I do so love hearing the GOP's petulant spoiled squeal as they continue to think their asses have to be kissed anymore.

And that would be true.

But it's still good to get as many of them as you can, and this asshat is a great start.

...her name is Renee Montoya and she's called the Question. You can recognize her because(like her male predecessor did for almost 40 years) she wears a mask that makes her look like she has no face. Believe me, she's about as butch as you'd want without going full diesel. (and in fact, she's involved with Batwoman here)

Why are you reporting this, though? I thought the controversy over the femme lesbian Batwoman was all exhausted when she was introduced a few years ago. She's well-established already and is not making a "comeback."

(And Bruce Wayne did not actually die at all, regardless of the publicity; they just sent him back in time where he's now trapped and everyone THINKS he's dead. Typical gutless move)

It wasn't. It would actually have been a story-ending move to have his greatest and last enemy be his dad, as it would have called into question everything he does, because it was resulting from revenge for his dead parents. NOT your typical comics Oedipal conflict, and one with greater weight than almost any other given Batman's cultural importance.

I thought that had potential. It would have forced Bruce Wayne to either give up altogether, or find a new reason for being. That has tragic and heroic dimensions. But it wasn't done. The guy in question claimed it, Bruce says, "No, you're not," and tells him who he really is, and said guy just proceeds to another threat. It wasn't his father. It was a wasted dramatic moment. But great publicity.

Well, if they'd promoted it, which they didn't. D'oh!

I have a feeling that it was just the target that appealed to Joan, because while the sketch had a great premise, its execution was terrible. It lay there like a sketch that had been intended for the final half hour.

Different Wyman. This is the critic, not the short-eyes bassist.

>>I do think he should stand trial for his actions, and I think what he did was wrong. But sexual ethics are very confusing in America, and when you throw in a man raised in a very European manner, and who came to adulthood in a very different culture, I'm not surprised that people want to cut him slack.

We are weirdly liberated and puritanical in this country. We don't know how to deal with the complexity of issues, or the questions that arise in individual cases.

Show me a country he's lived in where, in his lifetime, drugging and raping a 13-year-old is considered normal. "European" is not a synonym for "beyond the petty morality of humans."

...it speaks poorly of their strategy. Given the mayor's open longing for the return of the Mob on ABC a couple nights ago, I think it could be one.

But I'll just be crass and to the point here: please look at the pictures. These are supposed to be Vegas' top 50 prostitutes? You're Mr. John. You're looking for the purchase of sex. You see these women. Who look exactly like the meth addicts on the corner in their own town. Consider.

So after the watermelon e-mail, the "slum love" comment, the Post cartoon, they try to win us all back by attacking a little girl. Brilliant!

Of course, if she were in a coma and white, they'd call a special session of congress to help her, but never mind.

Well, yes and no. What Moore did was split Batman in two halves, and one--the outlandish-gizmo dude--went to Nite-Owl(who is actually a revision of Blue Beetle, but I won't go into the convoluted Charlton origins of the WATCHMEN characters here), the other went to Rorschach. Basically, Batman without gadgetry, the "dark" part of Batman who just wants revenge, but doesn't care about friends, family, or hygiene because what has that to do with the war on crime? But merged with Ditko's the Question, the character he was meant to be originally, who also had an interesting mask in that it made him look faceless--and otherwise dresses like Rorschach. The Question is only a lighter version of Ditko's later(creator-owned) Mr. A, if you read the Ditko comics--just as much Randian moralizing. He too has a featureless mask, in that it's a white, impassive unmoving and very disapproving face. (In fact, Rorschach is unique in that his reveals his emotions) So you're right, but not exactly in that way.

And what, pray tell, does "The Maltese Falcon," an adaptation that is a great film, but is also virtually a filmed play, have to teach us about cinema?

Or do you have no idea what you're talking about and this is just what it looks like when your br4ain has the farts?

Feel better now that you've got your panic-mongering out of your system?

Now consider that we all know how bad it is. All you did was give more reason for despair, as no increase of awareness was necessary in the readers. So a few more are panicked that otherwise might have been just on the edge, at best, and that's the most positive effect you could have made with this.

So ask yourself: apart from the money you just got for your pointless words, what was served by writing this?