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NL- Jimbo’s first court appearance was this morning. He was out of it, often closing his eyes like he was dazed or sleepy. I’m betting they have him on heavy meds. Although he did not speak at the heaing and he is NOT cooperating with the police, lots of little details are leaking out. I find the story below quite interesting. It’s very possible he was reenacting a scene he read in his comics. A couple new things I’ve found out are that Jimbo was very religious. He was heavily involved in his Presbyterian Church and had attended recently services. Also I find it interesting that a sticker on Jimbo’s Mom’s Car was for "To Write Love On Her Arms", which is an org "dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide." So who in their family was the one who needed help with these things… Jimbo?
From : http://www.nydailynews.com
There are eerie similarities between the massacre at the Aurora multiplex during a showing of “The Dark Knight Rises” and a sequence in a seminal 1986 comic book.
In the second issue of Frank Miller’s “The Dark Knight Returns” a crazed gunman stands up in the middle of a Batman-inspired porn movie and opens fire inside the crowded theater.
“Arnold Crimp fingers the cold steel thing in his pocket and stares at the movie marquee and does not throw up,” the caption reads above one panel.
“The [movie] title is ‘My Sweet Statan,’ the narrator continues, as the red-headed gunman stands up in the darkened theater with a revolver in his hand. “Which is what Arnold Crimp is absolutely certain he heard when he played “Stairway to Heaven” backwards.”
“On the screen, a nun — a nun is doing something and she’s painted exactly like a whore.”
The scene then cuts to a television news telecast with a Batman logo in the background. “Three slain in Batman-inspired porn theater shoot-out. Details to follow…”
Novelist and comic book writer Brad Meltzer, however, told the News that real Batman fans know the super hero has an anti-gun code – especially since his origin involves his witnessing the shooting deaths of his parents.
“Listen, you’re talking about a character that’s been published over 60 years with a million stories, if you want to look through all those panels through Comic book fist fights, you’re going to eventually find one that’s could be construed as similar,” said Meltzer. “But that’s as like blaming the Columbine school shooting years ago on rock and roll music.”
Though it’s unclear if the suspected gunman who killed the 12 people at the midnight showing of “The Dark Knight Rises” early Friday morning ever read the Miller series, he apparently knows something of comic book lore.
James Holmes launched his attack while dressed as a comic book villain, police said.
“He said he was the Joker, enemy of Batman,” New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said after being briefed by Aurora police.