Pathetic Fallacy In Different Genres And Media

Deciding to stop posting and also to escape from reading prose, I turn to Frank Miller's graphic fiction and invariably find a parallel with Poul Anderson. Anderson's pathetic fallacies can be as subliminal and pervasive as his grammar. For example, the Huns and a storm approach together. See here.

But Miller writes in the same way. A heat wave accompanies and partly causes a rising crime wave in Gotham City. Bruce Wayne edges towards resuming his violent vigilantism while simultaneously - a cold front approaches. The storm and the Bat hit the streets simultaneously.

We have already seen the end of Wayne's "Return." At the same time as he is thought to have been killed - a cloud caused by a nuclear detonation has almost completely cleared. See "Late Night Parallel," here. In that post, I mentioned a cathartic battle between Kent and Wayne so, this time, we have an appropriate image. As Wayne says, "May the best man win."