Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Comic Questions

I have been reading a lot of comics lately and as a result I have some questions that as a young person never occurred to me.

1) Does Batman ever sleep or eat? I know a thing or two about staying alive because I've done it for 36 years now and for all of those years I have slept everyday and eaten everyday. If I go to long without either my body goes nuts, I get eye pains and headaches and I get lightheaded and I can't think straight. I am not Batman but I am human, so what is Batman's secret? How is he Bruce Wayne during the day and Batman at night? I can't even work my job, take care of two kids and have time to play some video games let alone spend night after night fighting crime. On a related note how does Batman have time to go out on patrol by himself, then once in a while with Robin, and work with the JLI and still manage to, well, do anything else, ever? There aren't enough hours in the day for all the stuff he does.

2) Gotham is a dump in every version of it I have ever seen. Shouldn't someone perhaps have a sit down with Batman to see if his methods really are effective? If Batman is doing his job, along with the cops, shouldn't Gotham be a pretty nice place by now? I mean, Batman has been at this for quite a while, are his efforts all in vain?

3) Does earth need anything more than Superman? Superman seems to be the most awesome superhero ever. He can't be killed, he's super fast and super strong and yet there seems to be all sorts of super heroes all over the place, why? Like, couldn't superman just fly into Gotham and catch any one of Batman's enemies in an hour or two?

4) Who pays for and rebuild after a super hero brawl? I have seen parts of Metropolis, New York and various other cities, both fictional and real getting destroyed over and over again yet when we return there are no signs of destruction anywhere. Who does this work? Maybe the heroes own shares in construction companies and are destroying the city under the guise of saving the world only so they can get the contracts to rebuild it again. Why bother rebuilding the city anyway? It's just going to get destroyed again? Who the hell would live in these cities anyway, I mean earthquakes are one thing but living in the fear that a super hero brawl could kill you would be more than enough for me to move away. By now you'd figure the heroes could just follow suit with Dragon Ball Z and head out the desert for a brawl so no one gets hurt.

That's it for now. I've been loving the comics I'm reading (except for that Legion of Superheroes) and these are some of the thoughts that pop into my head over and over again. I realize there are no answers, and that they are just comics but maybe someone should at least make a comic following the crews that rebuild the city. Of have a comic of 23 pages of Bruce Wayne sleeping, eating a nice dinner with Damian, and recovering from his injuries.

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