Late Night Parallel

Poul Anderson often underlines his narratives and dialogues with references to wind and weather and Frank Miller sometimes gives us parallels. Here is another. In The Dark Knight Returns, a single warhead detonation has caused an electromagnetic pulse and a dust cloud turning day into night for many weeks. However, after Kent and Wayne have had a cathartic, climactic, government-sponsored battle and Wayne is (officially) dead:

"Cloud has almost completely cleared in the past seventy-two hours. The President has declared a state of stabilized emergency..."
-Book Four, p. 45.

That will probably be our last Dark Knight parallel but I submit that it is a powerful one.