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Every week, we will be examining comic book stories and ideas that were not only abandoned, but also had the stories/plots specifically "overturned" by a later writer (as if they were a legal precedent). Click here for an archive of all the previous editions of The Abandoned An' Forsaked. Feel free to e-mail me at email@example.com if you have any suggestions for future editions of this feature.
Today, we examine how the killer of Batman's parents have changed over the years…
We first learn what happened to Batman's parents in Detective Comics #33 in 1939 (just six months after his first appearance)…
Nine years later, in 1948's Batman #47 we learn the name of their killers, Joe Chill…
Batman later confronts him in a brilliant scene by Bill Finger…
This was later confirmed to still be the case post-Crisis on Infinite Earths by Mike Barr in Detective Comics #578…
But first, in an Zero Hour tie-in issue of Detective Comics where Bruce travels to an alternate timeline where his parents lived and he died, he sees reason to disbelieve that Chill actually killed his parents in his timeline…
At the end of the issue, though, nothing is confirmed either way.
The next month, though, following Zero Hour, it was confirmed in Batman #0 by Doug Moench that the mruder was no longer solved…
Infinite Crisis appeared to reverse Zero Hour's change, but apparently the current Batman titles are going under the Zero Hour change and the murder remains unsolved.
No, it has NOT been the standard ever since – "Infinite Crisis" saw to that. It was made clear that Batman's killer WAS caught and brought to justice; subsequent retellings (including Neil Gaiman's "Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader") made it clear that it was Joe Chill.
What Nick said. Morrison even rehashed the Golden Age confrontation during his run.
I would hardly count Whatever Happened to The Caped Crusader as "continuity", but yeah, I agree—Infinite Crisis re-established Chill as the killer of the Waynes. I'd wager that when the time comes for them to tell it again, that'll be the story in the New 52 as well.
I think Snyder has confirmed that the Waynes' killer was never caught in New52 continuity.
I was just about to say it, Nick. Honestly, I think having the Waynes' killer remain "faceless" is awesome because it brings this whole element of Batman wanting to avenge his parents' death by bringing down ALL criminals since, technically, any of them could be the killer.
Plus, just having a throwaway story mentioning how Chill was caught a long time ago eliminates the possibility of writing awesome stories that give you pause and make you rethink everything you ever thought about the Waynes death.
the abandoned storyline would be NOT knowing who the killer is. the removal of chill as the killer.
Anyone notice how in the original story (and most retellings) the mugger shoots Martha but in Batman 47 she dies of a heart attack.
I think Snyder has confirmed that the Waynes' killer was never caught in New52 continuity.
Correct. So I should have said "remains the standard," and that's what I've changed it to now.
They can retcon a whole lot of things… but as long as I'm alive Joe Chill will always be the killer of Bruce's parents.
wasn't there also an implication in Jeph Loeb's Superman/Batman that John "Metallo" Corben did the deed?
No amount of continuity massaging can undo the "holy crap" awesomeness of that sequence from Batman #47.
wasn't there also an implication in Jeph Loeb's Superman/Batman that John "Metallo" Corben did the deed?
There was, but I don't think it ever got past the implication stage.
No amount of continuity massaging can undo the "holy crap" awesomeness of that sequence from Batman #47.
It's truly amazing, especially for the era when it was written.
"There was, but I don't think it ever got past the implication stage. "
And Thank GodJesus for that. It sounded like an incredibly contrived way to shoehorn more DCU connections into Batman's backstory, for the sake of bolstering a rather awful team-up book.
It was always my belief (and made sense) that Batman couldn't be aka "The World's Greatest Detective" if he couldn't solve the murder of his parents.
@ Neil Kapit
But I liked Superman/Batman…..
You had Ed McGuinness and Mike Turner (RIP) at their prime and some fun team-up stories that made pretty good use of their talents. Also, the way Jeph used narration boxes was kind of new and I liked his writing. Just cuz the guy made Ultimatum doesn't mean his older stuff retroactively sucks, people.
What about the whole Lew Moxon deal?
I guess Lew Moxon's hiring Joe Chill to kill Thomas Wayne is out? That's undoubtedly for the best.
Some notes from Wikipedia:
In Detective Comics #235 (1956), Batman learns that Chill was not a mere robber, but actually a hitman who murdered the Waynes on orders from a Mafia boss named Lew Moxon.
In the 1980 miniseries The Untold Legend of the Batman, Alfred Pennyworth reminisces that Joe Chill is the son of one Alice Chilton, Bruce Wayne's one-time nanny.
In 2006's Infinite Crisis #6, another cosmic crisis reestablishing that Chill murders Thomas and Martha Wayne and adding for the first time that he is later arrested on that same night for their murder.
In the 2008 Grant Morrison story, "Joe Chill in Hell" (featured in Batman #673), Chill is reinterpreted as a mid-level crime boss who builds the Land, Sea, Air Transport company from the ground up (most likely through illegal means). He blamed his crimes, including murdering the Waynes, on class warfare. In this story, Batman has visited and frightened Chill every night for a month. Chill is living as a shut-in, but his guards never see or catch Batman during the visits. On his final visit, Batman gives Chill the gun he used to kill the Waynes. There is one bullet left within it. Chill finally realizes who Batman is, and fears what his fellow gangsters would do to him if they found out. It is hinted that he commits suicide; considering the issue consists of Bruce's flashbacks and hallucinations from an experiment he undergoes during his early career, however, it is left ambiguous whether the events of the issue are real.
In 2009's Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? by Neil Gaiman, Joe Chill is seen as the bartender attending Batman's funeral (the funeral itself being a near death experience). Batman, who is observing the event, as well as Catwoman, note that Joe Chill should be dead. Chill notes that he was there at the birth of Batman, and it is only fitting he should be there to witness the end.
