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I bought my first copy of Frank Miller’s “The Dark Knight Returns” 36 years ago when “graphic novel” was a punchline. This panel hit so hard I never forgot it. Now, I’ve become it. The next panel is also memorable: “Then he straightens up and grins at me like it’s funny. He can’t die.” I could have posted that panel, but spoilers!

PS - I love that Miller gave us the old, slightly stooped and paunchy Batman. He’s huge and intimidating, but no longer lithe and quick. He fights like George Foreman instead of Bruce Lee.

It gives you the sense of how much larger than life the man was (and still is) without stripping away the reality and humanity (“Why wear a target on my chest? Because I can’t armor my head,” he muses to himself as a lucky magnum slug connects.)

I also love the contrasts with Superman. Clark Kent (or Kal El) jumps in the phone booth to become Superman. The Batman is the Batman. Bruce Wayne is the persona he becomes to hide his true self. Supes is the ageless Adonis. Batman is scarred and worn out. His Robin is a walk-on tryout (and -80s gasp- a girl). He gets charged with child endangerment. At one point the Dark Knight is wearing old costumes, still wet, because Alfred and the Bat-Laundry can’t keep up. Long before Marvel’s “Civil War,” “Joker,” or “Dawn of Justice,” Miller portrayed the inherent tension between the ideal of justice, an man who is the poster child of obsessive-compulsive at his best, and the reality of the law.

#batman #life goals #frank miller #dark knight returns #im so tired #bill sienkiewicz

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I’m just sitting here watching the world burn…

Gen Z: What are you prepared to do about it?

#generational warfare #gen x #somebody else’s problem

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#omega supreme #the number you cannot compute #guardian robot #transformer #Issue 19 #My first issue! #80s kid

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Truth - always cats in the guns.

#cats #howitzers #murder floof

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Hey look, Gillian Anderson!

#collective unconscious #Charles atlas #arnold schwarzenegger #x files #david duchovny #gillian anderson #everything has history

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I think they’re in on the joke by 1997. Might as well own it. More Chaco chicken anyone?

David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, 1997 - photographed by Mark Seliger for US Magazine.

#x files #gillian anderson #david duchovny #the truth is out there #eat mor chickn #hangin at the morgue

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#x files #smoking man #maddening trivia #Google is cheating #it’s not like it was the most important attribute of the character poser #hope the smoking man’s in this one

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Happy birthday Leonard. We miss the coolest Vulcan ever - and a real mensch.

#leonard nimoy #spock #bitchin’ Buick #real mensch on a bench

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The Measure of a Woman

#amazing cosplay #st tng #data data data

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Only if she has two legs and a pulse there Jim…

#gender swap #everyone’s a Captain Kirk #william shatner

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#tank girl #tank girls #australian birds

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The Princess Bride dir. Rob Reiner | 1987

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By the power of Greyskull!!

#naval mine #hot fuzz #home decor

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#peter parker #spiderman #science #humor

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He lied for us!

#easter #trump 2024

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This is “Trump for President” in Latin.

#history jokes