{"id":1684,"date":"2009-05-19T11:33:22","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T19:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1684"},"modified":"2010-07-16T17:59:34","modified_gmt":"2010-07-17T01:59:34","slug":"the-batman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1684","title":{"rendered":"The Batman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1992, Tim Burton made a movie, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0103776\/\"><cite>Batman Returns<\/cite><\/a>, in which his alleged Batman sees a woman fall from a ledge on a building.  The supposed Batman <em>waddles<\/em> to the edge, looks over, and <em>watches<\/em> her fall  to her death.<\/p> <p>If the actual Batman sees a woman tossed from a building <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/batman_moonofthewolf_3_3.png\" width =\"277\" height=\"462\" alt=\"['Moon of the Wolf' pg3 panel 3]\" style=\"display: block ; margin-left: auto ; margin-right: auto ;\" \/> then he immediately jumps after her <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/batman_moonofthewolf_3_4.png\" width =\"245\" height=\"463\" alt=\"['Moon of the Wolf' pg3 panel 4]\" style=\"display: block ; margin-left: auto ; margin-right: auto ;\" \/> pushes off something because she's been accelerating under gravity <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/batman_moonofthewolf_3_5-6.png\" width =\"379\" height=\"471\" alt=\"['Moon of the Wolf' pg3 panels 5 and 6]\" style=\"display: block ; margin-left: auto ; margin-right: auto ;\" \/> and figures-out what he'll do on the way down <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/batman_moonofthewolf_3_7.png\" width =\"386\" height=\"453\" alt=\"['Moon of the Wolf' pg3 panel 6]\" style=\"display: block ; padding-left: 64px ; margin-left: auto ; margin-right: auto\" \/> because he's the g_dd_mn'd Batman, when there's no hope&#8230;<br \/><br \/>&#8230;except him.<\/p> <p><a href=\"http:\/\/grantbridgestreet.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/batman-moon-of-wolf-by-len-wein-and.html\"><q>Moon of the Wolf<\/q>, by Len Wein, Neal Adams, and Dick Giordano, from <cite>Batman<\/cite> #255 (April 1974), is reproduced at a Grantbridge Street entry for 18 May.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 1992, Tim Burton made a movie, Batman Returns, in which his alleged Batman sees a woman fall from a ledge on a building. The supposed Batman waddles to the edge, looks over, and watches her fall to her death. If the actual Batman sees a woman tossed from a building then he immediately jumps [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,6,117,9,104,4],"tags":[539,328,481,585,291],"class_list":["post-1684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-commentary","category-communication","category-ideology-philosophy","category-news","category-public","tag-batman","tag-comic-books","tag-illustration","tag-neal-adams","tag-superheroes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}