This is "From a Different Point of View," a feature where I discuss a comic book series with other people. This time around, due to everyone having to self-isolate, I figured I'd do a special edition where I discuss some crossovers with whichever readers that wanted to chat about them! We started off with Marvel's original Secret Wars and now we're doing Knightfall!
We continue with Batman #495, Knightfall Part 7, "Strange Bedfellows" by Doug Moench, Jim Aparo and Bob Wiacek, with colors by Adrienne Roy and letters by Richard Starkings.
Brian Cronin: We get our next inker in the Jim Aparo farewell tour.
Brian Cronin: I feel a bit weird calling it a "farewell tour" when it was really, "Countdown to getting fired."
Brian Cronin: But at least they were being sort of nice to him while kicking him out the door.
ChrisCoke: The Knightfall trade was among my earliest Batman comics. Aparo of this era forever cemented the look of Batman in my mind.
Sean Whitmorer: My mind just filled in that blank.
ChrisCoke: I certainly think Wiacek fits him better than Mandrake. I like him best with the cleaner, smoother lines.
Brian Cronin: Bob Wiacek is a great inker and he really brings out the classic Aparo style well.
Brian Cronin: Yeah, exactly, Chris.
Dean Hacker: Why did Aparo get fired? Was his style out-of-step?
Flavio Sette: Wiacek is fantastic, but I do miss the depth and moodiness Mandrake's inks gave Aparo
Tom A.: Where did Aparo go after this?
Brian Cronin: Wiacek is one of those guys who's great at bringing out the penciler's style without making it seem like your work.
Brian Cronin: Mandrake did a great job going the exact opposite direction.
Flavio Sette: Yep.
Brian Cronin: He made it very Mandrake-y.
ChrisCoke: Agreed.
Brian Cronin: It looked good, but it was very Mandrake-y, while Wiacek is all about making it look like peak Aparo.
Brian Cronin: As to why Aparo was let go, I guess just changing styles of the era?
Brian Cronin: I really don't know for sure.
Flavio Sette: This feels very Aparo-ey, and it works, but I'd be lying if I said I don't miss Mandrake.
Brian Cronin: He was hired to draw Green Arrow once he was done with this and he stayed on that book for a year and a half and that was it for his regular ongoing assignments.
Dean Hacker: Shame, because fans from that era LOVE him.
Sean Whitmorer: Did Aparo ever do anything for Marvel?
Dean Hacker: Paradoxically, Green Arrow seemed like a better fit than solo Batman.
Brian Cronin: Took over Green Arrow and brought Aparo with him. So that was nice, at least.
ChrisCoke: But he came back to Batman right? I think I recall Aparo/Sienkiwiecz doing some No Man's Land books. Or else I am mixing people up.
Sean Whitmorer: I know Breyfogle did, and that always felt weird to me. Like, “that’s a Batman guy!”
Flavio Sette: Legacy, I think.
Brian Cronin: He did a bunch of fill-in Batman work, yeah.
Brian Cronin: Editors obviously wanted to work with a legend.
Brian Cronin: So he had fill-in work and miniseries almost right up until he passed away.
Brian Cronin: But Green Arrow was his last regular work.
ChrisCoke: Sienkiewicz over Aparo also seemed more like Sienkiewicz than Aparo.
Sean Whitmorer: Brian, until I saw your tweet, I never noticed that Ivy does not have her wrist crossbow on that cover.
Brian Cronin: And yeah, as Sean alluded to, the cover doesn't exactly make sense, as Poison Ivy is just, like, pointing a fist at Batman.
Dean Hacker: I hate Sienkiewicz as an inker. He is great on his own, but he over-powers the person he is finishing.
Flavio Sette: I think she's supposed to be gesturing seductively, or threatening to touch his bare skin, poisoning him.
ChrisCoke: I think Poison Ivy wants him to kiss her hand.
Dean Hacker: Maybe Ivy wants a fist bump?
Tom A.: I had forgotten that Poison Ivy used to have a wrist bow.
ChrisCoke: Does she have a ring on the finger he should be kissing?
Tom A.: Ivy has changed a lot over the decades.
