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Batman is Nuts. Lacking much in the noggins. rattling some screws loose up there!

Here is a capable man with many resources trying to "balance" the world by putting away the nut bags and regular crooks of his town. Doing it for decades regardless of the different continuities. As I dealt with the goons in that game, I passed -as of this writing- Hundreds of innocent Dead people… Hundreds died by the Joker's hand or by proxy of his many underlines. It has also mentioned that Batman has captured the Joker several times in the game and if what I see has happened before at almost the same scale. Joker could be accredited for Thousands of dead people in that timeline.
Thousands!

What does the "noble" "brooding" "hero" do about this? His swears on his life that he will Capture that dastardly face painted rascal and "forever" put him into a jail cell!… Again! He even did that after a female civilian is Murdered right in front of him! How far can joker push it? Does he have to murder a million to raise the eyebrow of the "dark knight" or even the entire government body to consider that despite the fact that the man is utterly mad, it might be more prudent to execute him? Truly; what is the cap here?

Three million? The entire population of America? Bruce Wayne is completely insane and I think he goes thru the effort to put the Joker back in the box to calm down the populace till later on when the Joker gets out, all those murders he does Again, will surprise the forgetful people once more! I've stopped playing the game because I fear I might see more insanity created by that insane caped moron.

Mort Todd, a veteran in comics and animation, writes a two-part entry on Big Hollywood about the changing depiction of superheroes…

I don't think all comics are dead, just mainstream superhero comics…exactly for the reason you mentioned, JervisTetch. I've been trying to collect the issues from the Superman Red/Superman Blue arc from the late 90s and it's just getting stupid. Rather than just buying a certain # of Superman issues, I have to buy Superman, Teen Titans, Aquaman, Steel, etc.. Essentially, it's that whole "research" thing you mentioned.

It's a brilliant money-making scheme (makes sure that people keep buying all these titles they wouldn't normally buy just to get the whole story) except for one thing that Mort pointed out: it only works on hardcore fans and they are a shrinking demographic. Unfortunately, to change it back into simpler stories that don't span multiple titles, it would require a dramatic paradigm shift for both companies. The only way I think they'd risk that would be if they were on the verge of absolute bankruptcy.

1.Spead out into other genres. One major reason that Japanese manga has become popular is that is has many different genres for people to enjoy.
2.Ditch the nihilism. Try to recapture the spirit of wonder,joy,and patriotism that infused the early superheroes.
3.I had a look at some of the European supercriminals that are around. I've got a great idea for any comic book writers or artist reading this. Look them up here or on Wikipedia or elsewhere,then have your own versions of these criminals come to America to do their evil. Fortunately,they are foiled by whatever superheroes you choose to go up against them. What do you think of that?