[D-fendr]

From her review:

“If this move is “conservative,” who the heck needs liberal?”

That was my impression of “Dark Knight” also.

[ducking..]

[a fool in paradise]

Neither Alan Moore nor Frank Miller are conservatives and both have included their own Reagan bashing in their comics from the 1980s and since.

[70times7]

“If this move is “conservative,” who the heck needs liberal?” That was my impression of “Dark Knight” also.

How so? I'm not necessarily looking for a debate, but I am curious.

When characters go beyond being characters and are active symbols I usually pick up on it. Outside of the utter absurdity that the inmates would toss away the detonator while the citizens wanted to actually kill the inmates I didn't see it.