Post #200!

200 posts! Wow! Can you believe it? I sure can't. Granted, about 80 of those consist of little more than awesome pictures of Batman being awesome. But even that consistency is impressive to me. What I mean is, even if this blog was nothing but awesome pictures of Batman, I wouldn't have expected my attention span to last for 80ish posts of those.

MitchWords: Part Four

I had an idea about what to write for the previous installment of MitchWords. I was going to empathize with the Joker from The Killing Joke. In that Alan Moore penned graphic novel, we get some sort of explanation of the Joker's origins. Basically, he had one incredibly bad day. So he reasons that's all it takes to go insane. That's all that separates every normal one of us from him: one bad day. He proceeds to make someone else have a really bad day in an attempt to make them just as crazy as he is.

I've had a bad day. I've had several bad days. Obviously, the most recent one did a number on me. Sure, people have had far worse days than me. But it was my bad day. Basically it was going to be a weird and probably very depressing post. I'm not even sure if I would have meant it all. Part of me just wanted to see if I could actually write something like that.

But then Gail Simone retweeted a post on this blog and I had something even better to write about. So the Joker idea was scrapped for the time being. Now, I could try to do that again for this MitchWords. But I'm just not feeling it anymore. I still think it could be a neat thing to try to write, but there are other topics and other questions to write about now.

Like, is God talking to me through comic books?

Strange Mixture of Pagan and Christian Mythologies

Dr. Kate Corrigan: The text of The Secret Flame is Ini-Herit's partial transcription of the great Tabula Smaragdina -- The Emerald Tablet.
Supposedly engraved by the Greek god Hermes on a stone that fell from the head of Lucifer when he was cast out of Heaven.
A pretty strange mixture of pagan and Christian mythologies, if you ask me.
Adoet de Fabre: So you do know about it.
But of course, Lucifer is not the name of the fallen angel. That mistake originates from a misreading of Isaiah 14:12.

- B.P.R.D. The Universal Machine # 3

by Mike Mignola, John Arcudi, and Guy Davis

Daily Batman

You're a Christian! [NSFW]

Cyndi: Goddammit, Adam! You're a Christian!
Adam: I'm a pissed off Christian!

- American Virgin #3

by Steven T. Seagle and Becky Cloonan

Daily Batman

Possibly the greatest Batman movie ever.

Why Would God Let This Happen To Me?

She was everything I had in the world, Cyndi. I-I-- can't... nhuh... can't...
God told me she was the one... the only one I... nhnnn... I'd ever love and be with and--
Why would God let this happen to me?
...I mean her.

- American Virgin #2

by Steven T. Seagle and Becky Cloonan