You really need to see what Vanessa Jaye found.

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   At 10:12 am Rosalind Mitchell said:

   And yet… And yet…

   Batman is such a camp old thing, don’t you think? Personally I don’t hold with all this trying to make him three dimensional and dark. Batman was never better than the old 60s TV series.

   The toy looks like somebody’s in-joke of the sort that was rampant in the bad old days of illegality.

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   At 1:08 pm Julie said:

   I am a massive Batman fan, and I absolutely love how his character can encompass both 60s high camp and the Dark Knight-type complexity and violence. It’s like he’s become an archetype that means something different to everybody. Love him.

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   At 1:08 pm Julie said:

   And, it goes without saying, I want that pistol.

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   At 11:06 pm vanessa jaye said:

   “And, it goes without saying, I want that pistol.”

   Now why am I not surprised?

   (Me too! btw)

   Ahem. Actually Batman was originally dark. All the way back to the original Bob Cane Batman (Detective Comics) where Bats used to carry a gun. Maybe he wasn’t as dark as he is now, (more Dick Tracy/ganster stuff). It’s really Adam West that made him more campy but when Frank Miller came back to write the Batman storylines (sometime in the 1980s, starting with the classic Dark Knight Returns), he brought him back to his dark roots and then some! That’s the Batman we’re seeing in the movies.

   Sorry, don’t mean to lecture. I live with a comicbook collector and hear more about this stuff than I’ve ever wanted too. Ever. lol. He just keeps talking and talking, I guess tuning him out isn’t 100% effective, cause tidbits like this stick in my brain.

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