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Here’s a question….why do so many dangerously unstable individuals have degrees in science in Comicbookland?

Yes, yes….in our world too, but Oppenheimer never turned himself into a bat on a whim.

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His last name is Larvan? Really? I suppose is a good thing for its creator not to be mentioned in the character’s file.

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Here’s how good an artist Gil Kane was — he made that guy look GOOD.

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His right hand scares me. I see what they were going for, but to me it looks like just a tangle of misdirected fingers.

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It’s the incidental details that crack me up. Tacked on at the end: he created a memory-destroying gas? That could be the basis of an entire criminal career in and of itself! Screw the robot bug gimmick! That would just lead the heroes to start investigating evil entomologists, anyways. But how easy would it be to cover your trail with *memory-destroying gas*?! C’mon, people!

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His logo deserves a “Thursday Who’s Who” all to itself.

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ps238principal said on June 11th, 2009 at 10:20 am

I guess “The Batman-Booted Bandit” would have sounded too silly?

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Katzedecimal said on June 11th, 2009 at 10:29 am

You’re effen kidding me.

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NCallahan said on June 11th, 2009 at 10:58 am

If these are the kinds of guys who can’t find investors for their prototypes in the DC universe, you gotta wonder what the line-up for the DARPA challenge looks like.

……alright, does anybody know how we can bribe Warren Ellis into writing about the DARPA challenge in the DC universe?

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Lister Sage said on June 11th, 2009 at 11:11 am

..”but Oppenheimer never turned himself into a bat on a whim.”

Man, that would have been awesome. Someone needs to develop a degree for Mad Science.

Jeff Hebert: What I like most about it is he actually has the characters interacting with the blurb.

NCallahan: The problem I see with that is two fold. 1) Since almost the beginning of comics you’ve had fully functional robots. So no one has to develop shit since you can just ask Red Tornado. 2) But on the other side of that, since most of those robots are vicious human killers from outer space, using them as a basis for a car that drives itself is hazardous at best.

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RobotKeaton said on June 11th, 2009 at 12:55 pm

Y’know, people always bring up how Captain Cold or Stilt Man could have made a fortune if they would have just patented their inventions and never even bothered being criminals. And then there’s ol’ Bertram, who wanted to do just that, and nobody could get behind me. Where’s the justice?

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ps238principal said on June 11th, 2009 at 1:26 pm

He can’t be THAT good at building robots. I mean, assuming that’s a remote control for them in his left hand, he’s still having to point at The Atom so the bug-bots know who to go after.

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Lister Sage said on June 11th, 2009 at 1:48 pm

ps238principal: I suppose you have a point, but that’s also like saying ‘Well, sure the Wright brothers invented the aircraft, but it doesn’t even seat five people does it?’

Maybe it works like Psycho-Man’s emotion inducing device, which only as three simple settings, hate, doubt and fear, and PM used that to conquer the Micro-verse.

So, it has an attack setting, but they have to be told who to attack. Which if you think about it is a good idea. If you wanted to attack just the Atom in a restaurant, stealthily, you don’t want a whole swarm of robo-bugs attacking Jean-Pierre. Where’s that get you? (In before ‘Waiter. There’s a robot fly in my soup.’)

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HitTheTargets said on June 11th, 2009 at 4:06 pm

He looks a bit like a rejected Ambush Bug design. You know, back before they knew they’d turn him all loopy and interesting.

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Craig Oxbrow said on June 11th, 2009 at 9:05 pm

A rating of over a quarter of a Rex seems a tad high.

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So if Bug Eyed Bandit and the Red Bee were to fight…

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Uber Geek said on June 11th, 2009 at 11:44 pm

And you didn’t even mention Sting, the guy who stole his gimmick after he died.

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DistantFred said on June 12th, 2009 at 3:12 am

Uber Geek: Wait… I thought Sting’s gimmick was dressing like The Crow and dropping from the rafters with a baseball bat.

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@Al Bruno III

Yes, the Red-Eyes from Mystery Men would make a cameo.

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Yeah, I agree, the Bug-Eyed Bandit actually looks sort of cool in this picture.

I seriously think this guy could have been a much better villain if he simply had a better villain name. I mean, come on, you’ve got robot bugs that can wreck everybody’s shit, that’s hardcore. But have some self respect, you know? Like, go with, uh…

uh…

Insectro? Okay, maybe actual bug related names aren’t that good. But seriously, even Dr. Larvan is better than Bug Eyed Bandit…

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Insects, robots, strange gases, … I think we found the DCU version of Hank Pym.

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Uber Geek said on June 12th, 2009 at 9:06 pm

DistantFred: Groan.

For those who don’t know which Sting I’m talking about, it’s the villain from the “Power of the Atom” series.

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Craig Oxbrow said on June 13th, 2009 at 6:27 pm

At least DistantFred didn’t suggest that his gimmick was looking like John Constantine and playing the lute.

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Highest irony, isn’t it, that such a great artist should render such a crummy character. He sort of pulls it off, too. Fucker knows how to draw.

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