Heh. That Outsiders bit kills me every time :D And comics are just so full of crack. Whee!

I dunno, actually. I know zip about art and artists! The only thing I know is that Rob Liefeld needs an elementary anatomy lesson. ::coughs::

If you ever want to laugh, cry, and claw your eyeballs out, just read through the "rob liefield" tag in scans_daily. Good times.

There's actually a really fun fic (or 12) where Tim ends up grounded or otherwise in Smallville, with Clarck's parents (usually Kon's also there, have you met Kon yet?) and his experience, as someone who was basically raised by maids and Alfred, in a small home where all the meals are homemade, the walls are thin and there is no internet connection... man, COMEDY GOLD. He spends his first 24 hours going O_O

...I might need a comics icon just for your posts.

I started out sort of being bored by Kon, but then he really grew on me through his adventures with Tim, cos he's always the fun-loving-goofy-guy to Tim's "omg so srs." bat attitude. He's good comedy when he's written well (or in fic) and his whole attitude towards the bat family is helarious. It's like the Clarck/Bruce vibe, multiplied by 10. Also, I LOVED the batdickery that was his romance with Batgirl. OH MY GOD Bruce should have gotten DOUCHE OF THE YEAR for that one.

Well, I think that depends on the writer? I've def. seen at least one story from the 2000s (I think it was a Bruce/Clarck thing) where it was like, Clarck's parents mostly contacted him by phone and obviously had never heard of electronics. Could be your sources are newers though, so that's the new established canon or something.

Jeeeeesus where did that come from? Wow, someone who actually knows about the internet is writing Superman again? Last time I saw stuff it was still Clark pining for the simpler times and growing up with nothing but a hey shovel to amuse himself.

Huh. Wow. I mostly knew superman from the Superman/Batman series and from group stuff, like JLA and such, and he bored me to tears whenever Bruce was around, so. But this is... really really good. Dude.

Oh, um, also I just realized I never actually told you about that whole JLA thing at my unit, which I'm gonna share cos - LOL. Being Intelligence we change up our names, every team and department and such, every X amount of time (like, if I didn't still have contacts at my old base, I wouldn't know what anything was named anymore, or who reported to whom, job-wise). So, it's time to go through The Great Renaming. Previously, we'd had the Rocks and Minerals theme, which got to the point where every new team/department had to crack open an encyclopedia and struggle to find ONE THING they could use that didn't sound like an STD. One of the departments ended up being called Kryptonite. I shit you not, their email addresses were "Dan, Kryptonite dept." COS MADE UP ROCKS COUNT.
So then our fearless leader suggests "heavenly bodies" as a theme. He decides we should be named "tzedek", after the planet. How does he name our Senior Staff forum? THE JUSTICE LEAGUE (ligat ha tzedek). So I get invites in the mail - "Justice League meeting, today @ 3pm". Soon as it started happening I turned to my friend J and was like "...I totally have dibs on being Batman".
The name ended up not sticking - apparently the other departments all wanted to be called Tzedek too, so it didn't work out.

HAHAHAHAHA EVERYTHING TO DO WITH THE BATFAMILY IS MADE OF WIN :D Um. Did comics only get pretty in 2000s? No, but the cases of them being pretty before then were RARE. Also, DC, for the longest time, was the company that valued artists first, and their art is generally prettier than Marvel, who put writers first and their stories as a result are... well, you know.

All of these scans are made of win :D

There is an important question that begs to be asked, as a bat person, are you a Selina Kyle/Bruce Wayne person, a Bruce/Talia person, or have no prefrence?

Aaah, see, the revolving door of bruce's love interests works like this: there's always SOMEONE, this is usually Random Bimbo (rarely are they not acting like/looking like bimbos, sadly), currently I believe it's some chick in high heels and a 90s outfit whom he introduced to the batcave on their first date or whatever. That's been going on for like 60 years and they usually dissapear after a short while. There have been only 2 main love interests who have been coming back again and again in one way or another to Bruce since well, the 1940s LOL, that's Catwoman and Talia Ras Al Ghul. That's the main shipper war, if there is a het shipper war, of the batverse (also, it's the big question of whether one of them's gonna end up int e next movie, Nolan's pretty much ruled out Catwoman and acknowledged that Talia exists in his universe, at least). I have a side, of course, but I'm mostly just curious to see where you'll lean :D Have you read Hush yet?

