Building Batman

Where’ve I been?!?!?! It seems like forever ago that I last posted. What have I been doing for a week? Reading up on disguise techniqu...

I don't know how to practice the art of disguise. Surprisingly, enough the Wiki StealThisWiki (purporting to be an collaborative contin...

Before the film premiered, I devoured the complete collection of Sherlock Holmes stories written by Doyle for the magazine, The Strand. Pulp...

Every once in awhile I like to take a post and restate my purpose with this blog. Although I will post about Batman comics or Batman TV sho...

I fought in my first Martial Arts Tournament yesterday. I don't know if you've ever been to one of these but they're interesting...

Results: 1) The simple saltpeter/sugar recipe worked well. A significant amount of smoke was produced along with a surprisingly large flame....

I'll be doing three different methods: 1 will be what seems to be pretty standard and the other two are variations on it. I have purchas...

You're in for a treat. Tonight the fine people who bring you Building Batman will be attempting to produce homemade smoke bombs. I have...

Am I the only one watching this or what‽ The last four episodes of Batman: The Brave and the Bold have been prodigious. Plastic Man for a...

A family member of mine had the chance to teach me to shoot a bow and arrow the other day. Once upon a time, he must have been really quite ...

One often stumbles across discussions about Superman's core personality. Is he really Clark Kent Midwestern farmboy who saw the world ne...

Those of you who have been reading Building Batman for a while will have realized that every once in a while I disappear for long periods of...

Technically, ballistics is the science of how projectiles travel in flight. Forensic Ballistics is a misnomer since it doesn't concern ...

Pattern evidence (or here) is the oldest branch of forensic science, although it's use as individual evidence. Individual evidence is ...

I picked up an introductory book on forensics this weekend and thought I would recapitulate and review it for you. Batman is undoubtedly wel...

Walking home from work tonight at midnight (it's tough to be Batman when I spend so much of my time doing real people stuff) I found a b...

I finished Batman: Arkham Asylum last night. The dream is over and it only lasted three days. Too bad. Now that I'm done the game, I don...

This will be my last post. I will no longer need to continue my Batman training. You see, I am Batman. Buying Arkham Asylum has instantly tr...

I ordered shuriken today. Shuriken... Looking up shuriken online is a tougher than you might think. The internet seems to be overflowing wi...

Locked out of Gotham Knights Online ! What does this mean? I read that blog everyday. Here I am praying that more people will follow my Batm...

I asked my sensei what school of Jiu Jitsu I'm studying today at class and found out that it is Oikiryu that I have become a pupil of. S...