Not if the book actually acknowledges that he's a crazy person.
I think the thing that annoys me the most about superhero comics is how the writers treat the storytelling so seriously. I mean, it's one thing if they have the characters take themselves seriously since they're all on god-trips, but the writers themselves seem to buy into the hype as well. I mean, I don't think Grant Morrison believes that this idea makes Batman look silly or overexposed at all, which is retarded.
This isn't to say that I want every writer to turn into Garth Ennis-esque satirists, but if all of them acknowledged that there is such a thing as a practical--if not realistic--approach to vigilante story lines, then there'd be far less retardation in not only Batman, but also the entire DCU.
Apparently, Alan Moore and Frank Miller's work on Batman wasn't enough to reinforce these kind of ideas in comics...Or rather they're just a bunch of pussies that are too afraid of taking vigilante comics down that road.
