Is Odysseus a Batman or a Spider-Man? - the greatest thread in the history of the Athenian agora, locked by an archon after 12239 pages of heated debate
Robert BlackOdysseus, as we know, is merely First Batman
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Is Odysseus a Batman or a Spider-Man? - the greatest thread in the history of the Athenian agora, locked by an archon after 12239 pages of heated debate
Robert BlackOdysseus, as we know, is merely First Batman
There's like a non-zero chance someone is going to go to jail for usig the slogan "Magneto Was Right" which makes me feel that Grant Morrison's work is now infesting reality like Orqwith did in "Doom Patrol."
it'd be cool if there was a blind bag comic that had a 1:100 chance of killing you when you opened it
An updated version of Cyrano de Bergerac where the handsome but stupid Christian uses AI to write love letters to Roxane. The AI is secretly in love with her itself but doesn't dare express its feelings because it has a really big nose.
I like this piece, and was thinking about how it kinda applies to Absolute Superman and somewhat to Absolute Batman as well
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