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I am a Batman fan.
As in, pretty much all forms of Batman, except for George Clooney. I'm not big into Christian Bale (squicks me out and makes me think of Tom Cruise, for some reason), but those Batman versions were enjoyable enough. Michael Keaton, though, for ME personally, had just the right edge of "very nearly psychotic" that I think Batman needs to have.
Anyway! Saturday mornings here chez Whiz involve watching the cartoon series Batman: The Brave And The Bold from my big snuggly bed. It's not my FAVOURITE Batman cartoonification evar, but it's watchable. This morning, however? It set me a-ranting at an ungodly hour of a non-working weekend morning.
It was one of those goddamned CROSSOVER episodes. Batman somehow crosses paths with some other DC comics superhero, and lessons are learned and experiences shared and BLAH BLAH FUCKING BLAH. I'm watching for BATMAN. I don't care about bloody Superman or Spider-Man (who was always just too irritatingly ANGSTY and WHINY for my taste). Anyhoo, in this cross over, Batman and PLASTICMAN (gah) meet up with... UNCLE SAM AND THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS.
Gah.
Included in the Freedom Fighters?! DOLL MAN! THE HUMAN BOMB! PHANTOM LADY!
Dudes. AWESOME Superhero names. Can I be slightly sidetracked by how The Human Bomb is probably totally non-PC in our modern terrorist-laden times? I mean, I guess it's OK, because THIS Human Bomb fights FOR UNCLE SAM. Therefore it's good. It's stars-and-stripes-explodingly-all-over-your-screen good. ***W00t! Wave tiny American flags!***
But anyway, at this point I'm assuming (I like Batman, but I'm not up on EVERY ASPECT of the franchise) that this is rather an old series, and as such it's kind of awkwardly charming in it's anarchic non-pc ind of set up. Speaking of non-pc, did you check out Phantom Lady's AMAZING superpower?! You'll totally never guess - SHE TURNS INVISIBLE. I know, right?! AWESOMENESS!
What male comic book writer/reader DOESN'T want a hawt sexy mama who can just be vanished into thin air when she gets cranky/naggy/otherwise bored of? How many other goddamned invisible women are there in comics and sci-fi? Should we be receiving a message here, girls? Not so much seen and not heard - seen when we want to view your hawt short shorts, and then get me a sammich or vanish into thin air, kthnxbai. *eyeroll*.
Know of any Invisible MEN (aside from, you know, the obvious one) flisties? No? I can't think of any. Is that possibly because as a story it would be horrifically boring, because all said Invisible Man would do would be lurk around in ladies locker rooms working on developing one enormous Hulk arm? And thereby possibly causing a GLOBAL KLEENEX SHORTAGE, OMFG THINK OF THE CHILDRENNNNNN!?!
Huh.
Anyway, at the end of the episode, PlasticMan, who saves the day by discovering his patriotism (which, incidentally, we are encouraged to learn COMES FROM TEH HEART, rather than from learning dates and places and names. No, kids! GOD FORBID you should learn about significant events in your country's history lest you develop a political view OF YOUR OWN! Just sing Yankee Doodle Dandy! It doesn't even matter if you don't know the words. Uncle Sam will save the world for you if you JUST BELIEVE!!1!) - and he gets thanked by someone very special, the Man In Charge Himself, the President of the USA get out here you goombah... BARACK FUCKING OBAMA.
WHUT?! This.. this is a NEW cartoon?! This blatantly flag-waving, completely undisguised propaganda machine? With Uncle Sam talking about fighting THE RED ALIEN MENACE?! Really?! Well, HOLY SHIT. We seem to have slipped back into 1940-something where we were teaching the kids to hate the Germans.
See the episode (illegally!) in three parts on YouTube - or just watch the last one for the Obama cameo right at the end.
As in, pretty much all forms of Batman, except for George Clooney. I'm not big into Christian Bale (squicks me out and makes me think of Tom Cruise, for some reason), but those Batman versions were enjoyable enough. Michael Keaton, though, for ME personally, had just the right edge of "very nearly psychotic" that I think Batman needs to have.
Anyway! Saturday mornings here chez Whiz involve watching the cartoon series Batman: The Brave And The Bold from my big snuggly bed. It's not my FAVOURITE Batman cartoonification evar, but it's watchable. This morning, however? It set me a-ranting at an ungodly hour of a non-working weekend morning.
It was one of those goddamned CROSSOVER episodes. Batman somehow crosses paths with some other DC comics superhero, and lessons are learned and experiences shared and BLAH BLAH FUCKING BLAH. I'm watching for BATMAN. I don't care about bloody Superman or Spider-Man (who was always just too irritatingly ANGSTY and WHINY for my taste). Anyhoo, in this cross over, Batman and PLASTICMAN (gah) meet up with... UNCLE SAM AND THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS.
Gah.
Included in the Freedom Fighters?! DOLL MAN! THE HUMAN BOMB! PHANTOM LADY!
Dudes. AWESOME Superhero names. Can I be slightly sidetracked by how The Human Bomb is probably totally non-PC in our modern terrorist-laden times? I mean, I guess it's OK, because THIS Human Bomb fights FOR UNCLE SAM. Therefore it's good. It's stars-and-stripes-explodingly-all-over-your-screen good. ***W00t! Wave tiny American flags!***
But anyway, at this point I'm assuming (I like Batman, but I'm not up on EVERY ASPECT of the franchise) that this is rather an old series, and as such it's kind of awkwardly charming in it's anarchic non-pc ind of set up. Speaking of non-pc, did you check out Phantom Lady's AMAZING superpower?! You'll totally never guess - SHE TURNS INVISIBLE. I know, right?! AWESOMENESS!
What male comic book writer/reader DOESN'T want a hawt sexy mama who can just be vanished into thin air when she gets cranky/naggy/otherwise bored of? How many other goddamned invisible women are there in comics and sci-fi? Should we be receiving a message here, girls? Not so much seen and not heard - seen when we want to view your hawt short shorts, and then get me a sammich or vanish into thin air, kthnxbai. *eyeroll*.
Know of any Invisible MEN (aside from, you know, the obvious one) flisties? No? I can't think of any. Is that possibly because as a story it would be horrifically boring, because all said Invisible Man would do would be lurk around in ladies locker rooms working on developing one enormous Hulk arm? And thereby possibly causing a GLOBAL KLEENEX SHORTAGE, OMFG THINK OF THE CHILDRENNNNNN!?!
Huh.
Anyway, at the end of the episode, PlasticMan, who saves the day by discovering his patriotism (which, incidentally, we are encouraged to learn COMES FROM TEH HEART, rather than from learning dates and places and names. No, kids! GOD FORBID you should learn about significant events in your country's history lest you develop a political view OF YOUR OWN! Just sing Yankee Doodle Dandy! It doesn't even matter if you don't know the words. Uncle Sam will save the world for you if you JUST BELIEVE!!1!) - and he gets thanked by someone very special, the Man In Charge Himself, the President of the USA get out here you goombah... BARACK FUCKING OBAMA.
WHUT?! This.. this is a NEW cartoon?! This blatantly flag-waving, completely undisguised propaganda machine? With Uncle Sam talking about fighting THE RED ALIEN MENACE?! Really?! Well, HOLY SHIT. We seem to have slipped back into 1940-something where we were teaching the kids to hate the Germans.
See the episode (illegally!) in three parts on YouTube - or just watch the last one for the Obama cameo right at the end.