Brian Cronin: Maybe it's like that South Park episode.
Brian Cronin: And she has a face drawn on her fist
ChrisCoke: What are you suggesting, Brian? Do you think Jones meant to add a wrist-bow but forgot?
Tom A.: Like, the eco terrorist thing is relatively recent.
Brian Cronin: I don't know WHAT the cover is supposed to be suggesting. It's just weird.
Flavio Sette: Love that opening page. Aparo kick ass, as per usual.
Brian Cronin: Yeah, the opening is great.
Flavio Sette: Moench's narration fills you in right away and that whole "got to let him go" bit really makes you think "wait, is Batman seriously considering letting Firefly die?" (granted, we know he wouldn't actually let it happen, but still, I thought it was a nice little tense moment), and it sets up how Batman and Firefly will escape next page.
Sean Whitmorer: Moench getting that Hell metaphor out of the way quick this issue.
Brian Cronin: Some more purple prose right off the bat.
Brian Cronin: Firefly's adorable where he's like, "Wow, he let me go! Neat!"
ChrisCoke: As Knightfall was such an early Batman comic for me, I really got it into my head this was Batman's main rogues gallery. It took me years to figure out that some of them were pretty minor.
Flavio Sette: That page where Firefly sets Batman's Bat-line on fire and he has to use it the severed rope to escape… Aparo's done a lot of scenes like that before, and this one's damn good.
Sean Whitmorer: Batman tossing that severed bit of rope around the fire escape is possibly the craziest thing that’s happened in this crossover that includes a super-strong steroid abuser fighting a crocodile man.
ChrisCoke: I loved the prose of Knightfall aged 12, and my opinion hasn't changed.
ChrisCoke: I get it. Fire escape.
Dean Hacker: Laws of physics are bit dodgy on the Bat-Rope gag.
Brian Cronin: Yeah, what Aparo has always excelled at has been the quality of his action shots.
Brian Cronin: They always make you believe it could happen, even if it blurs the laws of physics, as Dean notes.
Dean Hacker: You can feel the impact on that last panel.
ChrisCoke: I've read this comic over a hundred times and never questioned that Batman could get the rope around the fire escape until this moment.
BraveUser: Hi everyone first time here and I literally just bought a bunch of knightfall trades in lockdown as I remember getting a few issues as I think a 4 year old. Weird reading them as a 30 year old and a nice timely place to see other peeps opinions on it
Sean Whitmorer: Lines like “One way or another, still burning out” make me think Moench was an influence on Brian Azzarello.
ChrisCoke: I get it. Burning out.
Sean Whitmorer: It’s like a mix of tough-guy and quippy.
Brian Cronin: Yeah, that's Moench in a nutshell.
Brian Cronin: But it works.
Brian Cronin: Welcome, BraveUser! Good timing!
Brian Cronin: Oh, Jean-Paul Valley in his suit that we have not actually seen in this crossover yet. Great!
Sean Whitmorer: Tim will later say that he may have been influenced when designing Jean Paul’s costume by recent villain Metalhead.
Brian Cronin: It's crazy how inaccessible this crossover is.
ChrisCoke: Obviously I had no idea who Azrael was when first reading this.
Sean Whitmorer: It’s hilarious to think of Tim looking at the guy, beaten and bloody on the ground, and think, “That looks awesome.”
Brian Cronin: "Hey, it's some guy we don't know wearing a costume we haven't seen in this crossover referencing his time as another character we don't know!"
ChrisCoke: I'd read maybe 5 or so Batman comics before this one, and recall plenty of confusion. I think they mention Harold at some point but never show him.
Flavio Sette: And the Jean Paul sub-plot kinda ends up going nowhere fast.
ExcitedCharacter: I didn't know it was supposed to be Azrael.
ChrisCoke: I would argue it goes somewhere...
Brian Cronin: I can totally believe that, Chris.
Dean Hacker: My main confusion is why the ribbons on his head.
Flavio Sette: It lasts a page and a half and not much happens.
Sean Whitmorer: I was lucky enough to have picked up the issue introducing Harold, or I’d have been way lost.
Brian Cronin: I know what's going on and I still don't get the ribbons on his head.
