Fatman and Slobbin'

DC Comics places its superheroes in the RealWorlds.

A A A Comments By Robert Wilonsky Thursday, Apr 20 2000

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Na-na-na-na-na-na: Charlie Duffy, the "Batman" of DC Comics' RealWorlds series

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"Comics are a much more mature medium than people realize," says Golden, who became a voracious comic-book reader when he was a child dealing with his parents' divorce. "I feel like even though he is a character who is mildly retarded, Charlie is a defense for me and Tom and every other guy who knows there is nothing wrong with this. It's obsessive, sure, but for Charlie, it's all he's got, and he's too simple to know there's something more out there. He has his home and his job, and he has Batman, and that's pretty much it for him. And I don't think there's anything wrong with that."

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