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My friend Whitney Bauman is about to publish the most amazing book with karen Bray and Heather Eaton, and you should definitely get ahold of it. It blew my mind to read this collection of essays. Here's the endorsement I wrote on the back:
Way to bring religion down to Earth! Humankind needs to get its act together, but we aren’t feeling it yet. Every essay in this book reframes ecological speech in the key of religious uplift, an affect that can achieve Earth magnitude.
But wait, there’s more. I hold that religion is the phenomenology of the biosphere: how it is lived. Religion is too often essentialized and naturalized and displaced and kicked upstairs into a heaven where a mostly white mostly male cis psychopath who mostly wants to hurt you needs protection money.
This wonderful book is part of making sure that can’t happen.
Even with all of the endless adaptations of comic book superheroes, there isn't a single character that can measure up to Batman's success in film and television. Since the late 80s, Batman films have remained at the pinnacle of superhero cinema, thanks to Tim Burton's timely take on the Caped Crusader. — Read the rest
Unless he's tangling with aliens or interdimensional imps that wear a costume identical to his own, Batman works with almost any type of villain. Usually, the Dark Knight functions best against foes that are human and psychotic, but that doesn't mean that he can't battle superpowered villains too. — Read the rest
The most recent issue of The Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing features a Silver Age-parody backup story in which the Joker, cursed by magic-wielding superhero Zatana, grows a clone of himself in his own stomach. After the Joker literally vomits up his own mini-Joker, the glowing-skull-faced Doctor Phosphorous declares "Guess you weren't pregnant after all!" — Read the rest
In South Korea, he is Golden Bat, shoots lasers out of his fingertips, and is impervious to molten lava. In Mexico, it's Batwoman in a bikini costume. And in the Philippines, two average guys read Batman comics, decide they want to become Batman and Robin for real, and everyone accepts them as the actual caped crusaders. — Read the rest
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