Like a broken record: Bin Laden won. No one sees it. “We kicked his ass! Hello, we even shot him!” Yet he emerges the victor, nonetheless. Exactly like the Joker “loses” in THE DARK KNIGHT, but in fact, is totally victorious. If Han Solo dies shuttimg down the forcefield generator on the forest moon …
Easily, the most compelling, fascinating, and dynamic character in BATMAN is (duh) Richard Grayson (a.k.a., Robin). A lot of us have a hard time with Robin. And I’m one of you! Who dresses like that? To fight spree killers and bank robbers and mafia kingpins? When Batman steps out of the shadows, people are scared. …
Jamie Nash recently found and shared this image, from Stanley Williams’s Moral Premise site: This is really something; I’ve often idly thought of unifying all of the various story structure writers’ ideas (and especially, terminologies) into one. They’re mostly talking about the same things, only in different terms. Someone beat me to it! Especially if …
I’ve discovered that it’s far harder living life wearing gloves than watching movies, and especially reading comics, would have you believe. I would wear gloves all the time if I were writing a comic book story; in appropriate cases, I’d wear a cape, too. Batman’s cape gets a creative licence to never get caught up …
I can never remind myself enough or too often of Mr. Shakespeare’s above-mentioned insight; I can go on and on and overwrite. So, without any intent of criticizing: if you turn it off at 62 or 67 seconds, you may find this wonderful –