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mwolvie@umich.edu wrote:
> Ok, first, in the pre-OYL Batman finale, it looks like Batman cuts the
> Red Hood/Jason Todd's throat with his Batarang.

. . . the fuck?

> Doesn't Batman have any blunt batarangs anymore?

According to my DK Publishing Complete Guide to the Dark Knight
(unrevised), yes, he should.

> If he could pull off that shot (which I have no problem with),

Of course not. He's Batman!

> couldn't he have clonked him in the head just as easily (or even more simply) on the
> rebound than cutting and drawing blood?

But then that wouldn't be KEWL in the sense that it's entirely UNCOOL.

> Did Dark Knight Returns make ALL of Batman's weapons ninja stars?

I fear so.

> Second, Jason Todd's return- it was all because of Crisis?  Isn't that
> uncreatively convienent.

Anything would be rather a let-down, and probably unpalatable to boot.

> How many other things are we going to discover that writers have done but have no
> answer to that are just going to be attributed to Crisis?

Ugh. I don't even want to speculate.

> I'll at least give some kudos for retroactively putting him back in the
> Hush storyline.

Which actually makes the story less cohesive. I didn't think anything
could.

Basically, you have to assume that not only were Riddler and Hush in on
it, but Jason Todd, too, only without anybody knowing Jason Todd was
Robin, so why would he be in on it? ARGH!!!

I've never really minded Judd Winick's writing, but his ideas are so
bad. So bad.

Aaron "The Mad Whitaker" Bourque