Comments on: A Year of Cool Comic Book Moments – Day 212

By: spiderman

spiderman — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:04:05 +0000

Wow i totally missed this one, the dark knight looks like he carnt be arsed any more.

By: Luke J.

Luke J. — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:20:26 +0000

It’s always bothered me, not knowing who the gunman is.

By: R3D RJ

R3D RJ — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:28:41 +0000

Awesome! Bats really took a vacation on this one =)

By: AERose

AERose — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:27:18 +0000

“I never thought this part of the book worked. Why did Owlman’s father survive? I realize it’s just Grant playing in the sandbox but it’s all just a rehash of “Mirror, Mirror”.”

Some stories are worth being retold. Call it a trope.

By: Omar Karindu

Omar Karindu — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:05:25 +0000

Yeah, it’s the whole “evil inversion” theme of this version of the CSA: Ultraman’s an Earthman altered by aliens where Superman’s an alien raised by Earthlings, and Owlman is a son who blames his father for the mugging and murders where Batman blames himself and spends his life serving a memory of his own parents.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 22:12:44 +0000

I was hoping you’d use this scene. “People should be more careful with guns” was my favorite part.

By: Gavin

Gavin — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 20:29:27 +0000

The rain of bat guano is a nice touch.

By: chad

chad — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:45:04 +0000

the moment for me is seeing crime boss gordon screaming and snarling when he is caught and also the relization that batman figures out on that world his father methods will wind up as bad as gordons in the end.

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:20:49 +0000

Tomer–

Ultraman mentions something about how he killed a White Martian who was his “first rival.” I took it as a nod to Morrison’s first JLA arc with the White Martians, as well as an implied counterpart for J’onn.

By: BrianHouston

BrianHouston — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 17:40:00 +0000

The moment for me is “bullet in the face” and Batman’s realization.

By: TomerS

TomerS — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 17:12:47 +0000

Wow. I never thought about it as bat guano. I understood the “Batman realizing Commissioner Wayne is as bad as the criminals” thing, but with shit falling on his head it adds much more to the scene.

I guess this scene will be featured in the upcoming days (or not), but I love Owlman finding the grave of Thomas and Martha Wayne on Earth-1 and probably realizing who Batman is and what motivates him, then telling his teammates they need to leave.

@sgt. rawk: It’s been awhile since I read this story, but IIRC J’onn J’onnz was mentioned as an alien the CSA faced years ago and killed. Probably I’m mistaking it with another story or just made this all up.

By: Nitz the Bloody

Nitz the Bloody — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:44:41 +0000

” I never thought this part of the book worked. Why did Owlman’s father survive? I realize it’s just Grant playing in the sandbox but it’s all just a rehash of “Mirror, Mirror”. ”

Wasn’t the Morrison backstory that the mugger killed his mother and brother Bruce, but Thomas Wayne survived for the future Owlman to blame, so he trained himself towards a life of crime? It fits the larger theme of evil always winning in Earth-2′s cosmology.

By: Bill Reed

Bill Reed — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:30:22 +0000

You know. For when I go crime-fighting.

Not for my all-male touring dance group, the “Rockette Men.” Thrill to the music of Elton John! I’ll shut up now.

By: Bill Reed

Bill Reed — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:28:54 +0000

I wish I could do a mid-air split kick.

By: danjack

danjack — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:18:01 +0000

My ‘moment’ [of several actually] is the moment where, after Batman disarms the gunman, we see three policemen putting themselves at risk of death just to protect the elder Wayne. This always inspires me that even on such a world as this, there are good men [and presumably women] willing to risk everything to see that justice and right are done.
Of course, the bat guano and Bats realization that things on this planet his father’s methods will be more brutal that Bats had ideally wanted is a great moment as well.
great stuff all around!
DFTBA.

By: Namor

Namor — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:53:45 +0000

“Joe” “chill went right up my spine…” Heh heh.

By: Michael P.

Michael P. — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:36:59 +0000

A lot of good subtle background work by Quitely here, like the assassin being placed in the same panel where Gordon says “You won’t even see it coming,” or the cops beating on random citizens.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:26:32 +0000

For those who haven’t read the story, the point is pretty much that on Earth 2, evil will ALWAYS win.

Batman’s realisation that his father is therefore evil at the end is the moment for me. Great story all around.

By: Patient Boy

Patient Boy — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 13:58:01 +0000

That last panel with bat guano raining down on everybody is what makes it work for me.

Batman manages to actually fulfill his life’s mission. He saves his father’s life, ends corruption in Gotham and somehow everything still goes to shit, emphasised by the bat droppings falling on him.

It’s the subversive point of Earth-2 summed in a sequence with a really dark sense of humour.

By: salamurai

salamurai — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 13:57:47 +0000

No, it’s bat guano. see the mass of bats coming out of the building at the top of that page?