Magazine Review: Caped Crusader Essay

Batman is depicted as dark and mysterious and for a while people didn't know whether he was good or evil. Some film techniques used are things like dark lighting and generally low angles. Batman also only really comes out at night to make him more mysterious. To make him darker he only wears black and all his tools and vehicles are black or grey. The music and dialogue will also be discussed.

On June 28, 1972, James Richardson awaiting the subway train which would take him to work. He was stopped and ordered to “put up your hands, and get against the wall”. These directions were given by an off duty Transit Authority patrolman named John Skagen. Skagen’s actions seem unprovoked and unnecessary. After a short tussle the two men exchanged shots and Richardson fled the scene on foot. Two other officers that were on the main street above the subway station were made aware of what was transpiring below and rushed to the scene. As they approached the entrance of the station, Richardson who was fleeing the scene ran directly into one of the

The main conflicts in the world of The Dark Knight Returns revolve around escalating crime in Gotham city and forces of the authority attempting to control it. The authority should be a moral force and represent justice. The figures that represent the authority should be selfless and work only to promote the integrity of law and order. Authority proves to be contradictory in Miller’s novel as the authoritative figures express qualities of vigilantism and overall moral ambiguity.

In the world of superheroes, there are numerous that believe they are heroes, while in actuality, they are merely vigilantes. This is demonstrated throughout the world of superheroes, but it is not as prominently demonstrated as in Batman. Batman presents himself as a hero, while he is only an over imaginative vigilante. He is more a vigilante than a hero since he has the ability to stop crime, but doesn’t, he only does deeds for his own benefit, and he helps the law but isn’t part of it. These are only a few ways Batman is a vigilante, rather than a hero. These are mainly based upon the idea of him trying to right his own past.

Scott Vollum, Cary D. Adkinson. The Portrayal of Crime and Justice in the Comic Book Superhero Mythos. College of Criminal Justice Sam Houston State University, 2003 Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture, 10(2) (2003) 96-108

In February of 2016, Adam Gopnik wrote the Article “Hamilton” and the Hip-Hop Case For Progressive Heroism based on the play “Hamilton.” The play is an American musical about the life of Alexander Hamilton, written get people thinking about theatre and history in ways they are probably not used to through rap and hip-hop. Gopnik, as well as others, compares “Hamilton” to “South Pacific” and “Camelot,” supposedly the musicals of the Kennedy and Truman-Eisenhower era, by identifying “Hamilton” as the Obama era musical. Adam is nowhere new to writing; he has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1986, contributing to memoir and criticism.

Patriot Games by Tom Clancy is a book about Jack Ryan who teaches at the US Naval Academy and is a former marine. He is in London giving a lecture when suddenly his whole life changes. Patriot Games teaches that anybody can be a hero.

The Norton Sampler did a sound job of putting the ideas of how to argue a topic together. It is helpful to read this example of argument in preparation for our next essay. In The Norton Sampler, the perspective given by Michael Rosenberg is a slightly amusing and questioning example of how to persuade your audience to think about your side of an argument. Another article that I did not like was College Athletes Should Not Be Paid written by Joe Posnanski. I was not fond of hid article since he was so repetitive. On the other hand, it is helpful to read the introduction to the articles Moneyball: Are College Sports Worth the Price? These few sections of reading were an interesting perspective of whether college athletes should be paid.

Batman is the fictional character that is either loved or hated. In Andy Medhurt’s essay “Batman, Deviance, and Camp” he argues that Batman is interesting for “gay” audiences. On the Contrary, I believe Batman is heterosexual. Batman should not be judged on cherry picked images, women distract batman, and the Joker’s words cannot be taken seriously.

Heroes are a big part of our society, as it comes to no surprise people have heroes who are normally older than themselves moreover at a higher maturity level than the person, however, in this case, it is exactly opposite. Austin Tyler Causby’s hero’s though not a typical hero would most definitely made a hefty contribution to his life. In the year 2009 Austin received news from his mother, consequently he was devastated, his mother was pregnant. This made Austin’s world collapse on him, he was an only child for almost ten years and now there was going to be another one around to take his place. Once little Payton Bradley was born Austin became increasingly upset with the attention being taken off of him. He became so jealous that at one point he tried to sit on him to

We all have our heros. For some it may be a superhero like batman, or a special person in there life. For me it is special person. Someone who has helped me time and time and has been there for me. This person’s name is Grace Snyder-Hansen. She is my hero because she is has great character qualities.

Satanic forces have plagued the as soon as calm human kingdoms as well as currently depends on you, as the Brave Knight, to place an end to this evil by taking a trip with dark woodlands as well as plagued communities in order to beat them! Look out for the wicked plagued castles, horrible employer awaits you!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground (1864/2008) comes across as a diary penned by a self-described “spiteful” and “unattractive” anonymous narrator (p. 7). The narrator’s own self-loathing characterized by self-alienation is so obvious, that he is often referred to by critics as the Underground Man (Frank 1961, p. 1). Yet this Underground Man is the central character of Dostoyevsky’s novel and represents a subversion of the typical courageous hero. In this regard, the Underground man is an anti-hero, since as a protagonist he not only challenges the typical literary version of a hero, but also challenges conventional thinking (Brombert 1999, p. 1).

Now in these days everyone one likes to read comic books since they became part of our society. What makes them interesting is how entertaining they could get giving us different points of views on different stories of superheroes. Many of us believe that “Classic superheroes stories are wildly fun, suspenseful and exciting” (Tom and Matt Morris) forgetting the idea of what really makes a hero. Different perceptions of superheroes are considered based on their wrong actions and way of thinking. Frank’s Miller Batman: The Dark Knight Returns is one of the comic books that make us “rethink the conception of the superhero and press each of us to reconsider some of the fundamental moral principles

"The Dark Knight" is grimly magisterial. It's a summer blockbuster that contemplates near-total civic disaster: Crowds surge, tractor-trailers flip, and buildings explode, but the pop violence feels heavy, mournful. Light barely escapes the film's gravitational pull.