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(What would the costume even look like?)
There is a mourning dove on the telephone wire out front just staring through my window at me.
This might mean I need to become a mourning dove-themed superhero a la Frank Miller’s “Batman: Year One.”
Figures I’d get the depressing #@&* instead of a falcon or an owl something.
Hardcover to “Batman: Year One, The Deluxe Edition,” David Mazzucchelli, 2017
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House ad for “Batman: Year One,” David Mazzucchelli, 1986
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Advertisement for “Batman: Year One,” artwork by David Mazzucchelli, 1987
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Cover to “Batman”#407, Frank Miller, 1987
“Batman: Year One – Chapter Four: Friend in Need.” DC Comics.
Frank Miller makes an Edgar Allan Poe reference, I get it 22 years later.
So I’m quoting classic 80’s comic books to friends yesterday, because that is precisely what a healthy, well rounded 41-year-old does.
I googled a page-shot for Bruce Wayne’s iconic “Yes, Father,” pledge, and it FINALLY occurred to me that Frank Miller’s “Batman: Year One” contains a parallel to Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.”
The bat flies through the window and perches on Thomas Wayne’s bust; the raven flies through the window to perch on the “pallid bust of Pallas.”
If memory serves, I first read “Year One” in 1992. And I just got that.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 