Nice One. Now For The Implausible Escape

As a crime-fighting-moral-crusader type, it’s easier to avoid arrest when you’ve got a specialised vehicle.

When Batman’s personal vendetta against evil doesn’t quite line up with the local constabulary's exhaustive enquiries - and the duly elected officials want to stop him, he always escapes and achieves his ends with the use of superior equipment. He’s got a better budget and that’s why the Batmobile is as critical to the story as the guy who drives it.

I reckon our favourite ex-Nazi and reigning Super-Surrealist, the Pope, is dodging his responsibilities as a Superhero by not turning up in countries that are threatening to arrest him.

He’s got the Pope-mobile. Get on with it, Deluded Moral Crusader. Na na na na na na na naaaa, Pope-man!

“To the Vatican, Cardinal-Boy! There’s rational thought out there that must be thwarted.” (Do it in your best Adam West voice. It’s more fun that way.)

The reason I bring this up after a couple of days of quiet, is that my Senior Euro-Gotham-Correspondent, Smurf, sent me an article from the BBC. It covers the latest pronouncement against EVIL that Popeman has dreamt up. It’s a corker. He aligns the evils of Nazism with atheism.

This is so far off the mark that for the first 30 seconds I was angry beyond speaking. After that, I sort of decided to have a sandwich.

Sometimes, you just know you’re going to wreck a lot of perfectly good police cars chasing a lunatic down. There's just no point. If there is the Divine Justice that he craps on about, he will implode under the weight of his own just desserts.

For anyone unclear about why this is a disgusting piece of misrepresentative filth from a particularly disreputable house-of-lies, feel free to drop me a line at, nick.greyarea@gmail.com.

I’ll debate the point - starting with the Catholic Church’s apology to the Jews for, essentially, collaborating with the Nazis. Try escaping from some of their specialist vehicles.