Getting Out Of Hell: The Secret Six's Startup Screwup

Welcome back to Funding The Kryptonite, a blog that will take a look at comic book super villains and discuss them from a business perspective.

Today's blog post will be discussing the super villain team known as the Secret Six. Composed of relatively well known bad guys such as Deadshot and Bane teaming up with more B-list types such as Ragdoll, Catman, and Scandal, the Six struck out on their own as a hired muscle team for anyone with the dollars to pay. As it turns out, they need a bit more than that to be successful.

The Dark Knight Rises: Thoughts on the Third Trailer

For those who have not yet seen the latest trailer, check it out here.

I'm going to watch the trailer and give my thoughts in sequential order, including guesses at the plot based on rumors and storylines from the comics. Spoilers will likely abound, so be warned.

The Third Dark Knight Rises Trailer

This summer, we may just yet see some elements of Knightfall come to the big screen. Check out the awesome new trailer for The Dark Knight Rises.

Outsourcing Back Breaking

Welcome back to Funding the Kryptonite, a blog that will take a look at the plans of comic book super villains and discuss them from a business perspective.

Today’s blog will examine the plan of one of DC Comic’s most notable creations from the 90’s: Bane. Known colloquially as “The Man Who Broke The Bat”, Bane created and executed a successful long-term plan to escape from jail, travel to Gotham City, gather intelligence about his target, weaken him, and ultimately defeat him. The focus here will be on the element of weakening Batman.

The summary:

Batman is no slouch. Highly intelligent, trained in numerous martial arts, master detective, and incredibly rich, it takes effort to grind down such a man. To do so would require significant effort, and incur the risk of being bested by Batman while he was still in peak performance. How best then to accomplish this goal? Bane outsources the task to the rest of Batman’s rogue gallery by launching an attack on Arkham Asylum (the psychiatric hospital where many of Batman’s most notorious villains are kept after capture) and letting them loose in Gotham City. The effort involved in recapturing such a mass of foes as quickly as possible would grind down Batman and leave him vulnerable.