The Fall and Rise of the Dark Knight-the Difficulties of Batman's Life While He Exists

July 19, 2012, 7:42 am by Scientific American: Health

[In 2008, JR Minkel interviewed me about my first book Becoming Batman: The Possibility of a Superhero and produced the scientificamerican.com article The Dark Knight Shift Why Batman Could Exist, But Not For Long . This blog post, an update on some of my thinking about Batman since JR s article and the publication of my book, is dedicated to his memory. JR was a real-life superhero of science journalism.] In 1989, editor and writer Dennis O Neil wrote Batman is the most realistic of the great superheroes . The veneer of reality around the Dark Knight continues to captivate. Batman is one of a fairly small group of comic book superheroes with a feel of “possibility” about them. Iron Man has a similar feel too, so does Captain America. [More]

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