Hello World!

It’s an eerie bright night with the full moon looming overhead, a giant eye in the sky gazing down on the city. You’re walking to your car, the only car in the parking lot at this late hour, with your clinking keys in hand. You can’t help but notice a group of men eyeing you from across the parking lot. You count them – five in total. Their faces are painted black in the night, but you feel their white, piercing eyes studying every inch of your body. Their figures are mere shadows under the street lamp. As you make your way to your car door, you hear their footsteps coming towards you. Your frosty white breath, clearly visible, begins to quicken and shorten as you fumble for your keys, desperately trying to open the door. One of the thugs grabs your arm and your muscles tighten, not due to the cold, but to the fear – the fear that something awful is going to happen and nothing can stop it. And just before you scream or yell or fight or whatever your body can muster at that horrible moment, the hand limply slips from your arm. You turn to the five men expecting the worst but instead see them on the floor, unconscious, carefully arranged around your person like a flower arrangement. You look up and see a shadow move across the sky. Was it a man? You blink – maybe it was a mirage. Before thinking anymore, you find your keys and drive away, as fast as humanly possible.

There are literally hundreds, no, thousands of super heroes. Maybe even millions at this point. And what makes a superhero? Well let’s take a look.

Wolverine of the Marvel universe has blades in his hands that can retract and extend at will. His five senses are heightened, like an animal, and can recover from wounds within seconds (depending on the severity of the wound of course). How about Spiderman? Spiderman’s five senses are heightened, like an animal (or insect in this case) and can shoot “spider-webs” from his hands. What about the granddaddy of all superheroes, Superman? Well, again, this superhero has the famed heightened five senses (he has supervision, super strength, super hearing, super-everything, you name it). On top of that, Superman can fly AND is invincible.

And so, let’s look at Batman. What can he do?

Does he have five heightened senses? No.
Does he have blades in his hands he can retract at will? No.
Can he fly? No.

Doesn’t seem like superhero material. But that’s where you’re wrong. There’s something Batman has that every other superhero sorely lacks – passion for the job. Batman loves his job so much, one could argue he is as mentally unstable as the villains depicted in his comic books.

There are so many reasons why Batman has grown to be my favorite superhero comic book character in just a matter of years. Unashamedly, as a twenty-one year old male with a healthy social circle of friends and family, I proudly read these comics – not in my mother’s basement, thank you very much. I’m still learning about the mythos of Batman, and through this blog, I hope you will learn about him too.

This blog will mostly cover psychological issues that is relevant to Batman topics, such as D.I.D. (Dissociative Identity Disorder), psychopathic/criminal reasoning, bipolar disorders, and much more. Some days, we’ll also explore the history of the publication of Batman comics over the years, the wonky television show in the 60s, the Burton films and the Nolan films, and maybe a video game review.