Wasn't Lew Moxon the crime boss that Thomas Wayne took down or something while dressed in a Batman costume for a Halloween party? So the set up was the Moxon hired Joe Chill to take out the Waynes and make it look like a robbery. Later, Batman finds out about all this and..stuff happens. (Memory's hazy on this.) Bruce's Batman outfit was damaged so he used his Dad's Batman costume to confront Moxon who died of shock, thinking he was being confronted by Thomas Wayne returned from the grave. I think this served as a sort of sequel to Batman#47.
Later, the Moxon plot point was used in "To Kill a Legend" in Detective Comics#500 and Chill's role as a stooge in a larger scheme was set up in Batman Begins.
But IIRC, for the most part, whenever the current continuity established Joe Chill as the murderer, the Lew Moxon plot point was ignored.
OK, while I was writing my stuff, so was Rob Schmidt…good work, Rob!
I'm not sure I like radical continuity-changing events like Crisis being allowed in this segment. If the criteria for "A&F" is 1) story element abandoned in later segment, and 2) explicitly explained away, then all Crisis-changes count. And that's a bit too easy.
In any case: pre-Crisis the killer's identity was known, post-Crisis too, not post-Zero Hour, and then known again post Infinite Crisis. (And now possibly not known in nDCU).
I'm not sure I like radical continuity-changing events like Crisis being allowed in this segment.
Reboots don't apply (like Crisis on Infinite Earths and Flashpoint), but stuff like Zero Hour that made specifically targeted changes do. There's a sizable difference between "everything starts from scratch" and "nothing's changed…except this one thing."
In fact, looking at my description of A&F, this fits pretty much exactly. Storyline abandoned? Check. Another story written to specifically overturn it (the key word is "specifically")? Check.
I think Batman #0 was actually just a follow-up, or confirmation of the story that actually actively changed this continuity:
Detective Comics 678 was a Zero Hour issue by Chuck Dixon and Graham Nolan. Batman finds himself out of time, tracks down Joe Chill on the night of the murder, minds inconsitancies in the investigation meaning that Joe Chill couldn't have been in Crime Alley the night his parents were murdered.
This is the issue he discovers it may not have been Chill, it may have been anyone. From then on, I think they just kind of ignored Chill and had Batman update his thinking to comply with this investigation: I never found out who killed my parents.
Which, by the way, I like WAY more than Joe Chill.
Yeah, what Michael P. said. Where's any mention of "The Untold Legend of the Batman", from 1980?
Yeah, what Michael P. said. Where's any mention of "The Untold Legend of the Batman", from 1980?
This is not about who was behind Joe Chill's murder of the Waynes. It is strictly about how we knew who shot the Waynes until a story abandoned and forsaked it. Thus, Untold Legend of the Batman has no impact upon that particular discussion.
I think Batman #0 was actually just a follow-up, or confirmation of the story that actually actively changed this continuity:
The Detective Comics issue definitely set it up, but Batman #0 made the actual official change to continuity, since the 'Tec issue took place in an alternate timeline where Bruce was murdered but his parents survived. But sure, it is worth mentioning the 'Tec issue! I'll throw a mention into the piece. Thanks!
Just cuz the guy made Ultimatum doesn't mean his older stuff retroactively sucks, people.
I agree that Ultimatum doesn't make Jeph Loeb's earlier work suck. Jeph Loeb's earlier work sucks because it was badly done even when it was first released. Nothing retroactive about it.
Never liked the idea of "Joe Chill." I think Batman works better when the killer is a nameless, faceless schmuck.
One interesting note from Wikipedia is all the mentions of Joe Chill in other venues: movies, cartoons, alternate universes, etc. Does one comic book wipe that out?
I don't think so. It's been Joe Chill for most of the 70-plus years of Batman's history. Until "nameless" has a good long run of several decades, I think fans will remember Chill as the killer.
Which raises a larger question, at least in my mind. Does DC have a canon anymore? With all the reboots, who knows which "facts" are facts anymore?
Sure, Superman will always be rocketed from Krypton to Earth as a baby. But was his father headband-wearing Jor-El, robed Jor-El, or some other Jor-El? Was teenage Clark a bookworm or a big man on campus? Did he join the Legion of Super-Heroes and at what age? Etc.
Even if a comic addresses these questions, the "facts" are only facts until the next retcon or reboot. So the "canon" starts shifting from the most recent story to the preponderance of stories. Therefore, I'd say Joe Chill is semi-canonical at this point–even if the latest story denies his role.
I always thought it was a much stronger story to leave the Wayne murders unsolved. The notion that what happened to the Waynes could really, truly, happen to anybody — that all of the Wayne money and social connections couldn't save them — is powerful and poignant.
Anything is better (for me) than it was the Joker (like the movie) pre-transformation.
was going to point out that in batman and super man that it was kind of hinted at that maybe Mettello was the kilelr of bruces parents. not joe chill though now given the total start from scratch of the dcu. maybe batmans parents killer will turn out to be some one new or joe chill again. though still take as cannon joe chill is the killer who made bruce become batman.
Did they get rid of the whole, 'Thomas Wayne hired the shooter to kill his wife and son, and faked his own death' thing? THAT was bad.
Did they get rid of the whole, 'Thomas Wayne hired the shooter to kill his wife and son, and faked his own death' thing? THAT was bad.
I don't believe they ever actually did that. From RIP, right? That was a plot by a bad guy to mess with Batman.
Yeah, that was it: RIP. I remember being baffled, and then the comic just moved on. If they explained it as something different, they did it a while after the fact, not actually in the story.
