Archive for the 'Comic Books' Category

Comic Book characters you didn’t know were dead

There is a term often used in fiction – “Comic book death”. The killing off of characters which carries no emotional impact to it because you know their demise will be temporary and soon they will be back thanks to some radioactive talisman powered cloning machine built by Jesus or something. We’ve grown to accept [...]

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

Rorschach =/= Batman

Alan Moore stated that he has created Rorschach, a pivotal character in the “Watchmen” graphic novel, as a way to explore how a type of Batman-like vengeance driven human character-vigilante would function in a realistic world. With apologies to Mr. Moore, but I think he was kinda off on that analogy. I just do not [...]

Monday, May 18th, 2009

The Joker’s Origins

Seeing as The Dark Knight has been held as the ultimate Batman movie and Ledger as the ultimate Joker, a lot of new Batman fans have emerged in the process. Unfortunately, these people know Batman only through the mainstream movies. But there is so much more both to Batman and the Joker in the comic [...]

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009