#Justice League Hilarity

[gothamsmom]

Title: Dad Mode Activated

It was an unusually quiet day at the Justice League Watchtower. The usual buzz of superhero discussions was muted—mainly because everyone was currently trying to hold back their laughter, which was proving difficult.

In the center of the room stood Bruce Wayne, his usual stoic expression in place. Next to him, with a big, toothy grin and an enthusiastic thumbs-up, was none other than Dick Grayson, the newest (and most unexpected) addition to Bruce’s family.

“Okay, let’s get this straight,” Green Lantern (John Stewart) said, arms crossed, trying to maintain his composure. “You—Bruce Wayne—the guy who can’t stand people touching his stuff, who’s basically married to his Batmobile… you adopted a kid?”

Bruce’s expression didn’t falter. “Yes, I adopted Dick. He needed a home, and I am perfectly capable of providing that.”

“By adopting him?” Wonder Woman asked, looking mildly incredulous as she hovered nearby, adjusting her bracelets. “You, a man of few words, adopting someone who practically never stops talking?”

Dick, standing next to Bruce, winked and immediately launched into a dramatic monologue. “Oh, Diana, you have no idea. This guy has to have a talk with me every single day about something, and I’m pretty sure I’ve heard the Bat-speech at least a thousand times about how ‘no one can know who I am, or how to make my own lunch.’” He turned to Bruce with a smirk. “I mean, really, Dad. You could at least let me pick out my own cereal. How many different types of granola do we really need?”

Bruce didn’t even blink. “Granola is a healthy choice. You’ll thank me later.”

“Sure, but can’t we vary the grains a little bit? I’m not saying I’m trying to get all wild—but maybe some chocolate chips once in a while?”

John was rubbing his temples, his voice rising in frustration. “Wait. Chocolate chips in the cereal? What is happening? Bruce, you’re a billionaire! You can buy an entire bakery, and you’re limiting him to granola? You don’t even buy the kid Lucky Charms once in a while?”

Bruce shot him a pointed look. “It’s not about the cereal, John. It’s about responsibility.”

“Dad, can I at least have the funny shaped cereal?” Dick chimed in again, looking at Bruce with big puppy eyes. “You know, the ones with the dinosaurs?”

The entire League collectively groaned, and even Superman, who usually kept his cool, was looking more and more like he needed to step out for some fresh air.

“Bruce, come on,” Flash said, wiping a tear from his eye as he tried to suppress a grin. “You’ve got a kid now. You’re… actually a parent. You’re not just the brooding, mysterious, ‘don’t touch my Batcave’ guy anymore. You’re—well, you’re Dad.” He did air quotes with his fingers. “I mean, look at you. You’re practically the ‘cool dad’ in a sitcom.”

Dick, always one for dramatic flair, threw his arm around Bruce’s shoulders and leaned in close. “That’s right. Dad’s basically Superdad. He does my homework for me. He even fixed my bike—while giving me a lecture on the importance of safety precautions when riding it. I think I might be learning something from him.”

Bruce barely reacted, but there was a subtle twinkle of pride in his eyes.

Green Lantern was not having it. “So, we’ve gone from Bruce Wayne, Bat of Gotham, to Dad of Gotham. This is officially happening. This is real. He actually adopted someone who—oh my gods—doesn’t even know how to do laundry?”

“Oh, I know how to do laundry!” Dick cut in, looking horrified at the idea of his inadequacies being aired out. “I just don’t always follow the rules, okay?”

“And that, my dear Dick,” Batman said with the faintest smirk, “is why I’m going to make you fold your own laundry from now on.”

The room fell silent. Everyone stared at Bruce.

“I have to do what?” Dick asked in disbelief, looking up at his new dad with wide, innocent eyes.

“Folding laundry is part of responsibility, Dick. If you want to be in this family, you’re going to need to learn how to do things like a proper member of society. Start with sorting colors.”

“Ughhh, fine,” Dick grumbled, but there was something endearing about the way he was trying to resist, as though he wanted to be a little more rebellious, but couldn’t help but melt under Bruce’s dad-voice.

“You’re going to love it,” Bruce continued, ever so patiently, as if lecturing on laundry was the most important thing in the world. “It’s simple. It’s organized. It makes sense.”

John Stewart, who had been quietly watching this dynamic, sighed. “This is not what I signed up for. A kid actually listening to Batman? Can we just talk about how you’re training him like a tiny soldier?”

“Well, Dick is very trainable,” Bruce said, the faintest grin tugging at the corner of his lips. “I am the best at teaching responsibility.”

Dick threw his hands up in the air. “Yes, yes, we get it! I’m learning, okay? Can we please just have lunch now? I’m starving. I swear, the only thing you’ve taught me so far is how to eat kale and granola.”

“Granola’s healthy,” Bruce repeated, his voice firm.

“That’s it. I’m going out for pizza. I can’t be part of this,” Flash said, turning on his heel, but there was still a smile tugging at his lips. “Just don’t burn the house down while you’re being ‘Dad,’ Bruce.”

“I won’t burn the house down, Barry. You’ve been watching too many movies,” Bruce replied with an eye roll, but then added, "And Dick, we’re having kale for dinner. Please don’t argue."

Dick groaned dramatically, flopping onto the couch. “You’re the worst parent ever,” he muttered.

“Eat your kale, Dick.”

“Ughhhh!” Dick wailed, burying his face in the cushions.

[cerealboxlore]

imagine, and i don’t know how or why, cap having to reveal his identity to the league, but he just says his name

whatever members immediately look up billy batson, sees he’s a kid, and assumes that marvel being there is time shenanigans and that he was keeping his identity secret to not mess up the timeline

would be funny if somewhere after this another superhero asks him if he looked up to himself as a kid and he just responds with “nah, i hated captain marvel. i mean, who the hell would willingly be so cringy” or something idk i’m tired

that just seems like it could be a lot of fun to me

THIS TOOK FOREVER FOR ME TO RESPOND TO BECAUSE MY BRAIN WASNT BRAINING AND COULDN'T READ IT RIGHT BUT I GET IT NOW AND I LOVE IT

I think this is an amazing idea!! Using time travel as an excuse to lie to the Justice League and others about his existence is just pure, high-level wizard genius. Of course, some other time traveler, like Booster Gold, might make this a difficult lie to keep up, unless...he was in on the lie from the start 👀 It would make for a cute friendship between the two heroes and make for a good bonding story about the most unexpected people who became heroes.

A scenario where I can imagine your plan happening would most likely be a funny one, and while there can absolutely be a serious event that causes this idea of yours, I am laughing out of control thinking about Captain Marvel accidentally touching the lasso of truth and saying his name when someone asks him on the Watch Tower. And then he goes silent. Cap sees the rope next to him. And then everyone goes silent. They see the rope next to him. And then he leaves without saying anything, and the entire break room bursts into PURE chaos.

