B:GA #42/ WTC similarities...

[Trent Lane]

This was a little creepy. Batman and Robin run around Gotham when these building catch on fire, save people, including kids and (I'm guessing here) a security officer towards the end of the book. When the firefighter asks him what they call days like this, Batman replies: "Tuesday." Man, that's kinda weird...

[Salvor]

Yes, it struck me as well. Creepy indeed.

[James Harvey]

That had to be one of the most eerie coincidences I've ever read. That and last week's Adventures of Superman #596. Two very creepy coincidences.

[Calhoun07]

Everytime something like this happens, something bad and devastating, we seem to find foreshadowings of it in places that have nothing to do with it. I've seen time and time again where people die unexpectedly, and people will read things into their last journal enteries, or their last photograph. And maybe there is something to it? Maybe we have a senese that something bad is going to happen before it does, but don't know how to understand those feelings, so it comes out in other ways?

[DR. BELCH]

--get the feeling God is trying to warn me of impending danger using obscure means like this. However, those methods are too Old Testament and outdated. Why can't he just be more direct? Next time God wants to warm me of something, he can just send me a frigging e-mail. ;)

[Clayface]

Wow, I never noticed that coincidence. I did find the end of the first issue of the Garth Ennis "Fury" comic a bit eerie as well - at the end, Nick Fury looks off a balcony and says "I want a war" - sort of creepy considering we may now be in one.

[Russkafin]

Yeah, that Fury thing struck me as being a little disturbing as well... Also the new issue of Punisher, which came out the same day as the Fury and Adventures of Superman comics, features a plan by terrorists to crash a 747 plane into a building of world leaders. Punisher shoots the plane down and there is a splash page of it going down in flames behind him. It's very strange and disturbing how an image like that would have once made fans go, "Wow, cool, explosions"... but now that we've see the ramifications of such an event in real life, it more likely gives the reader a very sickening feeling. :(

[Clayface]

Oh yeah, I forgot about the Punisher issue - was gonna mention that too.

[James Harvey]

I know this is a bad choice of words, but it is amazing how our perceptions change with one incident no matter how large or small. I've been watching the news recently, and they've be showing stories from as far as two years back about poor security in airlines and foreign tension. We now look back and say "Wow. It was there the whole time".

It is just...weird.

[Nightwing]

With both books living the same coincidence, I can't help but respond by asking, is that even possible?? It's so unreal. BOTH books. Superman and Batman.

And it IS interesting how our perceptions of things change in that respect. I don't think DG used the wrong words at all. It's just so incredible.....