Bat-month continues with Darwyn Cooke's masterpiece, Batman: Ego, which launches us into a discussion about expressive character models and Hades from Disney's Hercules, color work as character commentary, the power of repeated panels, Batman's place in American folklore, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, the blurred line between creating art and commenting on art, and the influence that this story had on the latest Batman movie.

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