Category Archives: Comics

My bone to pick with Batman

Frank Miller reinvented Batman as the Dark Knight — the millionaire hero conflicted over Robin’s death, his own motives for vigilantism, and suffering the caped crusader equivalent of a midlife crisis. The Dark Knight was a subversive — counterpoised against the all-American Superman, who was hired by the CIA to take out the Batman, because

Film literacy, Amerika, and R.Crumb

Look at your stats every day. Look at your stats every day. I abide by this mantra for the sites I’m responsible for at Greenpeace — a task made newly easy by adding the excellent Google Analytics widget to my Google home page. But chez brian-fitzgerald.net, I put my feet up, read the paper, have a