Child endangerment
I hope you have this same energy for literally every single superhero in the DC universe because the Teen Titans literally exist because almost all the justice league members have child sidekicks.
I’m gonna recommend Moon Knight as the best version of Batman without the bootlicking.
✔️ Gadgets ✔️ Martial arts ✔️ Detective work ✔️ Mental issues ✔️ Fear tactics ❌ Billionaire (He made his millions working as a mercenary, which he’s now trying to atone for) ❌ Ableism (No “criminally insane” BS, and the best runs explore accurate mental illness) ❌ Copaganda (The cops have standing orders to arrest Moon Knight, so if he wants to work with the cops, he has to dress up as Mr Knight) ❌ Child endangerment ❌ Gay jokes about Robin
PixelNomad@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
Lumidaub@feddit.org 14 hours ago
I love that THAT is the part you take issue with.
PixelNomad@sopuli.xyz 13 hours ago
Again, it’s clear you aren’t an actual fan of Batman, DC Comics, or Marvel in general. I know this because the argument you have for Batman doesn’t apply to any other superhero who is richer than him, or any other superhero with a sidekick. It’s always ‘Batman endangers children,’ despite the fact that the entire Justice League endangers children too.
But if you would like, James Gunn can write Bruce Wayne adopting Dick Grayson at 25 years old, and Dick can become Robin while being adopted as a grown man—if that’s what you want. In fact, all the Teen Titans can be 30+ year-old sidekicks if you want, just so we don’t ‘endanger children.’
Funny how you didn’t bring up Daredevil in this list, because in Season 2 of Born Again, he’s fine with Hector’s niece—who’s like 13 years old—being White Tiger, despite her uncle getting killed doing it. Matt had no qualms about it.
So your arguments aren’t worth engaging with. And Absolute Batman is so badly written—because if he’s dirt poor, how the hell does he afford his suit, gadgets, materials for armor, and a supercar? If he’s poor, then you need to explain how he’s doing all this.
And if Martha is alive, then why should I take Absolute Batman seriously at all? And why have Batman keep a no-kill rule? He’s basically just The Punisher now, so you might as well go all in—give him a bunch of guns and have him start shooting every criminal he sees. If he’s Punisher, then just go full Punisher.
Lumidaub@feddit.org 13 hours ago
I’m always so happy in those rare cases when you grace me with a reply, so I won’t even be mad that you think I was the one who made that list :)
But you may want to look up whataboutism before continuing this discussion.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That sounds AWESOME!!! I will have to look for that.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 23 hours ago
The Warren Ellis run from 2014, collected in the From The Dead volume is the best Moon Knight made in the last 45 years.
tmyakal@infosec.pub 19 hours ago
Unfortunately, then you need to buy a book written by a sexual predator.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 18 hours ago
Quick, Robin! To the Google machine!
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jul/13/women-speak-out-about-warren-ellis-transmetropolitan
Ah, shit.
Well, there’s always piracy. Omnibus is a really good tool for finding pirated comic books.