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[jazzluca]

WASPINATOR ( Deluxe ) War for Cybertron KINGDOM

Il buon vecchio WASPINATOR si aggiunge alla lista dei Transformers che fanno esclamare "Un altro? di già?", un genere che ha iniziato ad annoverare appunto pure i Beast Wars, e forte della sua popolarità, che gli fece meritare un Deluxe Generations ai tempi del 30ennale del brand, per forza di cose torna anche lui ( così come Rattrap e Rhinox ) nella linea Kingdom che celebra appunto il 25ennale dei Biocombat.

Il senso di ridondanza personalmente l'ho sentito di più per questa nuova versione di Punginator che non per gli altri BW, dato che il ROBOT non parte benissimissimo per via dell'altezza, risultando un po' più basso di quanto dovrebbe essere, a vedere le scale dei Biocombat, ovvero quanto un Cheetor Deluxe, ma almeno neanche così tappo come il povero Scorponok Kingdom. ^^'

E, diciamolo, sempre personalmente sarei un po' prevenuto proprio perchè il GenT30 summenzionato è stato davvero un bel giocattolo ed una bella versione del nostro Waspy preferito, ma a ben guardare, altezza a parte, anche il Kingdom non è affatto così malaccio, dato che esibisce qualche dettaglio in più di show accuracy come i pallini gialli sulle spalle o anche proprio le antennine a strisce sulla testa, anche se poi la colorazione invece sugli stinchi pare meno definita, così come la plastica usata per le parti dell'addome della vespa ha un giallo più spento rispetto a quello dipinto nei dettagli del robot.

Sempre sulla colorazione, anche qui ci sono due tipi di verde, più scuri rispetto al GenT30, ma qui la differenza cromatica fra i due è davvero labile, il che non sarebbe neanche troppo male, ma poi un po' va a scontrarsi con il succitato giallo acceso delle parti dipinte, e che fa invece rimpiangere quello più spento della plastica dell'addome.

Il Deluxe del 2014 era assai snodato, con pure la rotazione dei polsi, ma il nostro è pur sempre un WfC, ed ecco quindi pure la rotazione del bacino e la possibilità di inclinare le caviglie.

Non male la plastica viola su occhi robotici che bestiali, mentre però stona un po' sulle ali, a dirla tutta. Sul fronte della somiglianza al personaggio iconografico, il nostro presenta solo una zampa d'insetto  appesa per braccio invece che 2, mentre invece ben due sulle gambe ... invece che nessuna, a guardare l'originale e la versione cartoon, laddove "almeno" il GenT30 era più simile a questi avendone 2 sopra e una sotto.

Ma sulle zampine nel robot a mio avviso si può anche soprassedere, che invece una cosa decisamente buttata lì è l'arma del nostro, un semplicissimo pezzo di plastica ricavato dall'addome, con un accenno di pungiglione e con pochissima scultura per farlo sembrare una pistola, che invece nel Deluxe precedente la punta dell'arma era ripiegata e ben somigliava a quella iconica di Waspy.

Ma le somiglianze fra i due Generations si sentono maggiormente nella TRASFORMAZIONE, praticamente uguale con il bacino che si stacca e ruota sul perno dell'addome della vespa, proiettando le gambe ripiegate sotto il corpo, così come la testa insettoide sul petto si stacca e si risistema inglobando quella del robot. Però almeno un miglioramento c'è, ovvero con le braccia del robot che non stanna pigramente adagiate ai lati come nel GenT30 ma invece si ripiegano sotto il torso scomparendo alla bell'e meglio.

Per quanto la trasformazione sia simile al precedente Generations, almeno ora la VESPA del Kingdom è più realistica come forme, che è un po' ciò che caratterizza i Biocombat Kingdom, ricordiamolo, e così l'insetto è più snello ed aerodinamico, riuscendo a correggere un paio di inestetismi del precedente, come le summenzionate braccia del robot in bella vista ai lati, ma anche le gambe stesse, meno appariscenti ed in vista, rispetto al GenT30 che aveva i piedi subito sotto il muso.

