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Locking Death Man up in a safe and sending him to outer space seems awfully inhumane to me, and a bit out of character for Batman. Why didn't he just arrest him? Maybe if he had some sort of plan to retrieve the safe and bring Death Man back to Earth at some point in the future... I'd like to think Batman is keeping track of the safe's whereabouts and not just letting him float forever in space.

Also, who was the corpse in the fridge at the beginning of the issue?

Out of all the artists in the new 52 titles, who would make a good Batbook with Batman, no Nightwing,Batgirl etc. (even artists who were/are in a Batbook)?

I believe a good fit would be:
JIM LEE
CLIFF CHIANG
GREG CAPULLO
TONY S. DANIEL
BEN OLIVER
J.H. WILLIAMS III
MIKEL JANIN
YANICK PAQUETTE
ALBERTO PONTICELLI
SAMI BASRI
MORITAT

Now this is a thread for fun. Let's all see what characters on TAS look like other characters and actors from cartoons, ads, shows and movies.

I'll start.

Professor Milo looks like a fusion of Moe from 3 Stooges and Mr. Burns.

Jim Gordon looks like Colonel Sanders.

Jonathan Crane looks like a cross between Icahbod from the Disney Sleepy Hollow and that one rebel from the movie "Akira".

Boss Biggins from The Forgotten looks like B-movie icon actor Pat Ryan Jr. plus his character from The Toxic Avenger, Mayor Bellgoody.

Bruce Wayne looks like Clark from the Flesicher Superman cartoons of the 40s.

Matt Hagen looks like Ronald Reagan when deformed.

Anthony Romanulus (aka the werewolf) looks like Vinnie from the 1982 Ralph Bakshi cult fave animated movie "Hey Good Lookin'".

Hugo Strange looks like that doctor from the one Bugs Bunny cartoon where Bugs is trying to be experimented on but the doctor ends up becoming a chicken at the end.

Harvey Dent looks like Superman TAS's Lex Luthor with hair.

Kirk Langstorm looks like Kevin Costner.

Red Claw looks like Baroness from GI Joe.

Penguin looks like Jay Sherman from The Critic.

Roland Dagget looks like Sandman from Spider-Man in a business suit.

Rupert Thorne looks like Marlon Brando.

Mad Hatter looks like Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka and Robin Williams combined.

Dr. Emil Dorain looks like William H. Macy in a dentist outfit.

Alison from Mad as a Hatter looks like Freakazoid's girlfriend.

Poison Ivy looks like Jessica Rabbit if Jessie's tits were down a bit.

Robin/Dick looks like Michael J. Fox.

Mr. Freeze looks like Patrick Stewart in a cosmonaut outfit.

The Sewer King looks like Howard Stern as a pirate.

Bullock looks like Burke from Spawn TAS.

Timberwolf the werewolf from Moon of the Wolf looks like that same werewolf critter from The Howling.

Agree or disagree?

Now your picks on what other Batman TAS that look like other cartoon characters, movie people, actors and Ad characters.

In Batman #1, during Batman's fight with the hordes of Arkham, there appears a balding man wielding a hand puppet. Could this be Arnold Wesker, returned from the great beyond?

I was a HUGE fan of Alan Grant's Ventriloquist and was thrilled to see him embraced by the various animated series and by many other Bat-scribes.

When Face the Face came out during the One Year Later stories, I was horrified to see a great schtick villain killed off in the service of promoting a new villain, the Great White Shark, who ended up doing pretty much nothing. The Ventriloquist, one of the defining villains of the late 80's-early 90's Bat-titles, received a ludicrously stupid send-off. Paul Dini's female Ventriloquist eased the pain a bit, being a pretty cool character in her own right, but it just wasn't the same.

Now with the relaunch, DC has been taking the opportunity to toss a lot of dumb stories out the door. It appears that Arnold Wesker may be back.

For those who missed him, the guy with the hand puppet is on the cover, on page 3 (top right), page 4 (bottom right panel), and page 7 (first panel, left side).

Anyone else excited about this?

The awesomest robot on Batman TAS and a badass henchman! i think he deserves a comeback like on Batman Brave and The Bold and in the comics. He could have been great on The Dark Knight and Heath would have repeated Mark Joker's memorable line.

I know they were mentioned for the first 2 weeks but not this week. As a side note, Batman#1 and Nightwing #1 are selling for pretty high on ebay.

I need to first state, Im not trying to start anything with this post, Im generally very curious as to the response to what I'm going to point out.

With the sexual content of these two books, we have all seem the full range of comments from people not seeing the big deal to people generally outraged. On the outrage end of the spectrum, a generic summary of a lot of concerns can be listed as "is this what dc thinks of women?" Again, I'm basically paraphrasing here.

But, what I'm getting at is people are quick to blame the entity of DC for the portrayal of women in these books, but let's point out some specifics. Bobbie Chase, Rachel Gluckstern, Katie Kubert... All editors on these titles, all women.

So, correct me if I'm wrong... Editors approve outlines and scripts, correct? So it shouldn't take a genius to connect the dots I'm getting at here.

So, I propose the question, what are your all's thoughts on the fact that these stories, that some find detrimental to some of the women of the DCU, are edited by actual women?

I personally just find a bit of irony in the situation at hand, and Im wondering what everyone else thinks.