In 2015, Archie will be “rebooted” with Mark Weid and one of my favorite artist, Fiona Staples to celebrate its 75th anniversary. When I came across this on my newsfeed on Twitter, my brain pretty much imploded. I grew up on Archie comics. For awhile, I really latched onto the world, going back and forth between Team Betty and Team Veronica and then deciding that everyone sucks except for Jughead. I must have absorbed plenty of life lessons from reading millions of Archie books.

So yes, I’m a bit excited to see the new look for the comic book and for this relaunch!

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Recently the Space Pirate Queen posted a blog with all these wonderful Lord of the Rings parodies. Being quite the “Ringer” (that was one of our nicknames) back in the day, it brought back some wonderful memories. It made me think of funny parodies I enjoy from other fandoms, so naturally Batman came to mind.

I decided to join the parody bandwagon and post some of my favorite parodies from when The Dark Knight came out. It’s always fun to go back and enjoy these parodies, but now their nostalgia factor has been amplified with all of the The Dark Knight Rises excitement.

Here is one of the most popular ones. A spoof of the interrogation scene:

I’ll defend Batman (and his voice) to a tee, but that doesn’t mean this video isn’t bloody hilarious.

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