ending because of it! I also hope that the Justice League isn't relegated to spectator status although it seems like that's currently the case.

Batman Beyond #1

I should probably sit down and watch this cartoon sometime. Even though the cartoon has nothing to do with this comic book.

I just rewatched Ghost World so bear with me as I recover. I've mentioned before how all of my favorite novels aren't about good people overcoming their problems or defeating the bad people or making the world a better place. No, all of my favorite novels are about the protagonist finding their only choice is to escape from the insanity of a world they were never asked to be a part of. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Catch-22. The Grapes of Wrath. Some other books I'm probably forgetting. All of those (maybe!) pale in comparison to how I feel about Ghost World (the movie and the comic book). My heart breaks so hard for Enid and yet I feel intense and overwhelming joy when she chooses freedom. It's not easy, and she probably hurts a lot of people in the process. But she was dying trying to find a life which her best friend and family would fit into. I love how she and Becky's hand holding lingers in their final scene together, and I'm happy that Becky seems to understand. I like to imagine that they still sometimes speak, or visit, and that when they do, they pick up exactly where they left off, as old, first friends are wont to do after long absences.

Fifteen years later, Ghost World takes on a more poignant tone knowing that Thora Birch kind of disappeared from the big screen (not entirely but, really, you have to be looking to find her. I suggest you don't go looking down the Dungeons and Dragons path) while Scarlett Johansson was accepted by Hollywood and fit right in.

Anyway. If Ghost World means anything special to you, we would probably understand each other although it would be awkward and we probably wouldn't really care about hanging out. If you hated the movie and didn't identify with it at all, lucky you.

Now let's see how Tim Drake goes from Batman Beyond to Harvest in twelve easy steps!

This issue begins with a decapitation and other dismemberments! That'll keep the kids busy in a non-offensive way on a long road trip. Imagine if the issue began with tea and cupcakes?! No modern kid would turn the page!

The people doing the dismemberment are painted up like clowns because they're bad guys and bad guys in Gotham tend toward looking silly and being utterly ridiculous and teetering on the verge of absolutely moronic. I think Joker Gangs of the Future are also a standard part of the old Batman Beyond world, so we should all have expected them (even if this world is supposed to be covered in Brother Eye Cyborg Super Monsters).

Special Chase Foil Paragraph of Ultimate Rarity: I'm super excited that Bernard Chang is doing all of the penciling and inking himself. See? Sometimes I do mention the art. Especially when I'm prepared to say a lot of horrible things about the writing. Sorry, Dan Jurgens! I don't hate your writings! But I'm preparing myself for not really thoroughly enjoying it very much?

That last sentence of the previous paragraph wasn't a question but I felt the question mark softened the sentiment enough so that if Dan Jurgens' family were to read this, they wouldn't cry.

The map and remembering where Brother Eye was built bit was clever enough for me to think this book could be going in the right direction. It's the kind of question I'd ask! But saying it's the kind of question I'd ask doesn't exactly bring it up to Oscar Wilde levels of wit. But it's at least on the comparative scale (because I'm on the comparative scale!).

This Veil Technology that Wayne Enterprises has invented helps to make the Neo-Gotham of Batman Beyond believable after a full year of being told that the future was just cyborgs, cyborgs, and more cyborgs. This allows for a city hidden from Brother Eye's gaze which has developed free from monster super robots. That's good because I was going to get bored really quickly of Tim Drake battling robots with familiar looking heads on them.

The Joker Gang want to steal the Veil Technology so that Brother Eye will notice Neo-Gotham and destroy it just like the rest of the world was destroyed. Tim Drake is against that for possibly obvious reasons. I say "possibly" because if you don't know why, I don't want to sound patronizing or insulting to your limited intelligence by assuming everybody can figure it out.

Tim and A.L.F.R.E.D. (henceforth to be known simply as Alfred) are still trying to work out how this future is different from the future Terry McGinnis came from. In that future, it seemed the entire world was a wasteland. Batman was also grafted to The Joker in that future and sent back in time. But since Gotham is hidden from Brother Eye in this future, I'm sure Tim will be dealing with him soon enough. Dan Jurgens has also left room for the survival of other cities as well since Alfred doesn't know everything about this timeline yet.

Tim decides to go ask Nora Boxer some questions. She's...oh, I can't remember who she is! Read the Sneak Peek, or the final issue of Futures End, or watch the television show if you really need to know! I do know that she lives with Terry McGinnis's younger brother though. The scene helps to inform those readers who missed the Sneak Peek of some of the information gleaned from the eight pager.

See? They don't know he's from the past!

Nora explains how Matt was now an orphan and looking for a sidekick job. But Tim probably feels it's too early in the run to throw a kid in a suit and into dangerous situations. Better to wait for Matt to wind up kidnapped where he'll have to show his pluck and determination which will prove he's just as capable as any other Robin ever was.

Tim asks about the Justice League and Nora says they're all dead or have been turned. So Tim is all they have! His first job is to rescue some human prisoners being held by Brother Eye for their knowledge. Tim heads out as Matt looks on envious of the suit. He's already dreaming of being the hero and he hasn't even done his time as Robin Beyond!

Once Tim arrives at the POW Camp known as The Lodge, he encounters his first Brother Eyenemy. Get it?!

First issue and he's already going to die?

Tim blows his load (the electric kind) and shorts out Superman. He also shorts out his own costume and Alfred as well. While he's in mufti (thanks Larry Hama!), Tim decides to sneak into the prisoner of war camp and pretend to be a prisoner. Once thrown into the general population, he's assaulted and shaken down for any tech he might have on him by some guy named Max and his pink haired friend. But a familiar face is able to set him free before any punches are thrown.

Oh shit! His cover is blown!

Batman Beyond #1 Rating: 7.5 Harvests out of 10. Okay, Dan Jurgens, I'm in! Let's see where this goes. The best part about this comic book being Futures End Lite is that it doesn't have to represent the future of The New 52 Universe. Maybe some fans will demand that it has some sort of relationship with The New 52 Universe or else they just won't feel a connection to the story. But for me, I just like that it's an Elseworlds book about one possible future of the DC Universe where Bruce Wayne and Michael Holt completely fucked up and destroyed the world. How are people dealing with that? How are Mike and Bruce dealing with it?! I'm sure they'll play an integral part in the future of this title. As far as Tim Drake now being Batman Beyond? That's a bit weird. I don't really care since I've never even watched the cartoon so I'm not invested in Terry McGinnis. But the fact that Batman Beyond was so popular and that Terry McGinnis won over everybody who watched the show and is thought of as Batman, it seems wrong to just kill him and throw Tim Drake in the suit. On the other hand, it's time for Tim Drake to prove he can be Batman as well! So you know. One half dozen dildos in one hand, six vibrating cockmonsters in the other.