What's the Matter? Can't a Black Manta Have a Dirigible?

This is so cool. I’d love to see Black Manta flying around in one of these, zapping Batman’s Bat Jet out of the sky. I love, love, love Black Manta’s costume and think he should be seen more and not just battling Aquaman.

Sure, this little blimp is too slow to be practical in a fight against Batman, but you know, Batman’s sharpened boomerangs aren’t the most practical weapons either. I say it’s a wash.

You can see more of this manta air ship here and more of this and other theoretical (and super neato) air ships here. I don’t know what it is about air ships that is so appealing, but I’d love to see them in comics more and maybe have some retro villain who made use of them, the dreaded Dr. Dirigible™!