Saturday my mother asked me if I wanted to head with her up to College Station, TX, to celebrate my 5 year old cousin, 38 year old uncle, and 2 year old cousins birthdays (they all have one within a week of each other so we celebrated them all at once). So after a 3 hour drive up we arrive at the house and the first thing my little cousin J.C. (the 5 year old) ask is "Do you want to watch Batman with me?"
Now I feel I must mention that this part of the family loves superhero's (like Batman and Spiderman) and Startrek (like Klingons and Hydrans and Borg and Kirk and.....oh....sorry bout that....hehe....) and there for the show's and movies. Also the older brother of this cousin (he's 9, he was in Dallas this week) also loves starwars! wOOt for nerds!
Anyways, I tell him sure and so I set up the system (their home theater system is nice!) I start it up and it's not the batman I thought it was......it's even better! In front of my very eyes was a show I hadn't seen in 10 years, a show that I ran to the day care (when I was little, and I mean little lol, and lived in washington) with my friends (I was actually popular if you can believe it lol) and watch this when it came on at 3:30 every weekday. A show that had us thinking that capes where overrated long before the Incredibles came out. A show that made us wonder about the future.
Batman Beyond was on!
Well I watched quite a few episodes (ones that I actually partly remembered) and even watched the movie that I never knew existed lol. The series is so much better than I remember and I noticed a few familiar voices like Will Friedle voiced Terry McGinnis (the "new" batman (he also voiced Gideon Wyeth in Advent Rising one of my favorite games!)), as well as Mark Hamill, who voiced the Joker (many of you will know him as Luke Skywalker). The series is much darker than I remember but that actually brings more into the show than it does alienate.
Well we headed back today and I'm starting to read "The Spear" which is a amazingly good book. The style actually reminds me of Alexandre Dumas. Mark let me borrow it.....speaking of Mark.....XKCD's (a webcomic I follow) latest issue reminded me so much of, what we call, marks "evil" side and I all thought you should see it, Enjoy! (The Character that reminds me of Mark is the one with a hat. He's called the "Classhole" cause he's an asshole but with class!)
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