800 words, very spoilery for The Dark Knight Rises.

I have no idea if this is going anywhere.

( Wayne Enterprises, as it transpires, is not dead. )

My personal immediate headcanon on what happens after The Dark Knight Rises.

( Most spoilery of all. )

Short, non-spoilery reaction: The Dark Knight is still the best Batman film ever.

( Slightly longer, a lot more spoilery. )

So between Christmas and the new year, I moved house. This was inconvenient and complicated, and had the side-effect of leaving me with no internet access until today (they activated the phone line on Wednesday, when I was in London watching the Spaghetti Western Orchestra and contemplating Ethiopia, I found the line was buggered when I got home on ( Read more... )

From the Why Has No-one Written This Yet? files: The Bat of Monte CristoAfter the People's Safety Committee executed Thomas and Martha Wayne, their young son Bruce was thrown into the Arkham gulag, to rot among the dissidents and madmen. While there, he found himself sharing a cell with a crazy old actor named Pennyworth -- who, he learned, was in ( Read more... )

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Seriously, by the end of this video I was expecting him to say: "And is it true that you are the most marvellous and sexy man in Gotham?" "Why yes, yes I am. Except for you, of course."

So apparently there has been official news concerning The Dark Knight Rises casting. According to a Warner Bros press release, Joseph Gordon-Levitt will play Gotham City beat cop John Blake, and Marion Cotillard will play Miranda Tate, "a Wayne Enterprises board member eager to help a still-grieving Bruce Wayne resume his father’s philanthropic ( Read more... )

Ah, the classic Batman movie. In which the fate of the world rests in the hands of a man wearing a hat with ears on it, and Lee Meriwether has an amazingly hot arse ( Read more... )

(Parts one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven and twelve.

( Part the thirteenth, which is very talky, fairly wangsty, and contains material that may prove injurious to public morals, as well as yet more evidence that I'll go to any lengths for a cheap and tasteless joke.. )

It's been more than a month, but I finally got some stuff into the order it happens.

(Parts one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten and eleven.

( Part the twelfth, in which the villain broods and the heroes finally get round to teaming up. )