In "Batman: The Long Halloween - Part One", the story follows a multi-issue comic art that integrated the pursuit of a criminal called Holiday (which definitely has shades of Rorschach from Watchmen"). But the psychological aspect that plays most readily is that Batman can be wrong.

In this progression of "Apokolips" there is a change of focus. In an interesting irony, watching the loss and decimation of the Justice League allows for the stakes to be much higher. While some context structures work, others seems too generic.On the whole the use of the paradoxes as well as the concept of the parademons works quite well.

The texture of Mortal Kombat in the mainstream has always played clean even though the video games themselves were, many times, extremely violent. But older video games as they were done could make it a little more palatable. The new "Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpions Revenge" pulls the gloves off in a great way.