And by that, I mean I’m heading to the Secular Student Alliance‘s in-person board meeting. It’s kind of like the meeting of the Justice League. We both defend the world against evil-doers, right? Except that our strategizing involves poring over budgets and organizational goals, we require much more coffee, and our secret lair is in Columbus, Ohio.
Close enough.
I call Batman.
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Ibis3, denizen of a spiteful ghetto
January 20, 2012 at 9:13 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
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Have fun, Jen!
SeanK
January 20, 2012 at 11:13 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Who do you think would win a fight between The Justice League and the Secular Student Alliance? It’s a tough one to call.
treefrog
January 20, 2012 at 11:15 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I smell a photoshopping on the way.
Gryphon
January 20, 2012 at 11:50 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
a man dressed like a bat?
mandasauce
January 20, 2012 at 12:24 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I love Alex Ross! He is my all-time favorite comic book illustrator. Have a great trip, Jen!
PZ Myers
January 20, 2012 at 12:43 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I get stuck playing Aquaman again, don’t I?
Never mind me, I’ll be off in the corner chatting up some fish.
Morpheus91
January 20, 2012 at 1:14 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Are octopuses technically fish? :D
Erin Winslow
January 20, 2012 at 2:29 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
PLEASE tell me that y’all will concoct a clever, even diabolical plan, to defeat this:
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/01/20/407580/kentucky-gov-cuts-education-funding-while-preserving-tax-breaks-for-biblically-themed-amusement-park/
I will bake you (and your henchminions) cakes for the rest of y’alls lives!!! :-)
John Shutt
January 20, 2012 at 3:27 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
We aren’t shown the Justice League poring over budgets and organizational goals, because it’s just not exciting to watch. Little known fact, they require heroic amounts of coffee. And their secret lair is in Columbus, Ohio.
Eric RoM
January 20, 2012 at 3:55 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Where better to locate it?
Dan OlderMusicGeek
January 20, 2012 at 5:14 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Kinda a spiritual group to compare yourself to. Batman, if I remember right, is the only atheist in the bunch.
http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/comic_book_religion.html
Dan OlderMusicGeek
January 20, 2012 at 5:16 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I like how the comic book character, The Atheist, is listed as an agnostic!
Joe Dickinson
January 20, 2012 at 6:13 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
But do you all wear tights?
schism
January 20, 2012 at 9:25 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Aquaman’s powers include commanding all marine life, which at the very least include octopi, squid, and Cthulhu. It possibly also includes anything descended from marine life, depending on how you look at it.
Basically, Aquaman can sic a massive army of eldritch horrors on people more or less at will…exactly like Pharyngulation, actually.
Morpheus91
January 20, 2012 at 9:44 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I’m now afraid a tidal wave of Cthulu porn shall generate from Pharyngula. O.O
Sili
January 21, 2012 at 8:59 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Huh? I thought he was Catholic.
Svlad Cjelli
January 21, 2012 at 9:24 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
In old sources, before more specific language was needed I assume, “fish” and “sea life” et.c. were interchangeable.
I for one grew up calling octopods inkfish.
Svlad Cjelli
January 21, 2012 at 9:26 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Doesn’t Robin have to deal with most of that?
Svlad Cjelli
January 21, 2012 at 9:29 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Lapsed episcopalian.
Also, J. Jonah Jameson Hates Spider-Man.
http://www.comicbookreligion.com/
Jaws
January 21, 2012 at 8:32 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
No, it’s Alfred‘s job.
WCLPeter
January 22, 2012 at 11:27 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I was having a hard time seeing a female Batman. Batwoman and Batgirl, sure, but Batman proper? I wasn’t sure until I found this:
http://io9.com/5876195/gender+bent-justice-league-gets-a-comic-book-look
Now? Oh yeah, totally rockin’ the female Batman. Of course that begs another question, can you do the *voice*? Batman’s only real super power is his crazy smart intellect, you’re a scientist so you got that part covered, and that *voice*.
So, do you got the voice? ;-)
Pete…
PS: Don’t care what the site says, I still get to be The Flash (running super fast is my “super power” wish [I'm afraid of heights])! :-D
Jewell Dye
March 17, 2012 at 10:48 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I’m visiting read a small number of more of one’s posts.