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Back in my early days online, I went by the name MadHatter. Then, one day, to help deal with chat room lulls, I came up with a superhero alter ego - HatMan. He'd drive in with his Sombreromobile, have a crazy adventure, get people laughing and talking, and then drive off, job well done. (Eventually, he picked up a sidekick, HairPin, who drove a CapCar, but that's another matter.) I was never clear on what HatMan looked like, really, except that he had a colorful costume and a signature beanie copter. Eventually, when I decided to use my poor graphical skills to make an icon to represent him, I wound up using an image of Robin as a base and drawing the beanie copter on over his head. (I didn't know many people who were into comics at the time, it was clear there was a connection to Batman, but I wanted someone cheerful-looking.)
Today, I finally got around to reading Batman issue #700. (I get my comics mail-order, so there's a delay, and this was at the bottom of the latest stack.) It's a landmark issue. It's also the first issue of Batman I've read in over a year. This is what I saw:
The Mad Hatter putting a beanie copter on Robin.
And, a few pages and a decade or so later in the story:
A guy (who looks eerily similar to this issue's version of the Mad Hatter) in a sombrero whose name is Hatman.
Coincidence?
Almost certainly. But still... how awesome is that?
ETA: Apparently, there was another version of Mad Hatter in the comics - a revamped version who was retconned into an impostor of the original (which makes more sense because he looked and acted differently). He hadn't appeared since 1987, but it looks like the current writer is bringing him back... now going by Hatman. The sombrero is probably a coincidence - he has an obsession with hats, and is wearing a different hat in every panel of this comic. It's not clear whether he'll appear again any time soon, but I'm guessing he wouldn't have been brought back, shown to be alive in the present, and given a new name just for this one story.
I'm... not entirely sure how I feel about that.
scans_daily.)Back in my early days online, I went by the name MadHatter. Then, one day, to help deal with chat room lulls, I came up with a superhero alter ego - HatMan. He'd drive in with his Sombreromobile, have a crazy adventure, get people laughing and talking, and then drive off, job well done. (Eventually, he picked up a sidekick, HairPin, who drove a CapCar, but that's another matter.) I was never clear on what HatMan looked like, really, except that he had a colorful costume and a signature beanie copter. Eventually, when I decided to use my poor graphical skills to make an icon to represent him, I wound up using an image of Robin as a base and drawing the beanie copter on over his head. (I didn't know many people who were into comics at the time, it was clear there was a connection to Batman, but I wanted someone cheerful-looking.)
Today, I finally got around to reading Batman issue #700. (I get my comics mail-order, so there's a delay, and this was at the bottom of the latest stack.) It's a landmark issue. It's also the first issue of Batman I've read in over a year. This is what I saw:
The Mad Hatter putting a beanie copter on Robin.
And, a few pages and a decade or so later in the story:
A guy (who looks eerily similar to this issue's version of the Mad Hatter) in a sombrero whose name is Hatman.
Coincidence?
Almost certainly. But still... how awesome is that?
ETA: Apparently, there was another version of Mad Hatter in the comics - a revamped version who was retconned into an impostor of the original (which makes more sense because he looked and acted differently). He hadn't appeared since 1987, but it looks like the current writer is bringing him back... now going by Hatman. The sombrero is probably a coincidence - he has an obsession with hats, and is wearing a different hat in every panel of this comic. It's not clear whether he'll appear again any time soon, but I'm guessing he wouldn't have been brought back, shown to be alive in the present, and given a new name just for this one story.
I'm... not entirely sure how I feel about that.
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Psychic, tho? What do you mean?
Also, thanks to S_D, more info has come to light, which has not been edited in above.
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And hmmm... I hope this imposter "HatMan" doesn't overrun your online identity. We shall have to beat him if he does!
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