4thhorseman

@OutlawRenegade said:

@4thhorseman said:

@OutlawRenegade: I didn't know reading comprehension was a deus ex ability...

Don't try to play that. You know exactly what I mean. There's a difference between reading comprehension and memorizing every medical text ever written in five minutes... then performing surgery perfectly with no practice or experience.

Even if he did read all those books and comprehend them, it doesn't mean that he should have retained all the information. Plus reading something has nothing to do with performing something. Get a 14 year old or 15 yea old with zero driving experience to play a game or read a book about driving. Then give them the keys to your car and see how well that goes.

Since I haven't read it, I could possibly be wrong. But I'm guessing that he does this at the moment? Not something he did 5 years ago and still remembers? If that's the case, how is that any different then people cramming before a test or quiz? They retain the information for a small length of time and forget 30 minutes or so later. It's not that crazy and happens all the time to normal people.

And you're right about experience, though I don't think the driving example is the best. Many people who play video games or reading the license book then get the keys to a car and drive. Doesn't mean they all end up in horrific accidents the first time, myself included. The decisions made and everything aren't the best, but you make it through and not everyone drives like a pissed off man stuck in traffic who just learns his wife went into labor.

@OutlawRenegade: I didn't know reading comprehension was a deus ex ability...

Maybe I'm the only one who has usually found the stories with a depowered Superman far worse than the regular powered ones...

While I find it good, I don't find it definitive. I think Batman should be a legacy type thing that never dies, but I also don't find that Bruce would be so quick to quit since crime wouldn't stop after TDKR. He should still be there overseeing it and making sure the new recruit could hold his own and see Gotham was in the right hands. I think Batman Beyond had it right as to how Bruce would have acted.

@Z3RO180: It's been a while since I've read it, but I believe it was one of the All-Star Batman and Robin issues.

They could always go the Spider-Man Reign route.

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Bruce adopted him, so Tim tends to go by both names.

What, are you dense? Are you retarded or something?

Superman has a ton of villains, the problem is writers always fall back on the same ones:

Lex Luthor, Brainiac, Zod, Metallo, and Bizarro.

Hard to have more interesting villains when you focus on the same 5....

It's been a while since I read it, but I think it's Nightwing Annual 2? The one that has Batgirl and Robin (Dick) on the cover.