I mean, the comic didn't show any explicit proof that it was a lie, but Batman does say that it is a lie at the end of the story and seems confident in his belief (Later on in The Return of Bruce Wayne, they state it explicitly when they give the origin of Dr. Hurt).
Batman's is the World's Greatest Detective. Who am I to argue?
Hehe. He IS good at detecting stuff!
Don't forget The Untold Legend of the Dark Knight by Byrne, where he rendered the story almost exaclty as to what it was prior.
I'm surprised nobody ever used the "L.A. Confidential" approach: where "Joe Chill" was just a name Wayne created to give substance to the never-identified murderer of his parents, ala Lieutenant Edmund Exley's "Rollo Tomasi". Somehow, having a faceless, almost elemental criminal to pursue makes Batman's unending obsession more believable. Batman keeps going because he sees "Chill" in the face of every criminal he goes after, be that a mugger, or the Joker.
As Rob Schmidt pointed out, talking about DC's and Marvel's 'canon' is impossible nowadays. Not even they care about it much anymore (DC especially, now that they can mix and match "canon" as they see fit, as it"s all supposedly brand new). I see "canon" as something entirely personal and subject to each reader's preferences. If you don't want to count the Human Torch's marriage to skrull Alicia Masters, or the "electric superman" period, then there's no reason NOT to dismiss those stories altogether. Over the decades of these characters being continually published under hundreds of different writers across multiple books, it's inevitable that too much continuity garbage would have accumulated, and trying to reconcile all the stories of ANY of these characters into a coherent lifetime narrative is downright insane.
It probably made sense to talk about "canon" in the 60s and 70s when there wasn't as much continuity baggage and characters rarely appeared in multiple books, but in nowadays's mainstream comics the word "Canon" has no meaning anymore. Comics continuity hould be like a big buffet – take what you like and dismiss what you dislike. If you didn't like it when Dan Slott had Squirrel Girl beat Marvel's top supervillains like chumps, then it never happened. Not even the actual writers respect each other's ideas of what is "canon", why should it be different for readers?
Right, HammerHeart. Truly bad ideas, like Northstar's being an elf, are probably gone for good. But a semi-canonical idea like Joe Chill's being the killer will keep coming back. Next time Chill may be Lew Moxon's hired gun, or an alias for "nameless" or the Joker. But I doubt he'll ever be completely "abandoned an' forsaked."
FS7 said "Plus, just having a throwaway story mentioning how Chill was caught a long time ago eliminates the possibility of writing awesome stories that give you pause and make you rethink everything you ever thought about the Waynes death."
Personally, I think that is a positive, because a lot of stories that "give you pause and make you rethink everything you ever thought" are not "awesome". Even the good ones by nature tend to make history more convoluted. The middling ones just don't serve a purpose at all. The bad ones can be downright destructive.
Just looking through the Abandoned An' Forsaked archives gives a good number of pointless or even damaging changes that writers have made, in addition to the occasional good ones.
Marvel still publishes their Official Handbooks, pretty much every month. If you want to know what is canon and what isn't, you should consult those.
They routinely explain things that you may have missed or help flesh out other elements.
Ty Templeton had an elegant solution to this question in the final issue of Batman Adventures. The reader learned that Joe Chill killed the Waynes, and Chill himself learned that Batman was Bruce, but Chill died before Batman realized who he was.
Ty Templeton really should be allowed to write a "regular" bat book…one they excise the stench of Morrison that is.
Brian writes: "Reboots don't apply (like Crisis on Infinite Earths and Flashpoint), but stuff like Zero Hour that made specifically targeted changes do. There's a sizable difference between "everything starts from scratch" and "nothing's changed…except this one thing.' In fact, looking at my description of A&F, this fits pretty much exactly. Storyline abandoned? Check. Another story written to specifically overturn it (the key word is "specifically")? Check."
But "Zero Hour" was a reboot. The DC universe blanked out and was rebooted at the end with a fade to white and a new big bang.
Yeah, it seems like a sliding scale. At least based on what we've seen of the New 52 so far (which doesn't really seem like they've even really figured a lot of it out yet), Flashpoint was only a partial reboot, more than Zero Hour but less than Crisis on Infinite Earths. In all of those cases, some stuff continued more or less as it was while other stuff started over or was scrapped entirely; it was just a question of how much stuff and how much these disparate elements clashed with each other.
wasn't there also an implication in Jeph Loeb's Superman/Batman that John "Metallo" Corben did the deed?
There was, but I don't think it ever got past the implication stage.
I think it was revealed in story that it was just fake evidence planted to distract Batman.
Inevitably it will be revealed that it was actually Booster Gold who killed Batman's parents–but he only did it to preserve the timeline, and felt really bad about it.
BATMAN #47 is a great, great Batman story. It might be in the Top 10 all-time. There is something poetic about the final fate of Joe Chill that I have never seen matched.
I get the whole "faceless criminal becomes all criminals" idea, but it is not as interesting as the story it superseded.
It's always bothered me, this idea that Batman can't have caught his parents' murder and avenged their deaths, because then he'd have no reason to keep on being Batman. As nutso as he's gone, Frank Miller had at least one thing *absolutely* right when it came to the character: Batman isn't in this to avenge Thomas and Martha Wayne. It's nobler and better than that: Bruce Wayne is the Batman so that NO ONE ELSE ever has to go through what *he* went through. He's the Batman so that no one else has to die. Vengeance is indiscriminate (just ask the Spectre, or the Punisher for that matter). Batman (when he's written right) should be at least as much about compassion as he is about anger. Did the young Bruce Wayne want to find his parents' killer? Absolutely. Is there ever any indication given that this is ALL he wants, or even the greater part of what he wants?? None.
