Okay, if this doesn't make you squee like a teenager at a screening of "Twilight" I don't know what will.
I was playing around with the old Stumble Button (first masturbation joke I get, and I'm pullin' this blog over) and ran into something that I am both thrilled and angry over. Thrilled to bits for having had StumbleUpon to run into something so awesome, and pissed as all get out for not having found it ealier. Apparently, though, it's fairly young, not even a year old yet, but I am now on a mission to educate every geek who hasn't found it yet.
This, my geeky loves, is "Batman and Sons". It is a webcomic that is about one Batman, sometimes known as Bruce Wayne, and his trials and tribulations having to raise 3 incarnations of Robins and a future replacement, Terry.
Now, I haven't kept up with comics in years. I might have had Marvel hadn't fallen down a well and been replaced by some weird pod-grown freak-of-nature, which honestly, can be a description of most of the Big Comic Companies these days. Either way, if a character isn't being retconned, he/she is being reborn in another form or replaced by a younger version (think Menudo) or being killed, resurrected, killed, resurrected, and finally killed and avenged by their younger, reborn selves who also appear to be insane and/or emo or both. Comics are soap operas for geeks, but even geeks start to see the ridiculousness of it after a while. Anyway, the point is I am aware of the various Robins and such and this is the first time I've seen the idea handled quite this way.
Batman suddenly finds himself the father of four boys, four very boyish boys, so now he has to find time to fit being a brooding figure of the night with picking the children up at school and making sure the house doesn't fall apart while Alfred is sick.
Ya'll, seriously, it's worth it for this panel alone:
Firstly, I have to say this might be one of the most adorable adaptations I've ever seen, and secondly, it's kind of cool to see the Bat flustered and out of his game. Having to figure out there are instructions on diapers really brings Bats down to a more human level, which is hysterical because he's the most human of all the superheros if for no other reason that he's, well, human.
This is not endorsed by DC and I don't want it to ever be endorsed by DC. I want it to be accepted or even tolerated, but never endorsed because an endorsement would kill its outlandish humor and play. This is a webcomic for geeks and it needs to stay that way. DC has enough money and ability to crush creativity. Leave the good stuff for rest of us.
Ya'll must go through the archives, and ya'll must love it. If you don't love it, I will disown your existence and declare you jocks.
So sayeth the Kumquat!
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Seriously, if you didn't squee once or at least giggle until you choked from at least one of the entries on that blog, then you are as dead as a country singer in a punk bar.
I was playing around with the old Stumble Button (first masturbation joke I get, and I'm pullin' this blog over) and ran into something that I am both thrilled and angry over. Thrilled to bits for having had StumbleUpon to run into something so awesome, and pissed as all get out for not having found it ealier. Apparently, though, it's fairly young, not even a year old yet, but I am now on a mission to educate every geek who hasn't found it yet.
This, my geeky loves, is "Batman and Sons". It is a webcomic that is about one Batman, sometimes known as Bruce Wayne, and his trials and tribulations having to raise 3 incarnations of Robins and a future replacement, Terry. Now, I haven't kept up with comics in years. I might have had Marvel hadn't fallen down a well and been replaced by some weird pod-grown freak-of-nature, which honestly, can be a description of most of the Big Comic Companies these days. Either way, if a character isn't being retconned, he/she is being reborn in another form or replaced by a younger version (think Menudo) or being killed, resurrected, killed, resurrected, and finally killed and avenged by their younger, reborn selves who also appear to be insane and/or emo or both. Comics are soap operas for geeks, but even geeks start to see the ridiculousness of it after a while. Anyway, the point is I am aware of the various Robins and such and this is the first time I've seen the idea handled quite this way.
Batman suddenly finds himself the father of four boys, four very boyish boys, so now he has to find time to fit being a brooding figure of the night with picking the children up at school and making sure the house doesn't fall apart while Alfred is sick.
Ya'll, seriously, it's worth it for this panel alone:
Firstly, I have to say this might be one of the most adorable adaptations I've ever seen, and secondly, it's kind of cool to see the Bat flustered and out of his game. Having to figure out there are instructions on diapers really brings Bats down to a more human level, which is hysterical because he's the most human of all the superheros if for no other reason that he's, well, human.
This is not endorsed by DC and I don't want it to ever be endorsed by DC. I want it to be accepted or even tolerated, but never endorsed because an endorsement would kill its outlandish humor and play. This is a webcomic for geeks and it needs to stay that way. DC has enough money and ability to crush creativity. Leave the good stuff for rest of us.
Ya'll must go through the archives, and ya'll must love it. If you don't love it, I will disown your existence and declare you jocks.
So sayeth the Kumquat!
_______________
Seriously, if you didn't squee once or at least giggle until you choked from at least one of the entries on that blog, then you are as dead as a country singer in a punk bar.
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