They. Killed. Batman.

Okie dokie so recently checked up on the what's going on in the dc comics world...specifically the batman area (hey, what else do ya do in summer?).....BE WARNED!  This is going to be a nerdy post! xP  Ok for starters I'm just going to say that Nightwing is my favorite dc character of ALL TIME!! Nightwing is the original robin....just grown up haha. 

Awesome?  I think so! :]

      Annyyway though this post is not about him... well not mainly, it's about Batman.  So apparently, DC comics decided to kill off batman.  Well Bruce Wayne - batman.... To give a little background on Bruce Wayne, when he was 8 he saw his parents shoot and murdered in front of him.  He vowed to try to rid Gotham City (his fictional hometown) of such crimes.  His number one poilcy was Never Kill anyone and Never bare firearms.  Yet, his dying act showed him picking up a gun and killing someone with it.   

       ok with that said...here's my point.  When DC comics killed off Bruce Wayne they destroyed a LOT of things.  Let's make a list! :]

WHY I DON'T LIKE DC COMICS:

1. They killed batman... dude...THEY KILLED BATMAN!  For years, Bruce Wayne has proven himself to be  THEE greatest escape artist in the world.  At the end of serveral issues, batman is at a near death state, yet he ALWAYS escapes.  That's just who Batman is.  He escapes death.  So to have Bruce Wayne killed by some lazer beam eye's from some evil super god (so no one has escaped this lazer beam thingy...so what? :P He's batman)....not cool.  

2. Bruce Wayne is the immortal batman.  When someone says batman, it's ALWAYS linked to Bruce Wayne.  Even people who don't know ANYTHING about comics know the simple fact, Bruce Wayne is Batman.  It's kinda like how everyone knows that Clark Kent is Superman.  It's just known facts ya know?  To change that is like....insane.  I don't like it. 

3. Bruce Wayne died breaking his most sacred rule.  This guy became Batman because he witnessed killing in one of he most horrifying ways ever.  He was grounded upon this rule his ENTIRE career.  These people made him go againest everything he stood for.  This makes Batman a hypocrite... The worst part about this is how the writer of issue of batman's death explained it.  and I quote:

"the root of the Batman mythos is the gun and the bullet that created Batman. So, Batman himself is finally standing there to complete that big mythical circle and to have the image of Batman up against the actual personification of evil and now he's got the gun and he's got the bullet. It seemed to me to work." - Grant Morrison

This guy apparently is saying that Bruce Wayne became who he is cause some bad guy had a gun and went "MWWHAHAHAHA" and made Wayne's life miserable.  So Morrison thinks it "works" to make batman's last act, one of revenge.  So batman points a gun at a symbol of evil and goes with his last breath mutters "mwhhahaha I have the gun this time" (not really but just follow me here).  This is a HORRIBLE ending.  I guess it's just cause as a kid I was taught that revenge gets you no where and it's not the right thing to do.  As the Bible teaches "turn the other cheek".  Their saying that batman's entire life career was centered around revenge... maybe in the beginning a bit, but he generally stands for justice and ironically mercy too - not revenge... haha at least in my mind he does.  No matter how evil the villian is, he never kills them, in this way he shows mercy.  However, he does make them face justice.  This is why i hate the end of batman. They made a mess of one of the greatest characters. 

4. Bruce Wayne's replacement is Dick Grayson.  Yah.  So first, DC destorys one of my favorite characters (Batman/Bruce Wayne).  Then they go after my favorite character.  awesome.  So Dick Grayson was the original robin.  For the longest time he was the comic contrast to the darker character, batman.  After a while, he eventually became Nightwing.  Personally, this is my favorite character cause he's witty yet serious enough at the right times he's round character compared to batman.  (BTW... DC comics also messed up his storyline...and made him look like a COMPLETE JERK!).  As skilled as Grayson might be, he's no batman.  The character differences just don't fit to me.  Grayson will always be better as robin then as batman.  He actually hated some of the ways that Bruce Wayne did things as batman.  I don't know...i really doesn't fit for me.  Plus, they put an end to the character Nightwing...which im SUPER bummed about.

5. The new robin is....interesting.  So the new robin is Damian Wayne, Bruce Wayne's biological son.  He was created in a artifical womb and he shares Bruce Wayne's dna.  Yah.  anyway this kid is snarky, he talks-back and he's nothing like the other robin's (haha yes there were more than one...not going into details about that) were like.  Personally, I liked how robin was a lighter, happier character.  This kid...eww...

    Anyway, that's my little rant on the dc writers.  It's sad they create such good characters then they destroy them... :[  In my mind, these characters stand for a lot more then what the dc writers potray them as.  sigh... they've messed up a lot of my favorite characters.  Batman, Nightwing, Tim Drake ( the third kid to wear the Robin costume), Cassandra Cain (the second person to be called batgirl).  But there is one good dc writer that I really like... but maybe sometimes don't agree with.  Alan Moore.  "Superman: For The Man Who Has Everything".  Go check it out. ;]

btw...some of my facts might be a little sketchy?  haha idk

A Good Friday

It's been a wonderful day!  I got to go adventuring with Emily at the fullerton arbortum!  Such a beautiful place!  After that we went to downtown fullerton and bought some clothes :] After, we went to get some chocolate covered espresso beans and chicken soup at rutabogez's :].  Wonderful little hole-in-the-wall!  Ahh This is My Father's World!  (I appoligize for the lack of quality blogger has for photos... these are usually a lot higher in quality : /  )

"...The birds their Carols raise.."

