1. Wearing my Batman t-shirt, so thinking about the Batman Family. (Warning: if you're not into comics/Batman, tune out for...10 tweets?)
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2. Far from expert, but Batman family feels inadvertent: characters created, only later seen as connected not just to him, but each other.
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3. Their relationships to Batman & each other, when written well (Chuck Dixon &
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4. Without it always being explicit, we see their love & awe of & devotion to Batman. Know no one better, would die for him unquestioning.
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6. He dominates their entire world, and they thus strain against him as much as they fight for him.
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7. And so they commiserate and support--they're siblings and/or coworkers, lending ears to listen, shoulders for crying.
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8. They remind each other why they put up with his bad qualities, and that they can't expect him to change. Like a god, he is what he is.
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9. They demonstrate to each other that in this one thing--human relationships--they -can- be better than him. And they determine to do so.
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10. It's wholly believable, and, at its best, powerful and even moving.
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11. The Batman family is the best thing about Batman, period.
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@levistahl Interesting. Batman Family was created post-facto in part as retort to Werthem's gay reading of Batman/Robin.
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@levistahl There was a good article about this in the International Journal of Comics Art, circa 2001.0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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