Dean Hacker: LOL
Brian Cronin: Everyone wears the same basic pair of robes/pajamas in Gotham City.
Dean Hacker: The may be a very hip robe & PJs boutique.
Brian Cronin: Like the Gotham haberdashery.
DaPOPE: It’s a shame they didn’t develop Jean Paul before changing even his civvies look before this. I have a real fondness for later azreal but in this batman run he’s relegated to stern looks and working out.
Flavio Sette: I meant vis a vis this issue. Like, why do we need to see Jean Paul put on his costume and easily beat up a couple of two-bit crooks at this point in time? Why does it take up two pages of this specific issue?
Brian Cronin: Gotham has some weird tastes, so odd stores keep popping up
Brian Cronin: Yeah, it's definitely odd that Jean-Paul becomes Batman after not getting any development in the first 10 or so issues of this crossover.
Dean Hacker: Like, half the stores are run by former super-villains, so ...
Tom A.: And odd places get abandoned and taken over by villains.
Brian Cronin: "Just trust us, there's this guy named Jean-Paul. It makes sense."
Sean Whitmorer: “And he’s worn the Batman costume before, it’s a whole thing.”
Flavio Sette: Heh, that panel of Bruce falling face first onto his bed is so good.
Dean Hacker: No one could've predicted that he'd be dropped from the film adaptation.
ChrisCoke: That panel is me any minute now.
ExcitedCharacter: Yep, great visual storytelling.
Brian Cronin: Yep, classic Aparo.
Brian Cronin: I agree with Tom, this is a very different Poison Ivy that we're used to now.
Brian Cronin: As she's pretty much just a standard supervillain here.
Sean Whitmorer: This may well have been my first time seeing Poison Ivy in a comic. I think I was aware of her, but I’m not totally sure how.
Brian Cronin: Why does Bane want to be at the civic center if something goes down?
ChrisCoke: It was certainly my introduction to her, and thus remains my impression of her.
Brian Cronin: Joker and Scarecrow's team-up is pretty adorable.
ChrisCoke: My comic introduction. The animated series was probably my intro.
Flavio Sette: I dunno, Brian, how does Bane figure out Bruce Wayne is Batman?
Brian Cronin: I like how Scarecrow is clearly just pumped about Joker teaming up with him.
Flavio Sette: Krol's missing for nearly a whole day before anyone finds out he's been kidnapped, and even then it's only because Joker and Scarecrow had him call the cops!
Brian Cronin: He's in the big time now!
ChrisCoke: Brian, Bane is observing Batman.
ChrisCoke: Not sure how you missed that these last 6 issues.
Brian Cronin: But isn't Bird doing that?
Brian Cronin: What does Bane need to be there for that?
Tom A.: And acting all tough because he has life without parole.
ChrisCoke: Bane is observing his physical and mental state. Subtle stuff.
Sean Whitmorer: Honest to God, I use “L-WOPP” to his day.
Dean Hacker: Bird is, like, Bane's Batman spy? Amazing that no other supervillain thought of that.
Brian Cronin: As noted, he only showed up here because they needed him to identify that Bruce is Batman.
Brian Cronin: But the reason he's there isn't good.
Sean Whitmorer: Anytime I read or hear about a life sentence.
ChrisCoke: He's there to observe subtlety.
ExcitedCharacter: Huh, I wonder where did Ivy got this guys, body builder club?
Brian Cronin: Yeah, Aparo, more than other artists, definitely fell into drawing types.
Brian Cronin: Sort of like Steve Ditko.
Brian Cronin: These guys are generic Aparo muscle guys.
Flavio Sette: I don't know why the mayor even bothers having a security detail if he can just disappear for a whole day and his whole detail get murdered and no one has any idea there's anything amiss.
Tom A.: How many villains know Batman 's secret identity at this point?
ChrisCoke: It's a busy time in Gotham.
Sean Whitmorer: Bane recognizing Bruce without the mask is a little much. But, maybe just because I was young, I bought into it.
Brian Cronin: Hmm...just Ra's and Hugo Strange, right?
Brian Cronin: So this was definitely a big deal having Bane learn his identity.
