It’s the second half of the final story in the Aliens: Space Marines minicomic saga. And yet it’s only the second of three articles.
For those of you who came in late, Aliens was a toyline based on the first two movies. Being a boys line, they opted to shift the “main character” to Hicks, a soldier from the second film, but Ripley, the actual main character for most of the franchise, was still an important part, and they remembered the power loader exosuit from the second movie because they gave that to her since it would make a way cool toy. Like with the Super Powers Collection based on DC Comics characters and Superfriends incarnations, each figure was given their own minicomic, but instead of standalone stories we got a series of arcs that went through numerous figures. Get the human, get the alien, rinse, repeat, until you had the full story. It’s a surprising amount of continuity for a toyline pack-in minicomic; not the only toyline or promo comic set to do this (Drake’s snack cakes did a similar bit with their two Marvel sets, both of which I’ve reviewed in the past), but it was quite rare. The comics are really short, so you’re not quite getting a long story, but thus far it’s been a decent tale each time.
Last time we started looking at the longest and final arc in the line. Our heroes, including characters who died in the movies because that toyline needed filling, tried to go for some R&R on a human colony, only to have the xenomorphs drop in on a nearby farm to start a new hive. We left our crew in the largest stable I’ve ever seen staring down a bunch of xenos whose facehugger parents got a hold of bulls, creating bull/xeno hybrids the toyline called “bull aliens”. Can our heroes make it through alive?
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BW Vs Bleeding Fool> Working Through The “Batman Paradox”
Jungle Batman watches you sleep.
Just because I use something as a research resource doesn’t mean I agree with everything on it. While admittedly I do agree with the writers of Bleeding Fool more often than I don’t, exceptions happen. Take for example the article we’re going over tonight.
In a recent article by contributor Jerry Lucky under the headline “Batman’s Paradox: Should The World’s Greatest Detective Shed Blood?” he’s referring to the blood of the villains of Gotham. In other words, Lucky is trying make the point that Batman’s “no kill rule” doesn’t make sense as a crimefighter in Gotham City.
Since this is a Vs article you can guess my stance on that. Batman doesn’t kill. There are reasons Batman doesn’t kill. And yes, Christopher Nolan, Batman DOES have to save Ra’s Al Ghul because he’s Batman. Whatever influence from the old pulp heroes like The Shadow that Batman had in the past the character evolved into the crimefighter he is today and unlike the Punisher (as noted in this morning’s video short) it makes as much sense for Batman to not kill as it does for the Punisher to kill.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on April 10, 2024 in DC Spotlight and tagged Batman, Bruce Wayne, BW versus, commentary, DC Comics, DC Universe.
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