Somehow, possessing sequential art adventures of somebody in spandex makes me weird. Take your pick. I read about a guy who was once played by Adam West. A friend of mine, however, keeps his Clerks trade paperback handy in the journalism department at school. Rather than an object of derision, it's a conversation piece.
People make the connection with the movie, and are instantly in love.
And upon reading, instantly prone to laughter. As much as I love the Bat, I'm afraid I'd have to say the former. It doesn't want to be a pretentious tale of heroes and villains, but it doesn't want to be a tale that tries so hard for dystopia that it loses sight of its story. It's not trite fluff, it's not hardcore. What the movie did, what the comic does, and what future comics really, really need to do is focus on life.