The #1 Reason That I Could Never, Ever Be Batman!

An awful lot of us fanboys like to project ourselves as Batman.

Hey, he's an everyman with no powers--I could be Batman (if I were a billionaire sociopath with no chance of ever being happy...)

Why, I can't think of one thing that could stop me from being Batman!!

Wait...WHAT?!?!?!!

Well, so much for that dream. I told you he was a sociopath!!

Maybe I could be the Flash. I bet he eats pie...

From Superman #20 (2017)

Bold Fashion Choices--Damien Vs. The nu52

In last week's Batman Li'l Gotham #11, Damien is having some hallucinations while traveling in the desert:

And later, when they hook up with Azrael...

Man...calling out Jim Lee's designs like that?!? No wonder the book has been cancelled...

Manic Monday--Too Soon?

From the Ask The Answer Man column in The Witching Hour #75 (1977):

Oh, I'll take this one for you, Bob Rozakis:

No, Robin will never get out of college to team up with Batman again, because he'll never get out of college, because he'll never get to college, becasue he's DEAD DEAD DEAD DEAD DEAD---

 What? That's not the right answer?

Oh, sorry, wrong Robin. How silly of me...

By the way, on the subject of killing children in comics...I'll tell you, that never would have happened back in the comics I read as a youth. I mean, really, Stan and Jack would have never done something like tha--

Oh.

Never mind again.

Last panel from Avengers #4 (1964)