Abishai100
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Batman (DC Comics) is a modern comic book superhero, a complex masked urban vigilante who tackles the criminally-insane in a fictional placed called Gotham City. Batman's nemeses are perfect social symbols of anti-social terror --- Scarecrow (a masked maniac wielding fear-toxins and sometimes weapons), Penguin (an underworld ghoul), Poison Ivy (a dangerous eco-terrorist), and Mad Hatter (a logic-gamester who blends terrorism with insanity).
Batman comics have been adapted into cartoons, television programs (including the famous 1960s series starring Adam West), toys and action figures and of course Halloween costumes, video games, and full-length Hollywood (USA) films such as Batman Forever starring Jim Carrey and Batman Begins starring Liam Neeson.
Batman storyboards are rich in terror-imagery and pedestrian panic and arguably reflective of modern age urbanization-related calamity (e.g., 9/11, Los Angeles Race Riots of 1992).
Comic book art has exploded since the 1960s, and today, there are countless movies and video games featuring vibrant/graphic comic book characters such as Daredevil, Wonder Woman, and Captain America.
To honor this new 'trend' in media/entertainment, I've re-spun Batman (aka, 'the Dark Knight') as a modern-day Robin Hood oriented capital crusader who deals not only with terror and criminal insanity but also anti-social malice, pop-psychology zest, and even...horror.
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The Hindu deity Kali (goddess of feminine potency and rage) was observing the trends in modern consumerism which still placed women in kitchen-environments advertising new age products such as the Ninja Blender and the Keurig Coffee-Maker. Kali thought about earlier times such as the era of Ancient Sparta, when men whore leather skirts and helmets and wielded shields and swords while women cared for their estates and supported them religiously in territorial crusades. Kali realized that modern man was more hypnotized by commerce and 'style' than lifestyle-politics. Kali thought about the Indian boti (a rustic and basic board-and-blade kitchen-tool used for cutting foods on the floor with hand-and-foot), used by many women in India in even recent times reflective of a 'labor domestication.' Kali wondered if the boti was like her own 'weapon,' the scimitar (a curved blade symbolizing female prowess for her). Kali decided that Gotham City needed a 'consumerism overhaul.'
Unfortunately for Kali, Gotham was plagued by its own problems which Batman (its cherished vigilante and defender) was dealing with on a day-to-day basis. The ominous eco-terrorist Ra's al Ghul (an Arab who wielded a scimitar-like weapon for grandstanding!) was initiating an anti-police 'campaign,' intending to behead cops and then dump the heads into the Gotham River as a gesture of 'anti-urbanization rebellion.' Batman had no time to deal with Kali and her pleas about the cries of women in the kitchen worried about overlooked labors in this age of convenience, consumerism, and domesticated merchandising (e.g., Wal-Mart). However, Kali insisted Batman listen to her suggestion that the Indian boti was like her scimitar and could be 'referenced' in modern Gotham socialization 'problems' regarding anti-commerce angst (the kind Ra's al Ghul was exploiting with his own curved-blade!).
Batman met with GCPD officer Bullock who by no surprise was busy guzzling down coffee and glazed jelly-doughnuts at the local Dunkin Doughnuts. Bullock believed Ra's was a nut and did not want to give him any undue attention, but Batman insisted Ra's was working on some kind of 'mega-scheme' and may have some 'secret ally.' Bullock would not hear it and continued his lazy investigation of Poison Ivy (Gotham's more 'attractive' eco-terrorist) who sent a warning-letter to the Gotham mayor, suggesting she might take the Gotham Aquarium as hostage for ransom on Earth Day. Batman realized he would not receive any civics-support from Officer Bullock, so he continued his tracking of Ra's al Ghul on his own, but Kali watched over all this and decided to shadow Batman and follow the 'Dark Knight' while he tracked Ra's. Kali knew that Ra's did indeed have a 'secret ally' --- a masked maniac named Scarecrow who wielded fear-toxins and intended to use kitchen tools and hardware as commerce paranoia fear-propaganda 'items.'
Finally, Kali was able to convince Batman that Ra's was allied to Scarecrow. Scarecrow was planning to lace the Gotham Reservoir with a deadly hallucinogen and then broadcast a pirate-TV transmission on which he would declare that various household items and hardware tools were now in the province of anti-urbanization terrorism. Batman realized Scarecrow's hallucinogen-plan was intended to frighten Gothamites into fearing their own household items and tools such as their toaster-ovens. Kali insisted that Scarecrow would wield the Indian boti somehow to create general panic about global/cultural 'development' of kitchen goods. Batman started to believe her and decided to stake out the Gotham Kitchen and Tools Store (on Main Street). Sure enough, Scarecrow was there, and Batman arrested him (at midnight) trying to loot the store of various kitchen-hardware. Scarecrow led Batman to the Gotham River where Batman discovered numerous dismembered fingers (of Gotham police officers!) which Ra's al Ghul placed there after chopping them off with Indian botis! Kali remarked, "Modern crime has become a 'Satanic horror-show'!"
