LOL Obi. I meant that I don't think (personally) going through an emotional crisis justifies beating your wife. I was not literally implying that we were in a court...
Obi Wan Kenobi! said: "BatgirlBabs said: "@Vance: I can understand the anti hero theory. I just have a hard time believing a guy that fights crime and stands for justice, honor and integrity (in addition to various other "blue" principles) would not beat his wife.
@Vance and Slinger: I get that you aren't supposed to like him. " well at that time Hank was going through a lot of sh!t and was suicidal..he was in an emotional crisis and that's why that happened..." I dont think that argument will hold in court ;)
Octagon Freak said: "@Babs: I might be demanding, but at least I'm not a little push-over. (Not directed at anyone)" Yes. This is true. You are the lesser of the two evils. :P
Vance Astro said: "BatgirlBabs said: "Vance Astro said: "BatgirlBabs said: "^^ It was the middle of the 20th Century afterall " I'm actually kinda sad that Pym beat up Janet in two different comic books.He doesn't deserve a wife..but that is real life,people hit there wives sometimes and it would be more realistic for some comic charcter to have that flaw."I don't know if I can understand why a comic would promote spousal abuse. Particularly in a hero...I mean if you take Tony Stark for example: the guy was an alcoholic. I'd say that's pretty realistic; a hero that loses ...
@Vance: I can understand the anti hero theory. I just have a hard time believing a guy that fights crime and stands for justice, honor and integrity (in addition to various other "blue" principles) would not beat his wife.
Vance Astro said: "BatgirlBabs said: "^^ It was the middle of the 20th Century afterall " I'm actually kinda sad that Pym beat up Janet in two different comic books.He doesn't deserve a wife..but that is real life,people hit there wives sometimes and it would be more realistic for some comic charcter to have that flaw." I don't know if I can understand why a comic would promote spousal abuse. Particularly in a hero...I mean if you take Tony Stark for example: the guy was an alcoholic. I'd say that's pretty realistic; a hero that loses himself in his lifestyle. ...
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it- Winston Churchill
Born in Banneux, Belgium Esther Marion Cotillard came under the guardianship of her Uncle after the passing of both her parents, her father; french diplomat to Belgium and her mother were both shot point blank outside their home. Her Uncle Joseph Cotillard, an Archeologist and world renowned historian, decided to relocate from northern France to Brussels, enrolling her in Internationale Deutsche Schule Brussel, while maintaining the Chateu le Cotillard and its vineyards.
Ahead of her class at a very young age, her infatuation and knowledge of history astounded many of her school teachers. Mons. Cotillard was a master fencer and taught her everything she knows about the use of an epee. Yashamari Yanagi, an expert Samurai swordsman and closest companion to Mons. Cotillard is an expert in the use of the katana sword, and was Esther's mentor in the art of Bushido and use of the katana.
Dodge them bullets girl
The epic swordswoman
Over the years, training with her Uncle Joseph Cotillard and Master Assassin Yashamari Yanagi, Esther became a fatal warrior; learning the use of a psyonic blade as well as how to manipulate her opponents. She evolved into a force to be reckoned with on the battlefield.
A force to be reckoned with
For years away at school, Esther was unaware that the wealth of her family was due in part to a major global organization and drug cartel headed by her parents called "Le Rose Noir."
After their death, her uncle took over and brought Esther with him around the world inevitably training her to take over the family business. On one of many such trips her Uncle was shot and mortally wounded, forcing Esther to take on and head the secret organization. Esther managed to expand the organization and its influence the world over by hiring assassins to do her bidding. She called this division of the Cotillard organization the "Assassins Silencieux de Noir," strategically placing them throughout the world. Each member of the Assassins Silencieux de Noir were hand picked by Esther and most maintained PHD's from prestigious Universities. Over time, Mademoiselle Cotillard managed to inject members of her assassins guild into all parts of society, making them high ranking government officials in countries the world over. Her strategy was to virtually manipulate world leaders to do her bidding.
The Le Rose Noir and Les Assassins Silencieux de Noir
Since her takeover of her parent's organization, Esther has expanded her empire to include the sale of weapons of mass destruction both chemical as well as biological to the highest bidders in addition to both her drug trafficking and assassins divisions.
