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CT31: An Arkham Tale |
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Posts: 3928 07/24/03 18:37 Gothamite |
Chapter 1, which you might consider a brief preview
of the tale, as it is a little short...
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ThornSilver |
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Posts: 116 07/24/03 19:48 |
Christ, you rock, I just wanted you know know
that.
Arkham works out quite nicely as a subset of Gotham, doesn't it.  "Ponder shook his sleeves to leave his hands free. For a wizard, this was equivalent to checking the functioning of a pump-action shotgun"--_The Last Contintent_ by Terry Pratchett |
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Jarissa Paxton |
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Posts: 545 07/24/03 22:08 |
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeheeeeeeeeeeheeeeeeeeheeeeeee....
I can't wait to see what Hugo Strange, if it is in fact him might be up to. Jarissa
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Star Ranger4 |
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Posts: 1316 07/25/03 02:06 Adrift in Space |
Hmm... Not much to say yet, but the scene is set
and the pieces are in play...
It can only get... well.. STRANGE-er from here. "I was an Otaku before those kids
came along and changed the meaning of the
word."
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Unregistered(d) |
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Posts: 0 07/28/03 06:01 |
This was an interesting start to a new chapter. It
was neat seeing how the employee's at Arkham reacted to
Poison Ivy's mood. In all honestly I can't believe that
the inmates are cooping with the smell as well as they
are.
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Chris Dee.gothampm |
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Posts: 3928 07/29/03 16:11 Gothamite |
Chapter 2: Dr. Jerry's House o' Fun is now
here!
At FanFiction.net and the Cat Tales Website “Do you, Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle promise to forsake all others and reserve your warped, angst-ridden, dysfunctional nincompoopery for each other, thereby saving at least two innocent people and providing untold hours of fascinated diversion to the rest of us who might otherwise think WE have screwed up relationships!” --Dick Grayson in a moment of clarity |
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ThornSilver |
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Posts: 116 07/29/03 17:12 |
The thing with provoking Catman, is hilarious. I
can never get enough of rogues interacting.
And Croc... even Croc had come up with a way to deal with Joker and the octopus joke!  "Ponder shook his sleeves to leave his hands free. For a wizard, this was equivalent to checking the functioning of a pump-action shotgun"--_The Last Contintent_ by Terry Pratchett |
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TwoFace275 |
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Posts: 2455 07/29/03 17:52 |
CORKING chapter.
Very funny - the writer obviously enjoyed writing it as much as I enjoyed reading it! Were there ever to be an Oscars style CatTales awards ceremony, might I nominate 'the octopus' for the best supporting actor category? "Harvey is Fate's
bitch, it's that simple." - Chris Dee
that seems to be your tagline. "harvey 'two face' dent...d.a.: this won't end well." - Query "Ooh, sounds good Query. If he ever runs for another office, we can handle his campaigning. Big huge signs saying "This Won't End Well"... bumper stickers... I see it All..." - Lady Dien |
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ThornSilver |
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Posts: 116 07/29/03 18:21 |
 For
best "metaphysical supporting actor".
Heee. "Ponder shook his sleeves to leave his hands free. For a wizard, this was equivalent to checking the functioning of a pump-action shotgun"--_The Last Contintent_ by Terry Pratchett |
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katfairy |
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Posts: 769 07/29/03 21:27 Ballistic Soprano |
Damn. I never thought Croc could do anything to
impress me. Looks like I was wrong.
Now I wonder who this new villain could be.... They sing choruses in public- that's mad
enough, I think.
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Posts: 0 07/29/03 21:52 |
It was neat seeing the just how much corroption
their is in Arkham. I found Croc's response to Joker
funny.
Out of curiasity how does Hugo Strange know that Bruce is Batman? I don't read the comics so I don't know how he figured it out. Every time this is mentioned in the stories it always bugs me to find out how but for some reason I never think to ask. |
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Jarissa Paxton |
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Posts: 545 07/29/03 21:59 |
Go, Croc! That was brilliant!
