First they need to get some better mental health professionals. All the ones they have seem to be supervillains.
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I always wonder what’s the story with how these things came to be.
Until recently, in DC, it was legal to possess marijuana but illegal to buy marijuana or to bring it into the city. As I heard, you would go places and buy something like a pack of gum and then be provided with a “free gift” with your purchase. Who knows how the gift got there in the first place?
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Well, the tax thing in Kansas is pretty straight-forward. If you get caught with illegal drugs, you also get charged with tax evasion (because you didn’t pay taxes on them).
I did some more looking; it appears some things have changed or I was misinformed previously; it may actually be possible to acquire your drug tax stamps without getting arrested.
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When I lived in Colorado, there were awkward laws like this as well. Before marijuana was legalized, it was legal (supposedly) to possess up to a certain amount in such a way that you wouldn’t be considered a “dealer”. But it was illegal to actually transact it. Immaculate possession, I guess.
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Nothing new there. The feds got Al Capone on tax evasion charges for his illegal booze income during alcohol Prohibition, after all.
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And so started the trend amongst the nouveau riche for chewing the world’s most expensive “luxury” gum.
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As with most Batman ideas, this has already been quite thoroughly explored in the comics, not least in The Dark Knight Returns, but you’ve tempted me to have a peek as I was also left pretty cold by the Nolans.
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Yes, it’s certainly not a new idea but they don’t make too much of it and try to hammer home the writer’s hobby horse, as it were. Personally I’m all for the Burgess Meredith Penguin and Frank Gorshin Riddler, rather than just making them gangsters and terrorists, but maybe the sequel will do more with the supervillain idea.
Not in the mood for dancing, eh?
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So, so, banned.
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“We like to think of ourselves as the sand in the gears of the world.” (Egyptians in Imperium.)
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“They’ve pulled the wool over our feet”
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“He hypnotised me with his fluttering.”
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“Coffee counts as a bio break.”
(After a gunfight) “As for your jacket, all I can recommend is burial at sea.”
“Is there really a middle ground between that and quietly murdering them in the middle of the night?”
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“I will touch you with my ham!”
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Which is why it was so awesome to find Willie’s Hole, right in the middle of Romer’s Gap.
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(Today’s RuneQuest session.)
“‘Really, we were planning to go with that larger caravan, so they’ll already have booked a space for us. We’ll pay you of course, and I’m sure you’ll refund them.’ Stated in a way that indicates I absolutely do not believe that last bit.'”
“These are small creatures, which are… not very large…”
“Actually that’s too clear on the tenses. Imagine I have confused it in some manner.”
“They’re a lot smaller [than dragons]. I mean, they rarely appear on maps.”
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“Hearts and farts.”
“Hey, that’s a good tagline for parenthood.”
“Yeah. And long-term marriage.”
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Ah, the forgotten first great piece by Czibulka and Tobani.
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