Mexico licks Batman!

In Mexico, the Flavor of the Bat is “grape.” This according to a pair of Batman hard candy lollipops that sported Jim Lee art from “Hush” on the wrappers that I bought at small candy shop on Cozumel on a just-completed trip south of the border. And there’s more! A small paper batarang toy is the bonus prize waiting within the candy, which was the coolest bit of comicbookery I found in Mexico, though not the only one.

There were plenty of T-shirts, hats and flip-flops to be found sporting images of Spider-Man, Superman, Batman and even the X-Men in the markets and souvenir shops – some of it official, but plenty of it likely not.

The runner-up for coolness was the plethora of Spider-Man wrestling masks. Some were quite cool looking (my cell-phone camera didn’t save the pic, so I can’t show this one to you), with a silver mesh material for the eyes and raised web patterns similar to the costume from the movies. Others were a little lacking, with black material and printed web patterns that looked cheap.

Despite all the comicbook imagery, I came across no comics while I was there. Closest was a copy of “Manga Design” by Masano Amano at a newsstand and bookshop.