Thomas Flight and Tom van der Linden discuss the changing meaning of the Batman character, the effectiveness and limitations of vigilante stories, and the implications of radicalized villains in a time where actual conspiracy theories are causing increasing harm, in Matt Reeves’ The Batman.

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