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Thursday, October 27, 2011

What If Batman Was An Arsehole?



What better way to start a Thursday than with a little bit of ultra-violence?

This here is Nemesis. Nemesis is not a nice person. Nemesis comes form a long line of not-nice people, in particular, his father, who used to hunt teenagers in Tokyo for sport. This got daddy all body-bagged and Nemesis pissed.

Queue Batman-esque pilgrimage of growth and learning across the globe, for all the wrong reasons.

“That inner-peace is in here somewhere.”

Mark Millar originally promoted his comic by asking the question, “What if Batman were the Joker?” Reportedly, he originally wanted to announce, “What if Batman was a cunt?” but apparently there were legal issues surround the use of the word ‘Batman’ and in the end he just resorted to punching a reporter in the face with a fist of bloody meat (two thirds of this story are true).

Driven by similar yet converse reasons to Batman, Nemesis cuts a bloody swath through the law enforcement ranks of the world as he seeks revenge for the death of his father.

I won’t spoil anything, because I haven’t read it yet, but I hear the whole thing ends with a group hug and thirteen months of staggered art therapy. Nemesis discovers a wellspring of love and a passion for finger painting.

The comic received varied reviews, but this video by Richard Payne of Creative Immortal – a mash-up of the comic panels and popular dub-step track ‘Badman Silence’ – has seen nothing but gold. Be warned, it is not for the faint of heart.

Does this count as NSFW?

1 comment:

Papa Action said...

This should be made into a movie. Preferably not starring Colin Farrell or Orlando Bloom (unless they are starring as victims that get a baton through the eye socket).

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