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Tracking The Popularity Of The Name Bruce On A Graph Gives You Batman

Holy Rusted Metal Batman!

By Feb 12th, 2013, 4:35 pm

A redditor discovered something very interesting. A graph pulled from Disney’s Baby Zone, showing the popularity of children being named Bruce through the years, created a unique visual effect – Batman. Kismet if you ask me, or perhaps, the basis for the next Batman arc by Scott Snyder…

(reddit via io9)

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Jill Pantozzi is a pop-culture journalist and host who writes about all things nerdy and beyond! She’s Editor in Chief of the geek girl culture site The Mary Sue (Abrams Media Network), and hosts her own blog “Has Boobs, Reads Comics” (TheNerdyBird.com). She co-hosts the Crazy Sexy Geeks podcast along with superhero historian Alan Kistler, contributed to a book of essays titled “Chicks Read Comics,” (Mad Norwegian Press) and had her first comic book story in the IDW anthology, “Womanthology.” In 2012, she was featured on National Geographic’s "Comic Store Heroes," a documentary on the lives of comic book fans and the following year she was one of many Batman fans profiled in the documentary, "Legends of the Knight."