posted on 10/8/2019 by the Salt City Sinner I’ve been a fan of Batman and the rogue’s gallery of villains that regularly menace Gotham City for more than thirty years. Comic books, cartoons, the 1966 live-action version with Adam West, the current live-action show ( Gotham ), ten live action movies (if you count Bats’ cameo in 2016’s Suicide Squad ): I’ve consumed them all voraciously, even the ones that were directed by Joel Schumacher. While there are plenty of Batman fans out there older and/or more well-versed than me, that’s still quite some time to be devoted to a franchise. My relationship with Batman has been going even longer than I’ve been reading Stephen King, which is saying something. I’ve had a lot of time to think about this over the years, and have come to a few conclusions. First among these is that Bruce Wayne is a deeply troubling – and deeply troubled – character. To paraphrase Michael Caine’s Alfred Pennyworth in The Dark Knight, he’s one of the r...