Dissecting our Fears Attacking Our Fears Through the Lens of ‘Batman Damned’ and ‘Harleen’

Batman laughs today, while a harlequin cackles forever The most interesting part about fear is that it lives in different bodies but it is a familiar sensation. I’ve realized that within life, what you fear the most often materializes and becomes a consistent metaphor within your life. Living is the consistent act of getting over trembling. It’s learning to jump over hurdles and then the next obstacle is a mountain. It’s climbing a mountain and the next obstacle is running and soothing your wounds. Fear will always be there, trials have different mechanisms to work around. Just because you have been through this before, it does not mean facing it will feel the same way the next time it comes around. Familiarity to pain can hurt just as much as experiencing it the first time. ” You never really get over your fears, rather your horizons broaden or get more specific. You might not be afraid of the dark, but the metaphorical idea of darkness still inhibits you.

“Us living what all we share? As in all have? An all to give? Is pain…What we mutter an’ not just to ourselves to keep the bullet out of the mouth…Such as ‘what don’t kill us only makes you stronger’. A joke”-(Batman Damned #2) A great example of this would be in Batman Damned #1 where we see Bruce with lights flashed against him. The relationship Bruce has to light in Batman Damned serves as a metaphorical form of exposure. Whenever Batman is exposed to light it would be flush and it wouldn’t show his full figure. Th…