The Fate of Batman

[Tom Foolery]

My daughter sent me this. Haven’t laughed that hard in awhile.

[Tom Foolery]

In its advertising materials, DC is referring to Hush 2 as ‘H2SH’. What the hey does that even mean? It’s too hard to add a ‘u’ and a space? Are we supposed to call it Htoosh?

Because now I am.

[anarky]

Sounds like someone hocking a loogie.

I therefore assume H2sh is about Tommy Elliot spitting on Gotham sidewalks.

[Tom Foolery]

Marvel and DC are teaming up for the first time since 2003’s JLA/Avengers crossover to bring the us two oneshots(and I’m assuming like 330 variant covers between the two issues) starring Deadpool and Batman.

Part of me is eyerolling at the crass, obvious money grab.
But hopefully it will lead to other Marvel/DC crossovers. I think both publishers, and comic shops, would benefit from that.

And I’m not gonna lie; Wade finding Batman’s breaking point is gonna be epic. I can already see him losing it at DP’s incessant stream of conscious bullshit and just screaming “MY GOD WILL YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP?!!?”

[anarky]

That was pretty much my thoughts. Uninspired crossover, but they're playing nice again.

[Tom Foolery]

A new Batman #1 came out today. It’s The 4th ongoing Batman series since 1940.

“But, Tom”you say to yourself “the previous Batman ongoing isn’t even finished yet! HToosh still has a few issues to come out. What gives?”

Well, that’s because clowns Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee can’t keep on a schedule even when given like a year of lead time. And DC editorial naively though they could.

The new issue was okay. Matt Fraction is deliberately doing stand alone stories for each issue. But it’s definitely better than the previous two or three runs from Loeb and Zdarsky and whoever followed King’s run. I’ve already forgot.

[Tom Foolery]

Also, when I got home, my issue has these two little blemishes; one was in the yellow background, and the other was on his blue cape. I was like ‘are you fuckin kidding me? I grabbed a defective copy out of the pile of like 30 issues he had?

But I looked at the solicit cover, and they are on there as well. So I wonder why they left them on there.