I think it's an awesome idea to have people think Billy hated Captain Marvel growing up, because that's just a factor of hilarity right there. In the Captain Marvel Adventures comic run, there was an issue where Billy pretended to have a feud with Captain Marvel (himself) so that people would leave him alone (if I remember right??). It's always funny to me to see someone pretend to hate their alter ego, it brings up so many opportunities for shenanigans!

Bonus:

Superman: Hey, Captain! Sorry to bother you, but I was curious, if it's not too much to ask, may I inquire as to why you're in the past instead of, you know, back in the future?

Captain Marvel: Ah, well, that's a pretty long story there, Supes. I can't go into it too much for privacy reasons, you know how it is.

Superman: Oh, no, I get it, don't worry, I won't press into it.

Captain Marvel: Hm...I can tell you this though, if I ever come into contact with my past self, due to my magic cells and the fabric of the universe, I will self-destruct.

Superman: ....what.

Captain Marvel: Yeahhh, it's a whole thing, it's why I never bother to meet my past self, and if you don't mind, I'd appreciate it if you left my past self alone. Haha, wouldn't want to risk cross contamination accidentally and explode.

He then walks away whistling without a care about what he just said, leaving Superman and the rest in a confused and concerned state.

On the news next week a JL member sees Booster Gold shake hands with Billy on the Fawcett City news (Captain Marvel's city) and holds back the urge to body slam him back to the future.

Gosh, this was wonderful to answer!

[mysterycitrus]

would you please elaborate on your comment "renowned hack frank miller" ? i haven't read much from him yet but i like to listen to informed people tell me why [thing] sucks because it's funnier than dc wiki

when someone tells me their favourite comic writer is frank miller my response is the same as when someone tells me their favourite films are american psycho and fight club — i immediately prepare for an irish exit from the convo.

both (some of) miller’s work and those films are influential pieces of art with explicit political ideology, but while american psycho and fight club are (frequently) misinterpreted satire, miller is genuine to the point of hilarity.

if u consume batman as a character in any capacity u cannot escape miller’s influence — batman: year one is the pretty definitive starting point for most fans (and filmmakers, like matt reeves with the batman 2022), and miller’s visual style is a cornerstone for modern comics. the dark knight returns effectively changed how comics were viewed by readers, and is credited with kickstarting the modern age of comic books. i cannot emphasise that even if u haven’t read a miller book u have certainly encountered someone else inspired by his work.

with that said — miller writes like how a racist libertarian who believes his own hype would write about superheroes. greta, u must be wondering, that seems like an awfully specific descriptor to assign to someone. and normally u would be right!

the because im batman schtick that every sixteen year old nolan stan with a twitter account ran into the ground circa 2014 started because of miller, and his success in the 80s led to a number of ill advised projects fueled by his own hype. all star batman and robin was an uncritical interpretation of bruce that embodies all the worst misinterpretations of dc characters, including the justice league, that miller then tried to espouse was satire. unfortunately, he is not smart enough to punch up instead of down — the absurd hypersexualisation of women doesn’t become satire just because you’re laughing at readers in the script, frank.

this, in turn, led to one of the most virulently racist comics ever published — 2011’s islamophic nightmare fuel holy terror. he should not be taken seriously as a creative force, and he should not be the foundation of what comics should be. at least alan moore is marginally less obnoxious and fully admits that the killing joke was a bad idea.

[smilebackwards]

superbat fic recs

I had an intense Superbat phase years ago and I still read it incidentally or when I have a craving for old faves. Please enjoy these recs!

Build Me A Place (we'll call it home) by SpiritsFlame I love cultural differences and courting and this does it so well! A lovely mix of funny and devastating and sweet.

Detective Work by Bekkoni @bekkoni Secret identities and the hilarity of the Justice League discovering Bruce and Clark's relationship is my favorite thing.

News Flash by Mithen Did I mention that secret identities and the hilarity of the Justice League discovering Bruce and Clark's relationship is my favorite thing?

Dilectus Meus Mihi... by Mithen Clark has amensia and Bruce has to retrain him to be Superman. This has one of my all time favorite lines about Bruce ("infinite set of options") and you have to read it for the cliff jump scene, please.

Music of the Spheres by Mithen Do you want to read 150,000+ words of Bruce and Clark meeting for the first time as both their civilian selves and their fledgling superhero identies and falling in love? This is the fic.

[grayintogreen]

Assuming Gina doesn’t pull out some stealth insanity in the next episode to prove she was demons too, the hilarity of the Magician being the Only Sane Person surrounded by monsters gives such John Constantine in Justice League Dark energy.

[triscribeaucollection]

I can't find the dang post that inspired me, but for two days I've been considering going back to my DCAU roots and writing a fic or three with Batman TAS/New Gotham Adventures Nightwing dropped into Justice League Unlimited shenanigans - but where next to no one else in the League is aware he's Batman's original kid partner.

"Bludhaven? That's right next to Gotham, right?"

"Yep. We get all the rejects who weren't crazy enough to make it into Arkham."

"You ever work with the Bat?"

"Eh, we've crossed paths a few times."

Just. Nightwing absolutely leaning into this 'I'm only a small time reservist hero, not much in my resume' reputation, holding onto a bland pokerface while cackling on the inside, and pretty much everyone he meets aboard the Watchtower buys it hook line and sinker.

Until some Omega Level alert goes out, and all the other small timers he's made friends with get to witness this fairly laidback, unobtrusive guy flowing along with Batman in the fight like they're two sides of the same coin, alternating the lead and providing cover and at one point 'Wing doing a handspring off of the Bat's shoulders, it is uncanny and impressive as all get out and They Have A Lot Of Questions To Ask, Okay??

Afterwards our boy plays if off innocently like 'yeah, I haven't done too much as Nightwing, but no one ever asks about when I used to be Robin' and it incites a round of bluescreened jaw-drops.

Just. The sheer outsider pov hilarity of it. The equivalent of a new neighbor you thought was kinda cool if a bit shy turns out to be the son of the scary landlord who owns half the block. And it was only pure chance that Batman hadn't ever stopped Nightwing in a corridor at some point before this to ask if he was coming home for dinner over the weekend. When he does do so for the first time some poor rookie or civilian tech walks into a wall

[popculturebuffet]

Wanna Make Something Of It?: A Justice League International Retrospective: Justice League #1 Review

Keith Ian Giffen 1952-2023 "I"m sick of Darkseid, Darkseid has been passed around the DC Offices like a Bong"

Hello all you happy people and happy birthday to me. Each year either on or around my birthday, or in this case a month later because the end of 2023 was a cold and carpal tunnel hellscape and 2024 opened with bronchitis, I take a look at something special to me, something that means something: From the first apperance of the Legion of Substitute Heroes, to the first volume of Scott Pilgrim, to Scott Pilgrim Vs the World , to last years look at the uncanny x-men's rebirth with Giant Sized X-Men #1, i've always set aside my birthday to reflect on my past and celebrate it with something I truly love.

