Pages Tagged “Batman”
Reviews
- The Law of Superheroes
A fun read that applies real-world law to comic book tropes. Shape-shifters, alternate realities, resurrections and massive property damage are all explored.
Blog Posts
- Bat-Naan!
Leftover Indian food + a silly mood = Naan x 12.
- Recent Links: Moon and More
Linkblogging: SMBC, XKCD, space pics, Flash Forward, mobile web usability and more.
- The Riddle Machine
Photo: a building with the sign, “Riddle Machine Co.”
- I’m Batman!
As I left for work this morning, I overheard a small child somewhere gleefully exclaiming, “I’m BATMAN!!” over and over again.
- Movies I’ve Watched Recently
Thoughts on some movies I’ve seen in the last ~2 months.
- Ta’veren of the DCU
I was idly wondering about the way super-heroes and villains are named—not the code names, but the actual names like Clark Kent, Matt Murdock, etc. Was Hunter Zolomon destined to become Zoom? Was Roy G. Bivolo doomed to become the Rainbow Raider the moment his parents named him? And why do so many people with […]
- Unconventional Naming
I was recently reminded that Kevin Smith’s daughter is named Harley Quinn Smith. At the time I thought it was crazy (though really, who am I to talk about people naming their kids after fictional characters?), but compared to Nicholas Cage naming his son Kal-El, it seems positively ordinary.
- Sequelitis is profitable
An interesting read on the Most Lucrative Movie Franchises, not so much for what it gets right, but for what it gets wrong. Tonight’s premiere of Batman Begins marks the sixth in the series. And that’s only counting the “modern” era of Batman flicks, dating from 1989’s Batman from director Tim Burton. Sixth? Are they […]