Nel suo piccolo è pure posabile, potendo muovere frontalmente la testa, così come aprire le fauci e pure le antennine, ed ovviamente le ali sono sui soliti balljoint, mentre le zampine ruotano semplicemente alla base, ma sistemate a dovere reggono bene l'insetto.

Se le ali viola sono davvero poco realistiche, a pensarci bene lo è pure il corpo verde, vabbè, ma invece un bel dettaglio sono le strisce nere sull'addome, dal design ondulato e pure in rilievo rispetto a quelle dritte del cartone.

Infine, mi sono dovuto ricredere su questo Kingdom, che sì, resta ridondante, sopratutto nella trasformazione, rispetto al GenT30, ma alla fine mi sa che quest'ultimo l'avevo mitizzato un po' troppo, e quindi lo promuovo decisamente in quanto modellino da avere, ovviamente con riserva se si ha già il succitato omonimo del 2014, ma alla fine se fosse stato alto quella mezza testa in più, e con una pistola più definito, sarebbe stato davvero imperdibile a prescindere, con buona pace del GenT30. ^^

[mo-ok]

Send this to all your favourite moots and pass the pumpkin round! KEEP THE PUMPKIN TRAIN GOING 🎃🖤🎃🖤🎃

pungin (:

[mrenkelherlig]

pungin

wooo yeahhhhh

[bestofmidi]

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[mtrssart]

Listen to our debut single Cali High (feat. Graham Candy, Ilya Lagutenko, Jesse Siebenberg)

Cali High’s journey started in the Sea of Japan, somewhere between Tokyo and Vladivostok. We came up with this beautiful melody and then felt like we were plotting a course. So then New Zealand where Graham Candy is from became our next destination for this track. But it still wasn’t quite there yet. We looked higher, headed high north and voilà reached California. That’s how our version of Pacific Devil’s triangle was born. Recreating the idea of this paranormal phenomenon of the unforgiving waters, where everything disappears without a track we were able to create something that’d be there forever.

Composers: Ilya Lagutenko, Alexandr Kholenko, Graham Candy

Mixed by: Gus Seyffert Mastered by: Dave Cooley

Performance: Ilya Lagutenko , Graham Candy, Pavel Vovk, Artem Kritsin, Oleg Pungin, Aleksandr Kholenko , Jesse Siebenberg, Dave Palmer, Jordan Katz 

Website: https://mtrss.art/

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MGMT: mtrss.art@gmail.com

[crunchie-morris]

What do you call a drunk Newsie?

A boozie.

[breezestory]

Kala itu; Kebun Raya Bogor

Bogor, 22 Juni 2022

Dulu rasanya kita suka random muter muter jakarta tanpa tujuan, cuma pungin keluar aja, liat banyak lampu dan ngobrol berdua sama dia.

Saat itu malam malam untuk pertama kalinya dia ngajak aku pergi malem ke bogor untuk sekedar makan mie. Saat itu suasana hatiku lagi kurang baik dan dia selalu tau apa yang harus dia lakukan saat aku lagi ngga baik baik aja.

Aku keluar pake baju tidur, tanpa membawa handphone, dan biasa aku pingin makan ice cream. Kalian tau setiap aku pergi setiap itu juga aku mimisan, dan mungkin dia udah hafal sama ritual mimisanku. Karena mimisan itu juga kita istirahat tidur dulu di rest area, hampir 2 jam mungkin kita istirahat.

Saat itu aku merasa sangat beruntung dia ada di dekatku

[doggre]

club pungin amogus

[iamsimpleman12]

Sedikit cerita mengenai saya pribadi, dulu waktu SD saya pengin cepat besar tapi ketika Tuhan mengabulkan permintaan saya untuk cepat besar kenapa rasa ini ingin kembali ke masa lalu ingin menjadi kecil lagi yang masih polos belum memikirkan masa depan masih lugu belum tau ke bullshitan dunia ini hmm tapi apalah daya waktu terus berputar hari terus berjalan umur semakin berkurang nikmatilah hidup selagi bisa.

