How to Narrow Down the Suspects (Patreon)

It’s odd, the Knifeketeer has always been one of my favorite characters to write for, but this is the first comic starring him I’ve come up with for the new run. I have no explanation for that. I guess it shows that if there’s a character you like who hasn’t resurfaced yet, there’s still reason to hope.

Many Superheroes are, essentially, murderers who murder murderers: Wolverine, the Punisher, Deadpool, Thor. (He fights with an electrified hammer. Do you think he’s just tapping people hard enough to give them a slight concussion and zapping them enough to taze them?)

There are some superheroes that make a point of not killing. If memory serves, long ago, Batman was totally dedicated to non-lethality. That said, his methods always involved a lot of punching and kicking on precarious rooftops. There’s probably a good Batman story to be written showing how the earlier, goodie-goodie Batman gave way to the later, grim-dark Batman slowly, as he got desensitized over the course of many, many accidental mugger deaths.