Scott Snyder's a great Batman writer, one of the best the character has had since Steve Englehart and Denny O'Neil. But with all respect, I think he's got this part wrong.
Ian – even the Official Handbook's canonican status is sometimes questionable, or at least contradicts commonly-held ideas. For example, most Captain America fans believe that Cap is "peak human" and has no superhuman powers, but the Official Handbook says otherwise: according to that presumably canonical source, Cap has superhuman stamina and speed.
To be fair, even in Cap's own book Brubaker occasionally shows him perform superhuman stunts, like that one WW2 flashback where Cap was tasked with delivering a message and did so running at clearly superhuman speed (not Flash-fast, but speeding-car-fast, which is still much more than "peak human"). So one could argue that Marvel's actual stories portray at a Cap who's more than just "peak human" – but most Cap fans seem to have a completely different take on it, for them the "peak human" thing is absolutely canonical period.
(I personally side with the Official Handbook and Brubaker on this one)
Lew Moxon can stay forgotten, as far as I'm concerned. Batman's origin works better as a random act of violence, not as a murder-for-hire. And I'll agree with Brian and the others who admire that Bill Finger scene; I think it's my favorite in the "canon."
That Detective 678 is a damn good issue, btw.
I do know that having reread a bunch of Zero Hour era stuff last year, one of the key things they wanted to do was to make the killer of the Waynes anonymous. Not sure why, really. As some people bring up, Batman being "world's greatest detective" and all, he SHOULD be able to figure it out, eventually. And it's a driving obsession with him as well. But he's also driven enough that he's not going to say, "hey, found my parents' killer, guess I'll quit now."
Clay brings up a good point, that Batman works best when he's "in it" to prevent what happened to him from happening to anyone else, and I've read a few good stories to that effect (the titles of which all slip my mind right now…). But was that an idea that originated with Frank Miller?
MRMIRACLE's "LA Confidential" way of looking at it is pretty interesting.
The way I read the Morrison "Joe Chill in Hell" issue involved thinking that it was Batman's secret wish, to terrorize his parents' killer, and drive him to suicide, and provide the means. It's not necessarily what "really" happened, though.
The implication of Morrison's run and the Dr Hurt dressing as Thomas Wayne in the "proto-Batman" costume bit is that the Moxon story is canon too, right? Gangster is hurt, gets Wayne to heal him, then later has him killed, implicitly because Wayne might finger him as a bad guy.
In the original Moxon story, iirc, Moxon's been hit on the head, and truly doesn't remember Thomas Wayne, even passing a lie detector test. Batman shows up in his office, somewhat similarly to the Chill sequence shown here, dressed in the Thomas Wayne costume, which shocks Moxon into remembering, and he then runs into the street and gets run over by a truck.
And as much as I love RIP and the whole Morrison Bat run, a lot of the Thomas Wayne/Dr Hurt/stuff that ties into the origin (Zur en Arrh!!!!) IS really really confusing. Awesome at times, but REALLY confusing.
In the issue of the relaunched Batman where Bruce is talking about his investigation of the Court of Owls as a kid he says that he couldn't believe some normal person, "some no name, some Joe Chill" could have just decided to kill his parents, so apparently Joe Chill is still the killer in the New 52.
I guess this also invalidates the Batman novel The Ultimate Evil, where Andrew Sacchs said that Joe Chill killed Thomas Wayne because Wayne was investigating a child sex ring.
I agree with HammerHeart.
Canonicity sort of went to hell in Marvel/DC around the 1990s. Some point after Marvel made multiple attempts to make their characters "kewler", some point after DC rebooted their universe for the 357th time.
I suppose most fans treat as "canon" the status quo from when they started reading comics, plus any later storylines they approve of.
Adapted rather wonderfully by Paul Dini in the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "Chill of the Night". (Which I also believe is the only time in that series that we see Batman take off his mask — flashbacks to his origin and alternate-reality stories like Bat-Manga and Knights of Tomorrow notwithstanding.)
Bill Finger sure could bring the German Expressionist/ noir style.
Batman's origin has been altered many times. Depending on the story, Martha dies from a heart attack or is shot. I'm not sure which one it is now.
Slight typo error….
"The next month, though, following Zero Hour, it was confirmed in Batman #0 by Doug Moench that the mruder was no longer solved…"
Should be 'murder'
Denny O'Neal was the one who always thought Batman finding his parents killers would end the motivation to fight crime-thus he had pushed for the mystery of the Wayne s killers to be unsolved. I was glad when they decided to un-do with Infinite Crisis. Batman Begins actually made a really good argument against a revenge driven Batman, and a more social good Batman
I always thought it was a much stronger story to leave the Wayne murders unsolved. The notion that what happened to the Waynes could really, truly, happen to anybody — that all of the Wayne money and social connections couldn't save them — is powerful and poignant.
How exactly does that concept go away if we know the identity of the killer?
Yeah, I think HammerHeart's idea of each reader believing in their own "canon" is nearly inarguable at this point, especially with the constantly updated, expanded, and rebooted Big Two. No matter what a writer does with a title, they will never change the image you have in your head when it comes to your favorite characters.
For me, Joe Chill will always have killed the Waynes, and Batman will always be a darkly altruistic hero who seeks to protect others from exeriencing what he had to, even though his parents' murder is solved. And maybe I'm a bit biased from just reading Kelly's Wonder Woman post, but the whole "Martha's weak heart stops beating" thing seems a little bit old-school sexist. For my money, she was killed by the second shot.