In her travels assisting Master Yanagi, Esther traveled and lived in Japan, outside of Shinjuku. There, under the guardianship of the grandmaster Yashamari Yanagi, she met and trained with Miyobi's grandfather who held ancient warrior secrets that were passed along only to a select few. Esther was one of his greatest students, as was Miyobi. During this time, Miyobi and Esther formed a bond unlike any other. After the passing of Miyobi's grandfather, Esther returned to her headquarters in Belgium and brought Miyobi with her; offering Miyobi a chance to prove herself as one of the most skilled warriors that existed. Miyobi joined Esther's Assassins League and soon made her way up the ranks, and became second in command only to Esther Cotillard herself. Miyobi continues to be one of Esther's most prized companions and reveled warrior's and one of the few people that she would trust with her life. Miyobi would soon come under the codename Shadow Huntress.
Codename: Shadow Huntress
Miyobi and Esther considered themselves equals in one another's eyes and inseperable. Miyobi would eventually join one of the most elite and prestigious Villain organizations; The Hellfire Club.
The Hellfire Club Years
After being wooed by Jean LeBaeu, Esther Cotillard was initiated into the Hellfire Club. It was only a matter of time after the two grew to care for one another and eventually married. Esther's deep passion for Jean became her new motivation for battle, and her love and compassion for him never wanned. Following Jean's death was Into Eden. During this time, Esther mourned and swore she would never love another again. With the aid of Kiara Sullivan and her son Florian, the couple and the family were once again reunited and Jean was brought back from the depths of hell. Their love rekindled as though it had never wavered.
Jean and Esther
During this time, Esther was Queen of Spades and participated in the Civil War that ensued following the round up of all the hero's on the Vine. Esther held control of military troops and saved Jean from his near death battle against Kurrent. Her years with the Hellfire Club were some of her most treasured and she drew an alliance of sorts in blood between herself, Kiara Sullivan and Mistress Redhead. Following the ceremonious exchange in blood, the three promised one another their loyalty. During this time, Esther forged an everlasting friendship with Disco as well (codename Pixelized,). The two would be inseperable, and Esther would often call on his dark magic skills to aid her in smitting some very obnoxious opponents.
During her marriage, Esther gave birth to a son, Florian Kincaid LeBeau. It was he who had asked Kiara Sullivan to aid him in rescuing his father from Hell and out of the clutches of Satan. Florian was trained by both his parents in the art of battle. His mother trained him in swordsmanship and his father aided him in harnessing his Kinetic Energy, as well as agility and strength. Florian's childhood was split between growing up at the Hellfire Club Mansion and the deep bayous of the New Orleans swamps where he was trained by his father's Assassin Guild.
Florian Kincaid LeBeau, son of Esther and Jean LeBeau
The Dems: From a Moderately Liberal Republican Perspective:
Word on the street has been (rather consistently) that Obama has the upper hand in the face off for the democratic candidate considering he's up by more Superdelegates. I just want to clear something up. I have heard all too often that Hillary should drop out of the race because she won't manage to garner the support in representation. I'll beg to differ.
The most recent statistic from POLITICO (the same people who bring you the democratic debates,) is that Hillary is down by only 13 delegates at 270.5 compared to Obama's 293.5. That's nothing. Meanwhile there are still 187 superdelegates who are still uncommitted to any particular candidate, which means an additional 187 of them are up for grabs. The tables can turn at any point in time...
Now that we've cleared that up...
John McCain is the bottom feeder, lowest of the low in terms of prospective Republican Presidential candidates. Now, I'm a strict Constitutionalist, so to me, McCain is relatively unimpressive. The only good thing I have seen him do recently has been his attempt to disassociate himself from the current President. (I may be the only person laughing when I say that, but...)
I still support (wholeheartedly) Ron Paul who would, in my opinion continue to make the issue of economic stability of this country top priority, moving the focus away from Iraq. However, I don't think pulling out completely would be a good idea; (If you've seen "Charlie Wilson's War" or read my previous post, you already know why). Why Ron Paul? Because he's an economist and he would stop borrowing millions in CREDIT from communist countries like CHINA which may possibly be, the absolute best thing this country can do for itself. Will we eventually become the next U.S.S.R, with thousands of miles of land and no economic stability to show for it? I'm sorry, but I don't want to be standing in a line for three hours to buy one roll of toilet paper. (I know, it seems far fetched, but an ultimate fall from grace can virtually take no time at all).