This year I decided on that.. for reasons that still break my heart. On October 9th at the ripe age of 70 Comics Legend and personal inspiration of mine Keith Giffen.. passed away. He had a long, good life and created countless amazing stories and characters.. but his loss will be a void that can never quite be filled.

For those who hadn't heard of him, Keith was a comic book writer who's best known for his work at DC, having helped redefine the Legion of Super Heroes and Darkseid with the legendary Great Darkness Saga alongside Paul Levitz, created the main man Lobo, the fourth wall breaking before it was cool Ambush bug, the incomprable Jamie Reyes whose first arc I covered this year, and of course, the one punch, the only, the bwahahah-ey Justice League international.

If your asking why it took this long to eulogize him if I respected him so much, the answer is simple: I didn't know. In an age where if someone dies it's usually blasted onto my news feed, even if I don't exactly google that person every day, I had NO idea Keith was dead till reading an amazon review.. which is the kind of sick irony he'd find hilarous, so I have that, but not exactly the way to find out one of your personal heroes died. So I scrapped my original birthday review plan (Letterkenny's Three Wise Men For the Curious) and decided to start a project i've been mulling over for a while now. So welcome folks to Wanna Make Something Of It: A Justice League International Retrospective, an ocasoinal look at this long run.

JLI has an intresting history to it so if you'll sit down i'll tell you

The Not Really Secret Origin of the Justice League International

It was the late 80's and DC Comics had just undergone a massive reboot with Crisis on Infinite Earths, the first true big event comic as we know them with tie ins and a massive reboot in the end as Editorial had felt the various alternate earths had made things too complicated. So a big blue murder man named the Anti Monitor tried to wipe out all of creation, leaving only five earths: Earth 1, where most of the action took place, Earth 2 where the heroes of the Golden Age, the Justice Society of america and their various successors lived, Earth 4, where the recently aquiried heroes of Charlton Comics like Blue Beetle, Peacemaker and Captain Atom resided, an earth not concidentally introduced for this crossover, Earth S, home of the Shazam/Captain Marvel Family, and Earth X, a world where the nazi's won WWII and only the freedom fighters stood in opposition. Basically any heroes DC felt like keeping and their shiny new toys.

The result was a new one world earth with a fresh coat of paint to let in new readers. It wasn't without issues: several corners of the DCU got torn up with my beloved Legion of Super Heroes getting some of the worst of it, with every resonable attempt to fix the retcons or bring characters back.. being shot down AFTER the story had already been started or happened, eventually leaving such a giant mess they rebooted in the 90's, while many a hero was left without an origin or clear history, Donna Troy having to have her origin redone again now her connection to wonder woman was gone, Hawkman became a hawk mess in part thanks to this very book, story for another time, and much more I don't have the time or patience to get into right now.

There was a lot of good in it though, as the reboot left room for new heroes like self promotional himbo with a heart of gold, Booster Gold, the now DC flavored Blue Beetle, and more, and for some the fresh start was badly needed, revitalizing Superman, and giving Wonder Woman and out and out reboot that, while taking her history away, exchanged it for one of the best runs on the character ever via George Perez. And eventually, after some growing pains, it gave us room for an all new flash after a lengthy murder storyline left Barry running out of steam. For all the damage it did i've learned over the years, the crisis still did a LOT of good and helped a lot of characters find their place in this brave new world.

One property vital to DC that needed this was the Justice League of America. A few years before the crisis, DC had noticed the sales of the League were down, and tried to revitalize it: the result was a book I hope to read and cover one day.. still called Justice League of America bu tknown to most as Justice League Detroit. The IDEA was good: feeling the league was a bit scattered after a martian invasion destroyed their iconic satalite headquarters, Aquaman called for them to disband and only those who could commit full time rejoin, leaving it with just him, Martain Manhunter, Zantanna and The Elongated Man. They soon added some fresh recurits in the cyborg steel, the horribly named in hindsight but loveable for her father daughter relationship with the Martain Manhunter, Gypsy and the sterotype tastic Vibe, who'd later be heavily reworked for the better by the flash tv series.

The idea was good but even from what defenders I could find after googling the team, the book had the good IDEA of making the team more of a surrogate family like the Titans or X-Men, but simply didn't seem to pull it off. It's part of why i'd love to look at it some day: the roster is good, with even the rookies being intresting Even Vibe at least had intresting power, a low income background not really see in the Justice League at that point, and cool shades.. even if him break dancing was very much

So I do really want to read this run and possibly cover it and if you'd like me to, let me know. It intrests me.

But while it intrests me now, no one at the time was really biting so DC decided to pull the plut. It really didn't help that , thanks to the crisis.. DC now had a wide buffet of characters they could suddenly ad to the league like Captain Marvel, the Charlton gang, and Dr. Fate.

So the team got the axe in the ties ins for Legends, DC's next big event that was also designed to bring the new team together. Legends has another really cool concept: Darkseid, god of evil and dc office bong , wanted to break earth's heroes for defying him so he could finally claim it and thus came up with Operation: Humilation. He sent his lackey Glorious Godfrey to earth , becoming tele-evanglist and far right loon G Gordon Godfrey, inspired by the times and sadly still relevant. Godfrey lit up an anti superhero fervor, causing Ronald Regan to ban superheroes while Godfrey spread the message of hate, helped by Godfrey setting up Captain Marvel to seemingly kill one of Darkseid's minons who was in fact a robot designed to die and scar a 12 year old for life.

The problem is the series is a bit too fast paced for it's own good, taking a message on how hate movements like this spread oh so easily with the power of tv, and speed running it so we go from Godfrey using real life hate tactics that are chillingly relevant, to the point we get scenes with a crowd nearly killing a 12 year old jason todd or a cop killing his partner after said partner lets Black Canary go then blaming her for making him do it, to ... him making people into murder dogs and storming the captial. In three issues. You have to nearly burn the country down to get people to do a insurrection everyone knows that.

On top of that like many an event after.. a lot of it's about setting up tie ins instead of it's core story so we get stuff like Jason being saved happening off panel or Darkseid deciding to take superman off the board.. and then doing it in a tie in.

That brings us to Justice League where one of the biggest fallouts of this event.. happens entirely in it's own book. I'm split on this as on the one hand, the end of the Justice League of America should happen in it's own book.. but on the other given they brought in another writer to end the book, I don't see why they didn't just cancel it early and say "To be continued in legends" and have Godfrey tied into the league's ultimate end instead of Amazo.

Alas instead Amazo and Despero clean house leaving the league battered, demoralized and in the cases of Vibe and Steel dead. Everyone whose left leaves.. .everyone except the person it means the most to, the person who almost never left and whose the heart and soul of the league for the Martain Manhunter vows it'll live on.

