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[hatman]

1. 10 min video segment about Gitmo, including an interview with a former Gitmo prosecutor (and his very important reasons for resigning).

2. For those who care, Batman did not die at the end of Batman: RIP. The explosion was added, ironically enough, so that people wouldn't feel cheated. After the explosion, he was captured by bad guys who were trying to create an army of super soldiers by downloading portions of his mind into prepared bodies. He overwhelmed the thing they were using to do this by opening the mental floodgates to an unbearable (to anyone but Batman) level of traumatic memories. Not sure what happened next, exactly, but he showed up in the pages of Final Crisis (the big DC Event of the Decade Year!) as a prisoner of Darkseid. He escapes, and then shoots Darkseid. (With a special bullet.) Yes, Batman used a gun. It was supposedly some great full circle thing, since his career (and his longstanding legendary hatred for handguns) started with him on the wrong end of a shooting. Darkseid retaliates, and Superman arrives to find him gravely wounded and Batman apparently turned into a charred corpse.

So... Batman died taking on one of the universe's great evils. One of Superman's great foes. Someone who, at the time, had taken over the Earth and was threatening far more serious expansion.

On the other hand, Batman died holding a smoking gun.

In any case... Final Crisis, like all Crises, ended with the remaking of the entire DC Multiverse. Also, it's been announced that the big Event of 2009 will involve "Black Lanterns," who will essentially be the ghosts of prominent DCU inhabitants, reanimated with great power and under evil control. Their ranks will include Earth 2's Superman, among many others. (Earth 2 is home to the Golden Age heroes.) Alternately, the beam that Darkseid used to "kill" Batman is one which (according to Wiki) "traps the organism in a series of alternate realities, each worse than the previous one."

I'm sure they'll bring him back. Probably just in time for the next movie. Frankly, though... I no longer care. (I'm just posting this in case any of you still do.)

3. I'll be out of town for the next week. Will have Jimmy (my laptop) with me, of course, but I may be around less often. Also, I've had a busy couple of weeks with a lot of appointments. Had to wake up early (by my ever-shifting standards) for every one of them. So I've been fairly exhausted (even by my standards), which is why I haven't been around as much. Hopefully, I'll get some decent rest this week. But just thought I'd give you a head's up.

4. Whatever it was, I forget. Oh well. You'll just have to live in eternal suspense! Hahahaha!

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[acbshada.livejournal.com]

I know you said you've had a lot going on in the last few weeks, so I hope that things are okay. I'm sorry I didn't mention that earlier. It's been on my mind.

I hope that you're able to get some rest while you're away! Take care, okay?

And yay! I don't feel weird for naming my laptop now. ;)