Zatara Both Sickens and Confuses Me.
Everyone has to admit that Zatara’s power set is pretty cool. All he has to do is stay things backwards, and they happen. You know what most people don’t think about? How much it’s gotta stink to be the butt of his spells.
The first person to make a “Call me a cab” gag risks a ban.
Let’s ignore the bad guy’s nonchalance about getting into a car with a face. Let’s ignore the inherent screwballness of the concept (“Zatara, when I said I wanted you inside me, this isn’t what I meant.”). Let’s focus on one thing:
This is how Zatara treats his friends.
It’s gotta be some kind of a dominance thing. To the point that he pulls the below stunt a few pages later:
Why couldn’t he just do this the first time?
I leave the quips about Zatara having this guy’s sweetheart in the form of an iron bar in his pocket to you lot….
November 22nd, 2009 at 10:10 pm
Wow… at least Zatara never has problems finding a cab in the city….he just makes one out of a random stranger or a friend… “Hey you! I need a Taxi!” *zaps*…
November 23rd, 2009 at 12:18 am
If he's going to turn his buddy into a taxi, he might as well play the sham a little better and make himself a better cab driver costume instead of just wearing a old coat and a cap over his frac, but he's so ultra-cool he doesn't need to do that… right?
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:02 am
So what did Zatara say to the hot dog vendor?
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:29 am
I'm more shocked by the fact that his buddy there doesn't seem to mind being treated that way, since we haven't heard an single peep out of him expect to talk about how great Zantra is. two possible reasons:
1) Zantra apparently likes making friends with weirdos who doesn't mind being turned into inanimate objects, and constantly feeds his ego by telling him how wonderful he is.
2) or…. the people have no memory of being inanimate objects, and thus doesn't really experience the humiliation of being treated as objects. they just chalk the lapses in time and place up as being part of Zantra's strange magic. So since they didn't “suffer”, they just go along with whatever Zantra is about to do.
which one do you think is more likely?
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:42 am
Zantara (not Zantra) is just so cool nobody minds if they are changed into something else.
(Does there exits a reprint of zatara-comics. I really like them :$)
November 23rd, 2009 at 8:49 am
Or 3) If he turns you into taxi cabs and iron bars when you're getting along do you really want to get in his shit? “Listen, Z: I've had about enough o' your…” “Nrut otni erif tnardyh. Sgod raeppa.”
November 23rd, 2009 at 9:34 am
lol, true enough.
November 23rd, 2009 at 11:13 am
When you're a walking deus ex machina, I imagine this is about the only form of entertainment you get.
December 6th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Well, I happen to know there's a transformation fetish….
December 6th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Well, I happen to know there’s a transformation fetish….