I liked the Moxon expansion–it doesn't change the actual events, but it did make for a good story. But it's no loss to have that dropped from history.
But i think chill works better than some unknown person, just as Batman being more than revenge-driven works.
#47 is awesome. There's also a great shot of Joe Chill by Aparo in the eighties UNTOLD LEGEND OF THE BATMAN where Batman unmasks and Chill realizes (as another blog put it) that Batman's angrier at him than he's ever been angry at anyone …
For the record, the Batman: the Ultimate Evil has the target of the assassination being MARTHA Wayne instead of Thomas. Her social work background was what was uncovering the child-sex ring. I actually kind of like that retcon, since we've always got to see how awesome Thomas Wayne is in these things, while Martha remains a cypher usually. Her death should MATTER too, and exploring that she was a decent person beforehand who may have gotten the Waynes killed by being a tenacious investigator willing to go to the wall for children makes her loss have more impact rather than be an afterthought to Thomas.
And then there's "Batman Begins," where the Wayne's murder is part of some Master Plan by the Illuminati, along with the Great Fire of London, the cracking of the Liberty Bell, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and the invention of Cheez Whiz.
Wasn't it once established that chill was actually hired to kill Thomas Wayne and make it look like a mugging? Thomas Wayne had pissed off a mob boss while dressed in a bat-costume for a costume party. When Bruce discovered this he wore his fathers old costume to chase down the mobster. When did this get retconned?
Lew Moxon was the guy behind the killing. That was canon as late as Det. 500, but wiped out with the Crisis where Chill is back to being a lone gunman.
You know, there's also a very real chance that in the New 52, the Court of Owls will be directly connected to their deaths. Because in the beginning of this Batman series, there are a bunch of things Batman says are 'impossible', and all of them have proven to be true except for their involvement in his parent's murder. Also, the back-up story that just started about Alfred Pennyworth's father may very well be leading up to this.
Personally, i hope this doesn't happen. A random guy like Joe makes Batman's eventual progression to fighting all crime make more sense. Either way it's not about revenge, but i feel it could feel more like it if there was some shadow-y group manipulating it all.
Gotta dig on that McFarlane-esque impractically huge cape.
Okay, I have to ask —
Am I the only one who can't help thinking the answer was "Jack Napier?"
I mean, it's probably because I was 11 years old in 1989 and didn't really start reading comics until a couple of years later (and even then mostly just read Marvels for a long time), but that can't be completely unique to me. Frankly, I'm guessing that if one did a general survey, a lot of people would suggest that the Joker killed Batman's parents… and the goofy thing is, between all of DC's retcons and reboots, it's hard to say that answer would be any less legitimate than any other.
Some of you will be happy to know that Joe Chill was confirmed as the murderer of Bruce Wayne's parents in the New52 in Justice League#42. Unless a larger plot is at work that has yet to unfold, Bruce uses a device of the New Gods to gain knowledge, and the first question he asks is who killed his parents, to which he verbally confirms is Joe Chill. He also asks it for the Joker's true identity, and gasps at the response, which is not said aloud by Batman. I assume Batman will end up losing his memory or something, since this story seems to take place before "Endgame", so the identity of the Joker will not end up meaning anything but a tease, but Joe Chill is confirmed as his parents' killer. Albeit, there is still the possibility of a larger conspiracy at work, and someone else setting up the murder.
I know I am, Mark.
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"The classic smoky eye and nude lip – she really couldn't go wrong with that," Karkour says. Read on for this beauty pro's step-by-step guide to recreating this red carpet-ready beauty look.
Step 1 – Skin Prep
According to Karkour, the best way to prep your skin for a flawless complexion is hydration. One of her fave products for a guaranteed radiant complexion is facial oil. "People tend to be scared of oils", Karkour says. But she swears by this skin prep trick to achieve lustrous skin. She recommends Josie Maran Pure Argan Oil. Of course, always choose a light oil that is designed for your particular skin type and always apply it sparingly.
Step 2 – Foundation
Once your skin is prepped, you can apply foundation. To get the same beaming complexion as Allison Williams, Karkour recommends using a liquid foundation instead of a cream or powder, which can make your skin look matte. Her suggestion is Yves Saint Laurent Teint Touche Éclat Illuminating Foundation.
Next, you will want to set your foundation to ensure it lasts the entire day or night. Our beauty pro is a huge fan of Hourglass Ambient Lighting Powder.
Step 3 – Blush
No glowing complexion is complete without a touch of blush. Allison Williams went for a natural, pink/orange coloured blush similar to Bobbi Brown in Tawny.
Step 4 – Eyes
To complement her natural, glowing complexion, Williams went for a subtle smoky eye. You can get the same look with these: Urban Decay's Zephyr Natural Pearl Shimmer (to be applied all over the lid), and a normal matte dark grey eye shadow like Make Up For Ever's Aqua Cream in Anthracite. Karkour says the pigmentation in both of these eye shadows is amazing so a little goes a long way.
And just to be sure that shadow doesn't budge all night, apply a touch of primer first, like Urban Decay's Primer Potion in Neutral, one of Sephora's best-selling primers. To finish off your smoky eye, apply liner to the top and bottom of your eye, and finish off with a volumizing mascara.
Step 5 – Lips
To complete this red carpet look, Karkour recommends Yves Saint Laurent's Rouge Velupté Shine in Pink and Confident. She loves this lipstick because it's sheer and ultra-hydrating.
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January 21, 1981 – March 20, 1981
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Alexander Morgan Mason (born 26 June 1955) is a politician, film producer, and actor.
