Take Two #41: Who We Look Up To  By Kyra-lin Hom  I have Dark
Knight on the brain. Plain and simple. Watching Nolan's new Dark
Knight Rises has re-inspired my Batman fangirl, and ever since
I've been hopped up on old Batman cartoons. I do a lot of craft
work and need something mindlessly entertaining for the
background after all. I even caught myself drawn to the Batman
themed island in Barnes and Noble and nabbed up several of the
books featured there.  What is it about Batman – and the whole
'bat family' – that strikes so true to me? Why can I recite the
different alternate timelines in the Batman series when I can't
even remember the names of Superman's parents or where Wonder
Woman comes from? (The other two of the 'Big Three.')  I suppose
it has to do with him being human. No super powers. No
experiment gone awry. Just plain old-fashioned human... with
billions of dollars and a glacier of emotional issues on his
shoulder of course. The only other comic book character that
comes anywhere close to my love