Sean Whitmorer: It became my go-to example of how Bane was a smart villain.
Flavio Sette: It's been a little while since I last read Shondra's first few appearances, but has it been established before that she's working under Leslie?
ExcitedCharacter: Coloring on Bullock is pretty funny, red coat and yellow hat, like on Dick Tracy character,
Dean Hacker: Bane is a little stalker-y, right? This is not a healthy relationship with a famous person.
DaPOPE: It’s odd reading the whole azreal arc going from Quesada’s art in fallen angel to Aparos. It’s like seeing the intersection of popular styles from two decades.
Brian Cronin: Yeah, that's really why Aparo was being rushed out. The styles were changing and he definitely stood out.
Brian Cronin: He was still a fine artist, but it's fair to note that he was a LOT different than the popular style of the era.
Flavio Sette: I love that Lucius knows Bruce isn't the dumb, bored diletante he pretends to be. Years later, Greg Rucka had what I think was the best take on how Lucius sees Bruce: he sees Bruce as being really smart, but also very eccentric and mercurial.
Sean Whitmorer: Yeah, I really like comic-Lucius before movie-Lucius became the default.
Brian Cronin: Bruce was lucky that they were all poisoned because he had no good answer to Lucius' inquiries.
Flavio Sette: Having said that, Moench wrote this issue, as well as an arc that came out months earlier where Bruce went undercover to try to rescue Lucius, who had been kidnapped by Black Mask. Lucius knew it was Bruce who saved him, and they talked about it openly. Which makes me wonder if maybe Moench is hinting that Lucius knows Bruce is Batman here.
Brian Cronin: Bane can even tell when Bruce is pretending to be brainwashed.
Brian Cronin: That's more than a bit much.
Dean Hacker: It makes sense that the guy watching the money would know what Bruce was up to.
ChrisCoke: Maybe it's a bit much, but it's exactly why he has to observe him up close. To learn to spot things like that.
DaPOPE: What ever happened to bird zombie and Trogg btw. I mean they know Bruce Wayne is Batman.....should maybe follow up on that?
Brian Cronin: They're too loyal to Bane to ever tell anyone.
Brian Cronin: They showed up in the comics recently.
Flavio Sette: Bruce has no reason to believe Ivy has other hostages, but I guess Moench and Aparo need a reason for Bruce to wait to attack Ivy after she takes him and the other zillionaires to her secret lair where her deadfellows are.
Sean Whitmorer: I wonder if Bane would have interceded if any of the other villains got too close to killing Batman.
Brian Cronin: Heck, FIREFLY almost killed Batman!
Sean Whitmorer: Or would he have been, “Screw it, guess he wasn’t so tough after all.”
Brian Cronin: Batman passed out after fighting Zsasz.
Brian Cronin: "Maybe when he's passed out, Bane?"
Brian Cronin: "No, not yet!"
ChrisCoke: Bane is trying to choose his moment, when Batman is weakest.
Dean Hacker: Weaker than unconscious?
ChrisCoke: He'll know it when he sees it.
Brian Cronin: Ha!
Brian Cronin: Exactly, it's this weird treading water thing.
Sean Whitmorer: Bane really just wants a shot at Alfred.
DaPOPE: Good stuff, will check out Tom kings run when I’ve got the shelf space/money.
Dean Hacker: Bane just cannot find good help and wants a butler.
Dean Hacker: The training in domestic work in prison is lacking.
Brian Cronin: Trogg is insulted by that!
DaPOPE: Gotta day that I do find the issue does pick up whenever Bane pops up.
Flavio Sette: Which reminds me of that one Batman Secret Files and Origins that covers Bane's titanic battle to the finish against Alfred!
Sean Whitmorer: Oh lord, did it really?
Brian Cronin: I gotta give Moench credit, he's nicely balancing three different plots at once here.
Dean Hacker: Ninja Alfred is the worst.
ChrisCoke: There is a lot to follow here. Three scenes over 2 pages.
Brian Cronin: Bane and his minions, Batman, the cops and wait, a fourth - the Jean-Paul stuff.
ChrisCoke: One scene which is really two scenes, one up on the roof
ChrisCoke: And I think it flows.
