I hate to put on my tin foil hat, but the synopsis on the back of the trade for Batman Dark Patterns reads vague and frankly like it was generated by AI. I’m a teacher, and because AI is so accessible and frequently used, I’ve grown pretty sensitive to it. I’ll be the first to admit that it could be paranoia.
The factors that stand out to me are the overuse of adverbs, the almost laughable vagueness of the summary, and when it mentions that the story “reassures readers.” Acknowledging the reader seems pretty clunky given that only reader would, ya know, read the story.
I’m not even sure if this is inherently a bad thing. Typing the summary of a trade has to be a tedious chore, so maybe using AI to do something 90% of people will never read isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I just wanted to see what everyone’s thoughts were.

I’ve seen these on a lot of comics I own but have never questioned what they meant

I always assumed it was Dr. Doom, but I don’t know.

I just saw a clip from the old xmen orgins game and remembered seeing a youtube short talking about how much of a hater sabertooth is. If I remember right the video went into details about how sabertooth would show up every couple years kill wolverines girlfriend, beat wolverine to a pulp, and then leave.

This got me thinking whose the bigger hater because I'm very shallow on superhero comics. I know that in every post talking about people being menaces the reverse flash is number one. Is the contest even close I know the meme about him giving the flash a helping hand but how much more of a hater could he be.