Like a Kondo Isami
It is deeply embarrassing how much history I learned from Ishin! Even typing that sentence is insane and humiliating. It’s like saying ‘everything I know about American Criminal law I learned from reading Batman comics.’ Not Law and Order . Bat fucking Man . But that’s the thing, and maybe a little the point of this blog: if you knew NOTHING about criminal law, you’d know MORE after you read some Batman . Occasionally Commissioner Gordon’s underlings will grumble about stuff like ‘warrants’ and if you had never heard of a warrant -- well, you would have then. And, sometimes, people will talk about real people whose actions parallel those of the characters in the comic such as Al Capone, Jeffery Dhamer or Richard Nixon. If you had never heard of those people you would have a bit of context for figuring out who they were-- if you had any reason to suspect that they were more than fictional window dressing in the DC Universe. Anyway, until somewhat recen...