1/13/11

I know, I know.. Dark Knight comics are pretty much a thing of the past, though in my defense I only had the idea for this comic recently.. even though I’ve made this argument before.

I was reading the comments on youtube, under the trailer for a DC animated movie. In it, two nerds (says the guy who was there, reading the whole debate) were going on and on about whether or not Batman would kill a certain villain if given the choice.

..and I found myself thinking.. “They DO know Batman isn’t real.. right? Right??”

I think it’s amazing when characters become so iconic that we know their innermost thought patterns. Their moral codes. Their rationale for nearly everything they do.

To me, there’s just something so.. perverse about it. Perverse and yet, amazing.

Like the millions of anime watchers who get off when the cartoons drawn by heavy set asian men are animated in a way that makes them do seemingly sexy things. Suddenly, the cartoon stops being lines and colors, and becomes something nearly real - to the guy watching I mean.. definitely not me.

I don’t know, I guess in the end it’s just fascinating to me that someone would have a debate about whether or not a fictional character would do something or not. I mean, if Bob Kane had decided decades ago that Batman would be a detective by day and into autoerotic asphyxiation by night.. would we be reading the ramblings of nerds arguing what type of necktie he preferred to hang himself with?

It’s all so arbitrary. So arbitrary and yet, so awesome.