Cue the finale of Legends: With things escalating quickly, Dr. Fate, DC's Resident Mysterious Magic Man, gathers a bunch of heroes together to put an end to this: Batman, Martian Manhunter, Blue Beetle (Ted Kord), Black Canary, Green Lantern (Guy Gardner), The Flash (Wally West), Beast Boy (Going by Changeling back then), Mister Miracle (Scott Free), Superman and Captain Marvel (The future Shazam) to put an end to this, with Jonn clinching the heroes return to legality by coming in the save and Wonder Woman making her debut to the superhero community post-crisis by jumping in to help. The day is saved , and a new justice league is formed from the ashes of the old.

So you may be asking: Why this roster and why aren't Wonder Woman, Superman, the Flash and BB on the cover? Let's explore that under the cut as we delve into why this roster, the creative team for the actual book, and the first issue itself shall we?

Roll Call:

So you'd probably think given how team books work nowadays that future writers Keith Giffen and JM Demattis picked this team themselves, with maybe a member or two picked by dc editorial. It's what I assumed.. but nope, DC picked the team themselves, which .. does kinda bother me. A creator should really pick their own roster as chemistry is VERY important to a team book. It speaks to Giffen, DeMattis and Macguire's talents that, even dropping a few members in issue 7, the book comes off as natural as it does and said drops come off less as "this person we were saddled with isn't working" and more "they simply didn't fit into the group so we used the big rebrand to shuffle them out". DC may of picked the roster, but to their credit they choose well. As giffen himself put in the introduction of a collection of the first few issues back in 2008 "That call was DC's to make and as it turned out.. not too shabby"

So before we got into the actual book and who made it, I wanted to take a second to explore this roster as I wanted to show WHY DC might have choose them as I couldn't find any info on why this roster was picked, and simply have my edcuated guesses to go on

First who WASN'T added despite being front and center in legends: Each of the four members cut from the roster so to speak have good reasons for not being in the team. Beast Boy is the most obvious: he was never going to be in the League to begin with, they most likely wanted a titan to represent their flagship book for the crossover and choose one of the most popular.

For the Flash, Wally's a bit more of an actual misdirect as given he hadn't shown up since his decision not to take up the mantle, this was his big coming out party as the flash, with Wally deciding to embrace his mentors roll. It's also why he didn't take it up in story and likely out: he just put on the tights and didn't feel ready for the league just yet and the character would need some time in his own solo before it made since to plop him in a team book.

For Superman and Wondy it's also simple: Superman was being rebooted: He still had a LOT of his history, but major parts of it like his time in the Legion as Superboy or his cousin Kara were cut out, major villians were revamped, and his world was reshaped for the 80's while Diana was flat out rebooted by George Perez after sales had pretty much died pre-crisis, with said run now being one of my favorite comics and one I can't wait to complete some day and share with you all.

So that left the All New, All Diffrent Justice League with a roster consisting of Batman, The Martian Manhunter, Blue Beetle, Captain Marvel (Now known as the Captain or Shazam), Dr. Fate, Black Canary, Mister Miracle and Green Lantern (Guy Gardner). So for those of you less familiar with some of these guys, let's get aquanited, as well as figure out why DC choose them.

Batman: Batman is here because he's batman.. I could end it there but that'd leave the question of why Bats was okay to go but SUperman and Wonder WOman weren't. The answer is simple: Batman.. didn't get rebooted by Crisis. Things were changed like Jason Todd's backstory, some villians erased, some bits of history tinkered with, but that was standard for most post crisis heroes. He'd have a new defentiive origin with Frank Miller's year one, but Denny O'Neil had already soft rebooted batman back in the 70's, so he wasn't in as big of a rut. Crisis took out weird shit from the silver age that I love but understand why maybe it's best reinstated as a drug hallucination, thank you Grant Morrison, and Earth 2 batman, but it really didn't change who Bruce was, his status quo etc. Batman was selling well, Dick Grayson was super popular over in New Teen Titans, it was something DC knew wisely not to fuck with. Granted I haven't gotten as hands on with just after the crisis batman as I have Superman or Wonder WOman, so I could be wrong, but most of the changes were to villian backstories, stuff that was necessary and handy, but not things that really shook up who Batman was or what stories were going on with him like Superman and Wonder Woman. And since Batman is a lisense to print money, for better or worse, they stuck him on this team.

Martain Manhunter: The Martain Manhunter is Jonn Jonzz, a cop from mars who got accidently kidnapped by an old man to earth and took up resdiense as a detective. Jonn would get a full mini establishing who he was post crisis I have not read by Giffen and Dematties but i'm now dying to now I know it exists. Jonn was a founding member of the justice league and a big hero during the silver age, and comes off as the JLA equilvent to the Avengers Wasp, not in terms of character, Janet and Jonn aren't like each other in the slightest but I do think they'd hang, but in being a hero who has a storied career almost entirely tied to one of their unvierses big super teams, but not much solo wise. The former has meant he's been bounced around a bit and even left out of the team in the new 52 for cyborg, but also means he's a treasured part of it, an elder statesman who gives the team a sense of a heart among a floating lineup. He also gives the team a power house, having most of superman's powers PLUS telepathy and shapeshifting. Jonn is one of my faviorite DC heroes owing to the justice league cartoon

Guy Gardner: Guy is an odd duck in that both John Stewart and Hal Jordan were wearing the ring, this being the first time all three earth lantern's wore it, so WHY Guy was chosen out of the three was a mystery given JOhn was, as far as I know, popular even then and Hal was the old reliable, back before everyone was sick of that and wanted them to remember they had 7 or so people more intresting. Guy was Hal's understudy. He literally didn't get the ring.. because Hal Jordan was closer, and thus was picked to become a space cop later. He was depicted intially as a school teacher before being resculpted into a jingoisitc asshole by Steve Engleheart, something that was cemented and fleshed out here. He also has a three stooges haircut, something I feel adds to his asshole charm and feel had to be brought up at some point.

Dr. Fate: Dr Fate is kent nelson, a vetran of the JLA's predecessor, the Justice Society of America. Originally the JSA was part of Earth 2, but was merged with Earth 1 so now they simply.. existed before our heroes, retired due to Mcarthyism, then came back into action when the new age of heroes launched, with deaging and such used to explain how their still around. Fate was chosen likely because he looks neat, they needed a magic guy, and they wanted a JSA rep on the team. He.. didn't really quite fit as it was clear DC didn't know quite what they were doing with him yet.

Blue Beetle: My boy ted, who I've already covered on this blog before, but this is his shining moment. For those less familiar or who missed the underated blue beetle film, Ted is an inventor who found out his uncle was planning to take over the world with an army of robots, and enlisted his close friend Dan Garret, who turned out to be the OG blue beetle and sacrificed his life to stop Ted's Uncle, passing on the mantle but not the magical alien beetle. Ted compensated by building a ton of gadgets, having plnety of quips and generally being plesant. Ted was part of Charlton Comics, a company DC had bought recently, and having his own series at the time, being fairly popular, and having an outfit created by Steve Ditko himself, he was a shoe in and a nice pick from the b-list. Grante di'm biased and this series is entirely WHY, but Ted's a fresh face in the dcu who comes in hot with plenty of experince and a cool ship for the group to fly around.

