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AnnCrystal
Batman Begins | Dennis O'Neill
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🤩🪄🦇💖.

When I tried to pinch out a napkin from a dispenser, it tore and released only a little trim.

I tried again and only manage to tear off a larger piece. About to huff at the dispenser, I caught a glimpse of the larger torn piece of napkin in my hand.

Is it wacky me? Or is that the Batman symbol!

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AnnCrystal As I pulled out my book to slip the cloth inside of for safe keeping, a friend came up and pinched out a napkin from the dispenser. Without a hitch, she retrieved a napkin for herself and freed the remainder of the one that had tore on me along with it. My napkin flew into the air and I snatched it up, which made my friend laugh.

I sat where I could watch the dispenser for awhile, noting that no one else had a problem plucking out napkins.

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AnnCrystal A bookmark, that's what I will make with this peculiar piece of cloth.

This reminds me of that plastic that caught in my neighborhood tree, the one that looked like a giant Batman symbol...I've attached that old post to this one.

#zeal4batman
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TheBookHippie 🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇 5d
AnnCrystal @TheBookHippie 🥳👌🏼🦇💖🦇💖🦇💖🦇. 5d
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AnnCrystal
Batman Begins | Dennis O'Neill
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🤩✨🦇💖🦇✨😍.

Thank You @dabbe 🐝 for #HaikuADay #HaikuHive 🐝🪄📜✍🏼💖.

#HaikuHivecommunityLittenAnnCrystal 🐝

#zeal4batman

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JenlovesJT47 Love this! So true 💜🦇💛 1w
AnnCrystal @JenlovesJT47 😉👍🏼🦇💖🦇. 1w
dabbe L🐝VE. 🖤🐝💛 1w
TheBookHippie Truth. 1w
AnnCrystal @dabbe 😉👍🏼🐝🦇💖🦇. 1w
AnnCrystal @TheBookHippie 😉👍🏼🦇💖🦇. 1w
lil1inblue ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ 6d
AnnCrystal @lil1inblue 😉👍🏼🦇💖🦇. 5d
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AnnCrystal
Wayne of Gotham: A Novel | Tracy Hickman
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The fact that Gotham has seemingly seeped into reality has truly rocked my psyche.

Still love my Batman, but crazy Gotham has had me avoiding my favorite superhero for months now.

Truthfully, for a Batman fanatic, I don't really have that many Batman books/movies on my shelves...👀🤷🏽....yet when I do read/watch Batman, I soak up scenes like fuel. I delight that I can anticipate Bruce Wayne's/Batman's choices and moves beforehand...

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AnnCrystal and when I'm surprised, I spend time analyzing why Bruce Wayne/Batman made his decisions as if I've been given a grand new insight into Bruce Wayne's character.

Bruce Wayne's Batman fuels my hope, rejuvenates my warrior spirit, highlights the importance of holding onto empathy, and so much more.

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AnnCrystal This book first captured my interest just after I realized that the original Bruce Wayne is the only Batman I connect with...this seems to focus on the Wayne family mystery.

It also seemed like a safe choice, since it doesn't seem to focus on the usual foes of Gotham.

Yet I have still hesitated to read this book...

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AnnCrystal Monday evening, I came into my bedroom and I discovered this book moved from my bookshelf to my bedside table...with a newly handcrafted Batman bookmark!

A letter was tuck inside this book, where my mom wrote the following:

“Our ancestors had their stories about our cultural heroes, stories we are both rediscovering but neither you or I were raised knowing from childhood. Not the stories about our American indigenous heroes.

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AnnCrystal That's because these stories were lost somewhere along our family's line, lost because all our Ancestral stories and cultural ways became forbidden. Forbidden because they gave us power, courage, and hope.

Info did trickle down through the generations, but so much must be rediscovered and reconnected with.

You attached yourself to Batman since you were two years old. You adopted him before Zorro, before Zapata, before other obsessions.

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AnnCrystal Our reality may feel like Gotham City, but do not allow yourself to avoid Gotham, because then you also avoid Gotham's hero.

You have allowed reality's villains to take away the hope that the Batman character ignites within in you.