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Batman comics have been adapted into cartoons, television programs (including the famous 1960s series starring Adam West), toys and action figures and of course Halloween costumes, video games, and full-length Hollywood (USA) films such as Batman Forever starring Jim Carrey and Batman Begins starring Liam Neeson.
Batman storyboards are rich in terror-imagery and pedestrian panic and arguably reflective of modern age urbanization-related calamity (e.g., 9/11, Los Angeles Race Riots of 1992).
Comic book art has exploded since the 1960s, and today, there are countless movies and video games featuring vibrant/graphic comic book characters such as Daredevil, Wonder Woman, and Captain America.
To honor this new 'trend' in media/entertainment, I've re-spun Batman (aka, 'the Dark Knight') as a modern-day Robin Hood oriented capital crusader who deals not only with terror and criminal insanity but also anti-social malice, pop-psychology zest, and even...horror.
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The Hindu deity Kali (goddess of feminine potency and rage) was observing the trends in modern consumerism which still placed women in kitchen-environments advertising new age products such as the Ninja Blender and the Keurig Coffee-Maker. Kali thought about earlier times such as the era of Ancient Sparta, when men whore leather skirts and helmets and wielded shields and swords while women cared for their estates and supported them religiously in territorial crusades. Kali realized that modern man was more hypnotized by commerce and 'style' than lifestyle-politics. Kali thought about the Indian boti (a rustic and basic board-and-blade kitchen-tool used for cutting foods on the floor with hand-and-foot), used by many women in India in even recent times reflective of a 'labor domestication.' Kali wondered if the boti was like her own 'weapon,' the scimitar (a curved blade symbolizing female prowess for her). Kali decided that Gotham City needed a 'consumerism overhaul.'
Unfortunately for Kali, Gotham was plagued by its own problems which Batman (its cherished vigilante and defender) was dealing with on a day-to-day basis. The ominous eco-terrorist Ra's al Ghul (an Arab who wielded a scimitar-like weapon for grandstanding!) was initiating an anti-police 'campaign,' intending to behead cops and then dump the heads into the Gotham River as a gesture of 'anti-urbanization rebellion.' Batman had no time to deal with Kali and her pleas about the cries of women in the kitchen worried about overlooked labors in this age of convenience, consumerism, and domesticated merchandising (e.g., Wal-Mart). However, Kali insisted Batman listen to her suggestion that the Indian boti was like her scimitar and could be 'referenced' in modern Gotham socialization 'problems' regarding anti-commerce angst (the kind Ra's al Ghul was exploiting with his own curved-blade!).
Batman met with GCPD officer Bullock who by no surprise was busy guzzling down coffee and glazed jelly-doughnuts at the local Dunkin Doughnuts. Bullock believed Ra's was a nut and did not want to give him any undue attention, but Batman insisted Ra's was working on some kind of 'mega-scheme' and may have some 'secret ally.' Bullock would not hear it and continued his lazy investigation of Poison Ivy (Gotham's more 'attractive' eco-terrorist) who sent a warning-letter to the Gotham mayor, suggesting she might take the Gotham Aquarium as hostage for ransom on Earth Day. Batman realized he would not receive any civics-support from Officer Bullock, so he continued his tracking of Ra's al Ghul on his own, but Kali watched over all this and decided to shadow Batman and follow the 'Dark Knight' while he tracked Ra's. Kali knew that Ra's did indeed have a 'secret ally' --- a masked maniac named Scarecrow who wielded fear-toxins and intended to use kitchen tools and hardware as commerce paranoia fear-propaganda 'items.'
Finally, Kali was able to convince Batman that Ra's was allied to Scarecrow. Scarecrow was planning to lace the Gotham Reservoir with a deadly hallucinogen and then broadcast a pirate-TV transmission on which he would declare that various household items and hardware tools were now in the province of anti-urbanization terrorism. Batman realized Scarecrow's hallucinogen-plan was intended to frighten Gothamites into fearing their own household items and tools such as their toaster-ovens. Kali insisted that Scarecrow would wield the Indian boti somehow to create general panic about global/cultural 'development' of kitchen goods. Batman started to believe her and decided to stake out the Gotham Kitchen and Tools Store (on Main Street). Sure enough, Scarecrow was there, and Batman arrested him (at midnight) trying to loot the store of various kitchen-hardware. Scarecrow led Batman to the Gotham River where Batman discovered numerous dismembered fingers (of Gotham police officers!) which Ra's al Ghul placed there after chopping them off with Indian botis! Kali remarked, "Modern crime has become a 'Satanic horror-show'!"
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