  Umur saya sekarang sudah 20thn sudah tua ya hehehe gak kerasa. Diumur yang sekarang ini saya sudah bekerja di salah satu bank bumn tapi sbgi pengamanan sih wkwkw gpp lah daripada beban ortu yee kan. Tapii saya kira didunia kerja itu enak ternyata saya salah banyak ke orang" toxic,absurd& cenderung mementingkan diri sendiri dibandingkan kerja sama team, orang saling menjatuhkan pun juga adaa banyak lebih mementingkan jabatan daripada persaudaraan, saya tau kerja itu ibarat kompetisi, tapi pake lah cara yang baik jangan ngejoke terus. Kadang kepikiran pungin resign tapi terdorong oleh kebutuhan yasudah dijalani aja toh ini juga menguntungkan.

Kadang disela sela istirahat saya membayangkan duluu tahun 2008 kala itu aaya masih TK enak dijaman itu meskipun belum serba ada tapi saya tau menikmati hidup sesungguhnya, apalagi waktu Ramadhan tiba acara tv semua tentang mudik, saur nonton YKS kadang juga ikut ronda malam bersama teman anehnya du ronda bukan pake bambu kentongan melainkan pake sound system terus lagunya DJ Morena hahaha lucu ya, waktu lebaran tiba bisa Ba'dan kerumah tetangga kerumah keluarga Ga kaya sekarang corona apa apa gaboleh ya gimana lagi sudah takdir semoga bumiku lekas membaik Aminn. Oh iya masa lalu hanya untuk dikenang bukan diulang kecuali mantan haha

Salam hangat dari saya FSN

TTD

T.A Selatan

[jazzluca]

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[cybertronianskies]

:D

Is going to give the beloved pungineer a squish.

Sits up, shakes the dust off. "I... live?"

[goodoldfisticuffs]

Inktober 2: Golett PUNGINS!

[bestofmidi]

Goodbye, Norma Jeane Though I never knew you at all You had the grace to hold yourself While those around you crawled

They crawled out of the woodwork And they whispered into your brain They set you on the treadmill And they made you change your name

Lyrics entered by Raphael Pungin email: br326@cleveland.freenet.edu

original midi at http://kino.freepage.de/cgi-bin/feets/freepage_ext/339483x434877d/rewrite/midi-base/d-f/elton_john/candle_in_the_wind(elton_john).mid

[putrikaguya]

18-10-2017

Today, gue bangun lebih pagi. Sudah 3 hari ini gue belajar CPNS, lebih tepatnya fokus di TWK karna banyak orang bilang test cpns jatoh di TWK, oke fine gue belajar mati2an buat ini. Setengah hati gue berbisik "Tapi jangan terlalu berharap." Maka sekitar setengah 10 gue cuss dari rumah naik gojek dan nyambung busway lalu gojekan lagi. Satu persatu temen yang gue sayang pun tidak lupa gue WA buat minta doa dan support, mudah-mudahan lancar, mudah-mudahan berhasil, sampai sana doa dari semua orang kencengin langkah gue buat maju terus dan alhamdulillah CAT berjalan baik tanpa ada eror. Setelah lihat hasilnya, hati gue berasa ancur berkeping-keping liat tulisan "Anda belum berhasil ...." sisa katanya gak gue baca lagi. Hasil belajar gue selama ini berhasil karna point TWK gue sangat bagus 120an, TKD 150an dan sayangnya gue jatoh di TIU. Setengah jam kemudian gue bingung harus apa, kemana dan gimana. Walau sebenernya gue ada meeting dan tau harus kemana tapi gue malah milih pergi ke arah lain, gue cari mall yang ada tempat makan enak dan nyaman buat solat. Suasana hati masih serabutan, bokap dan pacar nelpon selang seling terus-terusan. Yang satu khawatir banget gue kenapa-napa, yang satu sibuk nanyain soal jalan, uugghh... lalu gue netesin airmata sambil gue tahan nengok ke atas biar ga keliatan banget jatohnya. Mungkin ibu-ibu samping gue ngomong dalem hati "Ni mba-mba indomaret ngapain nyasar ke sini dan pake mewek lagi.." iya, tu ibu-ibu tetep ngeliatin gue mulu sampai akhirnya gue liatin balik dan dia gak ngeliatin. Untuk pertama kalinya dalam hidup gue ngerasain hati gue ancur berkeping-keping untuk urusan kerjaan. Di perjalanan mau meeting, gue chat ke sahabat yang udah lama lose contact sejek gue punya pacar. Gue cerita soal test cpns dan jawabannya "Mungkin emang takdirlo suru kawin, hahaha..." gitu katanya. Tiba-tiba gue inget soal bokapnya, jadi gue tanyain sekalian gimana kabar bokapnya, terus dia. jawab "Bokap gue udah gada." Beberapa detik gue ngerasa tersambar petir. Oh DAMN! Demi apa sahabat cowok satu-satunya yang sebelum gue punya pacar selalu ngajak gue seneng-seneng ga bilang kalau bokapnya meninggal??????? Jawabannya: "Gue bingung mau sampein ke lo, lo kayaknya sekarang sibuk banget, keadaan gue waktu itu shock, kalut, bingung." Sampai sekarang rasanya pungin nangis kalau inget itu. Mungkin sekarang pun gue juga ga bisa ketemu dia dulu karna pasti bakal nangis sih kalau ketemu. Gue jadi intropeksi diri, gue sadar selama ini secara ga langsung jadi jauh sama sahabat2 yang dulunya selalu doain biar gue dideketin sama orang baik, ketika doanya terkabul, gue jadi jauh. Kok hidup kayak ngeyek banget!

