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A witty, intelligent social record from NPR booklet critic Glen Weldon talks about Batman's increases and falls throughout the age ranges - and what his tale explains to us about ourselves. Since his creation, Batman has been a lot of things: a two-fisted detective; a planet-hopping gadabout; a campy pop-art sensation; a pointy-eared get better at spy; and a grim and gritty ninja of the metropolitan night. For more than three-quarters of a hundred years, he has cycled from a number of darkness to one of lightness and again; he's a bat-shaped Rorschach inkblot who assumes the various meanings our changing culture jobs onto him. How exactly we perceive Batman's identity, whether he's delivering dire dangers in a raspy Christian Bale growl or trading blithely homoerotic two times entendres with partner Robin on the comics page, speaks to who we live and how we wish to be observed by the world. It's this endlessly mutable quality that has made him so long lasting. And it's really Batman's fundamental nerdiness - his devices, his obsession, his oath, even his insufficient superpowers - that uniquely resonates with his followers who feel a fiercely defensive love for the type. Today, fueled by the web, that variety of passion for components of popular culture is everywhere. Which is why is Batman the perfect lens through which to comprehend geek culture, its current recognition, and its sociable significance. In The Caped Crusade, with laughter and information, Glen Weldon, booklet critic for NPR and author of Superman: The Unauthorized Biography, lays out Batman's 78-calendar year cultural record and shows how he has helped make us who we live today and why his legacy remains so strong.
