CNN: Some at Aurora Prayer Vigil in Batman T-shirts [View all]
The reporter explained that folks were wearing Batman tee shirts to show that the shooter cannot take the fun away from Batman... or something.
And God bell 'em. Everyone in grief should express themselves however they want. Nothing against them whatsoever. (And all of the dead must have been Batman fans to be at a sold-out midnight premiere.)
Now, having said that. A question for folks familiar with the original Dark Knight graphic novel... does that give you a somewhat uneasy feeling the way it does me? The problem is that ordinary citizens showing up in Batman tee shirts is exactly the sort of thing that would happen in the Dark Knight world after the Joker committed a mass murder.
This tragedy is already so laden with comic-book vibe. The shooter set out to be a super villain, with weird hair and body armor and everything... and killed real people. And then the good people, the citizenry, respond as in a comic book.
It is surreal.
Again, not criticizing anyone. Just trying to express a weirded-out feeling.
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