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February 19, 2006
Batman to the Rescue...
Great. We already have an administration that thinks its own fiction has the same status as facts. Artists should be careful not confuse them any further. (How long before Batman makes an appearance in a TV ad)?
Posted by zeynep at February 19, 2006 09:35 PM
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Oh, isn't this just swell. [/sarcasm] Batman is one of my all-time favorite characters, and now he gets turned into a propaganda piece, devoid of all meaning except what our powerful (and their majority supporters) tell him to be. This comic will be about as high in quality for the Batman universe as the Adam West TV show was.
Moral ambiguity was one of the features of Batman that made the story so appealing. The metaplot was full of stories that constantly questioned whether or not Batman was any better than the criminals he fought. Now, to see him in a piece where he is unquestionably the good guy in a story that paints the directives of the powerful and elite (and which the majority of people in the US give consensus and approval to) in an unquestionably positive light does nothing but butcher the rich Batman legacy.
I don't think it's a stretch to say that "Holy Terror" will be the Abu Ghraib for the comic world.
Posted by: Phil at February 20, 2006 12:44 PM