Black Canary: Dinah Lance was changed by the crisis, going from an immigrant from earth 2 to the daughter of the original. She was also made a founding member of the justice league to replace Wonder Woman because she as the only prominent dc heroine who who would've been active at the time. And yes she's wearing THIS for her time in the JLI

And honestly it's.. meh. I think they were trying to give her a less casual look, but the fishnets and black leather jacket just fit. Sometimes a superhero just needs something anyone could wear in the right order to have a super outfit. I'm not against civlian style costumes if it fits the hero and dinah's just.. fits. This one just dosen't suit her as it's a bit too bombastic.

Dinah's likely here both for her new jsa connection and new jla founder status. She's also here because the team needed a female member, alongside dr. light, who we'll get to later.

Captain Marvel: Billy is easy. While DC had aquiried their former rival Fawcett back in the 70's, and thus one of the best superman immitators there ever was and ever will be, Billy had been on earth S since they bought him, and like Dr. Fate is there to show off how the earths are all merged now. He's also another power house, and was someone dc was trying to push. DC.. never really knows HOW to push captain marvel and i'm hoping his current series by Mark Waid helps. If you haven't read it check it out, it's possibly the characters best that i've been able to have acess to (Since DC hasn't reprinted the golden age stuff quite yet). For those who haven't heard of him, Billy Batson is a ten year old who was chosen by a wizard to become his champion and thus can act out the movie big but with superman powers whenever he wants. I love him dearly and wish DC knew how to market him.

Mr. MIracle: Last but not least Mr Miracle is Scott Free. Scott is part of the new gods, Jack Kirby's big contribution to DC that also included bong of evil Darkseid. To keep the peace Darkseid and his counterpart Highfather did a son swap, HIghfather getting Darkseid's angsty son Orion and Darkseid getting Scott, who he gave to Granny Goodness, the God of Child Abuse, who gave him othe name to mock how he'd never be free. Naturally this strategy backfired as it only fired up young Scott to escape, becoming the escape artist, hero and wife guy mr miracle. The last part came courtsey of big barda, another one of Granny's charges who came to take Scott back, but was convinced that maybe hellpits weren't the best place to live, and married him in Kirby's last issue on the two. Scott is here to emphasis the new gods,s something DC was playing with more post crisis. His manager Oberon, a cheery fella with Dwarfism, is also here because Demattis and Giffen had a lot of material for the guy it turned out and Oberon is essentially the team's guy in the chair.

So with this motely crew assembled let's see what this dynamite creative team did with them as we begin the storied history of the justice league international... the international part comes later.

Starting with the cover. While usually i'll skip these in an analysis, it's both a habit I need to break and would be a criminal act here as the cover for Justice League #1 is my faviorite comic book cover of all time and my faviorite to see an homage of.

It's simple, but it's perfect. The group shot is well deisgned, showing everyone off, but in a way that's diffrent from the usual action poses we get. Their clearly ready to kick your ass then their gonna fuckin kick your ass, but it's in a way that's unique, shows the team's unity. It also is taken so seriously here.. that it makes it ripe for jokes later in the series. The wanna make something of it ffrom guy both echoes the tough image their going for.. but fits the goofy tone the series is really going to have as it settles in. This comic has been homaged to oblivion and rightly so. Even Keith's memorial image dc put out is this but with Keith and all his creations.

We open the issue proper with a declaration.

It's one of my faviorite opening pages in a comic: It's beautifully drawn by artist Kevin Maguire, sets up the setting well and sets up guy as having his head firmly up his own ass.. it's why he has the bowl cut you see, helps him get it up there nice and tight.

The issue smartly introduces the cast one or two at a time, letting each character get a proper introduction and seeing how they bounce off each other as they file in.

So first in is Black Canary, who marvels at their old headquarters recent reneovations. Our heroes start the run in the Secret Sanctuary, the Justice League's first headquarters built into a mountain in Happy Harbor Road Island. And if it seems familiar to some of you, it should as after the JLI were done with it the Doom Patrol moved in for a bit during Grant MOrrison's Run. Most famously and lastingly, Young Justice, another team I have to cover at some point, made this their main hq, the only team to really make it a home that wasn't a justice league. And to prove that point the JSA also stayed here briefly. It's this weird go to for teams who need a headquarters for five minutes.

Anyways Dinah remembers the good times and all the ghosts, guy's a dick about it humming the twilight zone theme, and assumes he and Dinah will have a sam and diane thing and not a "Stay 50 feet away at all times thing".

Next up is Mister MIracle, whose nervous about the gig, not sure if he belongs there. Out of the leaguers Scott tends to stick to the back, not shy or afraid to speak up when needed, but not as outspoken as his team mates. This nicely contrasts oberon whose all too happy for the box office as even if this lasts a cup of coffee. He's less happy when Guy makes a shot at his dwarfisim and Oberon's grumbling is hilarious.. as would've been him decking guy but we still got a few issues till someone finally does that.

Billy zooms in, shocked by all the press, showing his naivitie: even after all he just went through... Billy is still a bit shocked by just how profile this is and happy to be there. Enter the boys, Martain Mahunter and Blue Beetle, with Jonn not forgetting the whole LEgends fiasco so soon, and having a bit of a mope... though he soon makes a valid point to ted as he turns on the computer.. and shows the Detroit League. It's a nice reminder that even if the team wasn't like.. they were still close and still Jonn's proteges.. and most most of them are dead and those that arent quit due to the trauma. So doing this, while something he feels is necessary. Cue Guy banging a gavel and declaring the meeting started

We then cut to the offices of innovative concepts where we meet the heart and galbladder of this run, Maxwell Lord, a mysterious man in a suit whose watching a row of tv's. Max isn't evil like he'd later be retconned into being.. but he is VERY shady at this point, watching all the coverage on the league and in one of my faviorite subtle little things scratching the "of america' part out of the legue's name on a pad of paper.

I want to take a minute to point out macguire's facial work.. i'ts incredible, nicely detailed, realistic, but still cartoony enough to have tons of personality. Just looking at max you get his smugness, ego and sense of control all at once with him having barely said or done anything. There's been plenty of masterminds sitting behind a row of tv's, but you get Max's vibe immedietly while still wondering what his deal is and what he wants with the team, the latter being the main mystery of the books first year. Back at the Sanctuary, Dinah and Guy argue as SHOCKINGLY the experinced vetran with an eye for the teams legacy dosen't want sylvester calzone here running things. Oberon TRIES to intervene on Dinah's beahlf but get's literally brushed off and Jonn trying to be an adult in teh room.. gets Guy picking him up and making a green giant joke, both funny, both well done.. and enough to get even JONN pissed enough to enter a brawl.