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Let’s Read Comics! With Samantha and her girlfriend :D

And this time we bring you a HAUNTING tale of GHOULISH delights as the Batman must face the prospect of losing something much worse than his life...

He must face the threat of LOSING HIS BUTLER

Presented for the approval of the Midnight Society, we call this tale: The Ghost Who Haunted Batman :D

My Girlfriend: Is he really a gentleman though

Me: Engaging in fisticuffs with this garishly garbed ruffian is most ungentlemanly behaviour

My Girlfriend: MOST UNCOUTH

Me: Also: those horses are FREAKING THE HECK OUT

My Girlfriend: Way too many of these old comics seem to involve animals being frightened

I do not approve

Me: STOP IT BATMAN

UR DOIN THEM A SPOOK

My Girlfriend: NO

Me: DOING THEM A REAL BAD STARTLE

My Girlfriend: I will leave you you fuckin meme

Our tale begins with Batman interrupting a robbery in progress, producing “A bloodchilling cry of alarm!”

My Girlfriend: THAT CERTAINLY CHILLS MY BLOOD

Me: Fun fact, this is where Sean Pertwee gets inspiration for his “British” mannerisms for Alfred Pennyworth in Gotham

My Girlriend: “What are you, thick? Are you all sixes and sevens, eh wot?

I’M THE BLOOMIN’ BATMAN”

Me: THAT PUN

My Girlfriend: That is worse than one of yours kitten

Me: Excuse you my puns are Quality Ethically Sourced Puns made with only the finest pungineering

My Girlfriend: Saying “they’ve got the edge”

While fighting bad guys with an axe and a sword

Is exactly something you would do DO NOT LIE

Batman makes short work of the crooks, remarking they’re lucky that he didn’t “Grab an offensive weapon”

Me: “Get on my bad side and I’ll beat you to death with some racist artwork”

My Girlfriend: He’s going to bludgeon them to death with his copy of Disney’s “Song of the South”

Batman defeats the henchmen just in time for their boss to make his grand entrance however!

Me: BEST

VILLAIN

EVER

My Girlfriend: What the hell am I looking at here

Me: THE BEST VILLAIN EVER

My Girlfriend: How does his hat stay on when he has no head

Me: I love how he has a monocle

To let us know he is a FANCY GHOST

My Girlfriend: A MONOCLE WITH NO EYES

Me: “I Have No Eyes Yet I must Wear a Monocle”

My Girlfriend: NO

I DO NOT ACCEPT THIS

Me: “IF ONLY I HADN’T JUST STARED AT IT”

My Girlfriend: “IF ONLY I HAD DONE SOMETHING”

Me: I love how not only does he NOT shield his eyes he also lowers the ACTUAL shield he had like “Oh well I’m sure there’s no danger in just standing right in front of a glowing bullet that’s hovering in mid air”

And then he’s AMAZED when it turns out to be dangerous

My Girlfriend: And this is the guy who fanboys keep saying could take down ANY CHARACTER regardless of their powers

