Final nail in the coffin

Over at Dinosaur Comics Ryan did a strip wondering what it would be like if Batman were from Australia. Now he's put up this commentary, which for some reason cracks me up even days after reading it the first time. So, in case you don't read Dinosaur Comics (and if you don't, what's wrong with you???), I share it:

So after I wrote this comic I did a search for "Australian Batman" to see if DC had ever gone in this direction before. I ended up with this news article: Wariner beaten by Australian Batman. Awesome!

It's not even disappointing when you click through and find out it's about a track race between one Jeremy Wariner and the victorious Daniel Batman, because you realize that now you have a chance, one day, of meeting MR. BATMAN.

And now, several people have written me to tell me that Daniel Batman is actually the direct descendant of the guy who founded Melbourne, John Batman! Melbourne was almost called "Batmania". There is an alternate universe where people are living in Batmania, Australia. If this is not the final nail in the coffin for Leibniz's "We are living in the best of all possible worlds" argument, I don't know what is.

I don't either.