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From: mcb@k.cs.cmu.edu.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.comics
Subject: Re: THE DARK KNIGHT
Message-ID: <810@k.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 13:38:47 EST
Article-I.D.: k.810
Posted: Mon Mar 17 13:38:47 1986
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Keywords: The Batman and the authors

In article <414@wuphys.UUCP> jmc@wuphys writes:
>  I just read that Alan Moore and Brian Bolland are
>going to do a Batman/Joker series....
>
>While I like the Batman, does he really warrant so
>much effort?  What can they possibly have to say about
>him?  He's not Superman, you know.  He's just this
>ordinary guy with a lot of money and a somewhat
>fanatical desire to revenge himself on the criminal
>elements.  Part James Bond, part looney.

In my opinion, The Batman deserves even more effort than he is getting!  He
has got to be one of the most interesting characters in comics.  He is a man
so obsessed by a childhood trauma (a major one, admittedly!) that he has
essentially thrown away his life in an impossible quest for revenge.  His
"ordinariness" makes his accomplishments more impressive and his fanaticism
an even greater tragedy.  In the hands of a good writer, The Batman can
really come to life!

On the other hand, I've never really liked Superman.  After all, what can
threaten a super-strong, super-fast, invulnerable, flying man?  (Other than
Kryptonite (green, red, gold, blue, white, and jewel!), Q-energy, red sun
radiation, and a thousand other bogosities invented by desperate writers.)
Aside from one Superman Annual written by Moore, I've never identified or
sympathized with Superman.  He is just too powerful to be an interesting
character.

Well, I've babbled enough for one day.  I can't wait to see Moore do The
Batman!
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