Batman #153 There Is A New "Hero" In Town

Oct. 3rd, 2024 12:10 pm
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Date: 2024-10-03 05:26 pm (UTC)
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Why is Vandal Savage the new police commissioner? Or is everyone pretending to believe it's "Bob Savage, no relation"?

Date: 2024-10-03 07:43 pm (UTC)
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Gotham City Mayor Chris Nakano confided in Commissioner Renee Montoya that he was under pressure from "outside forces" who want change in Gotham. So Vandal Savage was apponted the new police commissioner. It happen in Batman #146.

Date: 2024-10-03 09:51 pm (UTC)
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"And by 'change' we mean the exact same kind of chaos and instability we've had during the last three, four special event storylines."

Date: 2024-10-03 10:06 pm (UTC)
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"So, here's our new commish. And before you say anything, I know that he's a mass murdering psychopath who invented cannibalism and murder. But he's our mass murdering psychopath who invented cannibalism and murder, so I expect you all to give your all while working under him."

Date: 2024-10-04 10:47 pm (UTC)
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Wasn't he a literal Nazi (in addition to all the other historic mass murderers he claims to be but probably wasn't)?

Date: 2024-10-04 10:50 pm (UTC)
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In these scans Nakano comes off as pretty reasonable by Gotham political standards...

...he's about to die, isn't he?

Date: 2024-10-03 05:41 pm (UTC)
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Love how Commander Star and Commissioner Savage are one step away from openly winking at each other.

Date: 2024-10-03 07:37 pm (UTC)
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Yeah, this guy doesn't have "the Comedian" written all over him.

Date: 2024-10-03 11:42 pm (UTC)
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Commander Star looks very trustworthy and totally legit, and I'm sure he'll go on to have a long and productive career as a hero. I can't wait until he gets his own series.

Date: 2024-10-04 01:42 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] beeyo
I really hope this goes uninterrupted by any label-wide crises. I'm still rooting for Zdarsky, but I feel Gotham War derailed the crap out of his last story.

Date: 2024-10-04 10:45 am (UTC)
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I really would have hoped this trope would die by now but it just keeps being relevant.



*Introducing a new hero; Murderman*

Crowd: We love you, Murderman!

Existing Hero: WTF?

Date: 2024-10-04 10:51 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] scorntx
At least when Thunderbolts did it there was the fact a lot of the major Marvel heroes were dead, and some of them were just as confused by it.


I'm sure Murderman got his name merely because he's either slightly obsessive about crows, or he turns into a group of crows. Definitely nothing sinister.

Date: 2024-10-04 11:14 am (UTC)
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When the Thunderbolts did it, only one of them came off as an obvious Murderman on camera and a local cop immediately fell in love with him so I guess the social commentary checks out.

(Josten was such a bad choice for that mission.)

The other Thunderbolts were good enough at hiding it that only some of the other criminals they victimized and Black Widow noticed.

Date: 2024-10-05 10:42 pm (UTC)
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It's a family name-- he's Steve Murderman,

Date: 2024-10-04 12:33 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] beeyo
To be fair, we don't see Murderman get any public praise or anything like that in the issue. Savage just sides with him because he's eeeeevilllll.

Date: 2024-10-04 09:02 pm (UTC)
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Yeah, the answer is probably just some awful "because he's Batman," but seriously, how does he get away with just throwing down a ninja smoke bomb in the middle of a street in broad daylight before escaping unseen? The surrounding buildings are distant enough that people would be able to see him batlining away! It's 'suspension of disbelief'-able in dead of night atop a tall building to drop from, but in this situation I find it preposterous.

Date: 2024-10-04 10:44 pm (UTC)
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With the rare exceptions, GCPD are some of the most incompetent cops on the planet so I think your average Gothamite could smoke bomb their way out of that.

Date: 2024-10-05 05:54 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] scorntx
They probably wouldn't need an actual smoke bomb. They could just yell "smoke bomb" and run away while the cops are confused.
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