I am here to beg you (if anyone gets to this point in reading my blog) to please think hard about who you are putting in office. Go beyond gender and racial divides and make a decision based on an understanding that the next four years can make or break this country for a long time. We are witnessing history, and it's scary as hell.
Next Time:Russia's New Fascist Regime: What happens when the "President" changes the constitution of his country to stay in office longer, and the people don't lift a finger or say a word to stop him...
Well, you do have a point, but Barack has more support in the black, white, and a little in the hispanic community. With the help of John Edwards indorcemant, he will be able to gain more support from white americans. If the super deligates end up choosing Hillary as the nominee for the pres.candidate, it would destroy the demecratic party. ie loss of most black supporters, alot of white supporters, and anyone else that supports Obama
How I can see what you are saying, I will have to disagree. The people voting supporting Barrack would never vote Republican, and they would rather see a Dem in office anyway...so they would ultimately not vote, or vote Hillary. So I don't think that if Hillary was elected President she would create a division within her party. All the damage that would have been made has already been done-she has already dragged the primaries out into JUNE (basically). In the end, ultimately what creates a party division has more to do with principles and track record than it does with 2 candidates running opposite one another.
Thanks for your comments. :)
BTW John Edwards was ultimately unsuccessful in garnering much support at all and his contributions to the candidates number of superdelegates was very small...and he didnt exactly obtain support from the white community, but a very small specific percentage of blue color white Americans (mine workers specifically).
As an aside... have you seen Comicvine's sister site PoliticalBase.com We made it last summer. (You can find me and Cap Cascader in this photo: )" />http://www.politicalbase.com/aboutus)
It's funny. Whenever I turn on the news to watch coverage of the war on Iraq, (which is limited in comparison to any other war the United States has waged as of late,) I rarely hear about why we have American soldiers in Iraq.
If I begged the question "what is the purpose of the Iraq war" 4 years ago, my answer would have been "weapons of mass destruction," right? That is considerably different than the answer we get today.
So if you came up to me in the street and said, "hey Sara, why are we in Iraq?"
I would regurgitate some nonsense about maintaining democracy in Iraq; which you have probably heard countless times watching the O'Reilly Factor or Countdown with Keith Olberman.
But, why are we in Iraq?
I'm not going to go into the conspiracy theories behind the Iraq war because they are in my opinion, no matter how tempting, completely irrelevant; (we won't really know everything until Bush's files are disclosed years after his death, so looking into conspiracy theories now is a waste of time). Instead, lets take a look at the purpose of the Iraq war from the perspective of the American media, and lets just say that we really are in Iraq to maintain democracy.
First of all, I find it interesting that the "democratic government" in Iraq had been instilled by the American government. Now I'm no expert on Democracy, but why do I sense that this looks less like a democracy and more like imperialism?
Just because you set up voting machines in a country does not automatically make you a democracy.
Example:
The average person knows enough about Venezuela and President Hugo Chavez to make an assumption about whether or not Venezuela is a democracy. Well, if you take into account that Venezuela has held elections regularly (even recently,) then yeah, it's a democracy because the people are allowed to vote.
But it isn't really.
This past December, Chavez tried to completely topple whatever "democratic structure" he had in his government when he "marginally lost a December referendum" that would have virtually given him unlimited power as the head of the state. That sounds a lot like a dictatorship to me...
All over the world we are seeing democratic government's fail, and countless pseudo democracies put on a show on the world stage. However, what is really going on is that democracy is failing. Are we as individuals losing sight of what really makes a democracy?
Did we learn anything from the cold war? Thinking about it in these terms, and no matter how bad we may feel for our American soldiers overseas we have to recognize that Bush may not be doing the worst thing by keeping the troops there. Until Iraq has maintained a stable democracy, the threat of the government being overthrown lessens considerably. And let me tell you, governments get overthrown all of the time, and considering the region it is located, Iraq is highly susceptible to being overthrown.