Cue the goddamn batman.. and dr. fate whose here too. That's.. really fate's roll for their time on the team, their just.. here. While Giffen and Demattis did really try to work with most of the roster they were given, seeing who worked and who didn't, Dr. Fate just didn't fit this team. As you can see already.. a key part of this team is disfunction. Some become true companions eventually, but it's mostly a bunch of personalities that barely function together, fairly normal people who put on tights. It's the charm of the series: instead of just getting along or having the usual angst, these guys just make digs at each other and amble along, but DO get the job done and do deserve to be called the justice league. It's just a version of said league that dosen't take itself seriously and has fun with it, and that treats this group like people. Normally the Guy Gardner in the group would just be ingorned but because he actually DOES have the power to toss people around (and props to the creative ways he does), it leads to an actaul brawl.

Fate... doen't fit into this. Fate is an enigma, mysterious and distant. So they simply.. don't work well in a jokey sitcom. It's clear the duo LIKE the character, they'd reinvent him soon enough, but he just didn't fit what they were going for.

So that begs the question how BATMAN does.. and he answers it, cowing everyone else into stopping it and getting guy to sit down before dryly reading out the charter. Bats is the boss in this workplace sitcom, and he's a mean one, being an utter dick to dinah at one point.

This moment horks me off.. but it's also a perfect encapulation of batman's leading style: shut up do what I say. Even someone whose his EQUAL , and who founded the team before him and thus has senority, he just tells them to shut up when she's making a valid point: their fidgity because this meeting is nervous nad because they just went through some crap. What I like is that despite having BATMAN.. the dream team dosen't glorify him. He's still batman, he shuts down the room with a glare, is a tactical genius and thus great at leading in the battlefield.. but it's very clear even this early on he simply.. can't lead this team well. He has a barking "do what I tell you style" and expects them to be good soldiers, treating them like a group of sidekicks instead of experinced heroes.

It's not something the group pull out of thin air either: Batman used to have a team of his own, the Outsiders, formed after Batman walked out on the league for refusing to let him rescue Lucius Fox and turned in his badge when Clark wanted him to sit this one out as a league member. He found a bunch of other heroes along the way, and choose to make them into a team, but it was very clear that the outsiders were partners, and weren't treated as full equals, with the exception of Black Lightning who Bruce felt was on his level. He wasn't bad to the team, helping find the younger amnesaic Halo a home, setting them up with day jobs, but his style is very much "listen to me or there's the door. "

The problem is while the outsiders were mostly fresh faces to being heroes or out of practice like metamorpho or black lightning, Bruce can't let that guard down even whent he heroes have more than proven themselves. It popped up in a crossover with the New Teen Titans where he started ordering that team around, with Dick eventually having to tell him to shut the hell up and let Dick lead his own damn team.

So while it's midly grating here it fits: Batman is so determined to keep this league together he's treating them like his backup i nstead of experinced heroes, two of whom HE'S BEEN ON THE LEAGUE WITH BEFORE.

Anyways Bats does have ONE good point in his leadership so far: he wants the team to keep a low profile. While it's hard given the army of camera's outside, the team dosen't know each other, hasn't trained together yet, and needs time to be in full shape. After all they just barely got superheroes back in the popular opinon: while Godfrey DID juice up people's emotoins, it dosen't mean it won't swing back to negative easily if they fuck up.

Unfortuantely for them... someone else has other ideas.. and i'ts not fate because their in the room. At the UN Kimyo Hoshi is in the bathroom puzzled by receving a JL signal device from Max and not sure if she'll accept. Kimyo is the second Dr. Light, a hero unlike her predecessor and a scientest from Japan who got her powers during the crisis. She.. wont' be here long as while the issue plays her up as a member on the cover, she never fully joins the league. More on that in the future. For now she exits the bathroom.. to find herself a hostage. Terroists have taken the UN. THankfully she activates the device and while Batman's very confused dr. light has one, rallies the team to go anyway.

Naturally Brucey Boy is cautious, having most of the team get in the bug, while he sends Fate and Billy to scout ahead. Guy WANTS to but Batman's response to the idea of sending a human bulldozer who barely listens to him into a tense hostage situation?

The team enters and despite the disfunction so far... it goes easily: Guy seals the premiters and probably invents some new swears, beetle does his best as the guy in the chair in the bug

And Fate.. well fate left and told Billy batman would understand and left the ten year old to explain this.

The league clean house.. but Batman notices a problem: these guys are ameture, clumsy and their equipment is oudated. Something else is going on here.

Time for that is passed soon though as Guy dive sin and finishes the job quickly. It's a nice sequence overall that shows the team REALLY is this good: this is a setup sure, but they don't know that. The lead terroists plans to detonate himself and batman... tells them to clear the room and let him, knowing somethign we don't as the man prepares to fir eon him and after they exit we get a wrapup via news as Max once again watches

So yeah SOMETHING made the leader kill himself, and max is behind anything. not a MASSIVE twist as the batman conversation set it up, but still a neat one: Max has plans for the league. I also like the focus on optics here: it's something I don't THINK the league had done before, the idea of how the media views a superhero team. This verison of the league isn't bad.. but Batman's refusal to talk to the press allows them to paint the narrative they want instead of the league controlling it. It's what gives Max a leg up on slowly wrestling control of it and makes him a compelling character from the word jump: Unlike Batman, he clearly gets optics, having set this up to force the league into the spotlight bright and early and removing the of america part to give the team a bigger calling. His tactics for doing this are also brilliant but we'll get more on them as we go.

For now this issue.. is as good as ever. Amazingly drawn, sharply written and nicely snappy, setting up the team, the myth arc with max and the situation their in all in one issue while modernizing thigns a bit: instead of space monsters our heroes are now fighting terrorists. Not that I mind fighting a godo space monster, but I get trying to give the leauge something diffrent and more part of the world. And part of the world is a major part of this series: putting the League more into our world an dhaving to deal with things like the media, other nations, etc. It's a brilliant start

Next Time: The last heroes of a dead world try to save ours while a greedy bearded man wonders who he can exploit this and the team gets some gold.

[hoelandah]

So I found your DC x The Boys posts and they are funny af to me!! In your second post the part where the Seven fucked up their teamwork made me laugh. For added hilarity my brain decided to "expand the scene/ screen ratio" by adding in robin and the rest of the baby 1st gen Teen Titains watching those clowns majorly fucking up. They are all watching this mess with various levels and mixtures of confusion, disbelief, amusement, judgment, distain and disgust.

They got there seconds after the Seven and unnoticed by them bc 1.) They were told by their mentors/ guardians to STAY AWAY FROM THEM (don't need to tell them twice, kids can pick up bad Vibes ™️ and these kids are trained to fine tune the Bad Vibe ™️ detector.) 2.) They have Robin to help them go unnotice.

