tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1982462977744808678.post3135205962129310582..comments2024-03-26T17:48:13.000-07:00Comments on The Clerk Manifesto: The true story of BatmanFeldenstein Calypsohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04896259011478481374noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1982462977744808678.post-28592171254245502862017-06-14T14:21:00.032-07:002017-06-14T14:21:00.032-07:00I do agree with this. He was his ward for goodness...I do agree with this. He was his ward for goodness sake. It would be a betrayal of trust. <br /><br />I think this might demonstrate the problem of corporate or business owned stories, characters, or mythologies. After a short time everything ends up as fanfiction no matter what else it pretends to be.Feldenstein Calypsohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04896259011478481374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1982462977744808678.post-70413204092900111782017-06-14T11:58:06.258-07:002017-06-14T11:58:06.258-07:00I was listening to a fragmented Black Crow by Joni...I was listening to a fragmented Black Crow by Joni and though immobilized and alone there were these romantic feelings of youth. Sort of like some Friedrich painting. Anyhow, back in the swampy city and pecking at my own phone. <br />Frankly, i always found any suggestion that Batman and Robin were gay to be annoying. The show portrayed no romantic affects between them. The insinuations seemed mean spirited.<br />mdnezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13610675290938374395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1982462977744808678.post-68634012561906020252017-06-12T09:18:53.467-07:002017-06-12T09:18:53.467-07:00Wow, ooooo! Deep woods of south mississippi sounds...Wow, ooooo! Deep woods of south mississippi sounds good.<br /><br />I'm so glad the eerie Adam West synchronicity was noticed out there! I myself was gobsmacked and felt the whole internet should refer to my post in eulogy. But I just heard the sound of crickets, maybe like you, in a South Mississippi Cabin?<br /><br />I'm not sure typecasting is the right word. More it was his brilliant, signature role!<br /><br />I would compare it quite favorably to Rocky and Bullwinkle and consider the mid to late sixties astonishingly fruitful and really the best era for television, all along the lines of these interrelated satires: Rocky and B, Batman, Addams Family, and Get Smart, still the best TV has ever had to offer.Feldenstein Calypsohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04896259011478481374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1982462977744808678.post-9616643577316677572017-06-11T20:35:18.655-07:002017-06-11T20:35:18.655-07:00Adam West left us the day after your deconstructio...Adam West left us the day after your deconstruction of the series that typecast him. :-(<br />With that respectfully said, I wonder how you might compare that wonderful show to the Cold War satire of Rocky & Bullwinkle? While I'm sure this probably won't involve the subtext of form and substance that you've so finely wrought I do hope you will humour me.<br />This is mdnez on a borrowed phone, alone in a cabin deep in the woods of southern Mississippi with barely a connection. <3<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1982462977744808678.post-11007594787768952482017-06-10T08:41:51.601-07:002017-06-10T08:41:51.601-07:00I appreciate your informed comments, especially as...I appreciate your informed comments, especially as regards the history of the comics, which, perhaps I should have been more clear, lay largely outside my ken. <br /><br />I by no means meant to suggest the Adam West was anything other that what you also described: a self-parody of the earlier Batmans. You are steeped in the dense comic book history of the narrative. I am mainly talking about the TV and Movie representations, but also, more particularly, about the ideology of Batman. Your curious signature "Woodrobin" makes me actually think of one of my favorite writers on film and politics and ideology, Robin Wood! Perhaps if I wrote as clearly and thoroughly as him on this subject I would broken through to convey to you that I am talking less of narrative and more of what that narrative might mean in the context of a culture.<br /><br />So I take some of the fault here, as mine is still merely a sketch of all that, and someone like yourself, so well-steeped in all batman lore, might be too distracted by my lack of command of the mythos. Still, I wish you might consider more what I'm actually saying about what I'm actually talking about...Feldenstein Calypsohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04896259011478481374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1982462977744808678.post-44306208621454603062017-06-09T20:16:03.998-07:002017-06-09T20:16:03.998-07:00Batman was dark and gritty and tortured when he wa...Batman was dark and gritty and tortured when he was first written in the late 1930s. The Adam West Batman came on the heels of the bowdlerized, kid-friendly backlash caused by Wertham's "Seduction of the Innocent." That book focused strongly on fevered imaginings of pedophilia and homo-eroticism in Batman, so his character suffered more from the backlash than others.<br /><br />The Joker, for instance, was a murdering psychopath in his first appearance. He planned, announced, and still managed to complete, the murders of three public officials and at least a dozen police officers. <br /><br />The Penguin was a gangster with a gimmick, later devolving into a dapper don and information broker (which is to say an expensive informant).<br /><br />Batman was tormented by witnessing the death of his parents, so much so that he devoted his life to training in various fields and skills with a fierceness that was itself a kind of psychosis. He adopts Robin because he sees an opportunity to be a father figure to, in essence, himself: a child who witnessed the death of his parents at the hands of criminals. <br /><br />Discovering Batman via Adam West is discovering a self-parody of the original Batman. Modern interpretations aren't distorting him, in fact they're restoring him to his roots.<br /><br />Trump is more like the Riddler, if Edward Nigma had been dropped hard on his head as an infant. Like Nigma, Trump feels the need to broadcast his misdeeds, daring us to catch him if we can. But instead of clever riddles that, ideally, would misdirect and confuse law enforcement, we get barely literate tweets about yuge wins and covfefe.Woodrobinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04842905272342651362noreply@blogger.com