Batman and the Outsiders #2: Critical Analysis

My analysis of Batman and the Outsiders #1 was such a success that I just have to finish the story with #2. Here's the surprising cover:Surprising because...
-All the established heroes are out for the count and have to get their butts saved by the three rookies.
-Baron "cookie cutter tyrant" Bedlam gets top credit. Above Batman.
-If the Baron pulls that lever, he may well win the Superman III Movie Sweepstakes! Noooooooooooooo.

I'll be here all week. Now, I'll leave you to laugh at Bedlam's haircut in the Comments section.

Comments

rob! said…
i'd love to see a collection of material when a comics company gets sooo excited over a new movie of one of their characters, and then the movie stinks on ice, and the company then has to act like the movie ever existed.

remember all the tie-ins DC put out for Catwoman? the movie adaptation of Superman IV? *shudder*
October 8, 2007 at 11:00 AM
De said…
I wonder if Baron Bedlam was ever baron of a penal colony. The haircut makes me think it's a possibility.
October 8, 2007 at 12:19 PM
Siskoid said…
Rob: I'm sorry. The files you are trying to access have been deleted.

De: Bedlam is probably as much a Baron as Dr. Doom is a doctor.
October 8, 2007 at 12:37 PM
Anonymous said…
Funny to see someone like Metamorpho hanging by his wrists. Can't he change into pretty much any element....or stretch his way out?
October 8, 2007 at 1:32 PM
Siskoid said…
I believe he was passed out at the time.

Which doesn't make it right.
October 8, 2007 at 11:30 PM
Jayunderscorezero said…
Bedlam has clearly only been given top credit to create some alliteration ("Baron Bedlam battles Batman..."), but then, that's still a really stupid reason.
October 9, 2007 at 5:26 AM
Anonymous said…
1. It's never a good sign when the creators try to use the cover logo as part of a sentence.

2. You know it deserves the title "helmet hair" when opposing fire bounces off of it. The epaulettes must've been special-ordered, as well.
October 9, 2007 at 9:53 AM
Anonymous said…
I think the Baron may suffer from Waardenburg syndrome.

Features:
Forelocks of white hair. Check.
Low hairline. Check.
Eyebrows that almost touch in the middle. Check.
Deafness (for not turning around as someone blasts through a wall behind him). Check

Maybe the epaulettes are some kind of Markovian hearing aid?
October 9, 2007 at 8:23 PM
Siskoid said…
Doc: You're really giving Polite Dissent a run for its money there!
October 9, 2007 at 10:35 PM
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