Rachel... I know a lot of people who got really upset that they made up Rachel where there truly are 214324523 chicks from canon they could have picked - but I thought Rachel was PERFECT. She's the girl they would have made up in the comics had they been thinking of that angle (instead of "of course Bruce should sleep in the same bed with his 10 year old ward!") back then.

Bruce/Diana... man. Did I ever mention how my commander in the military named my department THE JUSTICE LEAGUE and had to be dragged kicking and screaming away from EVER NAMING ANYTHING AGAIN (AND we were Intelligence so, really, the lameness doesn't even begin to describe)? Cos, I still kinda LOL about that.

ALSO ALSO I tried calling but your phone's off, um, are you anywhere near Uni on Tuesday?

I could totally buy the mask thing, but I guess after all those years they got kind of tired of it, so now every time Bruce has a new Twu Wuv I just switch off.
Selina does know his identity yes, there's even a FAB comic where Selina Kyle walks into Wayne Manor, with paparazzi taking photos and OMG Bruce Wayne's new squeeze is here for a bootycall, wearing a gorgeous glamorous dress, and out of hte back door, Catwoman and Batman exit, with Bruce going "thanks" and her going "you're totally paying for that dress you know".

In fact, until like, the last month, she's spent quite a few years working in parallel with Batman, being a "good" vigilante, helping out and stuff. She's familiar with the entire Bat family I believe. Batman even showed up when she had her daughter with, seriously, a teddybear and a fat trust fund.

LOL yeah I mean next Tues just cos I got an experiment I gotta sign up for and there are differnet times on Tues when I can sign up and I was wondering if it'd make a diff. in regards to maybe meeting up. But, you know, I'll just pick whatever and see how it goes, eh?

ETA: OH OH and I just remembered, there's an awesome Clark/Bruce fic where Clark is like "omg Bruce how the hell do you ever get out of this cotume? Are you really so screwed up that you have a million safeways/buttons/whatever or are the villains in Gotham that desperate to get in your pants?"
and Bruce is like "...you haven't met Selina have you?"

ETA 2: Oh, it just hit me, who are these girls in the batfamily you speak of?

Uh, yeah, Selina dropped off the map for a while, and then came back with a daughter. and like, the first scene we get is Bruce dropping by with, like I said, a teddybear and a trust fund and hima nd selina being all... weird around each other, like, awkward or guilty or SOMETHING and I swaer to you, 80% of s_d were SCREAMING "OMG HE'S THE FATHER!" except, of course, HE IS NOT, and just to rub it in, like a week later, in the same comic book, Talia drops by and dumps Bruce's REAL 10 year old son on him and goes all "I have an evil empire to run, I'm tired of raising our spawn, you take care of him".

Oh, cos, there's the whole Stephanie Brown thing, I was just wondering if you'd gotten around to that yet.

All, right let me point out: the batmobile has a carseat (http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/3876999.html#cutid1), and also not my favourite comic of that run, but still, um, the cuteness is quite palpable (http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/4134086.html#cutid1). Also contians Bruce being fumbly and pretending to be a supervillain for the public.

UGH I can not FOR THE LIFE OF ME find a scan of him holding the bear, but maaaan that was awesome. In the same scene he also lectures Selina on letting a new girl take up her cotume and fight crime "she's so young Selina, I can't believe you brought another person into this!" and Selina's like "Um. Wait. You're lecturing me on involving teenagers in crime fighting?" That was a rather priceless moment.

His real son is indeed... his real son. It's anchored in an old storyline where he and Talia get married and she supposedly has a miscarriage except NOT. I'm also personally ignoring it although I'm afriad they're gonna start treating it as universe-wide canon soon which is... ugh. SO SO WRONG OMG.