Early life[edit]
Mason was born in Beverly Hills, California, the son of British parents, actor James Mason and actress and commentator Pamela Mason.[1] His grandfather, the financier and film producer Isidore Ostrer, was head of the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation.[2]
As a child, Mason appeared in the films The Sandpiper, with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, and Hero's Island, along with his father.
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When his grandfather Isidore Ostrer died, Mason inherited his seat on the board of Illingworth, Morris, Ltd., then the world's largest woolen textile company; Mason served as executive director and three years later sold the firm.[3] Moving to the US, he worked for Ronald Reagan's 1979 presidential campaign. He served as assistant finance director, then as major events director, and served as a member of the campaign's executive advisory committee. Reagan selected him as a delegate-at-large from California to the Republican national convention in 1980. After the election, Mason was named special assistant to the co-chairmen of the presidential inaugural committee. After the inauguration, Mason was appointed deputy chief of protocol at the State Department. He was then named as special assistant to the president for political affairs at the White House. During his tenure he was chosen to attend the funeral services of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat as a member of the official United States delegation along with former US presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter.
Public relations and film[edit]
On November 5, 1982, Mason resigned his White House position and became the vice president of Rogers and Cowan Public Relations. In 1984, he became a board member of Musifilm Ltd., a partnership with MCA/Universal. Mason went on to become an executive producer of sex, lies, and videotape (1989), which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival. In 1986, Reagan appointed him to The Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad, and made him a special advisor to the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. In 1990, Mason became vice president and head of the independent film division of the William Morris Agency in Beverly Hills. He left to become chief executive of London Films in 1996. Mason founded the European television channel Innergy in 1999.[citation needed]
Personal life[edit]
He married singer Belinda Carlisle in 1986, eloping to Lake Tahoe.[3] They have a son, James Duke Mason (born 1992), a politician, writer, and activist.[4]
- ^ "The Talker". Time. 16 March 1959. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
- ^ Isidore Ostrer at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Index. Accessed August 25, 2007.
- ^ a b Podolsky, J. D.; Gold, Todd (13 January 1992). "A Pop-Rock Rebel Finds An Unlikely Mr. Right". People.
- ^ Stewart, Jenny (1 March 2007). "Belinda talks". Advocate Online. Retrieved 25 August 2007.
- The Reagan Diaries, p. 109
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|Chief of Protocol of the United States
January 21, 1981 – March 20, 1981
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|Clear "Kasumi: Part 2" in Story mode.
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I Am New In These Things
I Want To Know If I Can Install Coppermine Gallery To My Blog
What I Need?
What I Need To Know?
Please Help
Yep, you can, but it's not quite as easy. I used the ID-Coppermine plug-in, and with a bit of work, got it going. But it was a little tricky to figure out. So hopefully my blog of the adventure makes it easier for you ;-)
One thing I have figured out that isn't covered by the plug-in is integrated security - you still have separate accounts and permissions across the two, both as an Admin and as a user. So if you have a password-protected gallery, you will need to log into Coppermine (not WP) to get through to the photos. If you want to upload files, you have to use Coppermine (not WP). I think it would be a nice touch to extend it out like that (as in, one account, both systems), but as it stands, that ain't gonna happen.
I don't mean to turn you off Coppermine / WP integration - it can be done, but only to a point.
I have released a new version of ID Coppermine that addresses nearly all the issues you found jsbajada. The config is even easier and will only allow you to get at the display settings after you have managed to successfully connect to the Coppermine DB.
James :-)
Hi James.
(Sorry it took so long for me to respond - I only just noticed I was getting hits from this link, and saw your response ....)
I have installed the update and that is great - the username pull-down and the gallery check boxes make managing this plug-in so much easier! Thanks for your work!
Hi, I just saw this thread. Mogboy74,when you say, you figured almost all the issues, you mean that now I can have the same account in both systems? This would be great!!!
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The TV special "Saturday Night Live: Just Commercials," which ran Sunday in prime time, included a parody commercial which aired on SNL earlier this season in which a young man (Andy Samberg) is horrified to discover that his mother (guest host Jane Lynch) has joined Facebook.
The parody commercial was for a filtering software which would supposedly translate any of the young man's potentially-offensive posts into content his mother would like. For example, when the young man types a post critical of a religious conservative TV pundit, the mother (who apparently likes that pundit) sees it instead as "I need new dungarees." In response, she cheerfully offers to send her son a department store coupon she just clipped. Similarly, a photo of the young man partying a little too hard with his friends is automatically doctored to make it more acceptable to the mother.
It was a funny joke, but it illustrates an interesting problem posed by social networking software. As your network grows, you tend to add friends and acquaintances who know you in different ways, from different aspects of your life.
As the character in the parody ad has discovered, that can cause problems. There might be things you would say to your friends but not to your co-workers, or vice versa. I don't think that's hypocrisy; I think it's just that we relate to different groups of people in different ways, and we have different comfort levels when it comes to sharing with different groups.
Back in the earlier days of the public Internet, I was part of alt.fan.dave_barry, a Usenet group -- a prehistoric type of Internet message forum -- consisting of people from around the country who were fans of the humorist Dave Barry.
Barry once accidentally posted a humorously-vulgar and politically-incorrect message to the newsgroup; it was supposed to be a private e-mail message. He then had to apologize both to the newsgroup and to the person who was meant to get the e-mail. The term "chuckletrousers" (from Barry's original message) and the number 2,038 (from the intended recipient's reply to Barry's apology) became in-jokes among the alt.fan.dave_barry crowd, and we were delighted when Barry occasionally worked the number 2,038 into his columns as a nod to his fans. (Do a Google search for "Dave Barry 2038" for examples.)
The discussion in alt.fan.dave_barry ranged far beyond reacting to Dave Barry, however, and the group became a sort of collegial gathering of people who shared a common sense of humor.
