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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Jim doesn't have that silly rule. He........he's a cop.
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Cops are generally allowed to kill people who are trying to kill them.
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Aug 13, 2015 02:42
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Chaos Hippy posted:Cops are generally allowed to kill people
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Aug 13, 2015 02:46
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Dr. Hurt posted:Cops generally kill people
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Aug 13, 2015 02:51
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The best part of that entire sequence is the one poor schmuck who gets a bulletarang right to the junk.
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Aug 13, 2015 03:07
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RandallODim posted:The best part of that entire sequence is the one poor schmuck who gets a bulletarang right to the junk. Ironic considering Gordon is apparently not a Robocop fan.
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Aug 13, 2015 03:12
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Chaos Hippy posted:Cops are generally allowed to kill people who are trying to kill them. But you probably don't want your glorified PR poster boy based on someone who pretty famously doesn't do that (or is he famous for that? Are we back to the idea that people think the Batman kills baddies?) to do so.
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Aug 13, 2015 03:28
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To be fair that would require planning and decent writing, two things the book seems to lack.
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Aug 13, 2015 03:46
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SynthOrange posted:Wow okay so if you take batarangs and make them small and shoot them out a gun at people's heads it turns out they're pretty lethal! The panels initially didn't load for me so for a moment, I thought you were telling us something you'd discovered through real life application.
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Aug 13, 2015 04:16
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Everything Counts posted:The panels initially didn't load for me so for a moment, I thought you were telling us something you'd discovered through real life application. Panels? 
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Aug 13, 2015 04:20
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CharlestheHammer posted:To be fair that would require planning and decent writing, two things the book seems to lack. Perhaps you should read the book before making brash statements as it is in fact quite good.
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Aug 13, 2015 06:50
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Dr. Hurt posted:Cops are generally allowed to kill people SynthOrange posted:Cops generally kill people Can't say I disagree.
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Aug 13, 2015 08:26
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Isn't this part of the arc where Gordon is investigating a criminal who is giving gangers drugs that give them super powers but also spectacularly self destruct. So Jim using lethal force in self defence against ticking time bombs makes it a bit more justifiable.
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Aug 13, 2015 10:37
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No, you see, he's doing things differently than Bruce would have, and different is bad, mmkay? Being an entirely different character with entirely different motivations and rules is not an acceptable excuse 
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Aug 13, 2015 11:53
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Malachite_Dragon posted:No, you see, he's doing things differently than Bruce would have, and different is bad, mmkay? Being an entirely different character with entirely different motivations and rules is not an acceptable excuse Or maybe some people don't approve of murder.
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Aug 13, 2015 12:41
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I think having Batman kill people now that Batman is a cop under the mask is weird for a few reasons. Having Batman be publicly under the auspices of the Gotham PD means that there is now a cop whose name you will never know, whose face you can't identify, with millions of dollars from a private corporation behind him, who can kill you and 100% guaranteed get away with it. That leaves a bad taste in my mouth considering that normal cops don't need a robot suit or batarang guns to kill people and get away with it these days, even though their identities are public. I love Jim, he's one of my favorite Bat-characters and he's always been an unflinchingly moral person, and I feel like in a better story he would realize the issues with this situation, he would be unwilling to use lethal force either out of respect for the mantle he's carrying, or because a cop killing with even less accountability than normal is a terrifying prospect and Gordon really shouldn't be comfortable with that. I get the feeling though that Snyder's Batman isn't interested in addressing these issues and when BatGordon inevitably must go rogue and take on the shady corporation that created him it's not going to be because he's got serious moral objections to being a privately funded public servant but because of some kind of overly obvious "now we're cartoonishly evil" Robocop pastiche.
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Aug 13, 2015 13:03
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also a batarang gun is stupid
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Aug 13, 2015 13:05
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Alaois posted:also a batarang gun is stupid ..and? It's a Batman book, everything about it is essentially stupid!
