j0ekerr: So today's Palm Sunday, and it appears I've been invited to go out under the sun (hissss) and watch the processions.
Knowing me, I've already been pre-emptively forbidden from shouting ALLAH AKBAR when I'm in the crowd just to see what happens.
A pity it might have made an otherwise boring afternoon interesting.
Suffice to say, looking at wooden sculptures of a long-ago, almost-naked, crucified palestinian jew being carried around is not precisely my idea of a great time. However it seems to be for most other people around, who 'oooh' and 'aaah' in awe as they see it pass.
Don't feel badly. I never get to see festivals or gatherings of worship for my deity.
Probably for the best, though. I don't want to see Tony the cereal box tiger on a cross somewhere. He's always so happy and upbeat, it'd just be sad to witness him in such a state.
CarrionCrow: Even as much as I prefer Batman to other comic heroes, he's still an intensely mopey bitch when it comes to personal loss. Better to leave him whining about things in a cave somewhere.
At least with the Punisher, you don't get the sense that he's just engaging in some ridiculous play, ensuring that all the players will be able to come around again and again. He just kills his enemies instead.
The finality of that is refreshing.
j0ekerr: Blasphemy! Dem's fightin' words!
The Punisher is just a gun-obsessed psycho. Batman is a different kind of gun-obsessed psycho!
Also, Batman wins, period.
Besides, your argument is invalid, there's a prior example of Batman taking on a more punisher-like atittude. Remember the knightfall saga?
Everybody hated it.
Right...the Punisher is a gun-wielding psycho, and Batman is a psycho who likes gadgets, dress-up, and play dates that involve violent lunatics that he gets to wrestle with before putting them into the local sieve/prison so they can escape and it can start all over again.
Will have to read up on the Knightfall thing. I know of Batman, but I don't read the comics, so I'm sure there's a ton of crap I've missed.
Okay, thanks to Wikipedia and speed reading, I have the gist of it, and I can see why it's profoundly stupid on multiple levels.