leatherwing and robin redblade

[schmerica]

There's an Elseworlds where Batman is a pirate?

Why don't you people TELL me these things???



Pants! Boots! Sword! Eeeeeee.



Oh, TEH ANGST. TEH BROODING!



Leatherwing NEEDS a Robin!



Oh, Robins.



--I just love this picture. *snickers madly*



Sharks are no match for LEATHERWING.



Alfredo is kind of a snarky bitch. Also, Robin = hero worship, duh.



Oh noes! (He doesn't actually die or anything. But still.)

Comments

[juleskicks.livejournal.com]

... I really donn't think there's anything that can be said to this. It speaks for itself.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

PIRATES, JULES. PIRATES.

I also read an Elseworld this afternoon where Superman's ancestor comes to Earth in 1768 and, like, stops the entire American Revolution and scientific progress for the next two hundred years.

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

Well I would have if I had known. *glares a comic!geek friends*

The Elseworlds books are awesome. There’s one called Red Son (or possibly Sun) in which Kal-El’s pod lands in the USSR instead of the USA. The Moscovite Batman is the vengeful child of dissidents (and he wears one of those furry hats—with the ears), and Lex Luthor is elected to the Oval Office on his promises to defend American against the Soviet super-soldier.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Heh, yes, I've read that one.

[ficbyzee.livejournal.com]

What's great is that I'm pretty sure this isn't even the most cracktastic Elseworlds I've seen. (Speaking of: have I sent you the issue where Kon is a Robin?)

[sharpest_rose.livejournal.com]

'Most Cracktastic Elseworld' is a title which will never be satisfactorily awarded, I suspect. There're french revolutions and opera phantoms and cavemen and knights and wizards and communists and vampires and aliens and zombies and elder gods and lots and lots of certifiable Bat-people all striving for the same prize.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

*beams* YAY.

I just started going through a giant torrent of Elseworlds, so I suspect there will be many more of these entries from me in the next few days. But. PIRATES.

[ficbyzee.livejournal.com]

My favorite is still the one where Batman date-rapes Kon, I'm afraid.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Meep?

[ficbyzee.livejournal.com]

Here. (http://pics.livejournal.com/ficbyzee/pic/0005ay1y) Okay, so it turned out to be For Justice and stuff, but *still.* (Also, Kon had the best 80's outfit EVER in that Elseworlds. It actually managed to be gayer than his regular costume at the time, and seeing as that costume included garters? That's not an easy feat.)

[juleskicks.livejournal.com]

... wow.

God, the cracktacularity of DC kind of wins at everything ever.

[ficbyzee.livejournal.com]

Yep, just a bit!

[brownbetty]

Leatherwing, or, “Why yes, Batman could sound gayer.”

Elseworlds are a constant source of Joy.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

“Why yes, Batman could sound gayer.”

Ahahaha, YES. It's wonderful.

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

Tell me you've read the JSA as secret servicemen in WW2. It rocks more than there is squee. And, and, there's Gotham by Gaslight, Speeding Bullets (Clark gets brought up by childless Waynes), the one set in the thirties where Bruce is an unshaven adventurer not to be trusted and Lana is cunning girl archaeologist and Clark is reporter-boy - but *thirties* boy-reporter, and escaped from Russian Revolution!Lex, Detective no. 27, which is Bruce inducted into a much larger Pinkerton agency, Gotham Noir which has Dick Grayson as hardbitten PI, Superman:Secret Identity, which is about some poor sod in our world who gets called Clark Kent and is given Superman stuff every. sodding. birthday., and, and, Elseworlds either rock so much there's not squee left in your body or they are pure, PURE unsullied CRACK.

(I've just come back from my second viewing of the Supes movie. I'm still humming the tune.)

[raucousraven.livejournal.com]

I think my brain is kind of broken, along with my inner ear.

Broken by the awesome, that is. Despite an hilarious visit to Superdickery, I never quite knew how cracktastic the inner core of DC actually was until you fell into comix.