In which Tony Stark went to boarding school with Bruce Wayne, and the road to becoming a superhero is not smooth.

The nights are long in Arkham because not everyone sleeps, it’s not like insanity has a timetable.

As the flurry of year-end top tens has slowed, it's time to anticipate the films of 2012. What have the studios got to offer?According to NPR, while 2011 was the year of the "staggeringly disappointing superhero movie," 2012 will be the year of the smart superhero movie, with high hopes for "The Dark Knight Rises,

Batman #1 cover/homaged in DKR page

ADAPTING A COMIC BOOK SUPERHERO TO THE SILVER SCREEN

ADAPTING A COMIC BOOK SUPERHERO TO THE SILVER SCREEN

"You feel deeply wronged. Resentful. For all your intelligence, the system didn't reward you. You have a winning hand but no one will let you play at the table. They make you lie beneath it, like a dog."

Otherwise, we are left with a story that tells us with a straight face that in the face of a societal breakdown in which law and order have dissolved, the true leader is the violent vigilante who purports to mete out justice from a position of absolute moral clarity.

For the first time in my life, I know how it feels to face an existential menace. They want us to die. All of a sudden I realize what my parents were talking about all those years.