It's sabbath now.  God is good.  God loves me.  Why do you love me God?  A lowly sinner like me.  Prideful and careless.  May I one day understand your unjust grace and mercy upon my kind.  

I will tell my children about this!

oh good gracious..so i got my permit and we call the driving school to make an appointment.  so the guy on the phone is like "what is youaer pwnumber?" ( yes, he pronounced it that way).   so we had to ask him like three times before we understood what he was saying.   Today I went driving for the first time... the guy had a HORRIBLE koren accent...which basically means he buts a "phh" sound in front of everyword.  So he's like "ok you purse (first) driver?" After I said yes ...then he sighed like a "oh crap no"  sigh.  Then he was like ok.  so we start going and he starts yelling "PAKE PAKE PAKE!!!"  and im like wait what ache i'm not aching!"  Then he yells "No PAS No GAS"  Wait..i'm not farting. What?!? So after he experiences my disasterous driving he decideds it's safe to make phone calls.  ggrreeaatt idea.  haha so then he starts yelling in fluent korean to these people..  It's hirlarious.  Then he'd be talking and i'm about to make a turn. he says "how much?"  so I thought he was talking to the guy so i mind my own business.  But turns out he was asking me how much speed should i have when turning.  So of course I'm like oversteering with too much speed.  Then he yells at me with his bad accent.  I can't take him seriously with his accent! it's just too funny.  He's really impatient too so everytime i do something wrong he's like "NONONO!! Why you do that?!?" imagine Edna Mode from the incredibles saying it.  haha.  So we start going on services streets...and after a while we go to bueana park... from brea bueana park is pretty far...so i'm like "What are we doing here?"  He makes me turn into a korean plaza and turns out he wants to go shopping...  at this point im thinking "You have got to be kidding me.  My parents are paying you to make me drive you to let you make calls and drive you to go get your grocerys?"  So turns out he wanted to buy a cell phone battery to make more phone calls... but on the way home... he doesn't know how to get home..  Imagine this.  A guy trying to teach a kid how to drive while looking at the map to tell the kid where to drive.  Eventually we made it home but it was hilarious... :]  

and we are JUNIORS!

SCHOOL's OUT!!! Man, i have some bittersweet memories of this year!  Well haha i guess you can call it more bitter that sweet... haha I hated almost everything about this year...EXCEPT..Inklings. 

Wonderful, wonderful Inklings.  To my class you guys are the best and I will sorely miss you all!  so, I decided i'd write a little something about all of you. :]  kinda like a ode to inklings :P

Miss Ali Wing :  The first day of class, you walked in and I was like..dude that kid's cool.  That kid's gonna be my friend! :]  It just so happened that we had study hall afterwards and no one would really give a care if we talked or not!  You've become a good friend this year Ali.  It also just so happened that we both dropped study hall second semester so none of us would have to endure toture alone ;].  When we got to that discussion when we were talking about love at first sight...and how Miss Brim mentioned that she saw one of her best friends at orientation and was sure of her as her best friend.  idk not exactly the same story...but similar i guess.  ;]  have fun in England, lake Tahoe, and New Zealand this summer!  We shall have to find time to hang out. 

Miss Alexandra Lang:  Ok one of my favorite memories this year is "the tarzan law".  See whenever we talked about Lewis' idea of the moral law, Miss Lang would introduce the idea of Tarzan..  Did Tarzan know of the moral law?  After a while I dubed it the tarzan law!  That's going to make me smile everytime i hear it. 

Miss Katriana Wylie:  Your so quiet yet you say the AWESOMEST things!  I am STOKED about having you at La Mirada next year!  and your papers and writing style are amazing.  I only wish that I had read as much as you did/do.  It really shows in your writing.  ;]  Some day i'll be standing in a barnes and noble and I'll see your name as author of a bestseller book.  Your goin' places :] 

Miss Danielle Hamlett:  You are absolutely the best at figuring out what i'm trying to say haha.  Sometimes I DON'T even get what i'm trying to say.  haha then you work it out somehow and create an idea.  :]  You also have amazing ideas on concepts and whatnot!  Like at the beginning of some disscussion I would be dead set on a certain direction to the arguement... Then you'd just good around with your amazing ideas and total change my perspective of the conversations and make me argue for the opposing side.  I will seriously miss you next year! Tell Nicole I said HI!  Oh and you take AWESOME pictures! :]

Mr. David Aldana:  You know what's sad David?  You're the ONLY guy in ALL of my classes this year.  What are the chances amIright? This year has been fun for our class haha.  It was fun editing your papers.  Thanks for editing mine.  Why did I always get paired- up with you haha?  It was for the best i suppose.. :]  It was really werid cause you got injured a lot of times this year....keep up sports.  Your good haha.  Well when I see you playing for UCLA i'll be like I know that guy and I went to school with that guy! ;]   

Miss Brim:  Thank you so much for a fufilling and amazing year!  I came into inklings thinking I was going to hate it.  Then you completely changed my views of TA and Christianity.  I have truely enjoyed this year more than others.  Thank you for your dedication to teaching and making sure that we learn and grow! 

You guys have made this year awesome!   For these experiences I will forever be thankful.  I'll miss all you you!  Have a great summer!