Also my brain popped out that when the first gen baby heros do start popping up that they start to roast tf outta the Seven, on purpose and not on purpose but all the Savage aura of a child roasting you. They always go viral.

I am kissing you on the goddamn mouth.

You have introduced a new level of Vought product torture.

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@VoughtIntl: We may have had a minor hiccup, but we assure you, the Seven is still the premier team of heroes in the world. #AmericasTeam

Reply @VoughtIntl y'all got your asses handed to you by the tiny toons

Reply @VoughtIntl I thought the 'baby' version of the Justice League was the teen titans. Turns out it's the Seven.

[help-i-need-a-cool-username]

idk if you've read the wayne family adventures comic at all, but there's an issue where they play assassin with paintball guns and your post just a bit ago about batfam meeting the justice league, Bruce carrying around his twenty year old hug leech of a son, made me think about the hilarity of the justice league meeting the batfam during a game of paintball assassin

I have read them! They make me laugh so hard. People are missing out on the hilarity that would be the JL getting caught up in in Bats Only Assassin. The shenanigans options are endless.

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

Deceptagon

by Love_me_normally24 Tim and Kon are *accidentally* thrown into an alternate universe - popcorn anyone? '"Kon" "Like Conner?" Robin asked, tilting his head to the side like a little bird (wow, he was so young) "No, just... Kon? Like Kon-El" "Kon-El, as in Kal-El?" It was another boy this time - Kid Flash - Kon's mind supplied, recognising the iconic yellow and red suit of the junior vigilante. KF pushed his way into the storage cupboard which, with the three of them now and the doorway crowded with heads, was definitely too close for comfort. "Yeah - is it not the same here?" Kon looked around curiously and frowned when the heroes avoided eye contact sheepishly. "It's just Conner" The Other Him huffed, arms folded across his broad chest. "Okay 'Just Conner' - lovely chatting to you but do you think that there's, y'know, a way I can get home--"'   Or mainstream comics Tim and Kon meet the Young Justice crew and hilarity (Bearing in mind that this is my first foray into comedy) ensues. A lot of confusion. Like A LOT Words: 3371, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Young Justice (Cartoon), Batman - All Media Types, Young Justice - All Media Types, DCU, Justice League - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Batman (Comics) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: M/M Characters: Tim Drake, Kon-El | Conner Kent, Dick Grayson, Bruce Wayne, M'gann M'orzz, Wally West, Artemis Crock, Kaldur'ahm | Jackson Hyde, Zatanna Zatara Relationships: Tim Drake/Kon-El | Conner Kent Additional Tags: Dimension Travel, Attempt at Humor, Relationship Reveal, Alternate Universe, Established Tim Drake/Kon-El | Conner Kent, Tim Drake is So Done, Kon-El | Conner Kent Being a Little Shit, Young Justice Season 1, Lighthearted compared to my other works, Fluff via https://ift.tt/NA5p6gU

[ao3feed-timkon]

We're Dating???

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/FhlNdR6

by Taxi_Cab_To_Slowtown

What do all the Bats have in common? They are so emotionally constipated they can't tell what is a friendship and what is a relationship. This might be in part because they were raised by a reclusive billionaire who is still crushing on the same guy he did in highschool and has had two failure relationship orchestrated by his eldest son.

Or, not that?

It's probably that.

Everyone think they're in a relationship with their bat, the bat doesn't know this.

The Justice League think Bruce should let them help out with their kids more.

Words: 4116, Chapters: 1/2, Language: English

Series: Part 8 of Taxi's Batfam Meets the JL fics

Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types, The Batman (Movie 2022)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M, Multi

Characters: Batfamily Members, Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Tim Drake, Damian Wayne, Bruce Wayne, Roy Harper, Koriand'r (DCU), Wally West, Kon-El | Conner Kent, Bart Allen, Cassie Sandsmark, Oliver Queen, Dinah Lance, Barry Allen, Hal Jordan (Green Lantern), Diana (Wonder Woman), Clark Kent

Relationships: Justice League/Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson/Wally West, Roy Harper/Koriand'r/Jason Todd, Dinah Lance/Oliver Queen, Barry Allen/Hal Jordan (Green Lantern)/Iris West, Diana (Wonder Woman)/Dinah Lance, Hal Jordan (Green Lantern)/Oliver Queen, Diana (Wonder Woman)/Clark Kent, Batfamily Members & Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake/Kon-El | Conner Kent

Additional Tags: Polyamory, Holy Musical B@man - Freeform, The song "Robin Sucks" in case you wonder what they're singing, polyamorous bruce wayne, Bisexual Bruce Wayne, Bruce Wayne is a Good Parent, His kids love him, they want him to be happy, they have a weird way of showing it but they do, Polyamorous Justice League, Batfamily Meets Justice League, Batfamily Is Bad At Feelings (DCU), Batfamily is Bad at Communicating (DCU), One-sided pining, Secret Identity, Unknown Relationship, meaning someone in the relationship doesn't realize they're in a relationship, Hilarity, Hilarity Ensues, Relationship(s), no beta we die like so many people, Past Talia al Ghul/Bruce Wayne, Past Selina Kyle/Bruce Wayne, Minor Clark Kent/Lois Lane, in so far that Jon exists and they're still together but it's not mentioned really

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/FhlNdR6

[ao3feed-superbat]

a mutual reveal

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/5V6JiIK by skybluefeathers shadow: anyway maybe i just think clark kent is cute u_____u Wrathful: Oh? Wrathful: I’m gonna look forward to the shadow/Clark Kent self-insert art then shadow: don’t tempt me >_< K: If this is how we find out what you look like… Me1on: omg shadow doing a face reveal thru his spicy selfship art 😭 Clark can feel Bruce’s laugh vibrating against his chest. “Shadow does in fact have a little crush on Clark. But he realized that a piece of Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne fanart would be a bizarre and confusing way to reveal his identity, so he withheld.” … But what if he did? (Inspired by pomeloquat’s ship-to-ship combat ) Words: 360, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Superman - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types, DCU Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: Gen, M/M Characters: Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent, Original Characters Relationships: Bruce Wayne/Batman - Relationship, Bruce Wayne/Clark Kent Additional Tags: Silly, Crack, Identity Porn, Alternate Universe - Fans & Fandom, Characters Writing Fanfiction, Characters Drawing Fanart, Social Media, Mutual Pining, Identity Reveal, bruce is far too amused by this situation, clark kent is oblivious, and then confused, and then simultaneously shocked, angry and charmed, like goddammit b of course you would, in this au bruce is less paranoid, and more concerned with the pure hilarity of this method of identity reveal, i did this all in one sitting, this was surprisingly fun to do, even if it was painful and annoying with all the texting stuff, i might try more social media fics in the future read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/5V6JiIK

[citadelofmythoughts]

I’m just still stuck on the Justice League x RWBY/MHA crossover idea, because it’s be just so funny if Yang did her “yeah no” to Superman’s introduction, and the RWBY side just doesn’t realize the significance of these people. And then later on, maybe after the MHA thinks these are just heroes in training modeling themselves after ancient heroes and it doesn’t occur to them that these are the real deal, resulting in:

Yang: Clark’s a nice guy and really tough, but I mean, they had some pretty goofy super hero names when we first met them! Who calls themselves Superman?

