![]() ![]() What happens in these issues (Batman current series 89-100, I missed the beginning of the first of 2 arcs) is rolling war between the major Batman villains and the heroes (plus Harley Quinn and Catwoman), which shifts into a Joker and Joker adjacent vs. I could see the messed up trees but was missing the the forest the universe was trying to describe. We’ll get into the background of this, but my reading today of this extended stretch of comics that keeps losing the plot in favor of a fever dream of what’s happening at the moment with specific characters that refuse to cohere, it became obvious that what I had been looking at as subtext or critique was actually the text. Every status quo change seemed hard to figure out the rules of enough to parse the context. The act of reading DC comics has been a frustrating experience, where individual good stories and runs were laying around in the context of a lot of things that didn’t make sense while the company’s thrust felt chaotic and ideas not well blended. I’ve had trouble following DC comics for a while, constantly feeling that they were in trouble since back in the mid 2000s (with a glimmer of hope here and there). In doing so, Dabi relives his own trauma every time a hero makes excuses for why killing villains is justified.ĭue to the emergence of the new Batman villain character Punchline, I wound up buying the last 12 issues of Batman and reading them in a single sitting. Times and times again, the heroes keep dehumanizing the villains, keep shutting out any attempts of dialogue and trying to go for the lethal blow instead. The system would rather stomp on Todoroki Touya again, as proved many times over by nearly all the heroes who had a pov in the war arc so far. The system didn’t recognize Touya until he pointed a neon sign at himself and shouted “I’m Endeavor’s abused son!” to anyone willing to listen. ![]() Dabi cannot trust that the system will ever redeem itself, because the system let Endeavor be number one. An abuser who not only failed to realize the consequences of his actions, but one who was backed up by a whole system equally as corrupt as him. Heroes cannot be trusted to apply self-responsibility, because the person who hurt Touya so much was a hero. Todoroki Touya wasn’t saved, so he rejects the notion of heroes as saviours. His “conviction” is less a specific moral manifesto like Stain’s and more of a trauma response. ![]() I know it looks like he’s moved by an ideology too (and to an extent, he is), but his true motivator is trauma. heck they might've even gotten along due to their mutual distaste for chem barons.Īs for Dabi. and eventually somehow Viktor ended up helping Urgot by creating & implementing his and the other prisoners with Augmentations. he was likely put to work by making and repairing mining equipment. My theory is that the chem baron had Viktor repay his debt in the same prison mine that Urgot was in called "The Dredge". How did the chem baron make Viktor repay his debt? Why does he have so many followers that have augmentations? He has no history of having skill in matters of surgery or engineering.Īnd I doubt he had the means to learn those things while trapped in a mine. Because while he may talk sophisticated and be the former Executioner of Noxus, likely with the same education of a noble. But in Urgot's new lore Stanwick is not even mentioned, nor is the method as to how Urgot went about implementing his Augmentations, or rather who helped him do it. In Urgot's old lore it was Viktor's old professor Stanwick Pididly who created Urgot's Augmentations. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |