Batman and beyond

This, ladies and gentlemen, is how I learned the word “apathy”.

Aah, Saturday morning cartoons on kidsWB...I thought this was the coolest title sequence evv-arr when this show first came out.  It’s a good representation of the moody, futuristic tone of the series.  This series is responsible for my fascination with Batman—I didn’t grow up reading comic books or anything like that; Batman has always struck me as particularly interesting.  He bears a lot in common with my other male literary heroes:  The Scarlet Pimpernel, Sherlock Holmes, the Count of Monte Cristo.  All employ disguises and live double lives, interpret the law in their own way and have a strict moral (or amoral) code or sense of justice and righting wrongs.