Meanwhile, someone ought to pass Hugo's latest theory to the Tattler.  Someone slightly stupid. Vics, maybe? Nurse Chin
could help him package it properly for the sale, in
return for a modest percentage.Jarissa
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Catwoman Meow |
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Posts: 6453 07/29/03 22:05 Feline Fatale |
The Hugo Question:
It depends on which version you prefer: pre-crisis, post- or the cartoons. Pre-Crisis I'm going to let Rob or ussentinel handle, because it is THE classic Batman arc and I wouldn't want to get it wrong. It's been a while and I'm a tad fuzzy on the details. Post-Crisis arc is Doug Moench's LoDK run: Prey (the sequel Terror is about to come out in TBP!) in Prey, Hugo is brought in by city bigshots shortly after Batman's debut as a crimefigher. He is certain Batman had a loved one that was the victim of a violent street crime and begins searching the records, looking for surviving spouses that fit a profile. Eventually he thinks to go further back. Zany hijinx ensue. In the cartoon they bypassed the psychobabble and went straight for a gadget. Hugo was set up in a spa (the evil health spa was very popular in that series), and the stress management program involved a machine that could read thoughts. Bruce went undercover. Zany hijinx ensued. In both the pre-crisis and cartoon version, Hugo assembles rogues to auction off Batman's identity to the highest bidder. That is an element of the cat tales history as well - and why it is more of a sore spot with some than others. |
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TwoFace275 |
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Posts: 2455 07/29/03 22:28 |
Pre Crisis - Hugo lures Batman somewhere only to
use an adder or some other snake to knock him out. When
Bats awakes, he is maskless and Hugo is cackling. Hugo
then sets about pretending he is Batman (complete with
impressive six pack - I always remember thinking how daft
Hugo's face looked on top of the Bat suit).
Fortunately for Bruce, Hugo is later beaten to death by a Crime Lord he has got on the wrong side of (and later haunts). Marvellous story - highly recommend (even if my synopsis makes it sound a bit cheesy) "Harvey is Fate's
bitch, it's that simple." - Chris Dee
that seems to be your tagline. "harvey 'two face' dent...d.a.: this won't end well." - Query "Ooh, sounds good Query. If he ever runs for another office, we can handle his campaigning. Big huge signs saying "This Won't End Well"... bumper stickers... I see it All..." - Lady Dien |
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Nam El Baronoh.gothampm |
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Posts: 353 07/30/03 00:58 Wonders |
Which makes me wonder... isn't Strange dead? And if
not, could this be corrected? Please?
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Unregistered(d) |
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Posts: 0 07/30/03 01:33 |
Thanks for the info about Hugo Strange.
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Chris Dee.gothampm |
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Posts: 3928 07/30/03 01:40 Gothamite |
Quote:You mean you - you want me to - to hire somebody to - eh, er, well I do have Hitman Tommy Monaghan's IM but eh, I really don't know about actually having someone snuffed, even a cockroach like Hugo. But to answer your question, SPOILER ALERTS!...Hugo has undergone about as many comicbook deaths as Joker. Precrisis he died the one time Rob mentioned, then haunted boss whoever, but then I'm pretty sure he came back in non-ghostly form. Post-crisis, I THINK he survived Prey, but nobody seems quite sure. Then in Terror it looked like he died (fell thru the floor, impaled on a sewer pipe) but then in the last act he wasn't dead afterall, and he had, I believe, one of those ambiguous washed out to sea (in another sewer pipe?) and never found the body. I COULD be wrong about that, I'm just piecing it together from what I remember. Long story short: Hugo is harder to kill than a cockroach. “Do you, Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle promise to forsake all others and reserve your warped, angst-ridden, dysfunctional nincompoopery for each other, thereby saving at least two innocent people and providing untold hours of fascinated diversion to the rest of us who might otherwise think WE have screwed up relationships!” --Dick Grayson in a moment of clarity |
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JasonBloodOfGotham |
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Posts: 1611 07/30/03 02:22
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Bit of pointless trivia: I believe my writer once
stumbled across a fanfic wherein Etrigan got the (not-so)
singular honour of killing Strange... and then proceeded
to guilt-trip a certain Bat quite nicely over it... but
damned if we can remember the link.
Edit: On the very, very slim chance anyone cares, we found it: dark_mark.tripod.com/apokolips22.html ...oddly enough, it is both slightly worse than we remember it and the 'guilt trip' scene seems to have disappeared. Perhaps Dien imagined it. |
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Nam El Baronoh.gothampm |
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Posts: 353 07/30/03 07:07 Wonders |
Longevity is not the only characteristic of a
cockroach that he shares. How freaky do you have to be
when Harley, not noted for her taste, can't stand
you?
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Catwoman Meow |
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Posts: 6453 07/30/03 15:01 Feline Fatale |
Dien, Since it was fanfic, it could be that the
link you found is an earlier version of what you read and
it did in fact get rewritten/improved and the guilting
scene added once the author matured a bit.
Or, as Jason suggests, maybe you imagined it. (I swear, you two bicker more than Hugo & Crane!) Anyhoots, the only thing I wanted to add is that Prey also marks the appearance of that other character which, like Nocturna and Anton, Chris sometimes gets credited for inventing but didn't: Hugo's mannequin. 
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Allaine |
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Posts: 1779 07/30/03 15:53 |
Years ago I saw Kevin Pollak (The Usual Suspects)
do a skit where he was Albert Brooks doing Batman. Him in
the Bat-cowl made me think of Hugo.
I think Nurse Chin should thank whatever god she prays to that there is no Query in Cat-Tails. Great stuff. Sincerely, Allaine P.S. You make it sound like Ivy is the only woman who turns into a violent, disagreeable harpy when you disagree with her.  |
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