Dark Knight

As you may have noticed, a new year is upon us, and among other things that means new movies to look forward to. Personally, I'm holding my breath until July 18, when the new Batman movie is released.

I've seen the thoroughly awesome trailer on Yahoo movies, and it looks to be at least as promising as Batman Begins. I'm not all that interested in combing the web to put the plot together months in advance as some people do, but as a comic book nerd, I have a weird hunch that this, being a Batman-versus-Joker story, will borrow at least a few bits from Alan Moore's "The Killing Joke". Not that there's anything necessarily wrong with that - several of Batman Begins' coolest parts were lifted straight out of Frank Miller's immortal "Batman: Year One". I just hope it's not some half-baked attempt to stretch "Killing Joke" into a whole movie. Alan Moore-based movies, after all, do not have the greatest of track records.

ABOVE: Heath Ledger, looking like
he's had a Very, Very Bad Day.

In preparation for the movie, you can read the Gotham Times online. Or, you can just enjoy the following: Dark Knight, 1966 Style.



All hail Adam West.