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Post by Babu Baboon on Jul 26, 2016 21:09:24 GMT -6
People on Twitter aren't happy, either
www.bleedingcool.com/2016/07/22/the-killing-joke-change-that-is-making-batgirl-fans-livid-spoilers/
At the SDCC panel, a Bleeding Cool reporter heckled Azarello and he displayed signs of Quentin Tarrentino syndrome. (That's where you have the delusion that you're just as big a badass as the characters you write):
After the film, there was a Q&A session. And it is here I must make a confession.
I have also written a review of this film, and after viewing it, I had very big problems with a certain part of it. I was looking forward to the discussion after the film, so maybe they could be addressed and I could get some answers to some of the more troubling things I felt needed addressed. The questions mostly ended up being material covered in the panel beforehand, things like how hard was this story to adapt, things of that nature. I was getting more and more frustrated, thinking that nobody was going to bring up what I think was a troubling portrayal of Barbara Gordon in the prequel film. I was getting more and more frustrated.
The very last question posed to the panel addressed this. The question was asked by a person cosplaying as the Joker: Batgirl, Barbara Gordon is such a strong female character. Why was this more about the males in her life? The crowd applauded the question.
As they fumbled with the question,saying they do feel like she is portrayed as a very strong female character, I lost control of my emotions and, invigorated by someone asking the question I wanted to hear, I shouted from the audience with frustrated sarcasm,
“Yeah, by using sex and then pining for Bruce.”
The panel understandably asked what was that. I repeated myself, but the crowd was both booing and clapping at what was said. Clearly they had heard me the second time, because instead of responding the second time it was said, Azzarello yelled from the stage
“Wanna say that again? Pussy?”
Brian Azarello... not exactly an intimidating physical specimen
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Post by mh on Jul 26, 2016 21:32:33 GMT -6
uuhhhhhhhh!!!! why can't they do anything right?
“wanna say that again? pussy?”
"yeah!!! by using sex and then pining for bruce! you weird looking old billy goat!!!”
Vanity Fair:
In a 1990 interview conducted by The Comics Journal’s Gary Groth, Moore insisted that he was “uneasy” with his story’s dark content. He attributed his discomfort to his general ambivalence toward “the adventure genre,” a comic mode that he applauded Frank Miller for mining in his equally influential The Dark Knight Returns. Moore has since said that he thinks The Killing Joke doesn’t say “anything very interesting,” and that he regrets both The Killing Joke and Watchmen’s influence on contemporary superhero comics. “[Superhero comics] have lost a lot of their original innocence, and they can’t get that back,” Moore said in 2009. “And, they’re stuck, it seems, in this kind of depressive ghetto of grimness and psychosis. I’m not too proud of being the author of that regrettable trend.”
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Post by Babu Baboon on Jul 26, 2016 22:13:31 GMT -6
uuhhhhhhhh!!!! why can't they do anything right?
“wanna say that again? pussy?”
"yeah!!! by using sex and then pining for bruce! you weird looking old billy goat!!!”
Vanity Fair:
In a 1990 interview conducted by The Comics Journal’s Gary Groth, Moore insisted that he was “uneasy” with his story’s dark content. He attributed his discomfort to his general ambivalence toward “the adventure genre,” a comic mode that he applauded Frank Miller for mining in his equally influential The Dark Knight Returns. Moore has since said that he thinks The Killing Joke doesn’t say “anything very interesting,” and that he regrets both The Killing Joke and Watchmen’s influence on contemporary superhero comics. “[Superhero comics] have lost a lot of their original innocence, and they can’t get that back,” Moore said in 2009. “And, they’re stuck, it seems, in this kind of depressive ghetto of grimness and psychosis. I’m not too proud of being the author of that regrettable trend.”
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Post by Doc Quantum on Jul 27, 2016 14:42:49 GMT -6
Yeah, I was pretty shocked with Barbara Gordon's portrayal, which to me comes out of nowhere.
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Post by Babu Baboon on Jul 28, 2016 7:34:53 GMT -6
It makes the laugh Batman and the Joker share at the end even more screwed up.
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