Eh... not crazy about them using a classic DC villain as an Elliot Rodger afterschool special, and having him as a 'normal' kid already wielding a death-umbrella is kind of silly.
But I suppose if there's any character who would throw a tantrum like this, it's Oswald. At least since stuff like 'Pain and Prejudice' and the Joker's Asylum one-shot. Although even then he would have done something like cut the brakes off the guy's car as opposed to pulling out a semi-automatic umbrella and blasting the guy on the spot.
I really wish writers stopped turning to the lowest common denominator when they try to make a character "deeper" or whatever. 90% of the time, they just make the character a racist or a Nice Guy(TM), and it completely drains out my interest in them.
Yes, I know, "these are villains!" But comics are supposed to be entertainment, and there is nothing entertaining about crappy character traits that you have to deal with all the time in RL. I like villains in my entertainment to be over-the-top dastardly greater-than-life figures, not the creep I try to avoid when I take a stroll.
I'm ugly? Ok, I'll be a criminal. You know, I never realised how Penguin, Two Face and Joker are alike. The difference being Oswald looking like a penguin all his life, so he had time to get used to it. That's probably why Oswald is a criminal genius, while the other two are batshit crazy
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Date: 2019-01-21 01:34 pm (UTC)But I suppose if there's any character who would throw a tantrum like this, it's Oswald. At least since stuff like 'Pain and Prejudice' and the Joker's Asylum one-shot. Although even then he would have done something like cut the brakes off the guy's car as opposed to pulling out a semi-automatic umbrella and blasting the guy on the spot.
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Date: 2019-01-21 10:49 pm (UTC)You know, I never realised how Penguin, Two Face and Joker are alike. The difference being Oswald looking like a penguin all his life, so he had time to get used to it. That's probably why Oswald is a criminal genius, while the other two are batshit crazy