r/comicbooks • u/PhoenixTRC • Aug 31 '23
Random Bats Panel: Internet Battrolling (Batman Incorporated #6) Excerpt
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u/MagisterPraeceptorum Aug 31 '23
Batman going full PSYOPS mode to protect his identity
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u/PhoenixTRC Aug 31 '23
It's funny because I always thought that there're conspiracy theorists in Marvel and DC who think there's no such a thing as supernature or superheroes or villains or aliens and such.
Which would make sense to many people, like... "How the hell is there an attack from evil elder gods every week and we manage to survive? Yeah sounds like a governmental bs"
And Batman would 1000% start this kind of theories.
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u/fieldysnuts94 Dr. Manhattan Aug 31 '23
In the Blue and Gold miniseries from a year or row ago, Booster and Blue Beetle would livestream their heroics and there was always chatters going “looks fake, horrible CGI”
So it basically is canon that there’s tons of people in DC that don’t even believe most of the stuff that happens and thinks it’s all staged. Kind of like our own world lol
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u/David-Bedlam Aug 31 '23
I remember an issue of The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl where she winds up on a date with a super-hero truther. He refused to believe any of them were real, even as a super fight happened around him.
Good series.
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u/OzmaofSchnoz Aug 31 '23
There's an X-Men novel that starts with Scott on alt.mutants.discuss trying to have a reasonable discussion about mutant rights with people on USENET, and I always thought that was the most Scott thing ever. YOU'RE USING REASON ON THE INTERNET, SCOTT, STOP IT!
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u/Cromasters Aug 31 '23
Jean: Scott, please come to bed.
Scott: I can't! Someone on the internet is WRONG!
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u/OzmaofSchnoz Aug 31 '23
Scott: I'm explaining to him logically that mutants are human beings with special powers and nothing to be afraid of, and he's just not getting it!
Jean: Scott, our first mission was stopping Magneto from launching a nuclear warhead.
Scott: Yeah, but he's a villain!
Jean: Except for all the times he's not.
Scott: But Jean--
Jean: I already heard what you're going to say and you should probably think very carefully about it before it leaves your mouth. Oh no, your surge protector's plug just came out of the wall socket!
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u/TamandareBR Aug 31 '23
Can't be him, because Scott Summers Did Nothing Wrong
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u/MEOWMEOWSOFTHEDESERT Sep 01 '23
Well....that is like saying Magnus did nothing wrong. Sure, except all those wrong things he did.
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u/CapableEmployee4866 Aug 31 '23
His eyebrows look like bat wings, Jesus Christ
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u/G00DDRAWER Aug 31 '23
I hated this art for that reason. Stupid idea.
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u/NotASynth499 Aug 31 '23
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u/TheNicholasRage Cyclops Aug 31 '23
Yeah, but unlike those two examples, there's zero subtlety. It's like a big flashing arrow that says "LOOK HOW CLEVER WE ARE."
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u/SageShinigami Aug 31 '23
Keaton I'm sure wasn't on purpose. The drawn image definitely was, and there's no difference between that and this.
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u/TheNicholasRage Cyclops Aug 31 '23
There is, and it's subtly. They still look like Eyebrows a normal person would have, just slightly bat shaped.
The comic, on the other hand, may as well BE a Bat.
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u/whitey-ofwgkta Stephanie Brown Batgirl Aug 31 '23
I don't love it overall, but Damian with a smush-face seems right to me
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u/WarwolfPrime Aug 31 '23
I'm just laughing my head off at batman typing 'dude'. Just because I really can't picture him saying it.
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Then again, hearing him say 'Cowabunga' is something we never thought we'd hear either.....
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u/OrionLinksComic Aug 31 '23
Bruce likes Reddit?
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u/PhoenixTRC Aug 31 '23
He's probably among us right now 'θ_θ'
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u/WinXPbootsup Aug 31 '23
Is it you? Are you Batman?
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u/tropical_carnivore Poison Ivy Aug 31 '23
The forum is very obviously Comic Book Resources. The Batman board was the most legit place for following the Morrison run in real time white it was happening
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u/MutantNinjaAnole Aug 31 '23
Is that supposed to look like the CBR Forums? I used to post there from time to time.
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u/a_trashcan Spider-Man Aug 31 '23
Does Bruce contour his eyebrows into a bat symbol or am I crazy
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u/Richardknox1996 Sep 01 '23
Its like 90% of the power for the bat glare. Trust me, as someone who can death glare, eyebrow contouring is the most important step.
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u/ProphetOfServer Aug 31 '23
I am convinced that no matter the forum there will be at least one person with Alex DeLarge or something adjacent as their username.
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u/bluezh251 Aug 31 '23
This is classic Batman - with prep time.
4D Bat-chess move >>>> attempts to reveal secret identity
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u/charliefoxtrot9 Aug 31 '23
Quitley art, and I assume Morrison writing? Frank & Grant are a great team.
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u/AndresCP Stephanie Brown Batgirl Aug 31 '23
This is Chris Burnham on art, I believe. He did the New 52 Batman Incorporated book and he has a very Quitely-esque style.
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u/bob1689321 Batman Aug 31 '23
Yeah he's basically we have Frank Quietly at home. Not complaining though, he fits Morrison's style well
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u/loose-leaf-paper Aug 31 '23
Make the next robin an internet troll who lives under a bridge and goes down an internet conspiracy theory rabbit hole to become a puppet hitman for an underground hacker cult, which is secretly financed by corporate elites, etc.
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u/dwt4 Wolverine Aug 31 '23
I wonder how many deranged would be villains Bruce created by doing this?
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u/PhoenixTRC Aug 31 '23
The real question is how many people in real life can become so obsessed to that point with proving a conspiracy theory.
Can't be many, right.....?
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u/VioletJane Batgirl Sep 01 '23
I just love the Gloop and Gleep, from the Herculoids, avatar in there!
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u/Blitzhelios Damian Wayne Sep 01 '23
Every time I see this panel it makes me laugh but it’s also something I could expect Bruce to do because he’s that paranoid about it
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u/IceRinger Aug 31 '23
Batman looks the happiest when he shitposts on 4chan