Class 1A: wait…who?

Yang: Y’know, Clark’s hero name.

Class 1A: …wait, his name’s Clark? And the bat guy is called-

Weiss: Bruce. He’s a bit odd with introducing himself via citing someone called Nero, but he’s a decent guy and a good detective.

Blake: Diana’s a wonderful woman too. Her “Amazon culture” was really interesting.

Jaune: Jessica’s nice too. She kinda had issues when she couldn’t find her ring, but she really pulled us out of that deathtrap. Really cool path too with the whole “Green Lantern’s Light” at the end too.

…um…what? Why are you looking at us like that?

And then the entire Class 1A just looks increasingly gobsmacked, while the teenaged Justice League just look increasingly uncomfortable at the gawking.

And then hilarity ensues once it all clicks. Izuku freaks out if he happened to get a pep talk from either Superman or Batman earlier and didn’t realize they were the real deal.

It definitely works because the version of RWBY that meets the League is WAY past their hero worship phase. They're peers, friends even.

So they're not treating them with any kind of awe, definitely not like most of the 1-A kids would.

[ao3feed-birdflash]

We're Dating???

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/3km5TSc

by Taxi_Cab_To_Slowtown

What do all the Bats have in common? They are so emotionally constipated they can't tell what is a friendship and what is a relationship. This might be in part because they were raised by a reclusive billionaire who is still crushing on the same guy he did in highschool and has had two failure relationship orchestrated by his eldest son.

Or, not that?

It's probably that.

Everyone think they're in a relationship with their bat, the bat doesn't know this.

The Justice League think Bruce should let them help out with their kids more.

Words: 4116, Chapters: 1/2, Language: English

Series: Part 8 of Taxi's Batfam Meets the JL fics

Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types, The Batman (Movie 2022)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M, Multi

Characters: Batfamily Members, Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Tim Drake, Damian Wayne, Bruce Wayne, Roy Harper, Koriand'r (DCU), Wally West, Kon-El | Conner Kent, Bart Allen, Cassie Sandsmark, Oliver Queen, Dinah Lance, Barry Allen, Hal Jordan (Green Lantern), Diana (Wonder Woman), Clark Kent

Relationships: Justice League/Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson/Wally West, Roy Harper/Koriand'r/Jason Todd, Dinah Lance/Oliver Queen, Barry Allen/Hal Jordan (Green Lantern)/Iris West, Diana (Wonder Woman)/Dinah Lance, Hal Jordan (Green Lantern)/Oliver Queen, Diana (Wonder Woman)/Clark Kent, Batfamily Members & Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake/Kon-El | Conner Kent

Additional Tags: Polyamory, Holy Musical B@man - Freeform, The song "Robin Sucks" in case you wonder what they're singing, polyamorous bruce wayne, Bisexual Bruce Wayne, Bruce Wayne is a Good Parent, His kids love him, they want him to be happy, they have a weird way of showing it but they do, Polyamorous Justice League, Batfamily Meets Justice League, Batfamily Is Bad At Feelings (DCU), Batfamily is Bad at Communicating (DCU), One-sided pining, Secret Identity, Unknown Relationship, meaning someone in the relationship doesn't realize they're in a relationship, Hilarity, Hilarity Ensues, Relationship(s), no beta we die like so many people, Past Talia al Ghul/Bruce Wayne, Past Selina Kyle/Bruce Wayne, Minor Clark Kent/Lois Lane, in so far that Jon exists and they're still together but it's not mentioned really

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/3km5TSc

[merchantziro]

As a fanfiction writer, I agree that fanfiction is superior, but this isn't to say I think Character.ai doesn't have any merit or potential at all. Hell I'd go as far as to argue it could help writers try ideas out in a controlled environment.

For example, say I use a Justice League bot with the subtile suggesting you're supposed to be Batman. I could use that to roleplay as an OC who is forced to wear the cowl to have A Batman present at the meeting. Hilarity ensues with the other heroes becoming suspicious of me as an imposter among them.

I could use that fun little chat as the basis to set up a fic where Bruce has an encounter with the OC and they owe Batman a favor, months later him and the family are left critically wounded. The OC is basically recruited by Bruce to become Batman's temporary stand-in and has to even be present for a Justice League meeting (maybe this is an AU where few of the heroes know each other's identities, so Bruce is trying to maintain the illusion of him and Batman being two different individuals to avoid suspicion).

You could also be like me where I primarily use Character.Ai's Persona feature to try and roleplay as OCs to test out their personalities by having them bounce off different characters to tell small stories for inspiration or to help better flesh out my characters in different contexts, giving a better sense of how I want to characterize them.

Hell one could even do the same by making a private bot of their original character and chatting with it that way as well. But, at least for me personally, roleplaying as them works better to help get better at writing them and because I find it more fun.

Regardless of if Character.AI could never surpass fanfiction, I do believe it could be useful for writers of said fanfiction to find their inspiration or help test characters out. Granted if people don't agree with this sentiment, I fully understand.

With how divisive the topic of AI can be in our current hellscape with a lot of people being against it due to the recent scummy ways it's being abused by corporations to replace workers.

But I genuinely think, if/when corporations are finally using this technology responsibly instead of as a scummy attempt to cut costs, AI could benefit the industry. Being another powerful tool in the hands of the artists, writers, and more instead of something that could ever truly replace them.

Just a reminder for fanfic authors:

Fanfiction will ALWAYS be superior to character.ai

Please don't ever stop writing!!

[netflix-entertainment]

Hilarity Ensues: Green Lantern's Banter with Batman in Justice League: War"

Hilarity Ensues: Green Lantern's Banter with Batman in Justice League: War"

In the animated spectacle that is Justice League: War, Green Lantern brings a refreshing dose of humor, especially when poking fun at the notorious brooding Batman. The dynamic between the two heroes takes a comedic turn as Green Lantern, armed with his quick wit and a green power ring, playfully teases the Dark Knight.

Amidst the chaos of battling Parademons, Green Lantern seizes the opportunity to rib Batman about his lack of superpowers. "Hey Bats, ever consider getting yourself a power ring? It's much cooler than lurking in the shadows," he quips, adding a touch of levity to the intense superhero showdown.

The banter not only showcases the camaraderie among the Justice League but also provides a lighthearted moment that resonates with fans. In a film filled with epic battles, Green Lantern's playful jabs at Batman offer a brief but memorable comedic interlude, proving that even the most serious heroes can't escape a good-natured ribbing.