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You think being the Dark Knight is easy?

July 14th, 2008 by Bill Corbett · 27 Comments

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Sorry, no. It’s not all glamour and glitz.

Sometimes you PLAN to avenge evil, but you just wind up drinking too much Jagermeister.

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  • 1 Glyn on Jul 14, 2008 at 9:15 pm

    This picture was taken after Adam West read the latest script of Batman
    and discovered he was not in it yet again.
    Note the shredded script to his right.
    “All those years of paying SAG dues and this is the result”

  • 2 jason on Jul 14, 2008 at 9:19 pm

    Hahaha- it’s Coleman Francis as Batman!!
    I just read an (rather lengthy) interview with Ray Dennis Steckler in a cult movies magazine (i think it was called ‘Screem’), which contained the following:
    1) The announcement that he’s made a sequel to “The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed- Up Zombies” called “One More Time” which is available for sale on his website (I wonder if it would even need to be Rifftracked? It’s probably bad enough on it’s own).
    2) A challenge to any director (he calls out Steven Spielberg by name) to make a better movie than him (on the same budget).
    3) A heartwarming story in which he leaves a resteraunt and sees a homeless alchoholic laying in the gutter by his car, and realizes it’s Coleman Francis! He picks him up and offers him a role in his new movie (for which he specially writes a scene, even tho the movie is pretty much finished) and get him back on his feet.

  • 3 Geena on Jul 14, 2008 at 9:38 pm

    Isn’t the phrase “too much Jagermeister” pretty much redundant?

  • 4 Mr. Slick on Jul 14, 2008 at 9:52 pm

    Ya know it’s hard to grow up without parents and to be raised by a boy hungry Englishman. Sure you want to avenge their murder but sometimes you have to drown those memories of your late night visits by Alfred who insisted on tucking you in till you were 18. Then you just go on repeating the cycle of abuse by getting a little boy and putting him in tights and hiding him in your cave as your “partner”.
    Let the man drink

  • 5 Walter on Jul 14, 2008 at 9:57 pm

    He looks inflatable.

  • 6 Scooter on Jul 14, 2008 at 10:13 pm

    I see it was written on loose-leaf paper

  • 7 Glyn on Jul 15, 2008 at 2:19 am

    I wish I hadn’t invested in Enron.

  • 8 Onil on Jul 15, 2008 at 3:08 am

    Looks like someone pulled a Bruce all-nighter. Ha ha heh…eh I suck.

    Fail! on me.

  • 9 Tim on Jul 15, 2008 at 3:51 am

    You wouldn’t believe how hard it is to get vomit out of kevlar…

    …um…I mean…so I’ve heard.

  • 10 Smuttynose on Jul 15, 2008 at 4:22 am

    NEVER!!!!

  • 11 Smuttynose on Jul 15, 2008 at 4:26 am

    Hey Bill- whatever happened to the analysis of the 80’s commercial? Don’t make me get all suzanne-state quarters like!

  • 12 Ben on Jul 15, 2008 at 6:04 am

    What’s ironic is that he is actually trying to be first in line for the next Superman movie. (But, he fell asleep and got rolled for his utility belt)

  • 13 BEMaven on Jul 15, 2008 at 6:41 am

    “Criminals are cowardly, superstitious lot. I shall strike fear in their hearts by becoming a spandex-clad wino, begging for spare change.”

  • 14 Bill Corbett on Jul 15, 2008 at 7:02 am

    Very good point.

  • 15 Bill Corbett on Jul 15, 2008 at 7:03 am

    I’ve been negligent, apologies.

    Winner announced in the next two days. I swears it on the Precious. (a.k.a. bacon)

  • 16 Smuttynose on Jul 15, 2008 at 7:34 am

    Gracias, senor. El caballo de mi tia va a vomitar.

  • 17 MikeP on Jul 15, 2008 at 8:09 am

    I feel sorry for Alfred. Cleaning up all of the guano from the floor of the bat cave is a real drag.

  • 18 JT on Jul 15, 2008 at 8:40 am

    Severe nipple chaffing.

  • 19 StanleyBeagle on Jul 15, 2008 at 10:58 am

    zing!

  • 20 Nanobots on Jul 15, 2008 at 11:16 am

    This is what happens if you fall asleep on the line to get an iPhone. Everyone just steps over you and gets their iPhone before you wake up.

  • 21 RemmieBarrow on Jul 15, 2008 at 2:12 pm

    I bet he keeps his alcohol in a special pouch in his utility belt.

  • 22 Duality Man!! on Jul 15, 2008 at 2:48 pm

    As a fellow superhero, I know how it feels to have the public eye on you 24/7. Or at least I’d know how he feels once I get backing by the NSA and a sidekick.

    But c’mon…cut the guy a break. Sometimes its good to let your worry of the general public go…and feel the freedom of a homeless guy.

  • 23 Mr. Slick on Jul 15, 2008 at 4:12 pm

    You DO get an A for effort

  • 24 MVP on Jul 15, 2008 at 4:31 pm

    But… wouldn’t he have gotten drunk on Bacardi to keep up with the whole “bat” thing? I mean, if Batman has one flaw, it’s that everything eventually has to have some sort of bat tie-in.

  • 25 Glyn on Jul 15, 2008 at 5:28 pm

    From what I’ve seen all of Tim Burton’s scripts are written on loose-leaf paper and in crayon.

  • 26 Brian O. on Jul 19, 2008 at 12:01 pm

    I just got to see the movie, it was good, a bit long, but the one thing I hope to see in the sequel is when Alfred finally breaks down and gives Bruce a throat lozenge.

  • 27 RemmieBarrow on Jul 20, 2008 at 1:36 pm

    I just saw it twice and loved it. I just have to say it is definately better than Joel “Pure Evil” Shuemauker.( I think that is how he spells his name.)

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