I never knew any of these people in person.
As Usenet faded away, I had fallen out of contact with most of the old crowd, but then a few months back I reconnected with a handful of them on Facebook. If you use Facebook, you know how that goes; you connect with one person, and then all of that person's friends notice you on his or her wall, and if they have any contact with you they'll send you friend requests, so it's not uncommon to get several such requests in short order.
A few weeks back, I posted a link to my Facebook wall of a story that a co-worker had written about Korley Davis and how her illness had united the community. I had only brief acquaintance with the family, but like many others I'd been moved by Korley's plight and by the way it seemed to bring people together.
One of my alt.fan.dave_barry acquaintances left a puzzling comment under the link. Without context, I'm still not sure whether it was meant to be funny, or a serious challenge to the idea of praying for someone's health, or something else. Whatever the intent, I found it really inappropriate, especially since the woman who made it had no way of knowing the family whose pain she was mocking.
I didn't want any of my real-life, in-person friends to read the comment and think I was being insensitive (or, more accurately, that I was condoning insensitivity) to a family going through a terrible situation. I didn't really know this woman very well in the first place, and I decided it would be easier to just quietly delete her from my Facebook friends and hope she didn't notice.
She did notice, however, and now I've gotten a new friend request from her, puzzled as to why we aren't friends anymore.
Previously in this space, I've hinted that it's sometimes better to pare back your Facebook friend list to people you actually know and consider friends. I think this is a great example of why.
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In 2016 we will hit a milestone: national health spending per capita is projected to exceed $10,000 for the first time. This estimate is from an article by Keehan et al. (2016). In this paper, CMS' Office of the Actuary (OACT) estimates costs not only this year but over the coming 10 years. According to their projects, […]Read the rest of this entry »
The Intuition behind Bayes Theorem
Bayes Theorem is well-known in law of probability. Mathematically, you could write it as: P(A|B)=P(A and B)/Pr(B) = P(B|A)*P(A)/P(B). An interesting interview in Scientific American with Decision theorist Eliezer Yudkowsky explains Bayes Theorem more intuitively. I might answer that Bayes's Theorem is a kind of Second Law of Thermodynamics for cognition. If you obtain a […]Read the rest of this entry »
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Despite the large number of illnesses defined by the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) disease coding system, health systems need to know how many encounters they are likely to experience each month. One gauge for this is the prevalence of sickness in the population. A paper by White et al. […]Read the rest of this entry »
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Statisitics and the Sports Illustrated Jinx
Daniel Kahneman explains the false inference many people make between causation and regression to the mean. A well-known example is the "Sports Illustrated jinx," the claim that an athlete whose picture appears on the cover of the magazine is doomed to perform poorly the following season. Overconfidence and the pressure of meeting high expectations are […]Read the rest of this entry »
Test for equality of categorical varibles
In the standard statistics case, when you compare two continuous variables, you can use a t-test to determine equality of means. For instance, you may want to know if LeBron James scores more points on average than Kevin Durant. However, what if you want to instead compare two categorical variables. For instance, assume you are […]Read the rest of this entry »
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What is Mahalanobis distance? Most people know what Euclidean distance is…it is the shortest distance between any two points. In other words, its what we typically think of when we think of distance – the distance we would measure with a ruler, and the one given by the Pythagorean formula. Unlike Euclidean distance, Mahalanobis distance […]Read the rest of this entry »
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Just how many McCain finance chairman, etc., have either had to step down or pretend they don't hear the questions being asked about their participation in the ironically-entitled Straight Talk Express?
Far, far too many.
For Dems and perhaps for most of the country, the biggest enemy we face isn't Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, maybe not even al Qaeda. It's the threat of a McCain Administration that would continue the loathful, lousy work of the Bush Admin (aka Dewey, Cheatem, and How!).


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Men's Wearhouse reported declining net income during the third quarter of fiscal 2013 even as net sales improved.
The Men's Wearhouse experienced a decline in customer traffic and a subsequent drop in retail clothing sales during the second quarter ended Aug. 3, and has lowered its guidance as a result.
Men's Wearhouse has signed a definitive agreement to acquire JA Holding, the parent company of American clothing brand Joseph Abboud, for approximately $97.5 million in cash, subject to certain adjustments.
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How the heck do the raptors beat the spurs in San Antonio in my first yr association? Never would happen in real life, not now at least..
On paper, the spurs would beat the raptors every time. Games aren't played on paper, though. They're played in tv sets.
I assume TC meant the Raptors beat the Spurs in a playoff series.
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I'm hearing about a lot of companies that act like they're agile but the only agile thing they do is the SCRUM process. Is this enough to be considered agile? Using SCRUM alone seems like the perfect excuse for a bad manager to get more meetings more often. Should I be weary of such companies?
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Agile is a big, vague concept. Lots of things are Agile.
Scrum is a specific set of techniques for doing sprints and releases. It's agile because it fits the Agile Manifestor.
There are lots of other specific Agile techniques (all of the xDD's, for example.)
When in doubt, compare the companies actual practices against the Agile Manifesto.
Short answer - yes. In my opinion anyway :-)
Of course - they have to be actually doing Scrum - rather than just sticking the name on the wall. There's a lot more to Scrum than daily stand-ups... and if that's all they're doing they're not doing it right.
Done correctly Scrum forces companies to identify the bottlenecks in how the organisation is running. By setting up regular timeboxed sprints, getting a decent feedback loop, and splitting responsibility across product owner and team appropriately you actually get useful baseline information on how to improve your process.
The organisation has to listen to that feedback - and act on it.
