Batman and other Comic Characters
This may seem a strange thing to type about, but to cut a long story short, this is how this came about.
My relaxation before bed is the have a read in the bath. For a long time I have read various comics (usually 2000 ad) and various graphic novels. For a long time (ever since my brother brought issue 1 and then brought issue 2, 3 ,4 and just about every other one for the last 25 years) I have read the various 2000 ad comics - my favorite characters being Johnny Alpha and Judge Dredd / Judge Anderson - but they are stories for another day
Any way back to last night. I had just finished reading the DK "The Ultimate Guide to the Dark Knight". This is just the short reference book for all Dark knight buff's. I grew up with the Batman little realizing that he was already nearly 40 years old when I first remember seeing him. Along with the DC Comic version, the first real memory of Batman was the Sixties "Camp" - Adam West/ Batman TV series. I know many people look down of this program - but I still look at it with affection. I now know this was really nothing like the dark Gothic original , but what the hell - I liked it. To be honest I did drift away from the Batman for a fair while, until my lad was little. It was then that I saw the cartoon Batman series, along with the various Batman films (the ones with Michael Keaton/Val Kilmer/George Clooney as Batman - and Miss Pieffer as CatWoman - wow). This is when I got back into Batman - dark, brooding. The imperfect, human Batman. A more realistic Batman. Anyway - back to the book. A very informative book - with most of the information a Batman Geek would wish to have. The history, the allies and of course the villain. Who could forget the Joker, the Penguin, Two face and Poison Ivy.
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