@Ophite: Er, yes. Because *clearly* my post was a dead serious indictment rather than a semirandom shout out to Willingham's Ratman.

Sorry, Earthworm Jim Dude, but "Rat-based superguy drawn by rightwinger" was taken 25 years ago. Get your own schtick!

@gtrevizo: That could def work, but I won't hold my breath that they'll do it that way...

So she's going to be a female Batman/Bruce Wayne? Wack.

@dbx: Lesson: If you've got a flag and armed dudes and you say 'pay us for safe passage or we lock you up' you're 'legitimate.' If you've got armed dudes but no flag and you say ''pay us for safe passage or we lock you up' you're lawless bandits.

Most of the hipster genre pastiche shite currently flooding NY galleries annoys the hell out of me, but this is just the right mix of tribute, critique and skill. Nice stuff - just might trek up to LES for this.

@crosis101: It certainly is complicated - one would have to address the fact that the various African famines and droughts of the 80s-into-90s were as much man made disasters as natural ones (ala Katrina), the fact that the west essentially regime-changed a stable (if fundamentalist) government in Somalia prior to…

'Pirate' is what the gangster-with-a-flag calls the gangster-without-a-flag.

@crosis101: Umm...err...that's a joke - I hope?

How dare these savages disrupt the flow of trillions of dollars of corporate profit that floats past their front door every day? Jeez, when will these awful, awful brown people put down their guns and resign themselves to their rightful place in the world economy? (That would be sitting idly by and starving while…

@Wookielifeday: Every superhero movie ever made has been done from some mix of material in that hero's history and original screen stuff. Batman movies owe as much to Miller, Burton and Nolan as to Bob Kane. "Superman" owes as much to Donner and silver age silliness as to Seigel and Shuster, etc. No reason a…

@Wookielifeday: There's all sorts of angles that a good, not-lazy writer could use (and, in comics, *have* used) for WW's story: she's a superhuman 'immigrant' ala supes, she's an almost-goddess in exile ala Thor, she's a woman in a way-disproportionately male profession, she's the product of a paradisical society…

How weird. I was just discussing this exact question yesterday with my wife.

Bla blah blah, "street legal," blah blah blah,"Fighting over turf," blah blah blah, "hip hop hip hop hip hop."

@saladinahmed: ...aaand now I see that like five people already made a Kid Rock crack.

Corporate operative + anti-activist undercover creep + Kid Rock = the douchiest nexus possible in a human being who's not Dick Cheney.

Errr...why does Captain America have a gun?

The villain in High Noon is named Frank Miller - check the the theme song:

@gods-n-clods: Talisman FTMFW!