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Aug 27, 2023 1:48 PM
kmcshane
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Bonus panel here: https://www.kevincomics.com/comic/full-disclosure/#bonus-panel
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Catman
TheDrunkNinja
Hey good for you, Bruce! Self awareness is a huge step
Imadethisaccounttopost
This was part of the reason Catwoman left Batman at the alter. She realized that for once in his life he was happy, she was happy and because of this their drive to fight crime was slowing. She realized the world needs Batman, and left him.
Imadethisaccounttopost
Sadly, catwoman didn't know this was a plot by Bane to mentally break Batman. The person who was working with Catwoman and put the thought into her head was working for Bane and his syndicate. This lead Batman to a dark time where he went after criminals without evidence, like Mr Freeze and threw them in prison. Only to come to his senses and being coincidentally on Jury duty, clearing Freezes name as Bruce.
Sageypie
IIRC, isn't this more or less canonical? Like, Batman was getting to a happy place at one point and was set to marry catwoman and all, and somebody proceeded to tear his life down because they knew the world needed Batman, and that if Bruce ever became truly happy, then he wouldn't be the Batman we needed anymore.
ChaoticGoodTransGirl
you can't get the big broody guy if you're not willing to put with the stuff he's broody about
ChaoticGoodTransGirl
put up with*
RedLetterMediaReactionGifs
Therapy is not sexy and therefore shouldn't be done. Message received.
MoralRectifier
Good stuff, Kevin!!
kmcshane
Hey thanks!
DavidRodriguezJr
Metallica93
Ooph. Right in the Flashpoint feels.
kojenk
Man they just had to follow it up in tbe most terrible way in the comics
Frenchgeek
https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/l8e19b/pi_without_the_bat/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
ydwyrd
/gallery/wXaGKUd
Goldenteckel
tangent
I like how Tom King's Batman run actually addressed this. Selina left Bruce at the altar because she was afraid if he was happy he would no longer be able to be Batman. In the end their relationship became deeper and they both realised that's not why he was Batman, and that he could have a family, be happy and still be the Batman he needs to be.
anglarite
...Did Tom King wrote this?
Goldenteckel
Stanistani
I'm binging kevin's comics right now...
kmcshane
That won't take long
Stanistani
No, but I thoroughly enjoyed them. Spreading the good word to my cohorts.
Pupvote
Look, Catwoman--if you want to be there for the good times, you've also gotta be there for the bad.
livurz
...the bat times...
itstoodamnearlyforthis
Stole the comment I came here to leave.
smashpro1
Trick question, there are only bat times!
kmcshane
Bonus panel here: https://www.kevincomics.com/comic/full-disclosure/#bonus-panel
TheRealLouzander
I read some of the other ones on your website. The streaming wars ones really got me, and the “new hobby” ones are spot on! Love your sense of humor!
mythsnlore
heh, a great follow-up!
EndlingGer
Is this some kind of rule in DC that women not happy with their relationship go to ivy? First Quinn and now Catwoman.
CptRobotNinja
She has nice fronds
CptRobotNinja
She's a better frond than an enemy
CptRobotNinja
Her frondship is valuable at times like these
CptRobotNinja
Fronderoonyroo
PrincessWendyB
With fronds like these, who needs enemies? ?
E12IK
Talking to your plant is a time honored therapeutic
kanemano
I'm a botanist not a phycologist, Jim
GottaGetThoseSeedsMorty
TIL that a phycologist studies algae
GingeraffeTW
I mean, one of them IS psychologist and she still runs to Ivy. Maybe this is why people like to buy so many plants...
T3NM1DG3TS
Coaches don’t play
TheUnstoppableWampas
She's the rogue gallery's dealer.
Legomaniac91
Well, there was that time she teamed up with the Floronic Man to flood Gotham with cheap, effective weed...
ArkoneAxon
Right before Batman decapitated poor Woodrue because "Marijuana is a gateway drug! Reefer madness!!!!"
ghostofGracchusBabeuf
If this ain’t canon it should be
PrincessWendyB
In my reality, it IS cannon.
RicheTheBuddha
That explains a whole lot.
RicheTheBuddha
Wait ... Does that mean if I go into drug dealing I'd have to develop people skills?