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Aug 13, 2015 13:18
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Alaois posted:also a batarang gun is stupid To be fair Snyder did a good job of making it the least stupid tech thing introduced in that issue.
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Alaois posted:also a batarang gun is stupid What's the weather like on your home planet?
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Aug 13, 2015 13:20
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He's still practicing throwing them SEE LAST ISSUE!!
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Aug 13, 2015 13:42
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So, apparently this week on Humble Book Bundle, the really awesome 2011 run of the Dungeons and Dragons comic is available for whatever you wanna pay for it. http://comicsalliance.com/dungeons-dragons-humble-bundle/
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Aug 13, 2015 13:48
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CharlestheHammer posted:He........he's a cop. This was a good Robocop joke that nobody got.  e: whether or not you actually meant it to be
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Aug 13, 2015 16:13
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Alaois posted:also a batarang gun is stupid So is a car shaped like a bat, but everyone loving loves that.
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Aug 13, 2015 16:45
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Alaois posted:also a batarang gun is stupid Eh, it's just a themed flechette gun. It's a pretty practical way to keep the themed gizmos without Gordon suddenly knowing ninjitsu.
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Aug 13, 2015 18:28
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Sentinel Red posted:..and? It's a Batman book, everything about it is essentially stupid! i'll have you know that in the classic films of christopher nolan he conclusively proved blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
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Aug 13, 2015 20:30
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You know who else had a cybernetically-enhanced batsuit and bat-shaped flechette launchers?
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Aug 13, 2015 22:38
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Yeah, Batman specifically uses batarangs as a non-lethal alternative to guns, so making a gun that shoots lethal batarangs is just kinda... why?
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Aug 13, 2015 22:41
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Alacron posted:Yeah, Batman specifically uses batarangs as a non-lethal alternative to guns, so making a gun that shoots lethal batarangs is just kinda... why? Because it's a batman comic and things are shaped like bats a lot of the time in them.
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Aug 13, 2015 22:44
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Silhouette posted:You know who else had a cybernetically-enhanced batsuit and bat-shaped flechette launchers? Azrael in batman themed Suit of Sorrows armor during the Knight-Fall/Redemption arc?
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Aug 13, 2015 22:44
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Alacron posted:Yeah, Batman specifically uses batarangs as a non-lethal alternative to guns, so making a gun that shoots lethal batarangs is just kinda... why? Because some people really miss the 90's. Got to be Extreme!!!!
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Alacron posted:Yeah, Batman specifically uses batarangs as a non-lethal alternative to guns, so making a gun that shoots lethal batarangs is just kinda... why? Remember, this is DC Comics. We should just be happy that MechaBatman Jim Gordon has yet to pull somebody's arm off.
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Aug 13, 2015 23:29
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Master of Kung Fu #4: Shang-Chi fights his evil dad.    
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TwoPair posted:Master of Kung Fu #4: Shang-Chi fights his evil dad. Is this one as good as the original run of Master of Kung Fu?
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flosofl posted:Is this one as good as the original run of Master of Kung Fu? I haven't read the original, but this is one is just a Secret Wars mini, it's only four issues long, and it's very enjoyable. I'd highly recommend it.
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I like the arena they're in the best, and especially how they behave differently in it - Shang Chi cautiously steps over the buildings and shows judicious use of power, but Evil Dad is all Godzilla with the smashing of the buildings around him.
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10 rings? Mandarin's involved?
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Bloodly posted:10 rings? Mandarin's involved? The Ten Rings are just a school of martial art employed by Shang-Chi and Zheng Zhu (his dad). All the "kung fu" in the book is pseudo-mystical junk, like there are some mutants earlier whose powers are just explained as them trying to master crazy "techniques" that went horribly wrong. TwoPair fucked around with this message at 17:00 on Aug 15, 2015 |
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The bald girl at the end is that world's Kitty Pride who is stuck in intangible form.
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Also Cypher shows up and dies in the issue he's introduced. 
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