tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post9192592813433832125..comments2024-03-28T18:17:00.135-05:00Comments on Computational Complexity: The Combinatorics of BatmanLance Fortnowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06752030912874378610noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-81847719518084671302012-07-26T08:23:11.149-05:002012-07-26T08:23:11.149-05:00Comic books have clones (often evil).
Mathematics...Comic books have clones (often evil).<br /><br />Mathematics has the Banach-Tarski paradox.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-49897442926441805542012-07-26T07:14:00.938-05:002012-07-26T07:14:00.938-05:00If you read the entry on Batman (or Joker or other...If you read the entry on Batman (or Joker or others) on Wikipedia<br />you get a sense of just how complicated an convulted the comic book universe is. DC comics had the merge to clean things up and be able<br />to restart things. They also rebooted Superman (and probably others) so that they don't have to worry about continuity with<br />issues from the 1940's.<br /><br />Marvel comics does not have as many versions of things within the comic but they do have the time-problem. Peter Parker was in High School in the early 1960's, so he should be about about 60 now.<br />And his Aunt May has been in bad health for all of that time also- she should be over 100 surely.<br /><br />Unlike Mathematics, Comics need not be consistent.GASARCHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06134382469361359081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-30483659517267305722012-07-26T04:52:43.094-05:002012-07-26T04:52:43.094-05:00Don't forget the Batgirl variations or the ver...Don't forget the Batgirl variations or the versions of Huntress or Harley Quinn or any number of characters who have multiple versions. They "explain" this with the existence of multiple Earths. They merged them a while back into a single one with characters merging several realities and even memories. The Earths are numbered with positive integers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-7088548963633927752012-07-26T04:45:03.823-05:002012-07-26T04:45:03.823-05:00If 2(a) is from "Batman Begins" then it ...If 2(a) is from "Batman Begins" then it should be noted that Joe Chill was implied to have been a hired hit there too. Listen to the dialog with Ra's in the mansion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-2612471006219180292012-07-26T03:59:53.227-05:002012-07-26T03:59:53.227-05:00Maybe publish an article in the International Batm...Maybe publish an article in the International Batman Journal. How does one references a comic book though? :PAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09364120444779754928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-5499045935207451452012-07-25T09:40:30.823-05:002012-07-25T09:40:30.823-05:00Oh man, this is a fun question. But most of the pl...Oh man, this is a fun question. But most of the plot points you mention function independently from one another in the comics - meaning there are few books which reference both the origin story of Batman and the origin of the Joker together, so you'd have to allow the possibility that many of those options can coexist, even if they aren't explicitly said to. I will be thinking about this and rereading Batman comics all day now.Shawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01154442090080258299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-9240668565887532192012-07-25T09:01:17.082-05:002012-07-25T09:01:17.082-05:00The Joker's name is known in several of those ...The Joker's name is known in several of those iterations that you mention: In the Tim Burton version his original name is Jack Napier (played by Jack Nicholson); as the Red Hood (the Chemist turned criminal) I think his "real" name was Joe Kerr (get it?). <br /><br />I think the real answer is: there are a countably infinite number of ways you can do the Batman story: just think up a new angle and go with it (or rehash, recombine old angles). Its what they've been doing for the last 60 years after all.<br /><br />BTW: your examples seem to have a heavy bias toward the TV and film versions; there are a LOT more combos when considering 60 years of comic archives.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com