Brian Cronin: He definitely pushes the scope of the event, which is nice.
ChrisCoke: And without scene-change narration. No "meanwhile"
Brian Cronin: We just got back from a Dixon issue with very little happening.
Tom A.: So many plots in each issue, and yet the story is still 19 chapters.
Brian Cronin: Yeah, good point. Definitely giving his readers' credit for figuring stuff out.
Sean Whitmorer: Was Jean Paul’s takedown of those crooks meant to be noticeably more brutal than something Batman would do?
Flavio Sette: True, Brian. Although again, did we need two pages of "Jean Paul fights two randos"?
ChrisCoke: Whole new setting by the next page, Ivy's lair
DaPOPE: It does flow but I feel it does feel like the other Villains are not only obstacles for Batman but for us, like in the way of what I really want to see. Which is bane to back up his name.
ChrisCoke: Azrael is going to be important to this series, so he needs to do something to remind us he exists, but without overshadowing Batman's half of the series. It might have been better if he took out an actual villain.
Brian Cronin: Yeah, there are all of these extra Arkham villains.
Brian Cronin: Have Jean-Paul take one of them down.
Sean Whitmorer: Agreed. Maybe even tease that over-the-top violence earlier.
Brian Cronin: Also, the key thing that we haven't addressed in any of his appearances in this crossover.
Flavio Sette: Agreed.
Tom A.: Yeah, have him take down the Cavalier instead of Batman.
Brian Cronin: Is his mental instability.
ChrisCoke: Sean, maybe Azrael was tougher than Batman in his own mind.
Brian Cronin: Great example, Tom.
Dean Hacker: Jean-Paul couldn't fight firefly?
Brian Cronin: It is weird that we don't see Jean-Paul fall apart until AFTER he's Batman.
ChrisCoke: Cavalier makes sense. It would be the same amount of panel space.
Brian Cronin: There should be some hint of why he really isn't a good choice.
Dean Hacker: True
Brian Cronin: As Sean notes, perhaps we're supposed to believe that he took the two bad guys down too harshly?
Brian Cronin: It doesn't read that way, but perhaps?
Tom A.: Yeah, Batman takes out goons that way all the time.
Flavio Sette: Exactly, so this way it feels like Bruce overlooked some red flags along the way.
Sean Whitmorer: koffOr maybe have Az take down Two Face and spare us that Showcase crossoverkoff
Brian Cronin: Haha...oh man, those Showcase issues. Ooph.
DaPOPE: The visions jean Paul get later are a bit BLAM TWO GHOSTS SHOUTING AT YOU.
Brian Cronin: Yeah, exactly.
DaPOPE: but he’s batman by then
Brian Cronin: Nothing nothing nothing then GHOSTS TALKING TO HIM
ChrisCoke: The Showcase crossover was rough, and gave me such a headache because I couldn't fit it anywhere chronologically.
Sean Whitmorer: It fit SLIGHTLY better than the Shadow of the Bat issues with Scarecrow.
Brian Cronin: It MIGHT be the worst example I've seen of someone putting a chapter number on something that's clearly just a peripheral tie-in.
Brian Cronin: The Shadow of the Bat issues don't have chapter numbers
Flavio Sette: And we're supposed to believe it's wearing a costume that kinda looks like whatsisface's that set him off!
Sean Whitmorer: Yeah, I can see why
Brian Cronin: Poison Ivy's plot here is so DARK.
Brian Cronin: She has zombies who are all literally about to die.
Brian Cronin: So people she murdered, effectively, are also her servants.
Brian Cronin: It's so twisted and dark.
Dean Hacker: I like Poison Ivy dark.
Tom A.: Yeah, she used to be a lot more evil.
ChrisCoke: "Still the dark angel, immune to my allure, ever tempted, never succumbing"
ChrisCoke: I like it.
Sean Whitmorer: One hell of a fight scene by Aparo. I especially love that panel where he’s punching the two guys behind him.
Tom A.: No sort of sympathetic eco-terrorism here.
Dean Hacker: It is a nice contrast with Catwoman who is barely bad.