This guy

Me: YEP

My Girlfriend: damn  fake geek boys

The Gentleman Ghost decides that now is a good time for he and his henchmen to flee, noting that he is “Confident they will never meet again”

My Girlfriend: Because criminals who go up against Batman in this town NEVER do it more than once

Me: The Gentleman Ghost is clearly not a genre savvy villain

Me: “I am so glad there was no one around to hear me say that”

My Girlfriend: Are you proud of yourself right now Batman

Because you shouldn’t be

Batman notes that Hawkman has told him about the Gentleman Ghost while also declaring that he doesn’t believe he could possibly be a real ghost

Me: I love how the Batman can

In the same sentence where he just casually brings up the fact that an ALIEN SPACE COP BIRD MAN is one of his friends

Declare that the Gentleman Ghost MUST be a fake

My Girlfriend: Winged aliens who dress like birds is one thing

Ghosts though?

RIDICULOUS

Me: This despite the fact that Batman HAS MET THE SPECTRE

AND DEADMAN

My Girlfriend: But nope

The Gentleman Ghost is just a step too far

Me: He has some very odd ideas about what pushes the suspension of disbelief

Batman notes that Craddock didn’t just steal priceless gems…

My Girlfriend: Our hero, nobly swearing to bring a criminal to justice because they personally affronted them

Me: “If he’d just robbed POOR people that would be fine

But he stole some of the SOLID GOLD LANTERNS my obscenely wealthy family owns

And that I cannot allow”

Arriving home to the penthouse he’s currently staying in, Bruce notes with surprise that Alfred isn’t around with a cup of hot soup for him. thinking to himself that even though it’s his night off “He’s usually back by now”

My Girlfriend: Wait so he’s expecting Alfred to wait on him hand and foot ON HIS NIGHT OFF

Me: Well of course

What else is he going to do…cook for himself?

My Girlfriend: HEAVEN FORBID

Me: I’m not even kidding when I say it’s canon Bruce Wayne cannot actually make himself a sandwich without Alfred there to do it for him

That’s a thing

That’s in continuity

My Girlfriend: Clearly the real reason he was so desperate to find a way to save Alfred in Batman and Robin is that he LITERALLY CAN’T SURVIVE without him

Me: “Where IS Alfred?

Doesn’t he know that his entire existence needs to be devoted to doing all the tasks for me that any other person older than ten can do for themselves”

Me: :D

My Girlfriend: I know I’m going to regret asking….

Me: BABE

B A B E

KAT-mandu

My Girlfriend: ….

Oh my fuckin god that is genuinely the pun here isn’t it

Me: SHE IS JUST VERY DEVOTED TO HER THEME OKAY

My Girlfriend: That’s not being devoted to your theme that’s being RIDICULOUS

Me: She can’t wait to try some catfish

And then after dinner she’d like to show him her catapult

My Girlfriend: You and her would get on well

Me: Also got to love how Bruce even views answering his own phone a chore

My Girlfriend: “DAMN IT ALFRED

If I have to do ONE MORE basic everyday task that any able bodied person is fully capable of doing…”

Me: Actually he WON’T be tied up tonight

Since he stupidly turned down Selina’s offer of a date

My Girlfriend: You COULD have been tied up Bruce

And you missed your chance

Me: I’m shocked and appalled that Selina didn’t say “Purr-fect here”

My Girlfriend: Maybe she’s trying to wean herself off cat-puns

Me: Why would anyone NOT want to make puns

Bruce finds that Alfred is still not home, as his costume is still laying around, noting that Alfred would surely have put it away for him

Me: The thought of putting HIS OWN DAMN CLOTHES away never even entered his head

My Girlfriend: Anyone could have discovered his secret identity

Just by walking into the wrong room on Alfred’s day off

Me: Bruce Wayne is confirmed as literally being a lazy moody teenager in an adults body

My Girlfriend: Just gonna dump his clothes wherever and let his dad do everything for him

Bruce’s concern grows when he finds out Alfred didn’t come back last night, noting that “Something is definitely wrong”

My Girlfriend: Does he just…NEVER give Alfred a day off?

Me: A day off?

LIKE HE WAS PEOPLE!?!?

