Hey Mr. Byrne! Like all the others, i am a big fan of your work, i truly love the way you bring these characters to life when writing for both Marvel and for DC. Particularly,i loved "Superman & Batman: Generations" and "Batman and Captain America", they were my favourites. I actually wish that one day you would actually be allowed to write a book featuring Batman, Superman AND Captain America! 

Moving on, i just had a question i wanted to ask you. I was actually reading "Batman and Captain America" yesterday and came upon something in a page where they were both shown fighting each other briefly. Now, i know you have an opinion that Captain America is the better fighter, however, my question isn't who is the better fighter. I just wanted some clarification on what Bruce said when he was fighting Steve. Bruce said- "he (referring to Steve ofcourse) seems ALMOST to have a SLIGHT EDGE". Were you telling us that Steve actually HAS a slight edge in combat? or were you telling us that he only ALMOST has a slight edge in combat? Because, if Steve only "seems ALMOST to have a slight edge", that means he actually doesn't have a slight edge; as there is a difference if you add the word ALMOST in a sentence (especially since you added it in bold). In other words, when i (us readers) read that line, we get the impression that Steve just "ALMOST" has a slight edge, but doesn't.

Also, in other words, it looks like you couldn't express your opinion of Steve being a better fighter in the book or on the page. It could be because these two characters are from two different companies, hence why you couldn't show who is better. Only you would know the answer to that!

Thanks for taking the time to read my question Mr. Byrne, and i hope i didn't bother you, in anyway.Once again, its an honor to write to you!

P.S- Hey Byrne, i posted this question a few days ago, but unfortunately, i didn't adhere toforum rules, as i didn't use my real name, oops! Fortunately for me, i had saved a copy of what i wrote to you. So i managed to post it. I really hope i followed the rules necessary to post this time.

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Friend and Forum member Paul Gibney has defined Batman as "second best at everything." In other words, take any one of Batman's skills, and there is likely to be a "specialist" who is better at it. Maybe even the person who trained Bruce in that skill. But when we take all the skills Batman has, we end up with (drumroll) The World's Greatest Detective.

Given his origin, training and purpose, Captain America would be the one person who was a better fighter than Batman.

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Or the eternal "Batman could beat Galactus" nonsense.*

Never, Ever ask fans to "vote". All logic goes out the window.

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* With the added "...because he'd CHEAT!" This is the response from those who have no great skills of their own, and therefore interpret the skills of others as "cheating". You know. Those Olympic athletes perform better than average folk because, you know, they CHEAT!