Yeah, I agree with all that. I guess maybe my best guess is like he's done something to save the city, like his fleet fights off Dany's ships or something and that's why they're cheering him.

Please, Ms. Evil is my mother.

Yeah that's the real question for me. He has to do something to get that kind of reaction, since I assume normally people in King's Landing would be indifferent to an Iron Islander at best.

Oh, well, uh, confession time- that's not my real name.

It doesn't really look to me like he's dragging anything so much as just riding along basking in the crowd's adulation. I think he has reins in one hand and a whip or something in his off-hand.

Well it's not like Bruce was exactly psychologically stable to begin with. "Dress him up and make him fight crime" has been a time-tested childrearing technique in the Wayne household for years!

He's a minor but extremely welcome presence in the first John Wick.

Yuh.

Yeah, it is super cool and fun!

Remember when Todd MacFarlane put out a series of action figures based on fairy tales where they were all redesigned as either thong-wearing bombshells or deformed monsters?

The CGI at the end was hilariously bad even for 1997.

Run paper from death! Out of snacks fly the cuckoo clock! Nevermind James, we love the binge. Tell mom fry the uncle!

I remember the otherwise-severely-mediocre True Crime: Streets of New York had a button that would just make you fire your gun into the air to scare civilians. That was pretty fun.

Yeah, I think of that as the kind of tail end of his early stuff I guess. The Invisibles was really the first thing of his I read and I went back and grabbed as much earlier stuff as I could at the time. Looking back now, I think Doom Patrol stands out as his most re-readable, effective work from that time, but he…

Haha yeah, kinda. Really he's got the personality of Talia al Ghul, just super self-important and mean. I dunno, I think it works well and adds a fun dynamic to the whole Bat-Family, especially when everyone gets mad at Damian for, like, cutting off some dude's head.

To add dramatic stakes and irony, I suppose. Also it gave Damian the opportunity to be a real shit about being Batman's "actual" son to the other Robins.

I believe that was actually why they took it out, because it was a little more important for Batman to, like, be able to jump.

That's the exact issue he's referencing, actually.

Hey, Damian's great! Giving Batman a homicidal murder-Robin was the best thing to happen to the character in years!

He's got Sick Boy on one shoulder and Rents on the other, as do all Scottish men*