DaPOPE: I feel that theme runs through a few villains. Like really dark stuff happening but Batman is too tired to really care
Brian Cronin: Also, did Batman hit Poison Ivy with the tiniest batarang ever?
DaPOPE: Focusing a lot on being knackered
Flavio Sette: This is post-Suicide Squad Poison Ivy, interestingly enough. She was gone from Batman’s Rogue's Gallery for a good while.
Sean Whitmorer: Pocket batarang.
Brian Cronin: Smacks her right in the face and it slightly cuts her lip.
Brian Cronin: "Gotta take Ivy down. I guess I should lightly cut her with a tiny batarang."
ChrisCoke: "Drained before I start... to hell with all weakness" I really like Moench's internal bat-monologue.
Sean Whitmorer: “Can’t risk open wounds. On ME.” Another great tough guy line.
Flavio Sette: True.
Tom A.: Yeah, if he had hit her harder with a bigger Batarang, he could have knocked her out immediately and saved himself a lot of trouble.
Brian Cronin: Yeah, Moench is doing a good job.
Brian Cronin: The only thing I can think, Tom, is maybe he's so weak that he couldn't throw it hard enough?
Brian Cronin: But really, it's just because the story needs to continue.
Flavio Sette: Yep.
Tom A.: Or maybe he wanted her concious to ask about a potential antidote? Who knows.
Brian Cronin: The black blood is such a weird look on Ivy's face.
Dean Hacker: creepy
DaPOPE: Ooo that toe punt at the end is a bit much
Sean Whitmorer: Maybe they didn’t want to show him hitting a woman so hard (gets to end) Nope, that ain’t it!
Flavio Sette: Same reason why Bruce didn't put on the suit and take her out back at the fundraiser.
Brian Cronin: All Batman stories should have Batman throwing zombies at dudes.
Brian Cronin: "To hell with all weaknesses...full speed ahead."
Brian Cronin: That is a pretty badass line.
Flavio Sette: Some classic Aparo Batman moves here.
Flavio Sette: Hell yeah.
Sean Whitmorer: There’s a Zombie in Knightfall and there are zombies in Knightfall and never the twain shall meet.
Dean Hacker: Chunt cannot feel good.
Brian Cronin: Yeah, that's quite the sound effect.
Brian Cronin: You know Batman is super tired.
Brian Cronin: As his, "You mean (kicks her in the face) ...to a witch?"
Brian Cronin: Makes no sense as a zinger.
ExcitedCharacter Kick of justice is unisex!
DaPOPE: I wonder what a chunt feels like? Or a Ftak?
Tom A.: Not sure why Ivy expected Batman to surrender.
Brian Cronin: "Surrender!" "You mean to a witch?"
Brian Cronin: As she passes out, she's thinking, "Wait, huh?"
Tom A.: Batman believes in true gender equality, female criminals get the boot too.
Sean Whitmorer: Yeah, it’s a really weird response.
ChrisCoke: Because she's hot. She expected him to surrender because she's sexy.
Brian Cronin: "You mean to a witch?" is the part that doesn't fit.
Dean Hacker: How hard do you have to kick someone to knock them out?
DaPOPE: its like an ‘I accept your surrender’ joke when you are obviously done
Sean Whitmorer: Like, I doubt she’d even take “witch” as an insult.
Brian Cronin: Moench gets even darker with the cops blowing up from Joker's trap.
Brian Cronin: This is a dark, dark issue.
ChrisCoke: Batman's exhausted. He's got a poetic inner monologue. Asking him to deliver good lines as well is too much.
Brian Cronin: "Trust me, I'm thinking of something really deep here!" (kick to the face)
Sean Whitmorer: The SWAT trap seems to be the first really “big” tragedy to happen from the Arkham breakout.
Sean Whitmorer: Only 7 parts in.
Tom A.: Scarecrow and Joker high-fiving each other after successfully murdering a bunch of cops adds to the dark humor.
ChrisCoke: Poison Ivy's zombies are a big one. And it seems like Cornelius Stirk had done a bit of killing.
DaPOPE: Is it weird that I don’t like this Joker and am more into the sad frustrated joker?
Sean Whitmorer: Yeah, but like, “Terrorize the whole city” level big.
