Are you nuts?! That’ll bring the IRS on them!
Also, Muthor is as likely to work with you as he is likely to stab you on the back if it furthers his own agenda
I think Continuity might be referring to The Batsman, a Cricket-themed villain from the Golden Age, who despite only committing minor crimes, continually evaded capture by that popular but unsuccessful Golden Age hero, The Bowler, until he reached a century and retired.
WAIT! There’s an easy solution. All they need are some chumps to do the same caper FOR THEM, then they take the proceeds for themselves. And where do they find these chumps? Well, send one of their team (guess who) out and about, to pick up COPY-CATS. Problem solved.
A crime should be allowed to be committed repeatedly UNTIL thwarted by a superhero. I mean how are you going to leave obvious clues on how to stop it otherwise?
“I know! Let’s rob the first national bank!”
“We literally just robbed the first national bank!”
“I know! They’ll never be expecting us to rob it again!”
“Yeah, because we cleaned it out, already!”
Is that how banking works in the USA? If there’s more than 1 bank in the settlement, they are named First, Second, Third, etc. National Bank? And how do they decide which is which? Are they named in order of age?
I once remember an episode of The Flinstones where there was a bank robber named Grandma Dynamite, who robbed the First, Second, Third, and Fourth National Banks. The Fifth was more trouble, due to her associating with a certain pair of dumb-dumbs…
Come to think of older stuff about characters, we never found out what happened to Nicky Skanktart, did we? She was the other girl from Good Girl’s origin.
You’d think that would be the case. Robbing banks is like the basic go-to plan for criminals that they repeatedly do all the time. Just about every time you turn around when criminals like the Wrecking Crew show up they’re robbing a bank or armored car, about the only ‘never repeat’ plans are things like ‘rule the city/country/world/universe’ ones where you only do each particular attempt just once.
You can repeat a target or a method, you just can’t repeat both the target /and/ the method: Say, if your last scheme was to rob banks using a hypnoray, tunneling into bank vaults with a drilling machine or robbing the research lab with the hypnoray are both acceptable followups.
I’m sure the union sees a lot of “this plan was totally different, we used a carnival theme and Bob had a flamethrower”, too.
Can’t you just recolor the plan with a different building and corporation of the same type? Or become friends with Max Muthor?
Are you nuts?! That’ll bring the IRS on them!
Also, Muthor is as likely to work with you as he is likely to stab you on the back if it furthers his own agenda
That Max is one baaaaad Muthor—
Shut yo’ mouth!
a tradition, shrouded in the mists of time, actually. Something esoteric about “Never give Batman a second chance.”
Who is this Batman you speaketh of? Are you by chance speaking of our glorious hero Flying Fox Man?
I think Continuity might be referring to The Batsman, a Cricket-themed villain from the Golden Age, who despite only committing minor crimes, continually evaded capture by that popular but unsuccessful Golden Age hero, The Bowler, until he reached a century and retired.
They’ve made THAT well-known villain mistake already. Strips numbers 150 to 168. Remember?
I’m really, really happy these guys are back. ^__^
I have to admit that I’m more interested in Distractarella’s front than her back.
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What?
0.o
I suppose they can still use the original plan if they make it as part of an even bigger plan so technically it’s not the same plan anymore.
WAIT! There’s an easy solution. All they need are some chumps to do the same caper FOR THEM, then they take the proceeds for themselves. And where do they find these chumps? Well, send one of their team (guess who) out and about, to pick up COPY-CATS. Problem solved.
I call bullhonky.
A crime should be allowed to be committed repeatedly UNTIL thwarted by a superhero. I mean how are you going to leave obvious clues on how to stop it otherwise?
You can commit a crime repeatedly, but only as specified in part of a plan for multiple crimes.
So you could plan to rob all 10 banks in a city, but you have to stop after robbing #10, and if the heroes stop you at #7, you can’t try again.
“I know! Let’s rob the first national bank!”
“We literally just robbed the first national bank!”
“I know! They’ll never be expecting us to rob it again!”
“Yeah, because we cleaned it out, already!”
Maybe rob the Second National Bank?
Is that how banking works in the USA? If there’s more than 1 bank in the settlement, they are named First, Second, Third, etc. National Bank? And how do they decide which is which? Are they named in order of age?
I once remember an episode of The Flinstones where there was a bank robber named Grandma Dynamite, who robbed the First, Second, Third, and Fourth National Banks. The Fifth was more trouble, due to her associating with a certain pair of dumb-dumbs…
Can’t reuse a plot? You want to ruin the comics industry?
In *this* particular part of the comics industry, even the Super-Villians are Super-Redundant.
Come to think of older stuff about characters, we never found out what happened to Nicky Skanktart, did we? She was the other girl from Good Girl’s origin.
Are bank robberies not an exception? They seem to happen all of the time in comics.
You’d think that would be the case. Robbing banks is like the basic go-to plan for criminals that they repeatedly do all the time. Just about every time you turn around when criminals like the Wrecking Crew show up they’re robbing a bank or armored car, about the only ‘never repeat’ plans are things like ‘rule the city/country/world/universe’ ones where you only do each particular attempt just once.
You can repeat a target or a method, you just can’t repeat both the target /and/ the method: Say, if your last scheme was to rob banks using a hypnoray, tunneling into bank vaults with a drilling machine or robbing the research lab with the hypnoray are both acceptable followups.
I’m sure the union sees a lot of “this plan was totally different, we used a carnival theme and Bob had a flamethrower”, too.
Why do you have to say, “let’s do this again”? Say, “let’s do this Sep, 7th 2018″ – and, voilĂ , a different plan.
The Wile E. Coyote Rule.