Fanboy

I have been a Batman fan forever.Period!

And I am not ashamed to admit that!

I have been reading the adventures of Bruce Wayne and his counterpart for many a year, and I have enjoyed many of his exploits, but today I read issue 663, written by Grant Morrison and painted visuals by John Van Fleet .

The story is about the Joker, while again incarcerated in Arkham, is having the killing of his older thugs and cronies, being done for him by Harley Quinn.

This particular story is broken down into ten separate vignettes, and while I usually can read a comic in less than 30 minutes ( well, between looking at the art and reading the storyline ) this particular comic took me an hour to finish, and I will probably re-read this one just to the pure enjoyment.

My feeling is that this is a tale that actually could have been  fleshed out a bit more and actually made into a graphic novel.

I was pleasantly surprised when two of the henchmen that were on the Joker’s hit list, were actually from another Batman tale, ” The Killing Joke “, which shows me that DC doesn’t just throw out it’s continuity. 

All in all, this was an enjoyable tale of the Batman and his arch nemesis and might I add foil, the maniacal Joker.

I started reading this series that was originally a DC Comics property, and I have to say..

” Shame on you ” dc comics for letting this series fall by the wayside. Luckily for me ( and for you also ) IDW decided they liked the series and went a little further and gave us the the fallen angel’s origin.

I am really enjoying this series and I’m almost caught up with my reading of back issues.

I read a similar post this morning on the Sanjaya issue, so I will make this short and to the point…American Idol, in my opinion has always been a Simon Cowell vehicle, and we the American Public ( yes this means YOU! ) have bought into it, lock, stock , and barrel! Does it really surprise anyone, that this show of garbage is finally getting it’s come uppence from said American public? Not to me it’s not! Maybe, this will be the season that tanks this show, and takes a couple of other ” not worth my time, or the general public’s time “, off the boob tube already! Can someone say ” Dancing With The Stars ?”