Iraq is too unstable of a region to bring our troops home without first ensuring that the region has at least achieved some level of stability. However, keeping our soldiers there acting as a civil police force to the Iraqi people is getting us absolutely nowhere and the notion that our trained military is policing the city of Baghdad is completely ludicrous.
Why aren't we helping them help themselves so that we can just get the hell out of there? The longer we are there the more money we borrow to spend there and the deeper we fall into that bottomless pit of debt.
Truth is, no form of government works. Democracy is just the best we have right now. Of course some would disagree but oh well.
I thoroughly agree with you. We are basically throwing money at Iraq hoping the problem would just go away. As if it was our bastard love child from 18 years back that we ran out on when we found out the chick was pregnant only to have it end up on our doorstep looking at us like wtf?
The argument (I don't know whether I was successful in conveying it or not,) is more of a frustration over how many governments around the world claim to be democracies yet fail to act as democracies. Is democracy the best we have? If it's a fully functioning democracy, (the United States government is a poor example,) then yes, I personally think it is the most successful system we have.
I have to say I love what Paul Dini has been doing with his run of the Detective Comics lately, and this one was pretty good. I read it twice, which for me is unusual. I love Zatanna in this, she's fresh and well written and she's got a thing for Bats but then again, what girl doesn't? I really liked reading her in this issue.
What is up with the new ventriloquist??? I am on the edge of my seat and can't wait for the next issue...
SPOILER ALERT
The last scene is awesome, what will happen to our hero??? I can't wait.
As much as I fear the end result of the story, it does seem to be looking to be the start of something pretty incredible. I had my doubts about reading the first issue and taking the journey with Morrison that would inevitably be the end to my absolute all time favorite hero, but I'm trying really hard to look past that. If you love the bat, (or don't) this was, in my opinion, a good issue overall. If you are expecting to see him die, he doesn't/ Buy the issue that comes out in August.
Overall the artwork was incredible and aspects of the story gave an in into the character of Bruce Wayne, and glimpses of his relationships that single him out as being much softer than we are normally used to seeing him.
Pick up this story, (if you can still find it,) it's a great one.
If you're having a hard time finding it, check your local supermarkets. People don't generally go there to buy comics, so they keep a pretty good stock of the best selling comics. I got this one about a month and a half late when I saw it at Stop and Shop, they still had like ten of them too.
Anyway, I was unimpressed. If you're not a regular reader it'll for the most part go over your head.
Oh I have never posted on your page (FA by the way) Bad me:p Also did you not have help getting to hell and fighting Lucifer:p It seems my deeds are forgotten!
Er... hi. I saw you didn't answer, so I thought to ask ya... maybe it's only this darn sucko computer or bugs on the site and maybe you answered me and I didn't see it... but... did ya receive my last PM? Or maybe you won't talk to me 'cause I'm too... too little?
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on May 18, 2008
Good blog.
Great point about the constant borrowing from China.
on May 18, 2008
It's crazy how important superdelegates are during the damn election.
on May 22, 2008
Well, you do have a point, but Barack has more support in the black, white, and a little in the hispanic community. With the help of John Edwards indorcemant, he will be able to gain more support from white americans. If the super deligates end up choosing Hillary as the nominee for the pres.candidate, it would destroy the demecratic party. ie loss of most black supporters, alot of white supporters, and anyone else that supports Obama
on May 23, 2008
How I can see what you are saying, I will have to disagree. The people voting supporting Barrack would never vote Republican, and they would rather see a Dem in office anyway...so they would ultimately not vote, or vote Hillary. So I don't think that if Hillary was elected President she would create a division within her party. All the damage that would have been made has already been done-she has already dragged the primaries out into JUNE (basically). In the end, ultimately what creates a party division has more to do with principles and track record than it does with 2 candidates running opposite one another.
Thanks for your comments. :)
BTW John Edwards was ultimately unsuccessful in garnering much support at all and his contributions to the candidates number of superdelegates was very small...and he didnt exactly obtain support from the white community, but a very small specific percentage of blue color white Americans (mine workers specifically).
Oh and Slight, best response yet on my blog.
on May 27, 2008
As an aside... have you seen Comicvine's sister site PoliticalBase.com We made it last summer. (You can find me and Cap Cascader in this photo: )" />http://www.politicalbase.com/aboutus)