Macewindow54
I mean. Not no
HonHomes
If you are selling a product that alters peoples brain chemistry, having people skills to deal with clients is recommended, as some of them will have altered brain chemistry when you interact with them. Either figure a way to not have to deal too directly with them, or get people skills to upsell, charm and de-escalate, as the situation requires!
limbodog
And Quinn is the only one that's licensed
ThePastmaster
Kinda. I found out that she had a PhD but no MD (As far as I am aware.) so she doesn't have a license to practice.
limbodog
Want she practicing when she met joker?
ThePastmaster
Yes, she was his doctor.
FallingStar7669
She's also a whack job. Maybe Ivy is, like, Harley's translator.
limbodog
Ever meet a psych major that wasn't crazy? Cuz I haven't
cadesama
Her track record as a therapist is spotty as best
limbodog
It's a good thing she's got a side-gig then
OnyxTurret
But who does a therapist go to for therapy?
limbodog
In this case? Batman
SayWhatYouMeanMeanWhatYouSay
Serious answer: Ivy is surprisingly insightful, and innately maternal. Harley and Selina both tend to go to her when they need someone who can tell them what they need to hear in a way that won’t be emotionally crippling.
Torvucci
Also, she may be an ecoterrorist, but she's one of the "most" balanced individuals in the roster (which by itself is quite relative). Also she's the mom friend.
MrRandom314159
The more time goes on, the more Poison Ivy becomes an anti-hero.
EvoNovus01
I mean, who hasn't had the occasional eco-terrorist thought?
StarSauce
People talk about how magneto has gone from total villain to neutral hero over the last few years as we've seen his "excessiveness" toward ending persecution and destroying fascism become increasingly justified (and written more delicately) with the actual fascist proliferation and oppression happening in real life. I think something similar is happening with Ivy's writing as we get deeper into climate change, and more people are realizing how serious and scary it is.
darkhalfbreed
It's kinda like "okay they hurt the wrong people sometimes, but they arnt bad, occasionally they make really good points too"
howlmachine
Also Ivy had had several stories where it shows she focuses on those who actually contribute to climate change and when in need (such as no man’s land) she will choose to protect innocents who cannot protect themselves.
GTimgur
"Be vulnerable! Tell me you're feelings!" "No not like that!"
aarkarr
I am feelings
PootisBirb
Yeah, doesn't have the same ring as "I am vengeance," does it?
nangke
Well, he did go and trauma-dump during their designated fight-flirt time
GTimgur
That's fair!
eeps
Batman has bad social awareness apparently. Right words, wrong time.
DropDrop
I've heard men's emotions compared to women's body hair. Totally natural, but often seen as shocking or unnatural. Like not shaving your armpits and going out in public with a sleeveless outfit can be interpreted as trying to make a statement of some kind, or an attack on gender norms. Men and women have been pushed to become caricatures of genders to the degree that natural seems unnatural. "A man crying when sad, something is wrong here!", "A woman with armpit hair, is she militant feminist!?"
pinkrabbithole
Gender itself is unnatural. I just don't like shaving it takes too much time!!
DropDrop
Yeah, I think one of the biggest confusion about gender is that people for get that gender comes from the Latin genus, meaning kind, sort, or type or class of noun. It's just a word for category, not a word for penis or vagina specifically, though that is a way you could categories something. So in many ways human's have made gender unnatural, it's like we pulled the wings off of butterflies, then categorized butterflies as a wingless creature. In a way it would be true, they don't have wings -
DropDrop
- but only because we pulled them off, or taught them to shave those areas, or taught them expressing emotions wasn't what they should do in their category. It's so silly to me how often people who claim gender norms are natural, are also the first and most aggressive to culturally enforce gender norms. If they're natural, then we would they need to be culturally enforced?
pinkrabbithole
You make a well informed point, its just a way to categorize people. was speaking in the aspect of how gender is a social construct we created around the idea of sex. Sex is not gender, but people still confuse that, considering i was down voted immediately
DropDrop
Yeah, I upvoted you. I've been seeing a weird new trend of things getting downvoted that don't make sense to be down voted. Sadly all it takes is one or two people to downvote something early and other people might not see it, so it'll stay downvoted.