He's the hero Michigan deserves.

Well if you're going to get shot up by a bunch of coke dealers, you might as well do it wearing a cape.

HBO is doing a documentary about this movement. Don't know if it aired yet but it looked interesting. Interesting or funny, I haven't decided yet.

Mark Wayne Williams, a.k.a. Michigan's "Batman."

Well, odds are it was either gonna be something like this or child murder.

Let's face it. There are some bad people in the world.



We need a protector.
we need


Michigan Batman

Thor Batman*



* not his real name

alwaysjaded: HBO is doing a documentary about this movement. Don't know if it aired yet but it looked interesting. Interesting or funny, I haven't decided yet.

I saw that documentary a few months ago. Wow...just wow. My favorite was the guy in the van: "I don't have much of a social life." Shocker, that.

The documentary did find one sympathetic group. I think they were based in NYC. They were trying to set up a gay-bashing sting which, on the surface, seemed pretty well put-together. One guy as bait, the others in cars or on skateboards just a few streets away or around the corner. Then they were interviewed individually and you realized just how seriously messed-up these people were. A bunch of kids from AWFUL home lives, one who admitted he had anger-management issues, all just trying to do some good or focus their conflicting emotions. I really felt bad for them.

Alan Moore had the right idea. What kind of people would voluntarily dress up in costume & fight crime? Psychopaths and psychotics.

I keep seeing "Michigan Batman" as "Michelle Bachmann".

Perhaps she should use that.

Michigan Batman and Seattle's Phoenix Jones should duke it out.

/Would watch that on PPV.

Sybarite: He's the hero Michigan deserves.

He is The Dork Knight

When Michigan resident Mark Wayne Williams was caught in May hanging from a building wearing a Batman outfit, police promptly arrested him for trespassing and possession of dangerous weapons, according to Michigan's Petoskey News-Review.

Pfft. Amateur.

Dwight Schrute: I have no vampire experience, but I have hunted werewolves. I shot one once, but by the time I got there, it had turned back into my neighbor's dog.

Great. Now everyone knows who Phoenix Jones is. Everyone knows which family to target.

And, based on the vid I saw, he was pepper spraying people who attacking him (or at least pretending to). He was responding to assault.

brigid_fitch: alwaysjaded: HBO is doing a documentary about this movement. Don't know if it aired yet but it looked interesting. Interesting or funny, I haven't decided yet.

I saw that documentary a few months ago. Wow...just wow. My favorite was the guy in the van: "I don't have much of a social life." Shocker, that.

The documentary did find one sympathetic group. I think they were based in NYC. They were trying to set up a gay-bashing sting which, on the surface, seemed pretty well put-together. One guy as bait, the others in cars or on skateboards just a few streets away or around the corner. Then they were interviewed individually and you realized just how seriously messed-up these people were. A bunch of kids from AWFUL home lives, one who admitted he had anger-management issues, all just trying to do some good or focus their conflicting emotions. I really felt bad for them.

Alan Moore had the right idea. What kind of people would voluntarily dress up in costume & fight crime? Psychopaths and psychotics.

From the preview, I couldn't tell if it was a sympathetic look or a "Hey, look at these weirdos" look. I really want to see it. I'm always fascinated by these on the edge of human behavior types.

Have we seen the Great Lakes Avengers yet?

Adjective Bird Whiskey: Well if you're going to get shot up by a bunch of coke dealers, you might as well do it wearing a cape.

He was in Petoskey, right?



I *really* don't see that happening there. Or in any of the immediate cities, actually, and I used to cover it fairly extensively for work two weeks a year.

Maybe pot.

/put your money where your mouth is and move on down to the lower half of the LP, Michigan Batman.
//Batman
///Michigan

I've been looking through the profiles on that reallifesuperheroes site. There are some terrible costumes there.

/ some good ones too, though

DirkTheDaring: Batman comments on Phoenix Jones


HA!

I'm waiting for the roid raging Bane to show up.

/Yes. Yes, I am a geek, why do you ask?