it always amuses me to no end when this canard is repeated … since when did Desi Arnaz get his Hispanic Cuban card revoked?

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this is rendered EVEN MORE ironic by the fact that Star Trek was made by the DesiLu Production studios.

as to the Batman re-imagining:
if you read the article in question, it's clear that this is going to be a Romance Comic fixated on Selina Kyle / Catwoman.

which i … really don't have a problem with. there aren't many RomComics around today ( in the West, Manga is a different story ) but back in the 60s and 50s they were a major segment of the Comic Book market.

what i have a problem with is the violence being done to the Bat mythos and titling the book as if it's going to be about Bruce. also, apparently, the whole avoidance of Bruce's being molested by his faggot uncle.

whether Gamma or no, the normal Stuporhero comic is an exploration of the "male adolescent power fantasy". Feminazis have at least been getting this one characterization correct.

however the corresponding analog, the Romance Novel ( in this case, Comic ) is an exploration of the "FEMALE adolescent power fantasy".
"the hottest girl to ever walk the halls of high school "

so you can see that unless they can figure out some way to get chicks to buy this comic, it was always doomed to end in a smoking crater.

Batman is indeed basically Gamma wish-fulfillment. The Jeph Loeb iteration of him in the Hush arc was so ridiculously over-the-top Gamma that it actually hurt to read the dialogue sometimes.

Funny thing is, though, that Loeb's The Long Halloween was amazing.

I think the only person who ever got Batman truly right was Frank Miller. He didn't consider Bats to be a super-amazeballs detective or ninja or whatever; he considered Batman to be a flawed and fallible human in Batman: Year One, and into what he called a "Dionysian force that imposes an individual order" in The Dark Knight Returns.

Oh, and that Mayan bat-god? That would be Camazotz.

I am not saying he's not entertaining, I am just pointing out that Batman, as a phenomenon, is so over-the-top skilled in everything that he's almost a Caricature. The only real challenges that are not self-inflicted are those that come from those with actual superpowers (which, of course, Ben Affleck's Batman countered with magical power armor).

Dark Batman is not a Hero… He keeps sticking his villains in Arkham, and they get out twice as bad, twice as lethal, as when he put them in. In a very real way, thousands of Murders can be laid directly at his feet for failing to follow through with his villains, many of which he was more or less directly responsible for creating.

Lighthearted Adam West style Batman suits his 'code against killing' in a way that Gritty Batman simply doesn't. Gritty Batman is a broken antihero, and is so psychotically illogical that it's nearly impossible to get into his head in an empathetic way… He's one of the reasons why I never really cared for DC comics.

However, I will admit that Batman vs TMNT rocked.

I do, because that's how you win the culture wars. The Big Two are making epic mistakes, and that opens up tremendous opportunities for people who aren't idiots to create better content that people will actually read.

Bear in mind, I consider Batman to be hilarious. I mean, here's the ultimate Ninja, super detective, absolutely perfect Gamma Icon that dresses up like a friggin' winged rat.
To me, the 'batman' that takes himself seriously is ridiculous. even his name. To me, Batman will always be epitomized by Adam West… all the rest are just overdark wannabes. Yes, it's very Gen X, but Batman as he stands is basically Rey without the magic. a ninja costume would have been much scarier. The idea of bats inspiring fear is ridiculous.
I think people take Batman WAY too seriously.

The artwork is at the very least clean, compared to the 80's 'artsy' crap and the japanese-style manga garbage that a lot of comics are putting out, compare it to say… the 80's New Mutants #31 or the horrifyingly crappy DC turn towards Manga-style art.
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That all being said, however, the second part I completely agree with. Batman is Bruce Wayne, rebooting it as some multiculti mashup is incredibly stupid.

If this were a NEW superhero, I figured it would be about neutral and have to build up a new following… likely it would be about as popular as that Marvel black kid with the flying skateboard that nobody remembers, but it would at least have the opportunity to succeed or fail on it's own merits.

But this? Beanspiderman, chickthor, muslim Quadroon Iron man, Captain BlackAmerican, handicapped Marvel?

It marks the end of the big two. And I couldn't be happier.