My Girlfriend: The role of Bruce Wayne will now be played by Sterling Archer, apparently

Me: “Alfred, if I find you took a personal day I am going to make you eat SO MANY SPIDERWEBS”

My Girlfriend: HE’S BEEN GONE LESS THAT TWENTY FOUR HOURS

Me: Bruce legitimately thinks that if Alfred isn’t cooking, cleaning and waiting on him hand and foot HE MUST BE DEAD IN A GUTTER SOMEWHERE

My Girlfriend: He’s over sixty years old Bruce

LET THE MAN TAKE A DAMN HOLIDAY

While Bruce frets over Alfred’s fate, he goes to speak with Lucius…who warns him that he has an important meeting to chair to try and stop recurring antagonist Gregorian Fallstaff from outbidding him for drilling rights, noting that he “Warned him when that man came to Gotham” that he would be trouble

Me: Lucius knew that anyone with a name like that must be a supervillain

My Girlfriend: People with Obviously Evil Names are ALWAYS bad news Bruce

Me: “No one with such an obviously made up name that no real person actually has could ever be anything but a villain”

Bruce is also told that there’s been no word of Alfred being admitted into any hospitals

My Girlfriend: Bruce is both relieved and also furious that something other than a life threatening injury has prevented Alfred from Butler-ing

Me: “If he’s not in the hospital right now HE’S GOING TO BE”

My Girlfriend: So wait

Gotham

Just happens to randomly have a British pub

Nestled amongst the skyscrapers, strip clubs and casinos that make up every other building there

Me: What American city DOESN’T have a british pub just randomly in the middle of it

My Girlfriend: I am convinced that Alfred is the owner of this pub and he bought it using Bruce’s money so he’d have somewhere to drink

And what preparations must Bruce undertake?

Well….

Me: HE’S CUNNINGLY DISGUISED HIMSELF AS A P.G WODEHOUSE CHARACTER

My Girlfriend: I’d be appalled that this is what bruce thinks British people look like

Except this is comics

So he’s probably right

Me: We’re going to be lucky if there isn’t a Beefeater chilling out somewhere in here

My Girlfriend: If no one here speaks in a “Cockney” accent in this scene I’m going to be genuinely shocked

Me: This is from that period in time where writers based everything and anything remotely “British” on either Doctor Who or Benny Hill

Or both

My Girlfriend: AHHHHHH THERE HE IS

Me: THANK GOD FOR THE IRISH-COCKNEYS

My Girlfriend: Bruce would have been in serious trouble in his search for Alfred, if it weren’t for a helpful Irish-Cockney here

Me: Also…as usual?

How many nights a week does Alfred spend getting drunk

My Girlfriend: He works for a grown man who dresses like a bat and beats up the mentally ill

However many it is it’s not enough

Bruce decides to head home, after failing in his attempts to find any trace of Alfred…only to find that Alfred is back at the penthouse…as is the Gentleman Ghost and his gang!

Me: I feel REALLY bad for this buildings doorman right now

My Girlfriend: The moment he saw the headless spirit in a top hat leading a gang of cockney burglars through the front door he found himself wishing that he’d taken that job in Coast City

Me: “He’s being held hostage by an unquiet spirit so I’ll forgive him slacking off work today”

My Girlfriend: WHY DOES A GHOST WANT TO STEAL ANTIQUES

Me: He just REALLY wants to get on Cash in the Attic okay Rebecca

Me: WHAT PART OF THIS IS HE NOT GETTING

My Girlfriend: The clue is right there in the name Batman

Gentleman

GHOST

Me: Ghosts are not known for being able to be restrained by ropes

Or anything really

Like

You don’t see the people on ghost adventures trying to capture a poltergeist with a net

My Girlfriend: Though I can believe they would

Me: Ah but we’re forgetting that Batman DOESN’T BELIEVE IN GHOSTS

He only believes in sensible things

Like men made of shapeshifting clay

My Girlfriend: Or zombies reanimated by cursed swamp water

Me: Or people using special formulas to transform themselves into Were-Bats

My Girlfriend: Down to earth, realistic stuff like that

Me: “COR REGGIE ME OL’ SUNSHINE YOU HOLD THE BLOODY BLIGHTER AND I’LL GIVE ‘IM A BLOODY GOOD THUMPING SO’S I WILL!”

