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He's the GODDAMN BATMAN.
I used to read scans_daily on LJ. Best inside joke ever.
@1 - Used to? Did you just get sick of all the whining insightful commentary?
paul, are you wearing those ugly hipster pants? you better not be!
You posted this because Batman uses the word Retarded
(http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/the_morning_news_516.comment)
If BATMAN can say "retarded," I can say retarded.
Scary @3: My pants are ugly, but not hipsterish. I don't really miss Kurt Cobain, either, and I didn't ever like grunge music.
@4: Actually, this is one of the first things that comes up when you type "Batman critic" into Google image search. I was hoping someone drew a picture of Batman beating up on Edelstein, but Frank Miller Batman is almost as good/bad.
@5: Jonah, if Batman jumped off a building, would you?
No you can't--you're not the Goddamn Batman.
OMG. That's it! ECB is an Enviro-Nazi Fanboy!
I saw it at the noon press screening yesterday at the I-Max. I think Edelstein is just trying to stir up attention for the mag. It is an intense movie and definitely transcends the superhero genre.
The review is snobbish, and he wants it to be more infantilized (like the other superhero movies?). His complaints were that Nolan doesn't know how to do action (I disagree), it sounds too smart for Batman (which is meaningless because he's comparing it with the Burton Batman as though that started the franchise), the tech concepts seem to confuse him, he list-mods the event in the film and doesn't say so, and really just sounds like one big "YOU KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN."
No really, it's a good film.
Miller and Lee's All-Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder is one of my favorite recent portrayals of Batman in print. I'm glad you agree, Paul.
Personal to Christian Bale:
Your'e a retard. I'm the goddamn Cookie W. Monster!
So stop stealing my catchphrase, m'kay?
Who cares about Batman? its Edelstein's trashing of Mama Mia! that deserves attack!
30-year old who still spends several hundred dollars a year on comic books. I'll outgrow the habit when you pry my goddamn Batman action figure out of my cold, dead hand. It'll be the one wearing the replica Green Lantern ring.
@6
say yes, jonah, say yes!
thank you, paul honey. i was just messin' withcha.
I kind of love The New Yorker, but when it snob-hates a piece of pop culture, I take it as a happy sign that pop culture will endure.
And if I may gloat: I saw the movie and it kicks ass.
@1: S_D used to be about the hilarious, inadvertant gayness found in comics. Now it's a bunch of idiot fanboys posting as many pages from as many books as they can, with nothing insightful or funny or interesting. That is why I no longer read.
Tres gay!
@16: It's not New Yorker magazine, it's New York magazine. Completely different.
@19 Oops. Duh.
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