Bender, Eric H., Praveen R. Kambam, and Vasilis K. Pozios. "Putting the Caped Crusader on the Couch." New York Times. New York Times, 20 Sept. 2011. Web. 20 Sept. 2011.
Everyone has their favorite superhero from when they were growing up whether it was Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman etc. But has anyone ever really noticed the cruel injustice of how some people with a documented mental illness are the bad guys in almost all the comic books? This article plans to prove that D.C. and all other comic book distributors that this practice is wrong and should be changed immediately. As the article goes on, they start to slowly pull out the proof that they had found in many different books. It mostly points its fingers at the Batman series which, in my mind, isn't really enough information to make a very professional argument. But it does bring up things that I never really thought about, such as the Joker being called "psychotic" even though he doesn't have hallucinations or other symptoms of being medically psychotic. I believe this is an interesting article but a little bias due to the lack of opposition in the ideas. I don't know if everyone would find this intriguing due to the fact that it's a comic book. They aren't really the BIG thing out there nowadays. But, in my opinion, you can't really change how the characters were portrayed in the first place. I do believe that it's wrong to call them something they're not and to confuse people's thoughts on what a mental illness really is.
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