My Girlfriend: RUN BATMAN

VIOLENT COCKNEYS ARE ABOUT TO ATTACK YOU

Me: Can even the might of the Batman triumph over a gang of angry cockneys, driven to senseless violence by the lack of all night kebab shops and cheap lager in Gotham

Batman quickly defeats the Unconvincingly Cockney henchmen and confronts the Gentleman Ghost who declares that if Batman wants him “You simply have to take me!”

Me: is there something the Gentleman Ghost wants to tell us

My Girlfriend: This whole crime spree was just his attempt to seduce Batman

Me: This is what comes from getting dating advice from Catwoman

My Girlfriend: Or possibly from the Joker

Me: “It looks like you’ve CAUGHT me Batman…now what do you plan to DO with me…”

But before he can apprehend the Ghost, Batman is struck from behind

By none other than…

Me: DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUUUUN

My Girlfriend: Wait

The Master?

Me: (Terrible Russian accent) “I love disguises…do you still like disguises?”

My Girlfriend: NO

NO

IT’S TOO SOON TO BE REFERENCING THAT

Me: Batman was prepared to battle armed thugs and a supernatural apparition

But he was TOTALLY UNPREPARED for an elderly English butler armed with a vase

My Girlfriend: His one weakness

Me: Maybe this is further proof that Batman can handle anything with enough prep time

He wasn’t prepared for Alfred

So he is knocked out easily by him

Bruce tries to ponder why Alfred is working for the Gentleman Ghost and also wonders why he’s now stealing gold and antique furniture instead of jewels, wondering what use they would be to a ghost

My Girlfriend: ….

What use would JEWELS be to a ghost either?

Me: Apparently a ghost stealing diamonds makes TOTAL SENSE but stealing gold and priceless antiques is baffling and strange

My Girlfriend: I FIND FAULT WITH THE INTERNAL LOGIC OF THIS STATEMENT

But Bruce comes to a realisation, declaring that he knows what the Ghost is up to as it’s “The only answer that makes sense”

My Girlfriend: If you say so

I’ve long ago stopped hoping for anything in this story to make sense

Me: I think expecting ANYTHING in this tale to make sense is a Fools Dream

We turn our attention to Stately Wayne Manour and the single BEST moment of this issue, as we learn where Alfred is right now…

My Girlfriend: …..

…………

NO

Me: Can we just talk about that second panel for a minute

My Girlfriend: HOW

Me: Like

The Gentleman Ghost

IS JUST SAT IN THE PUB

WITH A PINT OF BEER

My Girlfriend: He is sat in a fuckin booth

DRINKING HIS BEER

AND NO ONE THINKS IT IS STRANGE

Me: No but it’s better than that

Because just think

He had to order that drink

My Girlfriend: Oh my god he did though

Me: He had to go up to the bar

Talk to the barman

And order a beer

My Girlfriend: Looking like this

Me: A HEADLESS PHANTOM

IN A TOP HAT AND MONOCLE

DRESSED ALL IN WHITE

Just strolled into this Old English Pub

And NO ONE

Not the customers

Not the bartender

NO ONE THOUGHT IT WAS STRANGE

My Girlfriend: The guy Bruce spoke to just said he “Looked like a toff”

That was his take away from this

He sees a headless ghost walk up and order a Guinness and he thinks “He looks quite posh”

Me: Well of course

He’s wearing a monocle after all Rebecca

My Girlfriend: HE HAS NO HEAD

Me: you can’t live anywhere YOU ARE UNDEAD

My Girlfriend: Wait, the style to which he has become accustomed?

WHEN?

Where?

Me: There are TONS of beautiful old country houses in the afterlife

My Girlfriend: I’m going to be so mad if there’s a class system in the afterlife as well

Where all the rich ghosts get the best houses

Batman swoops in and informs the Ghost that he’ll soon swap his clothes for “Prison greys”

My Girlfriend: He STILL won’t accept that the guy is a ghost

Me: I know we know he’s a ghost

But I kind of wish he wasn’t

Because if he was a regular guy then that would mean he went to a pub DISGUISED AS A SPECTRAL APPARITION when he had no reason whatsoever to do so

My Girlfriend: That is so stupid that I love it

Me: It would be some Scooby Doo nonsense

Bruce disarms the Ghost of his pistol but he commands Alfred to pick it up…and turn it upon Bruce!

