How long have you guys known that Frank Miller's got something in the Bat-oven and haven't bothered telling me?? (also Jim Lee content)

It's true, I didn't use any phrases like "I don't think," or give any reasons for my reading of the text, or look up the script and read it after rushomancy cited an imaginary version of it.

I mean, I don't care about and haven't argued with anyone's personal readings of the text; I've only disputed claims as to the author's specific sole intention.

That I accidentally discovered along the way that the author's intention is available in black and white for anyone to consult, and on all available evidence doesn't support other peoples' inferences, was mildly gratifying, but I would have come back and said "hey turns out I was wrong guys, he says 'MAKE SURE WE SEE PHOTOS OF BARBARA WRITHING UNDER THE JOKER'S SCRAWNY FORM, THRASHING LIKE ONE OF ENGLEHART'S AND ROGERS' VENOMOUS FISH, REMOVED FROM THE SAFE HARBOUR OF GOTHAM RESERVOIR. ABSOLUTELY DO NOT COMMIT THE ERROR OF ONLY SHOWING PHOTOS OF HER TAKEN FROM A STANDING DISTANCE BY THE JOKER, THE ONLY PERSON PRESENT IN THE ROOM BY NOW AFTER HIS GOONS HAVE DRAGGED JIM GORDON AWAY. MERELY SEEING HIS DAUGHTER VIOLATED, STRIPPED, CRIPPLED AND POSSIBLY BY NOW DEAD WILL IN NO WAY CAP OFF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ORDEAL WE HAVE RUN HIM THROUGH OVER THE PREVIOUS PAGES,' fair play to you all."

You're quite odd, aren't you?