My own self

By Obdormio, too, and he's a picky one, so yay.

I spontaneously translated the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-theme to Nynorsk and put it in first person:

ME ER VERDAS MEST FRYKTSAME SLÅSSENDE SAMARBEIDSGRUPPE!
ME ER HELTAR!
I SKJELPADDESKAL!
OG ME ER GRØNE!
NÅR DEN VONDE MAKULERAREN GÅR TIL ÅTAK!
SÅ TEK ME SKJELPADDEGUTAR SLETT IKKJE SÅ LETT PÅ DET!

MUTERTE NINJA-TENÅRINGSKJELPADDER!
MUTERTE NINJA-TENÅRINGSKJELPADDER!
MUTERTE NINJA-TENÅRINGSKJELPADDER!
HELTAR I SKJELPADDESKAL!
SKJELPADDEKRAFT!


Erlend, of course, quotes the best bit:
"Når den vonde makuleraren går til åtak, så tek me skjelpaddegutar slett ikkje så lett på det!"

"Pearls are for a special night."
"Couldn't we make it special?"

Batman: Haunted Knight.

The third (well, technically first, but third I've gotten my hands on) Batman TPB by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale, which collects the three Batman Halloween-specials they did before thinking up and making the wonder that is "The Long Halloween". Like the two in TLH, these three halloweens occur during Batman's early years, though exactly when isn't stated.

I liked Sale's drawings a lot in this. I'm warming to his style, actually. There are still some few panels here andthere I don't like, but on the whole, I'm starting to like his way of drawing.

The first story, "Fears", is about Bruce and Batman. They even have different inner monologues, taking turns in showing us what the man beneath the cowl is thinking. As the title indicates, the villain here is Scarecrow, but that's more a plot-mechanism to allow for the inner fight of the main character than anything else, as I see this. A very good story, I'll easily give this an 8 out of 10.

The second story, "Madness", well, the villain is less easily predicted from just glancing at the title - it could be almost anybody from Arkham - but in this one, it is the Mad Hatter, who, as Scarecrow did in the first story, is there to serve as a plot-device to cause the main character's inner struggles throughout the story. Which in this one is far more interesting and powerful, I feel, than the one in "Fears", though the plot itself is maybe weaker. Still, I'll give this an 8,5.

The third story, "Ghosts", is in my opinion the weakest of the three. While both the others also focused on Batman's inner life, this is the only one to almost bar out everything else, as most of the story is a feverish dream based on "A Christmas Carol". While it is splendidly done, I dislike seeing remakes of ACC everywhere I turn, and I didn't really feel this story did anything with the character not already done in "Fears". Still, it's a good read, and I'm enough of a sap to find the ending rather touching, so I'll give it 7/10.

So, a good book indeed, this. Took me only three busrides to read it, too.

Blackaaaaadder, Blackaaaaaadder,
a monarch with panache!
Blackaaaaaadder, Blackaaaaaaadder,
he's got a nice moustache!

Blackaaadder, Blackaaaadder,
his beard is neatly curled,
Blackaaaadder, Blackaaaaaaaaaaaaadder,
He's going to rule the world!


So, despite my quoting the "Back and Forth"-special, I've been watching season 2 and 3-episodes the last couple of days, and my God, it is as good as I remember. Indeed season 4 is the best one, but I've watched it so many times the other ones are starting to look better for share lack of knowing every word by heart.


The series is so cunning that you could stick a tail on it and call it a weasel.

Blackaaaadder, Blackaaadder,
with many a cunning plaaaaan,
Blackaaaadder, Blackaaaaaader,
you horrid little maaaaan!

*sighs happily*


"How can I repay y-"
"Whatever."


"BUNNIES! IT MUST BE BUNNIES!"


"They got! The mustard! Ouuuuuuuuuuuut!"


"The moon to your tide."


"That her toes are... kinda hairy."


"I'm asking you please no! It isn't right, it isn't fair! There was no parking anywhere! I think that hydrant wasn't there."


"...so... you're not staying then?"


"What I mean, I'm fifteen, so this queen-thing's illegal!"


"Your path's unbeaten, and it's all uphill.
And you can take it, but you never will.
And I'm the reason, that you're standing still.
But I..."


"You made me believe..."


"Wish I could play the father, and take you by the hand..."


"I touch the fire and it freezes me. I look into it, and its black."


"I hope she fries! I'm free if that bitch dies! ...I'd better help her out."


"We'll see it through, that's what we're always here to do, so we will walk through the fire."


"First I'll kill her, then I'll save her!"


"I think this line's mostly filler."


"Showtime."


"Give me something to sing about."

"All the joys life sends. Family - and friends. All the twists - and bends. Knowing that - it ends. Well that depends - on if they let you go, on if they know enough to know, that when you bow... you leave the crowd..."

"You have to go on living. So one of us is living."

"Understand; we'll go hand in hand, but we'll walk alone in fear."

"Bugger this."