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Anyone else hear the "MacGregor's Syndrome" from Batman & Robin in this episode? I thought it was pretty funny.

So at my local comic shop this past Wednesday, I was just picking up my usual stack of comics, when out of the blue Christos Gage showed up, signed a few copies, bought a few comics and hung out for a while. That was definitely an awesome day lol.

I thought First Class was such a good movie and was stoked for a sequel but this feels like its gonna be so over the top, it won't have the same vibe as the first.

Nowhere Men has been pretty interesting so far, granted its only like 5 issues in. The Unwritten has also been good with me.

Am I the only one who thought the line: "Scott Summers dropping the mic on the Avengers like its 8-Mile" line a little lame? Haha although I thoroughly enjoyed this issue, I feel like that line just oddly stuck out to me.

@RainEffect said:

Grant Morrison, you have further lost my respect. What do you have against Talia al Ghul? She's not an enemy of Bruce's. She loves him, she has denied her heritage for him and has pretty much given everything for him. It is ridiculous, you yourself wrote Resurrection of Ra's al Ghul where Talia turned on Ra's to help save Bruce's life.

I just don't understand this.

Furthermore, Talia al Ghul is NOT Japanese. Whoever drew her needs to be slapped in the face with a wet fish. She's of Asian descent, yes, but she is not Japanese. She has Arabian features, such as slightly darker skin and deep brown hair, not Japanese/Chinese features (I'm specifically talking about the eyes). /end rant

The way I see it is since it all began in Batman and Son, its kinda bringing the story full circle. And Talia did say that she would go to war against Bruce because he was "brainwashing" Damian to be a hero. So I kinda think its Talia actually being a mother in the only way she knows how: by using her brute force to get her son back pretty much. At least thats what I think lol.

I did enjoy No Man's Land, it was Batman trying to rebuild the city he loves in a way. But I don't know if I want to say that Batman is Gotham City or vice versa. It is a big part of who he is, but like I was saying about the Return of Bruce Wayne, even when he didn't know who he was or where he was(although it was Gotham in its early stages) he was fighting off crime even though he had no idea who they were. Its a deeper connection than just Gotham City but rather he is a fighter of all crime.

I was recently re-reading my copy of Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne by Grant Morrison, a story that I really enjoyed, and got to wondering: If you could pick one Batman story that you think really defines the character of Batman, what would it be? I thought The Return of Bruce Wayne did a pretty good job at showing what Batman could be at his most core concept. As Superman puts it "Surviving is what he does." But he was also a fighter, a defender of the weak. Throughout this story, he doesn't remember anything or know the people around him but stops at nothing to help those being bullied or threatened.