It's cool to see the legend of the Golem cropping up in comics. The link between superheroes and the Golem is made most explicit in Michael Chabon's The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, but I think it's an idea that's been around much longer than that. Let's not forget that Superman was created by two young Jewish men reacting to what they saw happening in Europe. There's always been a lot of the created protector to the Man of Steel, and thus to all his children.
Peter Milligan is drawing on some very cool ideas in his Bat-tales. He wrote three issues of Batman not long before this Detective stuff, and he's so far delved into Illuminati-style shenanigans featuring the Founding Fathers, Irish angry ghost stories, and now Jewish mysticism. Which, honestly, is totally why I decided to track down some of his work outside of Shade. I know, from Shade, that Milligan's got a weird mind. I'm just not so sure why it's taken me this long to start reading his stuff.
More to come...
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