And as far as mocking goes, I think I remember an early X-men where a security guard sees Magneto and asks if the circus is in town. Or, there's an early Spider-Man issue where the Circus of Crime kicks out the Ringmaster. They decide that they need a new name for their group. Someone says, "Well, just don't pick a name like Avengers. What a cornball moniker THAT is!"

Please, these are laffbooks, not holy text! Have some fun!

Miller was great once upon a time, but he has no idea how to write Batman now (his old stuff was better), even thought he wrote the classic Batman Year one and Dark Knight---Robin as a serial killer, lopping off heads? Batman telling Dick (after kidnapping him) to eat rats if he's hungry? FEH! Give me Morrison any day!

I don't know whether or not SON OF THE DEMON is currently considered "canon", but if this newly-revealed child of Bruce and Talia's was in fact conceived in that graphic novel, then his conception took place within an actual marriage.  Both Bruce and Talia considered their marriage to be real and binding at the time.

Now, if Mike W. Barr made a mistake, that's an editorial decision.  But in the story that I just re-read last week, that baby was the product of a husband and a wife.

I have to be "in-the-know" as to the fact that Morrison's making jokes in his interviews?

Ultimately, I think it's a bit of mind-reading to say he's kidding around, or being tongue-in-cheek. How do you know?

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I don't know Morrison's comments are tounge-in-cheek, however I think they are based on a couple of reasons.

The first is the language - "graphic novel nonsense" and the quote from earlier about the opponent being tougher, and younger, and did he mention tougher.  Little things like that don't read, to me at least, like someone taking the interview as seriously as some of you seem to think he is.

Secondly, and this isn't something you could see unless you have seen more of his interviews, I read an interview with him recently where he states his supposed animosity with other creators is a bit of theatre.  Something for the fans to talk about, while the creators are in on it.

I'm not saying Frank Miller is "in" on this joke, just that those are the reasons I see the comments as tounge-in-cheek.

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do think that his "less than serious" jibes at JB's Doom Patrol had no sales effect on it?

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Haven't read the comments or comics in question so I can't say.  Point me in their direction and I'll give you an answer (the comments that is).