In the dead of the night

shadows lurk in fear of the light…..

one that shines like a beacon into the skies.

All but one fears his whispered name……

He of painted faces and mad smile fame……

The notion of a flawed hero has always been interesting but reading the psychological mindmaps of a raving psychopath is even more meaningful.Finding out what drives a perfectly normal person to have a complete personality switch to become a wacked out nutcase is most exciting. We are not even talking about super-powered villains who can destroy an entire shopping mall with just one blast from their palms…… That just seems so simple….and boring……

That is why the batman comic series seems a pretty good option and down to earth. Gotham City is a place of striving lunatics trapped in a concrete jungle that spells prosperity and gloom.

The world cries out for a hero…a superhero we can depend on in times of need and super-powered demi-gods are for comic books. The Average Joe out there who was spurned by his gal runs away from camp with a rifle…… human enough but for means more significant than a grain of sand on a beach….. we are not even talking about terrorists who thought that they are saving the worlds but are just misguided and manupilated souls made to slave for a mad man’s attempt to take over the world. Heroes do exists in this world… in a much smaller scale…… and we do not need a supernation trying to play police to the world……

For now….. the Clown Prince will rule the screens with his painted face and his grass green hair…… and at least make more sense bringing down a city block with explosives to get back at someone who caused him to become a freak of nature……