ChrisCoke: I love this Joker, but this really was my intro to him in comics. I'd read Batman #451 before this and this might be my second exposure.
Flavio Sette: Joker and Scarecrow killed the mayor's entire security detail earlier too.
ChrisCoke: "Mine to break." Is that foreshadowing?
Brian Cronin: Zsasz killed two cops, too.
Sean Whitmorer: 451 might have been my first time seeing Joker in a comic too. Where he’s shooting the bats on the cover?
ChrisCoke: That's the one. Great cover.
Dean Hacker: The retirement plan for the GCPD must be AMAZING.
Tom A.: Trogg somehow still hasn't figured out that his boss wants to beat Batman himself after all this time working for him.
Brian Cronin: Yeah, that was a weird one.
ChrisCoke: Confusing comic though, as it involved a Joker imitator.
Flavio Sette: I mean, as far as terrorizing the whole city, Firefly set a bunch of theaters and amusement parks on fire.
Brian Cronin: Like he said it just so that Zombie could correct him.
Sean Whitmorer: Trogg does what he can with what he has, okay???
Tom A.: GCPD probably has the highest mortality rate for cops on the planet.
DaPOPE: See maybe that’s the animated series guiding me. I think Hamill is my first
Dean Hacker: But the dental Tom, but the dental...
Brian Cronin: Weren't they abandoned, though, Flavio?
ChrisCoke: I'd be sad if my childhood amusement park burned down, abandoned or not. It may not have had any people, but it had memories.
Flavio Sette: True, but still, that's gonna scare more people than some cops getting blown up in another abandoned amusement park.
Tom A.: Gotham really needs to do something about its abandoned amusement park problem.
Sean Whitmorer: I was gonna say, Tom.
Sean Whitmorer: Maybe a fundraiser to reopen some of them.
ChrisCoke: Brian, can you write an article with a count of Gotham abandoned amusement parks that Joker takes over.
DaPOPE: Gordon keeping his men back ‘no boys, let it burn’
Sean Whitmorer: ”Please, citizens, attend our parks. Then the Joker can’t hide out in them. It’s your duty!”
Sean Whitmorer: “Shit, this one has a ‘Two’ in the name.”
Brian Cronin: It's like we were joking earlier about how no one should ever name their kid Alice in Gotham or name their kids anything involving the twos.
Brian Cronin: Heck, if you have twins period, you probably should live somewhere else.
ChrisCoke: Thanks, Brian. Tschüß
Dean Hacker: It is like there is an evil banker who won't approve loans without certain theming.
Flavio Sette: It's all a sad side effect of the Great Gotham Clown Craze of 1949, Brian.
Brian Cronin: See ya, Chris! Enjoy your rest!
Sean Whitmorer: There should be a crazy vigilante in Gotham that attacks all these people/businesses before the villains can.
DaPOPE: Citizens of Gotham could be so easy to win votes off of. ‘I’d literally get rid of cannibal crocodile men in the sewers. Vote for me’.
Sean Whitmorer: “Martin Gemini? I must kill you so that Gotham may live!”
Brian Cronin: "Martin Gemini, who lives on Carroll Street and has twin daughters, BOTH NAMED ALICE?"
Dean Hacker: LOL
Sean Whitmorer: ”A store that sells antique watches? Oh, no he hell you don’t!”
Brian Cronin: "So, you're a company that sells only coins with scarred ends on them. Why, dude, WHY?"
Sean Whitmorer: Batman’s torn about whether to stop the guy.
Brian Cronin: He has to flip one of the coins to decide.
Sean Whitmorer: Brilliant. Prestige mini.
Flavio Sette: No wonder so many Gothamites turn to crime.
Brian Cronin: Okay, folks, on Thursday, we check back in with the Riddler!
Brian Cronin: And with Robin!
Dean Hacker: Nice
Flavio Sette: And Firefly! Don't forget Firefly!
Brian Cronin: Mustn't forget Firefly!
Brian Cronin: And a return of Sam Kieth to covers!
Flavio Sette: See ya!
Sean Whitmorer: Have a good’n, everyone!
Brian Cronin: Thanks for coming, everyone!