Hey, it's the Penguin's birthday!

But...

HEY!!

CUT THAT OUT!!

D'OH!!!

Of course, if you look at the messages closely, you'll see:
A) They're under 140 characters
B) They're all heavily trolling 
C)The snarky bon mots are nowhere near as clever as the sender thinks
D) The senders all have cutsie handles

The Gotham underground just invented Twitter five and a half decades early!!

Given his heavy use of bird themes, it makes sense that Cobblepot would be involved in the birth of Twitter!!

Oh, and just like today...

...some powerful people can be sent into an absolute tizzy by a tweet.

From World's Finest Comics #55 (1951), as reprinted in DC Special #14 (1971)

*Why don't Moore & Leach invest their energy in something original, find the "next Marvelman" instead?

*You gotta admit, a relaunch of a 20 year old strip steeped in 50s imagery is really relevant today, and a great way to bring in new readers. Not.

*This "relaunch" of Marvelman is the most cynical money-making exercise I have seen in a while.

*No matter how good the creators on this new Marvelman is, I won't buy it, out of respect for the original

*They're changing his name to Miracleman? They've destroyed my childhood!

OK, so I went on way too long on Twitter yesterday about DC's massive declaration that all of their current comics are inadequate.

I did want to pass along a couple of those observations to those of you who don't follow me on the Twitter thing, but I'm fundamentally lazy, and rather than retype everything with paragraphs and punctuation and grammar, I'll just cut and paste. Yeah, lazy, and shameless self-promotion. There'll be a real post later, I promise.

Plus, it's hard evidence--restricting me to 140 characters doesn't make be any less snarky (nor does it make me any more readable...)

Oh, and please, everybody please refer to the post-Flashpoint DC Universe as "Flushpoint." It will make me ever so happy...













Wow, I really am an idiot in any format...