“The criminals haunt this city like ghosts,” the
Commissioner said. “We’re trapped in
this maze, and we just run around and around and never get anywhere.”
“But sir! Do we
really need to call... him?”
The young constable swallowed heavily.
“He’s... outside the law. They
say he can’t die. They say... they say
he eats...”
“Silence!” The
Commissioner snapped. “This ends
tonight. I won’t follow the dotted lines
any longer. That will be
his job now.”
He switched the light on, sending the golden disc up onto
the clouds. The yellow circle with one
sixth missing, like an open mouth...
3 comments:
One of my favourite Batman stories is by Harlan Ellison in Detective Comics #567 in which nothing happens all night. You can get the gist of it here.
That looked to be an amusing issue. Batman, oddly, I've never really warmed to; when I was younger it was because I didn't want to have a fantasy that didn't involve actual superpowers, but even now I don't find him a particularly enthralling character.
(Says the guy who has written, what, like five stories about Pac-Man now?)
Chomp chomp chomp chomp chomp chomp chomp chomp chomp chomp ...
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