something about pynchon and me...

[Dave Monroe]

Ah, (the) Batman ...

Brooker, Will.  Batman Unmasked: Analyzing
   a Cultural Icon.  New York: Continuum, 2000.

Daniels, Les.  Batman: The Complete History.
   San Francisco: Chronicle, 1999.

Pearson, Roberta E. and William Uricchio, eds.
   The Many Lives of the Batman: Critical
   Approaches to a Superhero and His Media.
   New York: Routledge, 1990.

Reynolds, Richard. Superheroes: A Modern
   Mythology.  London: Batsford, 1992.
   Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1994

Have just been reading up.  And see those ghostwritten
Adam West (Back to the Batcave) and Burt Ward (My Life
in Tights) "autobiographies" as well--hysterical.  And
I just scored an old pulp novel called The Bat which,
according to Daniels, is in the archaeology of the
Caped Crusader ...

--- Mark David Tristan Brenchley
<mdtb at st-andrews.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> I was wondering about the
> relationship between the
> Badass, the Luddite and the comic book superheroes
> (Does anyone remember
> those Batman graphic books, man they were sweet!),
> specifically as
> Slothrop seems to embody a parody of just this
> notion (I'm thinking
> particularly of the Metropolis-type scene in GR).
> 
> Thanks again,
> Mark



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