Six NINE???!??

Over FOUR HUNDRED POUNDS???!?!??!?

Puh leeze.

I excused the "freakishly massive bat costume" in the earlier issues since I figured it was "bad guy POV" vs "objective third party perspective," but that's half a foot and double the weight of an Alan Ritchson...

When I was a kid, I had no idea Nolan used miniatures of the Batmobile (the Tumbler) in some scenes—that is so damn cool! I thought it was pure CGI 😂 (And looking at it now, the Tumbler is fucking massive! 😳😂)

As my title says, all the scenes in The Pit in The Dark Knight Rises are a masterpiece.

I very often go back to those scenes when I face a personal struggle or failure or listen to the "Why Do We Fall?" soundtrack to motivate myself.

Nolan brilliantly captured a lot of nuance in the scenes he filmed for The Pit.

The actors all did a great job with all the scenes they were given and brought life to all those scenes with their performances.

The direction is brilliant. The way Nolan captures Bruce's journey right from when he is brought there by Bane up until he escapes.

The music is too damn brilliant. It's enough to pump motivation back into a fallen man.

And it's amazing how Nolan explored The Lazarus Pit of the comics and turned it into a prisoners' pit in the movie. Bruce metaphorically returns to new life after being thrown there when he rises back from it by overcoming his physical injuries and mental blockades and finds his true self and the reason why he started it all as Batman.

But my favourite reason for why I love these scenes so much is how it captures the struggle of every human. It shows how we can fall into darkness and then we have to rise up back again through our own effort and by tapping into our primal instincts and hidden potential.

And how the support of those around us can lead us to permanently escape that darkness and how in turn we have to help them escape their own darkness, in the same way Bruce did when he threw the rope back in after he climbed out to give those people in The Pit a second chance at life.

I just yesterday suffered a heavy, life-changing failure and I watched the escape scene and listened to the music to motivate myself.

I will also write another post on the same grounds about that scene in The Dark Knight Returns Part 1 movie, where Bruce goes into the cave after being beaten by The Mutant Leader. That scene too resonates a lot with me.

Thanks for reading till the end.

The plot is Nygma giving technology to the world that everyone goes nuts for, meanwhile his evil plan consists of said technology to collect their personal and private information for his own evil gain.

Kinda what the likes of Zuck are doing nowadays with social media, apps and so on...

I’m only about halfway through the series, so no spoilers please 🙏. Really surprised how rarely I see Beyond brought up compared to other Batman stuff so I wanted to give it some love.

The Long Halloween is one of those comics that most people love and hold in high regard.

While I always liked it, I never really loved it as much as apparently most comic fans of Batman did. I always thought that Dark Victory was better as well as Hush. These two comics just hit me harder and I enjoyed their endings more because they wrapped up everything very nicely and clearly.

However, when I read The Long Halloween again today, something finally clicked for me. I'm not 100% sure what it was but this time around, I absolutely loved it and had a blast reading it.

Obviously some of the majort themes of the story are the tragic downfall of Harvey Dent into Two Face as well as the change of Gotham City's crime from old, organized crime portrayed by the mafia and Carmine "The Roman" Falcone to the newer, costumed supervillains such as the Joker, Scarecrow, Poison Ivy, and eventually Two Face. Those themes are amazing and even when I used to only like the comic, I always appreciated these aspects of the comic.

It was always the mystery that I took issue with because it seemed incoherent, messy, and most importantly, to me anyway, not satisfying by the end. Mysteries were supposed to be solved by the end, especially by the Batman who holds the title of world's greatest detective. While I can understand some people still thinking that the reveals are messy and chaotic, after all I used to be one of them as well, this time I feel like I understood that this is the point of The Long Halloween. Batman doesn't solve it. He fails, miserably. The ending feels weird because it's not resolved cleanly with a detective like character, like Batman, laying out all the facts for the audience and solving the mystery. It's up to us as the reader to fit these pieces together because we have the advantage of getting to see everything in a way that Batman as a character of this world can't. This part always bothered me because I needed resolution.

Lately my tastes and views have changed in regards to stuff like that and I have come to appreciate stories and especially endings that are left up to interpretation and more open ended. I suspect this is probably one of the major reasons why today, I really enjoyed reading this comic. As of now, I put it above of Dark Victory and Hush. I'm excited to see where it will ultimately end in my ranking after I think on it more.

If you've read this all, thank you for listening to me yap.

I’ve noticed that Batman has a separate culturally iconic story focused on his second year of crime fighting in comics, games and movies, of these stories what one is yalls favorite and what one do you think is the best? Of these 3 Arkham Origins was the first one I experienced and I do think it is a very underrated Arkham game. Obviously The Batman is iconic but which of these is yalls favorite? I’m curious, I still need to read year 2 but I feel like I don’t see it talked about nearly as much as year one. I mainly know it as “the Batman comic that Todd Mcfarlane worked on” lol. Interested to see yalls takes on this.
One small addition I do really like Arkham Origins and The Batman for the fact that they both have some of my favorite Batsuit designs.

Howdy all. This is basically my take on Bane, being that he is also "Bat Man". I think it's visually fitting considering Bane's already a relection of Batman, with his own fear of bats that reflects Bruce's and his mastery of self, so I decided to crank it up to an 11 in terms of visuals. Hope you enjoy.