Blog

Tag: dc comics

  • September 10th, 2012 2:40pm

    To me, the core of that attraction is that she is a better reporter than he is. Think about being Superman for a second. The Olympic record for weightlifting is 1,038 lbs., but you could lift more than that as a child. The record for the 100 meter dash is 9.58 seconds, but you can travel over 51 miles in that time. Going to Vegas? You don’t need your X-Ray vision to win at Blackjack, because you can just count the cards while holding down a conversation about nuclear physics. Without really trying, you are better at just about everything than anyone else in the world.

    However, (as Mark Waid once pointed out in a podcast with Marv Wolfman) none of that really translates to your chosen profession. Typing really fast does not help your prose. Being able to lift a tank does not help you convince a source to go on record. It is as near to competing straight up with normal people as Superman would ever be capable of. Even then, it comes easily enough to him that you get a pretty lofty perch at a great paper very early in your career. It is just in this one context, there is someone better than you are: Lois Lane.

    As mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent, you reach up for the first time in your life and she rejects you.

    To me, it is an inversion of the Luthor story. Luthor sees someone above him and feels hate. Superman sees someone above him and feels love.

    — Dean Hacker, comment on “Giving Lois Lane A Second Look, For The First Time” by Kelly Thompson (CBR: She Has No Head!)

  • September 9th, 2012 1:16pm

    luanna255:

    “You’re better than me, Dick. 

    It’s like you said. Half of your life isn’t a masquerade. I let this mask take over my identity. I am Batman. I always will be. I’ve left myself nothing else.”

    Batman, Detective Comics #725

    *sobs quietly in a corner*

    I love how much respect Bruce has for Dick.

    And I love how much respect Dick has for Bruce.

    Like… they love each other to a million pieces, but there is also so much mutual respect there.

    And Bruce is sometimes just so baffled by Dick, because Dick is just so different than he is, but at the same time he’s wise enough to see how in a certain sense Dick’s way is actually much healthier than his way, because Dick doesn’t let himself fall into the darkness as much.

    And so many people don’t understand just how strong that makes Dick. Because sometimes, it takes so much strength to hold on to joy and optimism and humanity, and Bruce doesn’t always know how to do that. Sometimes he just lets himself get totally consumed by The Mission, and so when he looks at Dick, he has so much admiration for the person that Dick is. Because he knows how much strength it takes to be that way, when you’ve had to suffer through so much.

    It’s just… UGH. And I know Bruce isn’t always the best parent, but my god, you cannot deny how much he loves those kids. How much he loves Dick. He would sacrifice himself for Dick in a heartbeat, because he loves him that much, because he values the person that Dick is that much.

    *silently flails around with feelings*

    AND THIS, LADIES AND GENTLEMAN, IS WHY THESE TWO HAVE BEEN MY TWO FAVORITE FICTIONAL CHARACTERS FOR THE LAST THIRTEEN YEARS. 

  • September 7th, 2012 10:28am

    ♣ dick grayson

    What do I do when I take off my costume? If I were Batman, I’d become Bruce Wayne, professional cypher. I think he’d give up being Bruce in a second if he thought Batman could go out during the day. I can’t. I need my normal life. Bats need the night. Robins need light.