Me: “Don’t do this Alfred

You know me

YOU KNOW WHAT I’LL DO TO YOU IF YOU TRY IT”

My Girlfriend: Apparently nearly giving Bruce brain damage with a vase was fine though

Me: This is comics

Head injuries are no big deal in this world

Alfred snaps out of it and Bruce assures him that he never thought he would actually shoot him

Me: Awwwwwww

BRUCE BELIEVES IN YOU

My Girlfriend: He knows that if Alfred was going to kill him he’d have done it LONG ago

Given all he has him do for him with only one night off

Me: DON’T SPOIL IT

Bruce pursues the Gentleman Ghost but…              

My Girlfriend: HOW DID HE SET THAT UP SO QUICKLY

Me: The Gentleman Ghost’s REAL power

STAGECRAFT

Me: I like that Batman can appreciate the Ghost’s Villainous Style if nothing else

My Girlfriend: He may have to catch him but he still can take the time to approve of his commitment to his theme

Me: This is the difference between a regular villain and a SUPER villain right here

My Girlfriend: PRESENTATION

Batman mocks the Ghost’s insult as being “Pretty lame” while disarming him

Me: HE DID HIS BEST

My Girlfriend: Batman is less a fan of the Gentleman Ghost’s witty banter

Me: At least it’s better than the kind of repartee he’d get fighting Solomon Grundy or Killer Croc

My Girlfriend: This is very true

My Girlfriend: WAIT

HE STILL DOESN’T BELIEVE HE’S A GHOST?!

Me: Or maybe he’s admitting that he has HAUNTED SHOES

My Girlfriend: No Samantha

Me: PHANTOM FOOTWEAR

My Girlfriend: SAMANTHA NO

But as the Gentleman Ghost and Batman grapple, the horses “Break their tethers” and the coach begins careening towards the edge of a cliff!

Me: IF ONLY WYANE MANOUR WAS IN A LESS DRAMATIC  LOCATION

My Girlfriend: Stately Wayne Manour

This Many Days Since the Last High Speed Chase that ended in Dramatic Irony

Me: Bruce moved into the penthouse because he got sick of all the drag racing teenagers racing off the cliff edge as a Cautionary Tale to their peers

My Girlfriend: This is the kind of shit Edna Mode tries to warn you people about

Me: NO CAPES!

My Girlfriend: WHEN WILL PEOPLE LEARN SAMANTHA

WHEN

Me: “There has to be a logical explanation”

Says the man who dresses up as a bat

And fights cryogenically preserved ice men, an ACTUAL IMMORTAL and a man who developed a way to control people through their headgear

My Girlfriend: And who is Bezzie Mates with MULTIPLE ALIENS, a sorceress, a man possessed by a demon FROM HELL and a ghost who possesses the living

Me: Out of ALL OF THE CHARACTERS in the DCU who should possibly hold any Dana Scully-like views on the existence or lack thereof of the supernatural

Batman is one of the MOST NONSENSICAL CHOICES EVER

My Girlfriend: HE HAS MET GHOSTS BEFORE

ACTUAL GHOSTS

Me: HE KNOWS A WOMAN WHO WAS MADE OUT OF CLAY AND GIVEN LIFE BY THE GREEK GODS

HE KNOWS A FUCKIN FISH MAN

Final Thoughts

My Girlfriend: This was delightfully silly

Me: I LOVE THIS STORY SO MUCH

It’s just

RIDICULOUS

But in a fun way

Not in a Geoff Johns way

My Girlfriend: It’s very charming how unafraid it is to be silly

And not take itself too seriously

Me: I love the fact that when Alfred went missing, Bruce is like “IT TAKES A BUTLER TO FIND A BUTLER”

My Girlfriend: I love the fact no one in that pub objected to a ghost walking up and ordering a pint

Me: Of course they didn’t babe

It’s a bar

THEY SERVE SPIRITS

My Girlfriend: …..

Me: :D

My Girlfriend: get out of this house