Word: batmans
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...gotta love Halloween at Harvard. I mean, it’s the only excuse for the otherwise tame female population to get dressed up like hos. Whereas Halloween used to be about kids disguising themselves as Batman and Wonder Boy to excite the toddler that lives across the street, now it’s about chicks disguising themselves as Naughty Nurse and Catholic School Girl to excite the toddler that lives in my pants. It’s the only annual slut-tacular celebration of skank not confined to the Owl Club...
Independent nominee for Governor Tim Penny and Democrat Roger Moe are "Taxman and Roger" in an ad portraying them as Batman and Robin. "Holy tax increases," yelps a Robinesque voice. Republican Tim Pawlenty appears as Superman with an antitax emblem on his shirt...
...continues to mine two inexhaustible resources: the DC Comics library and the young male appetite for hot superheroines. The Huntress (Batman and Catwoman's daughter), wheelchair-bound Oracle and psychic Dinah fight crime while looking slick and zinging the requisite self-conscious jokes ("Is your spider-sense tingling?" one Bird needles another). But flat performances and stock comic-book story lines keep Birds grounded...
Another poster advertising the event shows Batman and Robin kissing, encouraging the community to support openly gay and lesbian people...
...leaders. There are few heroics in this supposedly "superhero" book. Even Superman, famously incorruptible, undergoes a massive change of character that, at the end, turns him into a fascist. Seeing Miller handle characters this way has the same empty appeal as watching a sandcastle get kicked over. The Batman of the first series personified a man on edge: cruel yet tempered by a personal sense of justice, a master of his body yet feeling the limitations of getting older, angry yet tender enough to be touched by a young girl seeking to be the new Robin. Such nuance has vanished...