Comic book rant? (79/90)

Matt, Lou, and I decided to hit up the library in New Lenox. Kind of a spontaneous decision on our part considering we only hinted about going there yesterday, but it somehow happened. We saw the homeless guy at the library again. Oh? I didn't mention him before? Well. On the day when we went to see Kick Ass (Mother's day), Lou and I had an hour to spare before the movie started so we thought that it would be a good idea to spend the hour at the library, but to our disappointment, the library was closed. And there is where we saw the homeless man (or at least we think he's homeless) sitting in front of the library with his netbook using the library's internet and power outlet. Weird, huh?

Anyways, Matt, Lou, and I went to the library today at around 1pm. Matt and Lou just sat around with their laptops playing indie games (like the ones I mentioned here http://www.wolfire.com/humble) while I read Batman: Under the Hood. The comic turned out to be really good. I really don't want to spoil, anything but what the hell. Spoiler Alert! Jason Todd comes back to life and becomes the new Red Hood! But yeah, if you know anything about the Batman comic book series, you might know that Batman has gone through multiple Robins with Jason Todd being the second Robin. Well, during one of the Batman story arcs, the Joker actually manages to kill Robin (Jason Todd). In the comic I read today, Batman: Under the Hood, Jason Todd gets resurrected to become Red Hood. How he comes back to life is not explained, but then again, Batman tries to find out how people can be brought back to life in the comic and fails (Damn plot holes). 

I'm not really a big comic book geek since I have very limited knowledge about comic books in general. In fact, most of the knowledge I do have from comic book heroes come from my friends talking about them. After reading this comic, I've realized how awesome and interesting Batman villains really are. All them are sinister devils who aren't afraid of killing people to get what they want. Heck, most of them are mentally insane. Scarecrow for example used to be a psychiatrist who specialized in the psychology of fear. As a villain, he uses various drugs and psychological tests on his enemies to exploit on their fears and/or phobias. Tell me that isn't insane. Or take the Joker as another example. Some people know the Joker to have no fear, whatsoever. And you know what? That is entirely true. There was an instance where Scarecrow uses a fear toxin (which exposes a person's greatest fear) on the Joker. Turns out, the toxin does not work on Joker meaning that the Joker has no sense of fear whatsoever. That's freaking insane!

Ha! Comic book rant.