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Today, 20 September, is Batman Day. You’d think there would be a signal or something but

Anyway, here’s “Batman’s Aff His Nut”, by Robert Florence

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Glasgow #comics #comicbooks #Batman #BatmanDay

Batman’s aff his nut
by Robert Florence

Have you seen the way he cuts aboot
Dressed up as a mad fuckin bat
Batterin guys
I was lit at:
“Mate, I’m worried aboot ye
I know your ma and da died
But everybody’s ma and da dies
And we’re no aw runnin aboot
Hookin muggers and
Kickin psychopaths in the baws.”
And that was when Batman went
“Aye, but do ye ever feel like it?
Do you ever look at the world and feel like it?
Like having a big mad base under your hoose?
Do you ever feel like drivin a big mad motor
that turns intae a tank?
And leatherin fuck oot of guys aw night?
Scarin the fuckin shite oot of them?”
And that’s when I was lit at:
“Aye. Fuck it. Ah dae.”
And that’s the Secret Origin of Robin
And everyone else.

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Blurry photo of a man in a (partial?) Batman costume, on a wet Glasgow street – probably taken during the filming of the 2022 movie THE BATMAN, where Glasgow was a stand-in for Gotham City.

Text: She’s turned the Waynes against us…

She’s turned the Waynes against us

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“Frank Quitely is widely celebrated in the comics world, but far less attention has been paid to how deeply his work engages with the cultural, historical, & visual identity of Glasgow & Scotland”

Drs David John Boys & Julie Briand-Boyd, on the University of Leuven Press blog

https://lup.be/2025/06/david-john-boyd-and-julie-briand-boyd-superhero-comics-and-scottish-identity/

#Scottish #literature #identity #comics #comicbooks #illustration #FrankQuitely #Glasgow #Scotland

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