Alan Moore in "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow" and Frank
Miller in "The Dark Knight Returns" illustrate the deaths of their
respective superheroes, Superman and Batman. Erecting tombstones in
both mythologies seems to bring a sobering mortality to the eternal
crime-fighting. The world still spin without their superheroes,
possibly a little better.
In both stories, each lives on as a "mortal". Superman as an "ordinary
joe", married to Lois Lane, with a kid. Bruce Wayne as a "resistance
leader", still meeting out his particular brand of justice, but as BW
rather than batman, and without his butler or the commissioner.
Roger
On 3/18/06, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Nietzsche is dead.
> --God
>
> Scooby, dooby, doo.
> --Frank Sinatra
>
>
> These, in sequence, beginning with the Nietzsche, once
> decorated men's room walls all over America. (Well,
> almost all over.)
>
> Halvard Johnson
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> http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard
> http://entropyandme.blogspot.com
> http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com
> http://www.hamiltonstone.org
>
> On Mar 18, 2006, at 3:28 PM, Roger Day wrote:
>
> > god is dead
> > Friedrich Nietzsche
>
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