@DaCrusher: "Corrective table etiquette!" Yeah, I'd say that delivers "more than the opposition" all right.

There's another factor — not as deep, but also a factor: those costumes.

@crosis101: Wait, I don't understand. That's a great scene — isn't it the kind anybody would WANT to write (and film), if only the chicken**** producers would let them?

Two things about the signet ring idea. First, "TW" doesn't really look like a bat. If Bruce's father had been Victor or Walter or something, then maybe.

@hwilam: If I remember right, the July 1039 issue has a nice little story by Geoffrey of Monmouth.

If I have learned nothing from the Flash, Green Arrow, Batman and Captain America, I have learned this:

@Gaucho85: Seriously. After watching him help wreck the former Batman franchise, and then keep the Saint from ever developing into a franchise ... well, Kilmer is on the "avoid at all costs"list.

Um, guys? Professor Erskine's super-soldier formula? And the vibranium shield?

@MinervaAlpaca: There, see? You said it so I don't have to.

Yeah, sure. But I'll take the Dick Sprang Batcave over all of it.

@FatherAnonymous: Crusher. I meant Crusher. Typo, not drunk, no matter what it seems like.

Two things in the letter, one silly, one ya-wish-he'd-remembered:

Great stuff, but it makes me worry about poor Jess. How much of this stuff — meaning the stuff best forgotten — has he actually had to read? One shudders at the thought.

I remember that arc, although not in much detail. And as I remember, it was exciting and creepy. Also noirish and, by the standards of comic books, credible.

@syafiqjabar of Mars: Well, yeah. But the remedy isn't putting in different sex and violence. Traditional stories like RRH have been honed down over time, by generations of skilled storytellers. They really work, at a deep psychological level.

It's all very Kim Stanley Robinson. Except that with actual human beings, there's a chance of some credible characterization.

@m_faustus: Gotta go with Jess on this. Even as a ten-year-old boy, I used to read the paperback reprints, thinking, "Wouldn't it be great if there were stories about this terrific hero that had decent prose, credible plots, or any characterization at all?"

@Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Yep, those are the ones I read, then. Crazy stuff.

@Tyrunn: I love the idea for many reasons. It could rejigger the whole idea of a what a "Superman movie" looks like.

@skywalker24: Best book I read in the 2nd grade, and again in the 3rd, and probably the 4th. Taught me the right meaning of the word "sport." Haven't read it in over 30 years, but keep meaning to. Yeah, I'd recommend it.