Heroes & Villains

I see it has been even longer since I last posted here than I thought, so here's an update: My life as a secret superhero (may as well reveal what you have surely already figured out: I AM BATM...

http://batfan60.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-dark-knight-returns.html

I am clearly not the first person to draw the parallel between a certain recently terminated real-world supervillain and a certain archetypal/unkillable comic book supervillain . (Nor did I ever...

http://batfan60.blogspot.com/2011/05/killing-joke.html

Check it out, if you haven't already: CITY OF SCARS Uploaded by Batinthesun . - Classic TV and last night's shows, online. For me this works as a straightforward narrative, AND this Batman re...

http://batfan60.blogspot.com/2010/07/its-official-best-batfilm-everrrrrr.html

Four months pass, and all I give you is another lazy repost. Thank you, Daily Batman : OK, OK, you deserve more from me after such a long silence. So here is yet ANOTHER lazy repost from the s...

http://batfan60.blogspot.com/2010/04/i-am-sucker-for-this-kind-of-image.html

Surely it was the '66 Bat-series that instilled in me a lifelong love of things that work on at least two levels--ideally the kind that make me laugh and make me hard at the same time, or nearly ...

http://batfan60.blogspot.com/2010/01/its-funny-cuz-its-hot.html

I think many of these occurred to me while watching The Dark Knight (a movie I honestly wasn't as crazy about as the rest of the universe), but I am really sharing this with you because I like Ba...

http://batfan60.blogspot.com/2009/12/good-questions-one-and-all.html

I owe LycraLord (who probably owes TowleRoad ) for hipping me to Square Hippies , a site devoted to the beauty of the male form by way of "worksafe shirtlessness." The aesthetic at SH is broad,...

http://batfan60.blogspot.com/2009/12/hip-to-be-square.html

When you watch this video (which I found at Boing Boing tonight), you're supposed to keep your eye on the suspect, who eats what is believed to be the ransom note for a bank robbery around 19 se...

http://batfan60.blogspot.com/2009/11/bad-boys-bad-boys.html

As I said in Part 1 of this post , the basic structure of my defeat at the hands of a villain is always more or less the same, and the specifics--when they are worth talking about at all--are gen...

http://batfan60.blogspot.com/2009/10/my-life-as-bottom-part-2-cast-of.html

Not only have I been much less frequent in posting here lately, I've largely abandoned the kinds of multi-tiered, multi-installment personal observations that I started this blog in order to sh...

http://batfan60.blogspot.com/2009/09/my-life-as-bottom-part-1-basics.html

Remember, boys and girls: Do NOT ask a cop this question: It was Officer Hub who tipped me off to the site Things Not to Ask a Cop . The clip-art gent you see above appears in every installme...

http://batfan60.blogspot.com/2009/09/dont-ask-he-wont-tell.html

A little more than a week ago a cyberfriend turned me on to the new chatrooms at Recon.com (which, like GearFetish , is a social-networking site aimed at fetish-minded gay men). I'd been a Rec...

http://batfan60.blogspot.com/2009/09/strangers-in-night.html

Normally I am put off by public displays of nationalism/patriotism/warmongering, but passing this larger-than-life-sized sign in the airport has become a high point of every flight: That high...

http://batfan60.blogspot.com/2009/08/dont-ask-dont-tell.html

OK, OK, I'm about a month late sharing this information, but then if you take a look at the date of the last post here, you'll realize how rare it is to find anything from me these days. And if a...

http://batfan60.blogspot.com/2009/08/promise-hell-be-in-spandex-and-i-am-so.html

Finally got around to reading "The Legend of Master Legend," Joshua Bearman's "epic tale" of self-created real-life superheroes from the Dec. 25, 2008 issue of Rolling Stone . As Bearman noted ...

http://batfan60.blogspot.com/2009/05/out-of-comics-onto-streets.html

Just finished reading an essay in/on Reality Sandwich called "Attending to Dreams" by a writer who calls himself Gyrus . It's a bit dense (not a diss), and I envision rereading it a time or two,...

http://batfan60.blogspot.com/2009/05/night-and-day.html

Thanks, Monk, for letting me know about the "fanofbats"'YouTube channel, devoted to a complete set of Adam West Bat-episodes and even the serials from the 1940s (containing what may well be the...

http://batfan60.blogspot.com/2009/05/holy-cornucopia-batman.html

I have thought comic/film critic Frank DeCaro was hot (and hilarious) from the first time I saw him on The Daily Show, years and years ago. So imagine my delight to learn (here ) that he is a fe...

http://batfan60.blogspot.com/2009/04/better-than-prozac.html

My experience with video games is largely limited to Pong, Asteroids, and Centipede, but this new one (that I first heard about from the Bat-Blog a while back) certainly caught my eye: More Bat...

http://batfan60.blogspot.com/2009/04/virtual-beefcake.html

Thank you, Lycra Lord, for alerting me to this TowleRoad item on a shirtless, bearded Batman (more images from the same series here ; more work by the same French photographer here and here ...

http://batfan60.blogspot.com/2009/04/hair-of-bat.html

I admit I was one of those people with major reservations about the Watchmen movie . In fact, I was one of those people who didn't even want a movie to be made from the book(s). Surprise, surpr...

http://batfan60.blogspot.com/2009/03/who-watches-watchmen-when-they-take.html

I must admit, I'm disheartened by the recent murder of two policemen by the so-called "Real IRA" (brilliant name, btw, which has now inserted itself sans quotation marks into coverage of the stor...

http://batfan60.blogspot.com/2009/03/meanwhile-back-in-real-world.html

I've never heard of Kosmix (which is described as "Beta-ish" in its logo at the moment), but they've heard of me, and presumably you, too. That is to say, they've got a page devoted to Spandex F...

http://batfan60.blogspot.com/2009/03/stretching-out.html

Lots of recent odds and ends, connections between which I largely leave to you: 1. An episode of the public radio show To the Best of Our Knowledge devoted to Sherlock Holmes and other fictional...

http://batfan60.blogspot.com/2009/03/no-shit-sherlock.html

ZAP! POW! BAM! The Superhero: The Golden Age of Comic Books, 1938-1950, an exhibition of rare artifacts and memorabilia on view through August 9 at the Skirball Cultural Center in LA, sounds pr...

http://batfan60.blogspot.com/2009/02/holy-priceless-collection-of-etruscan.html