Rediscover your Batman! Allow the magic held within the pages to seep into your fingertips and fuel you with the power, courage, and the hope that Batman so easily inspires for you.“

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AnnCrystal
These words shook me to the core...I had thought avoiding Gotham City would calm some of my anxiety...yet avoiding Batman could only truly mean one thing for me...

...and there is no 🤬 way that I am ever going to give up on HOPE!

My mom left the heart for me to write whatever I wanted, “fuel your mind“ felt fitting 💖🦇🥰🦇💖.

#zeal4batman
#campaignforEmpathy
#campaignforHOPE

🥲✊🏼🦇🤨🦇✊🏼😉.
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Dilara That was very moving 🌱 ☀ 1w
AnnCrystal Thank You 😘 @Dilara 🦇🥲🌱💖🦇💖📚💖. 1w
TieDyeDude That's amazing! What a great source of wisdom and compassion your mom is. #BatmanForever 1w
AnnCrystal Thank You 😉👍🏼 @TieDyeDude my mom is a genuine gem ☺️🪄💎📚🦇🎬💫. (edited) 1w
Bookwomble Your mum is amazing! ❤️🫂❤️ 4d
AnnCrystal Thank You ☺️👍🏼@Bookwomble a genuine gem Indeed 😉🪄💎📚🦇🎬💫. 4d
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Robotswithpersonality
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Mehso-so

Meh. Various teamups, a few quips, various villains I don't know very well or am not very interested in.
Jimmy Olsen as Elastic Man and Batgirl, as well as Green Arrow and Green Lantern were team ups with fun potential, but neither story was long enough.
Here's hoping next installment in this series is as good as previous ones!

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Robotswithpersonality
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Coppertone ad homage and assorted shenanigans. I approve. 😁

willaful LOL! 3w
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Robotswithpersonality
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Oh, Jimmy, temporary super powers do not make you suave. 🤦🏼‍♂️😏

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Robotswithpersonality
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Just a little trash-talking the green lanterns. 💚

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WeAreLegion
Kingdom Come | Mark Waid, Alex Ross
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Pickpick

Years after the heroes of the Justice League retire, a new generation of powered people quarrel and fight each other, making life for civilians dangerous. This book is the antithesis of the film MAN OF STEEL. It answers the question ‘Why do we need Superman?‘ We need him to be the role model for the concept of ‘superhero‘. Otherwise, we live amongst fascist Gods ruling over us mortal peons. His most valuable power is always doing what‘s right.

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NotCool
Pickpick

One of the biggest complaints about Batman is he could do more good with Bruce Wayne‘s money than as a masked vigilante, beating up impoverished muggers. Without getting into the responses to this (cause honestly for me BM is just a pathway to the larger bat family) Absolute Batman just makes Batman lower middle class. Batman‘s grief and rage, as an adult and child, are well done. His mother is a revelation.

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Bookwomble
Batman: The World | Brian Azzarello, Benjamin von Eckartberg
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Mehso-so

14 Batman stories set in 14 countries by creative teams from those countries: neat idea, ok execution.
With about 15 pages per story, there's not much space for development, even bearing in mind most readers will have some immersion in the Bat-milieu, so minimal set up is needed.
A quick, easy read with some good bits, but it's like those pizzas that show piled toppings on the packaging, but there's hardly any cheese and only one olive inside 🍕🫤

SamAnne Love the analogy for this anthology! 😀 (edited) 2mo
Bookwomble @SamAnne I am unreasonably pleased with it myself!🎖️😁 2mo
vivastory I agree great analogy & having read it I agree! 2mo
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AnnCrystal Love the coverart 📚👏🏼🤩👍🏼💫. 2mo
Bookwomble @AnnCrystal Yes, it's a great cover, and much of the artwork is excellent 🦇 2mo
AnnCrystal @Bookwomble at least the artwork was excellent, that almost always makes up for the lack of a storyline 😉👍🏼📚💫. 2mo
TieDyeDude @AnnCrystal Lee Bermejo is one of my favorite comic artists! He does amazing work with Batman especially. 1mo
AnnCrystal @TieDyeDude create amazing Batman art, and I am an instant fan 👏🏼🤩👌🏼🦇💫. 1mo
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