Batman: Wait, what?
Nov. 23rd, 2011 04:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daibhidcSo in the latest issue of Batman, he's fighting these thugs in metal masks. And the narration explains:
The candidates -- or "sixths" -- are given intensive weapons training overseas before being allowed to travel to the States.
Once here, they're each fitted with an iron mask, symbolic of their loyalty to the gang. A muzzle to prove they'll never "snitch".
The mask is soldered together at the back of the head, and can't be removed for at least a year, until the sixth has proved himself.
All of which makes them pretty tough--
Does it, Bruce? Does it really? When they haven't eaten solid food for months?
Batman defeats them by magnetising a train; he might have been quicker waiting for them to collapse of malnutrition. Being stuck to the train is probably the only thing holding them up!
The candidates -- or "sixths" -- are given intensive weapons training overseas before being allowed to travel to the States.
Once here, they're each fitted with an iron mask, symbolic of their loyalty to the gang. A muzzle to prove they'll never "snitch".
The mask is soldered together at the back of the head, and can't be removed for at least a year, until the sixth has proved himself.
All of which makes them pretty tough--
Does it, Bruce? Does it really? When they haven't eaten solid food for months?
Batman defeats them by magnetising a train; he might have been quicker waiting for them to collapse of malnutrition. Being stuck to the train is probably the only thing holding them up!
