Whole lot of fuss about Batman's cock at the moment.
Yes, you read that right. No, I don't mean a male chicken. Batman got his nob out in a recent "mature readers" title. There was a backlash, the art has been doctored and the comic pulled. Copies featuring Batman's "other sidekick" are likely to see a dramatic increase in value as collectors swoop to buy them up.
No, I'm not making this up.
As far as I know, the comic hasn't been pulled, but it has sold out. I've got a Jim Lee variant (at cover price), but that was because I told my comic shop guy to set a copy aside a month ago, not because of BatPeen. The response has been ridiculous, none moreso than from DC themselves, who have said they will blur the shot in any digital copies, and when the issue gets reprinted, they won't include/will blur that panel. Listen, the whole point of the 'Black Label' was sold as an 'HBO version' of Batman. How much darker can Batman get, if you take away the nudity option? (Don't get me wrong- while the panel wasn't gratuitous, it wasn't necessarily important, either. So I'm okay with the no nudity route.) There's a Black Label Wonder Woman coming up, but now, of course, we all know there will be no nudity. Or will there? Because there always seems to be a double standard when it comes to male nudity vs. female nudity. Such a big deal over nothing.
Not sure what I think of a Joker movie. One one hand, he's one of the few major villains who doesn't have an origin story and I kind of like it that way, because whatever they come up with will be the official story. On the other, that clown image of Joaquin Phoenix is brilliant, and the trailer was what every trailer should be- teasing and intriguing. (Will say, when I started singing along to the song, my wife said, "You know this song?" I told her, at my age, if I didn't, I'd probably get thrown out of Canada. The Guess Who gets a song in one of the most anticipated movies of 2019? Damn right I know the song.
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