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  • Luke Blanchard July 20, 2012 at 10:09pm

    My God bless the victims and their families.

  • John Dunbar July 21, 2012 at 7:47am

    What Luke said.

  • Kirk G July 23, 2012 at 6:15pm

    Worse yet, they continue to report that he died his hair to appear like the Joker.... even though the Joker's hair has always been established as GREEN...about as fair away from red-orange as you can get!

    George Poague said:

    AP couldn't resist noting suspect's hair was dyed a "comic-book shade of orange-red."

  • Kirk G July 23, 2012 at 6:19pm

    OMG that is an excellent editorial.

    I'm proud of Roger for publishing it.

    I'm going to link to it.

    George Poague said:

  • Kirk G July 23, 2012 at 10:11pm

    The thing that makes me most angry about this "research" is that you know that none of the editors of the Washington Post have read nor will read, "The Dark Knight Returns"...but they've got some young intern who knows comics who has run home and re-read it, and then brought that fact-nugget to their attention for a gold star.    -Traitor!-

     

    (One more sidelight:  There's exactly ONE comic shop in the town where I work in the media. It's new. On Fridays, it hosts a card/role-playing event, and it attracts a large number of black t-shirt wearing young men who are mostly overweight,wearing jeans and standing outside smoking.  A co-worker drove past, and when the news director asked, "Does anyone know where they sell Batman comic books?"  Her response was (and I quote) "You mean where all those THUGS hang out?"   (no, she didn't suggest a drug store, a newsstand, nor a bookstore...instead, she chose to characterize the one come shop has being populated by "THUGS".  GGGRrrrrrr!)

    George Poague said:

    He reportedly identified himself to cops as "the Joker." And he supposedly had a Batman mask in his apartment.

    The Washington Post dredged up the scene in Frank MIller's "The Dark Knight Returns" where a psycho goes into a porn theater and kills 3 people.

  • Wandering Sensei: Moderator Man July 23, 2012 at 10:46pm

    Honestly, I don't see people who know things about "pop culture" as any more with-it or intelligent than people who know things about sports. Both know mostly about what interests them. For some people, that's sports. For others, it's pop culture. I've heard and read about the superiority complex both have toward the other, but I don't get either.

    George Poague said:

    These days, there actually are newspaper editors who are hip to comics. Sure, most of them would rather watch ESPN 24/7 than read anything, but every now and then I come across an editor who knows something about pop culture.

  • Wandering Sensei: Moderator Man July 23, 2012 at 10:50pm

    But I digress, the fact is that the guy who perpetrated this horror is emulating the Joker. That's something that is very unfortunate for the Batman makers, but in NO WAY does this make anything any easier on the families who have lost loved ones as a result of it. Let's never forget that, please.

  • ClarkKent_DC July 23, 2012 at 10:55pm



    Kirk G said:

    The thing that makes me most angry about this "research" is that you know that none of the editors of the Washington Post have read nor will read, "The Dark Knight Returns"...but they've got some young intern who knows comics who has run home and re-read it, and then brought that fact-nugget to their attention for a gold star.    -Traitor!-

     

     


    I beg to differ.

  • Kirk G July 24, 2012 at 3:31pm

    You have the floor, Clark... please explain.

    ClarkKent_DC said:



    Kirk G said:

    The thing that makes me most angry about this "research" is that you know that none of the editors of the Washington Post have read nor will read, "The Dark Knight Returns"...but they've got some young intern who knows comics who has run home and re-read it, and then brought that fact-nugget to their attention for a gold star.    -Traitor!-

     

     


    I beg to differ.

  • ClarkKent_DC July 24, 2012 at 4:49pm

    George Poague said:

    http://blog.sfgate.com/mlasalle/2012/07/21/violence-and-the-movies/

     

    Thoughtful essay by San Francisco Chronicle film critic Mick LaSalle. He argues that the ratings board should get as serious about violence as it is about sex in movies. If a movie shows a murder, give it an NC-17 rating. That will limit the number of theaters that will show the movie, but will society really be hurt?

     

    He also points out that 30 years of movies that depict violence as cool and fun -- as most blockbuster action films have since the early '80s -- have created the perfect conditions for desensitizing people to violence.

     

    It wasn't always like this. Most of the popular violent movies of the '70s ("Death Wish," "Dirty Harry," "Straw Dogs," "The Deer Hunter") depicted violence as hideously repulsive. And painful. Starting in the '80s, it became a video game.

    There was a pretty good piece in The Washington Post Magazine several years ago that pointed out how the bar has been moved on movie violence and other content since the creation of the PG rating, and then the PG-13 rating.

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