It's certainly not the only way to do agile. It might not even be the best way to introduce agile into an organisation. I'm more of an XP fan myself - and find that the extra practices provide a useful framework for kick-starting those process improvements.
That said - for many organisations - the biggest problem is bad split of responsibilities & the complete lack of a sane and rapid feedback loop. Scrum fixes that out of the gate.
Meetings are a very small part of that :-)
Bad managers will be outed by the transparency that SCRUM promotes. Companies truely embracing SCRUM are definitely worth a look.
Using SCRUM alone is not necessarily an excuse to get more meetings. Being able to track the work that's done every day and make decisions on how to modify (by cutting or rebalancing work) the rest of the sprint is quite useful on it's own and sound agile to me. :-)
Of course, if you don't have the other components of the agile process, you will have harder time to measure the success of your work, so you might think you are on track with the sprint, but in fact be nowhere near the point you should be at to deliver quality product on schedule.
Update: You shouldn't dismiss such company on that premise alone. HOwever, during the interview, you should use the chance to understand why they are using only SCRUM. If it's a matter of not having people to champion things like TDD or CI, than it might be a good fit for you, if you are willing to become the technical lead. If it's because they dismiss these processes as "overhead" or "stupid" or "unnecessary", then you should be wary of the company.
I've noticed that just using SCRUM meetings alone is a pretty clear sign that the company has not correctly implemented Agile concepts.
Think about how easy SCRUM meetings are, just fire up Outlook and give everyone a daily 15 minute meeting. But, slicing everything up into quick iterations and making sure new functionally is rapidly tested by end users takes a lot more work.
I'd guess, that most managers stop reading right after the SCRUM part and they lose interest. But, their daily meeting requests live on forever.
Scrum is a project management methodology, first and foremost. Yes, if you are doing Scrum, you are probably beginning to think more about being agile, and delivering value to your customer. But it does not necessarily make you agile. For starters, Scrum doesn't talk about HOW you do software development. This is where things like XP come in - other methodologies and ideas that force you to review and change your working practices in order to become more efficient and effective.
So, rather than asking "do you do Scrum / XP / whatever" I would ask these companies about their overall processes and take a holistic view. Is the company focussing on delivery of maximum business value and driven by an ethos of continuous improvement? If so, then they are probably a lot more agile than one that says it does Scrum.
It's not possible to tell whether a team is agile just because somebody says that they're doing scrum.
There are good and bad scrum implementations but they key things about agile are:
It's all too easy to conform to the minimum requirements of what a team needs to do to be doing scrum without being truly agile. Those minimum requirements are only there to bring about a certain attitude and way of working.
It's possible for decision-making in a project to be ridgidly inflexible and controlled top-down and yet conform to the minimum requirements of scrum. Sadly, when I look for contracting engagements, I find the scrum-in-name only implementations outnumber the real thing by a considerable margin.
Personally, I'd choose to implement extreme programming within scrum. (In fact, Jeff Sutherland says he's never seen a top productivity scrum team that didn't do the XP practices.) However, I'm pretty confident that people could implement XP really badly too... ;-) It really comes down to the attitude in the team.
Agile != scrum.
Agile is about readyness for changes.
Agile is many times presented as an umbrella, set of different techniques, methods, to work in an environment supporting a change. Scrum is for project management, for development techniques there is xp, for better requirement process you can use BDD, for test TDD.
Starting with scrum is the first step on your agility way. Consider other techniques as well. It will take time, but there are real benefits. And there is nothing better than common understanding and good team spirit. Achieve that as the first.
scrum alone is equal to agile is totally a misconception. Agile is the umbrella under which there are several methods like scrum master, kanban, lean, XP. Now you say how can a part of the umbrella fullfil the idea of an umbrella as a whole. Therefore, scrum is a part of agile.
Scrum provides you with a framework to fix/improve your development process. It should be considered as a starting point to "jelled team" and more productive team. Most likely you will go beyond standard Scrum practices soon, but as a starting point it has some attractive properties:
Also there it is really not so important to know whether Scrum = agile. It is better to focus on better productivity and do not bother yourself with such questions.
Yeah, I'd agree with some of the sentiment here. Be Agile is following the manifesto and assuring that you have the right alignment of priorities. SCRUM is just another variant with specific pieces written down. It is, if anything a management "tool".
With that said, remember, the tools are secondary, your people are your priority. Don't over-focus on the management style, focus instead of the people and the product.
Organization practicing only Scrum would most likely be seeing gains on software management and project visibility front. However, they are most likely not achieving a higher engineering quality and throughput potential by not incorporating XP principles like Unit Testing, Continuous Integration, Pair Programming etc., leaving their end of Sprint product NOT "Potentially Shippable".
People fall victim to their subjective perspectives. What I think Agile and Scrum is, another person may think somewhat differently. Luckily we have a set of guidelines in the Agile manifesto and principles and Scrum values but often companies end up becoming fixated on following the process instead of understanding it and its goals.
Agile Manifesto
Scrum values
You can learn a lot about a company that uses Scrum by asking them about the values and how they adhere to them. This can give you an idea if the process of Scrum is just enforced without really considering the values that are linked to it.
The goal is to release quality software at the end of each iteration.
With the right influence, the values within the company can change. Unfortunately people are unpredictable so companies can slide back into bad habits when other changes are introduced. This is what makes software more challenging and exciting. It's finding ways to create the balance within the forces between technology and product.
Red flags
Some companies may have heavy compliance procedures in place that hinders being Agile. This can include governance and other regulations that cannot be escaped. This can impact the Agile methodology by making it feel more cumbersome and heavy but it doesn't mean that those processes cannot be streamlined to be more accommodating.


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