The Belmont Club reports that Batman is returning to take up the fight against Al-Qaeda. Terrific news! See also IGN article, The Green Knight, Geek Soap Box (great Batman picture), and a lot more background at Brainster's Blog.
And Batman's cause would be in the best tradition of American comics. I just finished listening to an abridged version of Michael Chabon's The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (paperback here). This is a wonderful tale of comics, escape artistry, magic, New York City in the 1930's to 1950's, and much more. One daring aspect of the comic in the late thirties was the hero's fight against the evil villain of Hitler -- this was controversial and highly political, as at that time many still thought that Hitler could be appeased. One of the heroes of Chabon's book, Joe Kavalier, knows that this isn't true -- he escaped from Hitler's Prague. He gets his brother out of Prague, but then the ship transporting his brother to the U.S. is sunk by enemy fire. The rest of Joe's family dies in the Holocaust. This is an absolutely fabulous story, with lots of twists and turns, and well worth the time. See Salon review of the book and another review here. This is a review of the audio edition, which I can attest was excellent. And here you can get a sense of the real Kavalier and Clays -- catch the cover with Hitler towards the bottom of the page. Here is an interview with Chabon.
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